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zatel··on CSS Spider – fast and easy way to check, copy and edit CSS
It works for me on osx firefox. Here is what it looks like https://imgur.com/a/UjX0Bug
zatel··on PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network
I agree in sentiment and can't find the link now but just yesterday I read an article saying the doj or fbi or someone like that had stated that just using Monero or zcash is suspicious behavior. I think this is part of changing the narrative from cryptocurrencies are bad to these ones are good (btc, eth,...) and anyone who uses any other ones is therefore definitely bad
zatel··on Show HN: Igel – A CLI tool to run machine learning without writing code
Thank you for sharing this.
zatel··on Show HN: Igel – A CLI tool to run machine learning without writing code
thank you, this is the keyword I think I was missing in my searches and now I feel silly for not thinking of it.
zatel··on Show HN: Igel – A CLI tool to run machine learning without writing code
Thank you for explaining this more indepth. I should have been more specific with my original comment, I did intend cross validation and hyper parameter tuning as inclusing to the automatic feature I was describing.

These operations certainly are computationally expensive, a recent hyperparameter tuning operation locked up my laptop for 3 days but this seems to be the case for any similar operation. The only approaches I've come across so far to overcome it are things like converting the data to smaller sizes (which seems outside the scope of this tool) and some way to batch the data so that it can be "paused" and resumed as needed. Thank you again for creating Igel.

zatel··on Show HN: Igel – A CLI tool to run machine learning without writing code
This is so cool!

I know the answer is to just write what I'm describing myself but does anyone know of an existing way to find the best SciKitLearn algorithm for a particular problem. Like if I want to find the regression fit is there a way to just pass in the data and have it trained,tested on all of the regression algorithms in SKLearn? My current workflow is to just pick a handful of algorithms that sound like they should be good for the problem at hand and try each one of them manually. Igel seems like a step towards making this sort of thing possible if another tool doesn't exist already.

zatel··on GoDaddy and Felons.io – The life of an unregistered domain
Thank you for reminding me to buy [my name].com back since it's lapsed
zatel··on World suicide prevention day: 'Could I have stopped my dad killing himself?'
I stand by my view that anyone should have right to kill themselves.

I would be very sad if someone close to me did so but that shouldn't stop them from doing it. I consider this a basic freedom of being a living creature. If you don't have the power to end your life then do you really own it?

zatel··on 'Wild West' mentality lingers in modern populations of US mountain regions
Highly recommend you keep going with it when time allows. I got my wEMT license a few years back and although it's lapsed now it was a really fun and educating experience. For those who don't have one near them I recommend SOLO school in new england -> https://soloschools.com/
zatel··on Expanding Google Cloud’s Confidential Computing Portfolio
I think this sounds like the right idea to move towards. With so many similarities in their offerings it seems like the logical next step. Maybe a company can be created to offer a middleware that abstracts all the common offerings into your spec because I don't expect the major cloud providers to do that on their own soon. Cheers to your upcoming IPO when this works out
zatel··on Show HN: Vigyaa Anonymous – A safe place to write and read anonymously
I think this looks great, I definitely will want to use it. I tried to read some of the popular posts and found a small bug:

When you are on a post page (like https://vigyaa.io/sadness-is-confusing-86b8c139/) it loads the content of the page and you can scroll and everything but then after a few seconds it switches to "Something Went Wrong!!! Please Try again".

Watching it happen with the console open this error comes out when it fails:

TypeError: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.

