Hacker News: Vvector

New comment by Vvector in "Tiny black holes may be exploding stars across the Milky Way"

Vvector — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:17:32 +0000

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-dark-forest-hypothesis-is-...

New comment by Vvector in "Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list"

Vvector — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:17:27 +0000

This is why i use Firefox

New comment by Vvector in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026"

Vvector — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:01:02 +0000

"But over time, if we didn't have leap seconds, the difference would accumulate. The accumulated difference now between UTC and TAI is 37 seconds--which is almost twice the maximum variation in actual solar noon from mean solar noon that you refer to."

No, the 10-15 seconds I mentioned is the daily variation in solar noon.

From the link I posted, in NYC, solar noon on 2026-01-01 is at 11:59am. On 2026-01-31, solar noon is at 12:09pm. In one month, it has drifted 10 minutes. That's much greater than the 37 leap seconds we have added in 60 years.

"We humans have collectively decided that we don't want that, and that it's better to do the adjustments a little at a time rather than in bigger lumps."

Yet we just reversed that decision. No more leap seconds after 2035. After trying it, we decided it was terrible.

New comment by Vvector in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026"

Vvector — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:12:40 +0000

"In other words, we want UTC noon to be within a second of mean solar noon on the prime meridian."

Why?

If I travel 1 mile east or west of the prime meridian, my solar noon now comes 2-3 seconds earlier/later. It's nearly impossible to have your local time match your local solar noon. For most of the population, solar noon is, on average, 30 minutes off of 12:00 noon.

Plus, solar noon varies from day to day by 10-20 seconds. Check the charts out. https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/new-york

New comment by Vvector in "Splash Is a Colour Format"

Vvector — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:09:44 +0000

Isn't this just RGB, with 246 of the 256 values removed from each channel?

New comment by Vvector in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

Vvector — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:36:20 +0000

"Commercial Use" is only one part of the four prongs of the fair use test. For example, commercial Parody is generally considered Fair Use. Look at Space Balls, which is a direct transformation from Star Wars.

This is all new territory. We don't have court-settled law yet.

New comment by Vvector in "Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)"

Vvector — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:05:41 +0000

He bought a $900 monitor that has a KVM built in

New comment by Vvector in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"

Vvector — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:17:15 +0000

Paying farmers to make the transition from peaches is a bailout

New comment by Vvector in "Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign"

Vvector — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:20:35 +0000

Seamless syncing is the primary reason I stick with BW

New comment by Vvector in "Louis Zocchi, games industry pioneer, has died"

Vvector — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:36:06 +0000

almost all d10's are zero-based, 0-9. And the "decade" die is 00-90. So it's just a simple matter of adding the rolls, no complicated math. And 0=100.

New comment by Vvector in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

Vvector — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:06:29 +0000

Paper ballots are a must. Vote on a touchscreen, then have the terminal print out a voter-verifiable paper ballot that can also be machine counted.

Make the ballot printout layout a standard format. Then machines from multiple vendors can verify the counts on a subset of the ballots. And as a last resort, the ballots can be hand counted as well.

New comment by Vvector in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026"

Vvector — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:55:43 +0000

Can you explain how a 10 minute offset would affect you in any way?

For 99% of the world today, high noon =/= 12:00:00. Nothing breaks because of this. The world continues to run.

New comment by Vvector in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026"

Vvector — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:46:57 +0000

Yet high noon at my current location comes at 12:03 (1:03 with DST). It's three minutes off. If I lived further west in my timezone, noon would come much later.

How can people manage with noon off by minutes, yet want leap-second accuracy every 6 months?

New comment by Vvector in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026"

Vvector — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:30:14 +0000

Leap Seconds need to be abolished. The only people who need it are Astronomers. They could just use an offset. Implementing leap seconds correctly is a huge burden, for no gain.

Where I live, high noon today occurs at 1:03 PM. No one is complaining that it is 3 minutes (or 63 minutes) off. It's a non-issue for 99.9% of the population.

New comment by Vvector in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

Vvector — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:08:00 +0000

Delete your account. I did. https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1rh30rw/great_day_t...

New comment by Vvector in "Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database"

Vvector — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:05:35 +0000

Are you suggesting that I cannot refuse to hire a bookkeeper that has multiple convictions for embezzlement?

New comment by Vvector in "I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure"

Vvector — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 22:09:59 +0000

s/cloudflare/coinbase/

New comment by Vvector in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"

Vvector — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:58:50 +0000

Is a pirated movie, found on bittorrent, public?

IMO, your definition is overbroad

New comment by Vvector in "AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline"

Vvector — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 17:24:24 +0000

Does an increased pixel count make a bad movie better?

New comment by Vvector in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

Vvector — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:13:58 +0000

If the local market for American DBAs is $180k, then hiring H1B DBAs at $110k does depress wages.