Hacker News: Loranubi

New comment by Loranubi in "Books are not too expensive"

Loranubi — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:53:06 +0000

In Germany I spent exactly 0 dollars/euros on books in university. We got access to a huge amounts of ebooks through the university network and profs never required a specific one and would just recommend a few. One of these was always available. This free access was of course covered by the 250 euros per semester tuition…

But yes, standards and certifications are horrible.

New comment by Loranubi in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

Loranubi — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:01:32 +0000

I would understand if they didn't backup anything with FILE_ATTRIBUTE_RECALL_ON_DATA_ACCESS set (on Windows). Everything else makes their product worthless.

New comment by Loranubi in "TOON – Token Oriented Object Notation"

Loranubi — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:50:54 +0000

Since all input is run through a tokenizer, I would expect the tokenizer space doesn't change a lot between one trained on uncompressed vs one trained on compressed data.

New comment by Loranubi in "What's your preferred playback speed: 1x, 1.5x or 2x?"

Loranubi — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 03:42:58 +0000

Didn't read the paywalled article. But imo if it's not worth listening at 1x speed, it's not worth listening at all.

If it's entertainment like audiobooks, it's for my enjoyment, so why should it be faster than 1x? If it's for education, everything faster than 1x makes it hard to understand, and if there is too much filler content, I will find another source to learn about it.

I use 1.5x-2x for stuff I have to listen too, but don't enjoy.

New comment by Loranubi in "People Keep Inventing Prolly Trees"

Loranubi — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:10:01 +0000

I was trying to catalog them at some point in a reasonably structured way https://github.com/Dobatymo/data-algos/ https://github.com/Dobatymo/data-algos/blob/master/data-stru... But it's a lot of work and I didn't update it for a while.

New comment by Loranubi in "I made my VM think it has a CPU fan"

Loranubi — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:19:45 +0000

It would be a non issue, if the options are not just allow/disallow, but also offer to provide random/fake data, so bad apps would not actually know if the permission is allowed or if the data is fake.

New comment by Loranubi in "EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio"

Loranubi — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 04:34:50 +0000

Can this be a replacement for Hamachi?

New comment by Loranubi in "GenZ grads say college degrees a waste of time/money as AI gets into workplaces"

Loranubi — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:30:23 +0000

some random news, there are more

- https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actual... - https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-app-scam-philippines-c... - https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/14/20805676/engineer-ai-arti...

New comment by Loranubi in "Advanced Python Features"

Loranubi — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 08:58:32 +0000

I would argue that most of these features (basically everything except metaclasses) are not advanced features. These are simple, but for some reason less well known or less used features.

Metaclasses are however quite complex (or at least lead to complex behavior) and I mostly avoid them for this reason.

And 'Proxy Properties' are not really a feature at all. Just a specific usage of dunder methods.

New comment by Loranubi in "Advanced Python Features"

Loranubi — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 08:53:34 +0000

I do like the else clause with for loops. However most people are not familiar with it, and also `else:` as a keyword is confusing. I always remember it as `no break:`.

New comment by Loranubi in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"

Loranubi — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:54:47 +0000

I hate Win11. It is horrible, but the first few points don't really make sense. I use it in 2 environments. - enterprise version: no bloatware, no ads, and edge is there but never has to be used for anything - professional version: bloatware is uninstalled in like 2min after OS install, another 2min later all ads are disabled. And it usually stays like that after updates too. Edge is never used at all.

Windows architecture is great. the WinAPI is better documented and more comprehensive than anything on Linux or Mac.

There are so many other issues. - The file explorer gets slower and more broken with each update. context menus randomly don't show, or take literally 30 seconds to load. - The renderer crashes randomly once a week (it's not a huge issue, but the screen goes black for 10 seconds or so) - the settings dialog is bad. goes through like 5 different layers of Windows generations and recently makes the old dialogs hard to find but doesn't offer adequate replacements (looking at network and sound) - and much more...

New comment by Loranubi in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"

Loranubi — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:16:04 +0000

using win 7 with 5400 RPM drives... it's still fast...

New comment by Loranubi in "Don't use cosine similarity carelessly"

Loranubi — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:17:08 +0000

There are many embedding models supporting instructions. https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard

New comment by Loranubi in "C++ is an absolute blast"

Loranubi — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:01:43 +0000

> Unlike requires requires and requires { requires }, which are perfectly reasonable C++ code, requires requires { requires } is completely silly.

Normal day in cpp land...

New comment by Loranubi in "Dumb TVs deserve a comeback"

Loranubi — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:57:04 +0000

Smart TVs are the reason I haven’t bought a new tv in almost 15 years. I would like to upgrade to a fancy 4K one instead of my old 1080p one. Dumb TVs back then weren’t more expensive than smart TVs today so I don’t believe price is the reason for smart TVs. Margins maybe…

New comment by Loranubi in "Review of Mullvad VPN"

Loranubi — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 06:07:01 +0000

Various VPNs allow to tunnel over SSH. If they don't want to block all SSH traffic, DPI is useless.

New comment by Loranubi in "The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired"

Loranubi — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 09:41:38 +0000

Probably not by Twain, but still a good quote. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/

New comment by Loranubi in "The Fastest Way to Download Foursquare's New 100M+ POI Dataset"

Loranubi — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 07:29:52 +0000

There should just be a torrent.

New comment by Loranubi in "Scalene: A high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, memory profiler for Python"

Loranubi — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 03:13:11 +0000

Note: The Windows version currently only supports CPU and GPU profiling, but not memory or copy profiling.

That's a problem with many of the profiling tools around Python. They often support Windows badly or not at all.

New comment by Loranubi in "iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max"

Loranubi — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 06:53:03 +0000

That doesn't make sense. 99.9% of iPhone users are not photographers or filmmakers.