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Ftuuky··on Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
Do you know more about that helicopter story?
Ftuuky··on Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?
Was going to say that.

He "cured"(?) his lactose intolerance with CRISPR tech (for a few months but still very impressive).

Ftuuky··on Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?
Not OP but Skydio might have the drones you need?
Ftuuky··on Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?
Seeing a dude grow human neurons directly connected to a computer chip to make a "human AI", all from his garage [0]. It showed me what is possible with science these days if you have enough dedication and know-how. Made me feel deeply excited and scared for the incoming future.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2YDApNRK3g

Ftuuky··on Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't have to work?
Build a boat, sail around the world, write about it.
Ftuuky··on What are you planning to learn in 2023?
Build my own chatbot/personal assistant, just to learn more about deep learning/LLMs. Want to get better at data programming and analytics. Want to get better at bouldering, need to practice more regularly.
Ftuuky··on FILM: Frame Interpolation for Large Motion
None of the demos are properly working for me. Am I doing something wrong, like the photos are too large?
Ftuuky··on Productivity Blocker
No.
Ftuuky··on DBT Cloud increase Team plan price by 100% and limit features at the same time
We use at this company the open source dbt for multiple teams, all bigger than 3, just fine.
Ftuuky··on Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run the Content Moderation Learning Curve
It's obvious that a "truly" free social network with absolute free speech has to be something decentralized, bottom-up.
Ftuuky··on Building arbitrary Life patterns in 15 gliders
How do I dive into this world? Any resources for a complete noob?
Ftuuky··on Apple now valued at more than Amazon, Alphabet and Meta combined
Both Amazon and Apple are really into ads right now.
Ftuuky··on Poll: Which Chat Solution Does Your Company Use
Found the investment banker
Ftuuky··on Apple Car: Bad Idea After All
Apple should buy comma.ai and turn iPhones into autonomous drivers.
Ftuuky··on The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken
Shodan is the name IIRC
Ftuuky··on Handwritten thank you notes increase sales
This is standard procedure in high-end fashion studios.
Ftuuky··on JSON Crack – Visualize JSON data into graphs
Something that I am currently struggling at my job is how can I automatically convert everything in a JSON into a table. I'm writing my own "macros" to deal with it but it's far from ideal yet.
Ftuuky··on A Critique of SQL, 40 Years Later
Dbt to the rescue!
Ftuuky··on Got a “Test dev” notification from Airbnb:D
Happens to the best of us.
Ftuuky··on Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York
IIRC Salman Rushdie has been followed by a bodyguard for decades now due to his controversial book "Satanic Verses" (1988) [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses_controversy

Ftuuky··on Artificial neural networks today are not conscious (Douglas Hofstadter)
Unsure if I should be scared or excited.
Ftuuky··on Image editors often get color wrong
Looking at you, Tableau.
Ftuuky··on Uranus should be NASA’s top planetary target – report
I'm a grownup adult, pay my taxes on time, overall a serious person but I can't ever stop giggling on Uranus headlines.
Ftuuky··on She was missing a chunk of her brain – it didn’t matter
A classic post by Peter Watts: https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=6116

"What scared me was the fact that this virtually brain-free patient had an IQ of 126."

Ftuuky··on Ask HN: Hybrid/Remote software team rituals
Where do I send my resumé? :)
Ftuuky··on Ask HN: Hybrid/Remote software team rituals
Team of 6 in UK, 1 in Italy, 2 in India, 1 in Japan

- 3 daily standups per week (15 minute video calls for team alignment),

- weekly 1:1 with line manager (30 minute call or face to face if in UK office)

We do record some of the video conferences when our Indian and Japanese colleagues cannot attend.

Ftuuky··on Dall-E 2
What jobs will be there in 5~10 years when we consider all the progress done with Dall-E, GPT-3, Codex/GitHub Copilot, Alpha* and so on?
Ftuuky··on Temporary issues accessing Proton services
Can confirm that ProtonMail Android app doesn't work. When trying to send an email it says "Server not reachable".
Ftuuky··on Ask HN: How do you define the singularity?
When a single computing device has more processing power than all humankind put together.
Ftuuky··on Azores – Evacuations Begin as Seismic Crisis Unfolds in Atlantic
Yes but since 2020 it's moving to European construction standards [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocode_8:_Design_of_structur...

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