I'm still excited to use Vigyaa, worts and all!

zatel··on GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about
+1 this could easily be the story line of a Rick and Morty episode or any of the other similar off the cuff shows that are popular right now. I think that will be one of the main profit streams for things like this, you can get the weird wild stories that don't really make sense but are interesting enough that who cares and you don't have to associate your network with eccentric individuals that attract malcontents.
zatel··on Show HN: Kinopio.club – visual thinking, brainstorming tool
Thank you for making this it's cool and is basically the exact way that I use Keynotes on Mac to organize ideas (only better because of adding videos and other content)
zatel··on Show HN: Kinopio.club – visual thinking, brainstorming tool
The demo on the site also uses the wii store music or some recognizable version of it.
zatel··on Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?
As a self taught developer I also found Neo4j's query language (Cypher) to be way easier to read than sql. Especially for building complex relationships between data which I find to be kinda a pain in sql. Also the web interface for viewing your database is really easy to use. Although I should say I've switched to using more sql databases over the past year or two because there are way more hosting solutions that support them out of the box.
zatel··on 50 authors, 50 science fiction stories shorter than novels
One of my favorite scifi short stories is Manna by Michael Brain (creator of howstuffworks.com)

It two futures based around easy industrial production/ai and feels closer to reality then it did a few years ago.

Here is the link for anyone interested: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

zatel··on Workers fear returning to work – many are resisting the call
Many people I know aren't really afraid of catching the virus, they go out to bars, stores, and other places to meet people with abandon.

They don't want to go back to work because they have gotten to taste passive income (unemployment money) and don't want to have to go back to trading most of their time for less money then they can get for free by not going back.

zatel··on FounderPool: A community for founders to share risk and diversify their equity
Thank you I wouldn't otherwise have heard of this
zatel··on Launch HN: Jika (YC S20) – Price A/B Testing for Shopify
This seems like a great shopify app I will certainly be adding to my next store. Do you have any go to optimization resources to share? (just general stuff on how to think about optimizing things in ones own life)
zatel··on The battle to outlaw end-to-end encryption in the U.S. is heating up
I think this is what the poster is referring to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_%28Washington,_D.C.%2...
zatel··on US citizens warned they face arbitrary arrest in China
Here's hoping the US isn't the one that collapses in on itself this time. My perception of China is that it's government makes life pretty terrible but it seems better organized over there (because of state control).
zatel··on Boston bans use of facial recognition technology
I think I fall with the HN majority in my privacy views. Yesterday however I talked to someone who said that they prefer someone is always watching, so that they can feel safer.

Interestingly they also said they don't want to know the specifics of anyone watching.

I wonder if laws like this, that in actuality seem fairly toothless, will result in more of that. "Safety, and ignorance of where/who the watchers are."

zatel··on It’s time to end China’s ‘United Front’ operations inside the United States
It's a bunch of smaller efforts all working towards a single goal. (think lots of little foundations and lobbyist groups)

This report goes into a lot more detail https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/dia...

zatel··on Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
Thank you. this is very useful and will certainly work for my use case.
zatel··on Activists rally to save Internet Archive as lawsuit threatens site
I wonder if this rhymes with whatever happened to the library of Alexandria.
zatel··on Activists rally to save Internet Archive as lawsuit threatens site
I'm not familiar with Myke Cole or his books. I'm sure they are quite good. I think that quality is more important then quantity though.

Some people on here seem to make one app and kick back for years on the earnings while others churn out one after the other unprofitable software tool.

I myself have written 3 novella, 1 book of short stories, 1 movie, 2 native apps, and 4 web apps. I can't live on the royalties from any of them but I know there are people who do less and get more.

zatel··on Spherical Solar Cells Soak Up Scattered Sunlight
I worked in the Tesla factory making solar panels and I can attest that they are more snazzy and lighter then normal panels I've bought for my home (the wait list was to long for Tesla ones) I'm not sure they're much more durable.

They can take a hit straight on but if anything comes at the wrong angle the top glass layer shatters. It was so common that we had a designated spot to go dump the ones that would frequently break during the manufacturing process.

zatel··on Mysterious deep-space flashes repeat every 157 days
I like this idea. Orienting people in the dark of the cosmos. Find your way home just follow the flash
zatel··on Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
FastComments is really cool looking and so simple (it reminds me of brutalist web design).

Could you explain a little on how you do limiting of page loads? I've been trying to add this kind of functionality to my own projects but can't think of a way to track it without storing in a db which seems like a bottleneck process if every page load is a write

zatel··on Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
this is a really inspiring little payment processor
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