Hacker News: Zelizz

New comment by Zelizz in "La Basilica Di San Pietro"

Zelizz — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 23:57:14 +0000

It would be nice if they'd let you see the whole thing at once.

New comment by Zelizz in "Apple found in breach of EU competition rules"

Zelizz — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 01:16:06 +0000

If they're selling below cost, who's the "we" that should buy them all up? Because if it's US consumers, then the domestic auto companies could fail in the while that's happening. If it's the US government - isn't that kind of what the tariff accomplishes, without having to take ownership of a bunch of inventory?

New comment by Zelizz in "Femtosecond lasers create 3D midair plasma displays you can touch (2015)"

Zelizz — Wed, 15 May 2024 06:56:20 +0000

That's really cool. I tried it with an angled mirror, it was really weird wiggling my thumb and seeing it in the reflection but not outside of it.

New comment by Zelizz in "Tesla wants to monetize its cars to process AI workloads"

Zelizz — Wed, 01 May 2024 06:40:59 +0000

I think we can confidently call stupid actions stupid actions. Inertia from prior success can keep them from being company-ending actions, especially if they can be corrected once they are recognized as stupid (or once the people who knew they were stupid from the beginning can gather enough political clout).

Tesla has smart people, just like any tech company, but they're not uniquely smart and they're not immune to the same short-sighted thinking that plagues other tech companies.

Note that I think this particular idea is not necessarily bad for the company, it's just not anything special. It's basically Folding@Home, monetized. If you can convince enough people to leave it on (or force it on and somehow avoid legal/PR issues) then I guess you can save a tiny bit of money on certain kinds of workloads.

New comment by Zelizz in "American flag sort"

Zelizz — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:56:39 +0000

Characters in a string can be thought of as digits in a base-256 number. Call counting sort recursively on each bucket, looking at the next character in the string. Can you not see the similarity?

New comment by Zelizz in "American flag sort"

Zelizz — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:35:31 +0000

Pretty much just a variation of counting sort with a worse name? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_sort

New comment by Zelizz in "Descent 3 Source Code"

Zelizz — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 06:26:59 +0000

As someone who also bounced off it initially - I would recommend getting through the tutorial area and flying out somewhere in the ship before you put it down for good. Once I started going out there and visiting places, it really grabbed me. The more stuff you scan and read, the more intrigued it made me, and eventually I couldn't stop until I'd unraveled every story thread and mystery the game had to offer.

New comment by Zelizz in "Krita AI Diffusion"

Zelizz — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 19:37:02 +0000

My very-rough feeling about it from playing around with Stable Diffusion is that it takes about 4x as long if it runs out of GPU memory and needs to shuttle data back and forth from system memory. There are a lot of variables though - on my 3070 with 8GB of RAM, I can get very impressive 512x512 images in about 10 seconds with somewhat low sample counts, or I can set it to a higher resolution and sample count with 2x upscaling and get a really sharp image in around 2 minutes.

New comment by Zelizz in "Chamberlain blocks smart garage door opener from working with smart homes"

Zelizz — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 02:08:14 +0000

Sounds like they could implement local network IoT and reduce their server costs to $0 - but then they wouldn't be able to get a continuing revenue stream.

New comment by Zelizz in "Deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL (2018)"

Zelizz — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 23:22:43 +0000

They didn't, the Mac version of CE is a port of the PC port, shows the Gearbox logo on startup.

New comment by Zelizz in "Apple Maps location scan spikes WiFi latency every 60 seconds"

Zelizz — Thu, 12 May 2022 20:19:26 +0000

My anecdotal experience (partially informed by working on the Windows Wi-Fi team) is that iOS/macOS are more aggressive about switching APs. It's a tradeoff - on one hand, you can have disruptive scans like this, but on the other, if it results in switching to a better network during a long period when the user is stationary, it can result in a better experience.

It also depends a lot on what your hardware is, whether you're doing a full scan or a partial scan, whether you have more than one NIC etc, etc.

New comment by Zelizz in "Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors"

Zelizz — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:14:33 +0000

Anyone can buy the stock though, while working at a company that pays better and has better work/life balance. Is the stock grant particularly generous or is there a better-than-average employee discount on stock purchases?

New comment by Zelizz in "Senate panel approves antitrust bill restricting big tech platforms"

Zelizz — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:09:19 +0000

That's an oversimplification. Lots of people in this thread have mentioned consequences of giving companies like Facebook the option of moving to sideload-only, and how that normalizes not having a quality/policy gatekeeper for installed apps. You can't enforce good app behavior purely from API design.

New comment by Zelizz in "Senate panel approves antitrust bill restricting big tech platforms"

Zelizz — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 23:32:28 +0000

Depends how tight you want your security to be, risk tolerance varies.

New comment by Zelizz in "New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacement design since 2012"

Zelizz — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 22:47:35 +0000

I used BetterTouchTool to add a second volume slider with no delay and no on-screen UI, for changing the volume while I watch something :)

I highly recommend using BetterTouchTool to get the most out of it if you still have a device with the touch bar.

New comment by Zelizz in "Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore starting January 31"

Zelizz — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 22:16:38 +0000

> Else spouse will pay for it again

It doesn't quite work like that. When someone in your family goes to hit the purchase button, it pops up a window saying that someone else has already purchased it. I'm not sure why you have to hit the button first, maybe for some measure of privacy from your family members?

New comment by Zelizz in "Apple to face EU antitrust charge over NFC chip"

Zelizz — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 22:10:14 +0000

That's possible from iOS as well.

New comment by Zelizz in "A grim warning from Israel: Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta"

Zelizz — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 21:19:09 +0000

If a person with cancer is hit by a bus, their death is not and should not be attributed to cancer. Likewise, if someone with a critical illness is robbed of their last few months by COVID, then it is correct to attribute their death to COVID.

The logic of "they were going to die anyways" means we might as well change every cause of death to "old age" or "natural causes", because if nothing else gets us, that's how we will all eventually die. But, of course, that would be stupid, and it would make death statistics meaningless - which is why we don't do it for COVID deaths.

New comment by Zelizz in "An update to our YouTube TV members on Roku"

Zelizz — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 19:01:10 +0000

> For example, by not supporting open-source video codecs, you wouldn’t be able to watch YouTube in 4K HDR or 8K even if you bought a Roku device that supports that resolution.

There are two sides to this, the encoding side and the decoding side. Google can frame it charitably towards themselves by saying "the Roku won't be able play 4K HDR", but we could just as easily frame it as "Google doesn't want to encode non-AV1 4K HDR". Both companies are trying to save costs, but Google's trying to frame it as Roku failing its users (users which are Google's as well, if they're trying to watch YouTube TV).

To be clear, I think open-source codecs are great, and it makes sense for devices (especially plugged-in / home internet devices) to support as many as is reasonable.

New comment by Zelizz in "The man who produced Steve Jobs’ keynotes for 20 years (2018)"

Zelizz — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 01:55:01 +0000

Are you serious? X is true. Google "X is true" and the list is endless. X is true.

This is practically the definition of confirmation bias.