Hacker News: zevyoura

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

zevyoura — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:31:23 +0000

I find Youtube's watch history helpful, having that across everything I watched on my device would be even better.

New comment by zevyoura in "Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources"

zevyoura — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:21:53 +0000

New comment by zevyoura in "Llama 2"

zevyoura — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 20:38:51 +0000

But this is wrong in at least two ways:

> Additionally, if the hash contains duplicate keys, swapping the keys and values may not have the desired effect.

You can't have duplicate keys in a hash.

More importantly, their implementation adds the swapped pairs but does not remove the original k/v pairs, which is both incorrect and does not match the output it prints.

New comment by zevyoura in "Zine machine: a compact 3D-printed block printing press"

zevyoura — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 17:21:03 +0000

It's "Dance" by Matisse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_(Matisse)

New comment by zevyoura in "My dad got scammed for $3k worth of gift cards"

zevyoura — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 20:46:44 +0000

There's a great episode of the podcast "Reply All" which digs into some of these questions: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/6nh3wk/

New comment by zevyoura in "Why Drugs That Work in Mice Don't Work in Humans"

zevyoura — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:02:54 +0000

> How is that turning out for everyone?

Dramatically increased life expectancy, reduced childhood mortality, etc.

There are problems with the modern health system, but it does seem to produce much better outcomes than what came before.

New comment by zevyoura in "Apple introduces macOS Mojave"

zevyoura — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 22:40:36 +0000

> It would be pretty hard to express the sentiment the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ emoji can, and even if you put the effort into writing it, you'd lose the immediacy.

"meh"

New comment by zevyoura in "NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp rise: official report"

zevyoura — Sat, 05 May 2018 00:17:47 +0000

From the article:

> The 2017 call records tally remained far less than an estimated billions of records collected per day under the NSA’s old bulk surveillance system, which was exposed by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden in 2013.

New comment by zevyoura in "Facebook Forces NYT to Quietly Delete Unflattering Reference to Sheryl Sandberg"

zevyoura — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:07:17 +0000

You may be thinking of http://newsdiffs.org

Here's the page for the article in question: http://newsdiffs.org/article-history/https%3A/www.nytimes.co...

New comment by zevyoura in "High-Speed Trading: Lines, Radios, and Cables"

zevyoura — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 00:49:36 +0000

If you found this interesting, you might also like this classic Neal Stephenson piece for Wired, "Mother Earth, Motherboard": https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

New comment by zevyoura in "Is Filecoin a $257 million Ponzi scheme? [pdf]"

zevyoura — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:41:51 +0000

Sounds kind of like this article: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-24/are-index...

New comment by zevyoura in "Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures"

zevyoura — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 20:19:25 +0000

To go further in this direction, check out Piet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language#...

New comment by zevyoura in "Optimizing React Rendering"

zevyoura — Thu, 25 May 2017 17:20:12 +0000

You can partially apply the function where you know the parameter; i.e. assign onDelete to: this.handleDelete.bind(this, i)

New comment by zevyoura in "How much your computer can do in a second"

zevyoura — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 18:44:50 +0000

68M per second == 68K per millisecond

New comment by zevyoura in "Research Debt"

zevyoura — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 02:57:10 +0000

One of the greats; luckily a lot of it is available on Youtube: https://youtu.be/j3mhkYbznBk?list=PLLzGzdSNup63lMYeOpU9Hax6M...

New comment by zevyoura in "To fix L.A.'s traffic, we need tolls"

zevyoura — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 01:12:43 +0000

Uber doesn't let you put in a destination as a driver.

New comment by zevyoura in "Why I don't believe in Uber's Success"

zevyoura — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 23:57:32 +0000

From your first link:

> After turning a slight profit in the in the first quarter of this year, Uber lost $100 million in the U.S. in the second quarter. The loss increased in the third quarter, the person said.

That's not exactly a ringing endorsement of their U.S. business.

New comment by zevyoura in "How Antarctic bases went from wooden huts to sci-fi chic"

zevyoura — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 21:14:09 +0000

Maciej has a great post about his visit to McMurdo: http://idlewords.com/2016/05/shuffleboard_at_mcmurdo.htm

New comment by zevyoura in "Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People"

zevyoura — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 00:00:02 +0000

Don't the people who control military technology in our current time already have "practically unlimited power over everyone else"?

New comment by zevyoura in "Parkinson’s disease ‘may start in gut’"

zevyoura — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 23:46:56 +0000