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foobaw

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PM, Entrepreneur, Software Engineer.
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foobaw··on Samsung Confirms AMD RDNA GPU in Next Exynos Flagship
The failure of the Samsung Saturn probably scared them off :)
foobaw··on Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support
what about 4chan then?
foobaw··on He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition led to arrest of the wrong man
I think the shock comes from the perception that facial recognition should have 0 false positives. Everyone would agree that it's better.
foobaw··on Introduction to Reinforcement Learning (2015)
David Silver is awesome! Loved him in the Alpha Go documentary as well
foobaw··on DoorDash from Application to IPO
All other platforms like UberEats and Postmates do the same thing for their "passes" and all the upcharges or else they wouldn't be profitable. Not saying it's good for consumers and users and I personally don't like it, but it has become the standard, not just DD.
foobaw··on Ask HN: I am interviewing product managers – questions to ask?
Sometimes, especially in B2B Saas, it's as simple as looking at potential short-term and long-term revenue (building something that is more sellable).
foobaw··on Tony Hsieh has died
I loved his How I Built this Episode - probably one of my favorite podcast. This is so sad and shocking.
foobaw··on Ask HN: Jack-of-all-trades of HN, how do you approach job search?
These days, Leetcode seems like the way to go. If you can churn through Leetcode and do some practice interviews on solving them with someone else, you should be good.

If you're having trouble getting responses, I help people (hate advertising on here but I do this for fun for free) by providing connections to hiring managers (https://foxrain.ai)

foobaw··on Lots of overnight tragedies, no overnight miracles
Thought this had to do with their recent controversy..
foobaw··on Tables: Tracking work for teams
I played around to see if this can actually replace Airtable. Because of its tight integration with Google apps (and how one day they could shutdown external Google Sheets API access), they probably have a decent advantage. Also free is good...Airtable pricing is not the most friendly/transparent for startups.
foobaw··on Nova by Panic
Tableplus has a similar model
foobaw··on iPad Air 2020
Their new products always make me regret buying their older product line but too expensive for me to upgrade
foobaw··on Show HN: ProductHacker – The best of Product Hunt and Hacker News in your inbox
A few of the best of HN links are pointing to the wrong posts
foobaw··on Theranos’ Holmes May Pursue ‘Mental Disease’ in Her Defense
her intention was to be more like Steve Jobs
foobaw··on Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting
how about being able to use OCR to read real handwriting :) that would be truly amazing to accomplish with high precision
foobaw··on Launch HN: Papercups (YC S20) – Open-Core Intercom Alternative
Love this - Intercom is ridiculously expensive. One thing that we use Intercom is for NPS campaigns and also the product tours. Although I'd love to replace Intercom, not having these features means we can't switch easily. I wish we only used the Chat, then this would be the obvious product to use.
foobaw··on Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack
Wonder when we'll get details on how he was actually able to do this - like how he got access to the internal tools, how did he succeed in social engineering, etc
foobaw··on Launch HN: Humanloop (YC S20) – A platform to annotate, train and deploy NLP
#1 and #2, if they work as advertised, are great features but a lot of other companies claim to do this but have failed.

One of the biggest problems I have is image annotation using CVAT - the tool works when the task is simple annotation but outputting the annotation data and integrating it has been a pain-point. Also CVAT has a tool is great but has a lot of missing features :/

foobaw··on TensorFlow, Keras and deep learning, without a PhD
very nice work!
foobaw··on Ron Graham has died
I took his discrete math course :) He was an amazing professor and it was such an honor to learn from him. He showed off his juggling skills on the last day of lecture and it was also quite impressive!
foobaw··on Yelp: Local Economic Impact Report
Yelp data is not as useful as real credit card data
foobaw··on Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
It's good to see more competition in the email space as a consumer. Superhuman should get a good push from hey.com, as their only previous large competitor was Gmail.
foobaw··on Why Zoom Doesn’t Have Product/Market Fit
everything looks great but the fact that people found Skype to be a possible alternative is questionable. Has anyone used Skype recently for conference calls? My experience was atrocious - everything was so slow, video quality was horrible, and the UX was confusing.
foobaw··on USB-C is still a mess
The author is saying linear regulators are better for high current which is questionable. He even references huawei but Huawei chargers don't even use linears. One Plus makes sense because their warp charge is ridiculous, they're doing 5V/6A which isnt even possible using USB PD protocol and theyre using a type a to c cable so clearly doing something proprietary there.

If i had to guess why oneplus can't step down higher voltages, it's probably specifically designed for 5V so it only supports the 5V/3A usb PD profile (hence the ~15W with a PD charger). No clue why they didn't allow 5V/5A for 25W over USB PD since that is possible. I don't think the author mentions anywhere in his article which 60W usb PD charger was used, so its hard to say that it is a valid test. 60W normally indicates 20V/3A, so it's possible the charger could not provide 5V/5A if the oneplus 8 pro did support that.

Anyway, huawei's own PD charger can charge faster over the PD protocol than this guys "60W PD Charger" according to https://www.firstxw.com/view/230511.html.

foobaw··on Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?
Didn't know there were so many options!
foobaw··on Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
i know no lawyer wants to provide conclusive opinion here, but this has to be illegal
foobaw··on As oil industry swoons, tar sands workers look to renewables for jobs
Starting up a decommissioned well is not simple. There’s a lot of safety protocols to check and procedures to follow to ensure that it will start up properly. You also need to make sure it's linked up to crude processing facilities however small the production is. That's why a lot of american producers are reluctant to completely shut down production right now since its a headache to start back up
foobaw··on YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
if you eating live seafood is considered abuse, then should all fishing channels should be banned as well?
foobaw··on Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer tricks as Zoom
the founder of zoom brought tons of people from WebEx (know someone who was part of the early webex team and now zoom)
foobaw··on Show HN: Covid-19 Treatment Dashboard
Minor feedback - I wish I could click on a trial on a map to go to that trial page.
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