Hacker News: Pazzaz

New comment by Pazzaz in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

Pazzaz — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:31:55 +0000

Literally nothing changes. This is the continuation of a temporary law that already existed.

New comment by Pazzaz in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

Pazzaz — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:30:05 +0000

It's not accessed on devices. This is about people using messaging applications, like Messenger. Then, as the message isn't encrypted, Meta can read the message on their servers. And with this law they are allowed to scan and sometimes report it to the government.

New comment by Pazzaz in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

Pazzaz — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:25:36 +0000

The citizens do have a say: they vote in elections. This is a temporary law that was implemented 5 years ago so everyone had a chance to vote in the 2024 EU election and vote out those who supported this law. But most people don't care if a company like Meta is allowed to scan their messages. For those who care, they can always use an encrypted messaging service like Signal or Telegram.

New comment by Pazzaz in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

Pazzaz — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:41:42 +0000

They don't need to use "illegal chat apps". They can just use Signal or Telegram, or any of the other ways that exist to send encrypted messages.

New comment by Pazzaz in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

Pazzaz — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:40:22 +0000

You don't need to do any work to circumvent this. This law is just continuing the status queue that's existed in the EU for 5 years.

To avoid being affected by this law, you can just download Signal, or use any other encrypted messaging service.

New comment by Pazzaz in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

Pazzaz — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:38:29 +0000

No, there is no law preventing anyone from encrypting their messages. The thought is that children won't use encrypted services.

New comment by Pazzaz in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

Pazzaz — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:38:15 +0000

> read: one person elected

No, they have 8 people elected: 3 in the region, 5 in the municipality.

They got 4,46 % of the votes in the region, and 7,92 % in the municipality. And who knows, maybe they'll use that 5 million SEK to get more seats in this years election.

New comment by Pazzaz in "Font height differences between Windows and Mac (2019)"

Pazzaz — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 00:07:40 +0000

> What's that? You say you want even more infuriating font stories? Well don't you worry, I'll be back soon with another diatribe about font thickness and antialiasing on the web on Mac vs. Windows.

Did he ever write about this? I can't see anything about it in his list of articles.

New comment by Pazzaz in "Tailwind vs. Semantic CSS"

Pazzaz — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:38:41 +0000

This probably isn't related to semantic CSS, but the "Semantic version" isn't working properly. If I open "https://nuejs.org/@spotlight/" and then click on an article, then try to return to the previous page, it will change the URL but not the page itself. This happens on both Firefox and Chrome.

New comment by Pazzaz in "Thirty Years Later, a Speed Boost for Quantum Factoring"

Pazzaz — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 08:58:44 +0000

No one is "already using Shor's algorithm". Wikipedia lists the largest numbers factored using Shor's algorithm on a real quantum computer as follows:

- The number 15 (5*3) was factored in 2001

- The number 21 (7*3) was factored in 2012

- An attempt to factor 35 (5*7) was made in 2019 but they didn't succeed because of accumulation of errors in the quantum computer.

Quantum computers today are very bad, so changing the algorithm probably won't change much.

New comment by Pazzaz in "Early response to false claims in Wikipedia, 15 years later"

Pazzaz — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 05:02:08 +0000

It's the other two links on that page:

- https://cse.umn.edu/cs/open-letter-linux-community-april-24-...

- https://cse.umn.edu/cs/statement-computer-science-engineerin...

New comment by Pazzaz in "Mathematical proof is a social compact"

Pazzaz — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 23:21:52 +0000

The proof is not rejected because people don't understand it, it's rejected because people don't think the proof is correct.

If the proof was translated to Lean, then it would mean a lot if it managed to prove the ABC conjecture because it would mean the proof was correct. It doesn't matter if the proof used crazy definitions. The statement of the ABC conjecture would still be understandable and so the ABC conjecture would be solved.

New comment by Pazzaz in "Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac"

Pazzaz — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 19:57:56 +0000

Also mentioned in the original post.

New comment by Pazzaz in "Sturddlefish"

Pazzaz — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 11:10:44 +0000

The source paper says:

> During an experiment to produce gynogenic Russian sturgeon progeny, a negative control was initiated using non-irradiated American paddlefish sperm and eggs from the Russian sturgeon. Unexpectedly, the control cross resulted in viable hybrids.

I'm not a biologist, but I guess it's the "gynogenic" part that's hard to do?

New comment by Pazzaz in "Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a channel from the commandline"

Pazzaz — Sat, 20 May 2023 08:28:16 +0000

I think you're exaggerating a little when you say "site:youtube.com" doesn't work. If I search 'site:youtube.com apple watch' I get 143 000 000 results, and if I search something more specific like 'site:youtube.com "Featuring Dr James Grime"' I'll find exactly what I'm looking for. But you're correct that it doesn't seem to search video comments, only titles and descriptions.

New comment by Pazzaz in "Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”"

Pazzaz — Sat, 06 May 2023 09:36:41 +0000

As a non-native English speaker, I appreciate pedantic editors like this one a lot. When I read Wikipedia, I want the text to be easy to understand and consistent with the rest of Wikipedia and when I edit, I want people to improve what I wrote. I wish everything I wrote had a copy-editor as pedantic as Wikipedia power users.

Some people are complaining about overly zealous editors who delete a lot of and as an Inclusionist [1] I understand the sentiment. I think deleting information from Wikipedia is pretty bad. But being pedantic about English is not deleting information, it's improving the transmission of information.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Inclusionism

New comment by Pazzaz in "Zig Performance Tracking Dashboard"

Pazzaz — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 11:24:00 +0000

Rust has https://perf.rust-lang.org/

New comment by Pazzaz in "Building a personal website in 2021"

Pazzaz — Sun, 16 May 2021 16:29:07 +0000

I think you should justify text. The article you linked is old and hasn't caught up to the development in browsers. It is correct about text being ugly if justified without hyphens but most browsers nowadays support hyphens [0] and have for some time. For a good example of justified text together with hyphens, see: https://www.gwern.net/Holy-wars.

[0]: https://caniuse.com/css-hyphens

New comment by Pazzaz in "UX Challenges based in the real world"

Pazzaz — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 20:39:55 +0000

I'm getting annoying flashes on the website every time I switch to a new page with the error message

> "Layout was forced before the page was fully loaded. If stylesheets are not yet loaded this may cause a flash of unstyled content. content.js:84:32"

Seems like a weird thing to happen on a static website. Happens on Firefox 87.0, not on Chrome.

New comment by Pazzaz in "Once we can see them, it’s too late"

Pazzaz — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 21:00:09 +0000

An interesting paper that I don't see brought up often enough is "Dissolving the Fermi Paradox" by Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler and Toby Ord[0]. They show that it isn't a surprise that we are alone in the universe if we consider the uncertainty inherent to parameters of the Drake equation. Their analysis estimate that there is (at least) a 39% chance that we are alone in the observable universe.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404