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pastaking··on House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure
It's two different sets of creators -> two content pools. Also, there are many, many users outside of US or China, with their own regional content pools.
pastaking··on Go will use pdqsort in next release
On a side note, this change's author is from ByteDance. It's great to see everyone working together on open source.
pastaking··on Jd
Serious question: Why does this have so many upvotes? As a layman I have never heard of J or Jd before, someone please provide some context?
pastaking··on Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet
Good for Huawei. Finally, an affordable alternative to Remarkable.
pastaking··on Ask HN: How do you get out of a rut?
It's winter right now, go for a run outside, especially if there's snow. You can watch some YouTube videos about how to layer up properly. The air is extra crisp right now and almost nobody runs so the world is yours. I find it extra relaxing and a huge runners high afterwards.
pastaking··on YouTube is shutting down crowdsourced captions
I've worked with the accessibility team at YouTube. That team has brilliant engineers who are themselves blind or deaf, so they really do understand their customers, even if that community is relatively small. If this a grassroots decision from that team, I'm sure they have thought long and hard about it, and I respect that decision.

I still believe Alphabet is a company that truly wants to make the world a better place -- I hope they're living by their principles, and not letting the profits (of which they have plenty) get in way.

pastaking··on Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores
Wouldn’t this be better handled by a more sophisticated solution like some kind of law or governance organization? Banning specific apps is like whack a mole. There will also be other countries with opposing ideological beliefs - we probably shouldn’t want to play whack a mole country by country either.
pastaking··on Toonify Yourself
This is so cool! I'm curious, how much does it cost to run a server that does deep learning inference on the scale of hugged-by-hn-frontpage?
pastaking··on Hong Kong mourns the end of its way of life
Truly sad. When HK was handed back to China in 1999, did we know this is inevitable?
pastaking··on TikTok Inc. vs. U.S. Department of Commerce
Does anyone know when we will likely hear the result of this trial?
pastaking··on Trump gives TikTok a new deadline: 90 days instead of 45
Does the new EO override the previous EO? Technically, if it’s allowed “no transactions” in 45 days, then it can’t really sell anything in the latter half of the 90 days.
pastaking··on The TikTok War
Maybe a correction: The article mentions that Amazon asked its employees to delete the app. But Amazon later retracted that decision.
pastaking··on iPadOS
Can we split screen vertically now?
pastaking··on Yield curve is blaring loudest recession warning since 2007
Can someone provide an ELI5 on what are yield curves and why is it an indicator of a recession?
pastaking··on Show HN: Lirik (Lyrics Syncing Tool)
Looks great! How did you align audio with text?
pastaking··on Ask HN: Is anyone working on tech for dementia/Alzheimer's?
Check out http://www.winterlightlabs.com/

Monitor dementia / alzheimer's through speech

pastaking··on Microsoft announces Surface Go
This will be a great affordable option for students who want to use a surface to take notes!
pastaking··on Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration (1973)
Paper clearly cites 5 people died from this before from not doing it safely.
pastaking··on Photos Reveal More Than 200 Arctic Lakes Have Started Bubbling with Methane Gas
Can we harvest this methane gas and use it as an energy source?
pastaking··on AWS Lambda – Best practices
Yes, but there's no guarantee that lambda will reuse a connection / won't continue to request new connections against your database :( Currently, it seems like there's no "concurrency limit" or "per-function throttling". It would be amazing if requests are just magically queued up in SQS and lambda just processes them... like a traditional queue-worker system except now we don't have to manage the infra.
pastaking··on AWS Lambda – Best practices
How do you use database connection pools with lambda? I thought it wasn't possible.
pastaking··on Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website
The whole google cloud platform doesn't get enough cred. Would be nice to add it to the list.
pastaking··on YC W17 Launch: Claire, Peer5, WaystoCap, Symple, RankScience, and Kudi
Peer5 is a brilliant idea! Glad to see they're doing well.
pastaking··on What should a young person do with $20,000?
Invest it in your education
pastaking··on Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine
Great site! What inspired you to create this and how will you afford to keep it running?
pastaking··on Modern Software Over-Engineering Mistakes
Finally, some real talk!
pastaking··on R Notebooks
What's the benefit of this over Ipython notebooks? I think Ipython notebooks can run R as well...
pastaking··on Show HN: Riko – A Python stream processing engine modeled after Yahoo! Pipes
Also might want to check out http://concord.io, it's a bit more work to set up, but it's much faster than most stream processing systems
pastaking··on Concord – High Performance Stream Processing with C++ and Mesos
Cool project!
pastaking··on Ask HN: Where can I find technical co-founders?
Hey nick_bristol, read your bio, I love the market you're in (security in oil & gas and maritime markets), would you be open to working with someone from Canada?
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