raugustinus's comments

On: I’m writing again

[raugustinus]

Dang we're getting old ey?

[rglover → raugustinus]

Not old. Experienced.

On: Online age verification is the hill to die on

[raugustinus]

Age verification requires identity verification once — but it doesn't require revealing your identity ever to a third party. With FHE (fully homomorphic encryption), identity data is encrypted on your device and never leaves it in plaintext. Not to the merchant, not to us as the verification service — nobody. We only compute on encrypted data and return a yes/no. I'm building this at identified.app

On: LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users

[raugustinus]

"Uber but for nailcare on Blockchain". I'm laughing but I'm not sure if I should be crying. Thanks for the laugh!

On: Metamaterials, AI, and the Road to Invisibility Cloaks

[raugustinus]

So confused when I read invincibility cloak.

[Legend2440 → raugustinus]

You could probably make a bulletproof cloak out of kevlar right now.

Might be a little stiff though.

[Annabella_W → raugustinus]

Now that really would be science fiction haha!

[Nevermark → raugustinus]

Ah yes, the dynamic structural assistance cloak. It is on the list.

Along with the aerodynamic lift and propulsion cloak.

The future is super.

On: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

[raugustinus]

There's https://refraction.network/ but I am not sure how feasible that is at the moment (or at all). I came across it when researching some TLS stuff in golang (programming language).

On: Self-Consuming Generative Models Go MAD

[raugustinus]

Maybe one should revise those thoughts. Apparently all of us will have issues with cow's milk. Some of us just have problems with even small amounts.

At least this is what our specilist at the hospital explained to us.

[chottocharaii → raugustinus]

The analogy is apt

On: Heat pumps, more than you wanted to know (2023)

[raugustinus]

Here in the Netherlands there's a huge incentive to move to heatpumps (subsidies and whatnot). I believe most of those (if not all) that are being installed have a defrosting mode which is automatically activated. I have seen mine defrosting in the last few days since it's finally below zero (celsius).

[Faaak → raugustinus]

Yeah, it's really strange to have an heat pump without automatic defrost, as it's something that's really needed on cold and humid days

[johnchristopher → raugustinus]

How much does it cost in the Netherlands (with incentives such as government subsidies) to install (hardware and installation) ?

[apexalpha → johnchristopher]

Other Dutch person here... with a heat pump.

And the only answer is that it completely depends.

We spent €30k renovating our house but that included removing the entire old heating system, installing underfloor heating, extra insulation, ventilation, remove of gas pipes, new electrical switchboard, upgrade to 400V electricity and, well, the heat pump.

Just the device itself (air-water) is probably €6 or €7k excluding a €3.3k subsidy.

On: Ask HN: LinkedIn mysteriously banned me permanently; where to go next?

[raugustinus]

Someone who insults your tech stack. Oh no sorry that's a technology insultant.

[wys2wyg → raugustinus]

:) I also find the word “free” in freelancer as odd and contractor is for someone fixing your home. All are simply labels.

On: Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says

[raugustinus]

"If the role of the WHO is to stave off pandemics and not just to monitor them". Not really no.

On: The Next Leap in Self-Driving: Prediction

[raugustinus]

While yes, they also completely lose track if the white lines on the road aren't available.