<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: advisedwang</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=advisedwang</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:14:14 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=advisedwang" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by advisedwang in "Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Really, the moral here is that you should not use JPEG for icons and the like<p>And, more importantly, you should use images that are an appropriate resolution for the size they will be displayed. Even if you switch to PNG, using a 2000x2000 image for a icon displayed 20x20 is a waste.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:43:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276837</link><dc:creator>advisedwang</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276837</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by advisedwang in "Why Addresses Have Numbers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>4, L22 6ET doesn't work very fast/reliably in practice: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ss7A20EVpk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ss7A20EVpk</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:50:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247204</link><dc:creator>advisedwang</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247204</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by advisedwang in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If the drop in weight was accompanied by a drop in price I think the health angle would stick better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:47:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247155</link><dc:creator>advisedwang</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247155</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by advisedwang in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Right... label them differently. Now you're just arguing what the label should be</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:21:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211852</link><dc:creator>advisedwang</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211852</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by advisedwang in "A handful of cities have replaced Flock with Axon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Axon is a public company with market cap of $50B. It is an incumbent with a huge business in bodycams and tasers with a huge number of US police departments. Flock has a $7.5B valuation at it's last funding round, and is the new comer.<p>More likely for Axon to acquire flock than the other way around.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:28:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199711</link><dc:creator>advisedwang</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199711</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by advisedwang in "Google Assistant is going away on Mobile Devices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah HA isn't the best choice. It can do some of that stuff, but will require lots of customization to do so. Plus I think you would find things it can't do at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:32:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49186111</link><dc:creator>advisedwang</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49186111</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49186111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by advisedwang in "Google Assistant is going away on Mobile Devices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Home Assistant [1] can be a voice assistant (both on phone and on dedicated devices). It's FOSS and can be fully local [2]. It's really gear towards home automation though, so its suitability depends on what you want to do with an assistant<p>[1] <a href="https://www.home-assistant.io/" rel="nofollow">https://www.home-assistant.io/</a><p>[2] Although frankly to have a fast-enough and good-enough LLM you might need to use a service</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:55:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184636</link><dc:creator>advisedwang</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184636</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by advisedwang in "All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's no such thing as legal ownership of data. There's IP rights, contracts and innumerable data regulation laws, but not actual ownership. "Ownership" here just provides a vague cover that sounds like something definite but is not.</p>
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<p>Open to all people, not open to all roads.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:24:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173654</link><dc:creator>advisedwang</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173654</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by advisedwang in "All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Camera data is owned by the police department and permanently deleted after 30 days<p>There's so much going on in that sentence! What a thing of pure PR beauty.<p>What does "owned" mean in this sentence? Probably fairly little.<p>What data does it even refer to? Just the actual video footage? Does the statement include derived data like license plate reads or ML models?<p>And surely if data is flagged as relevant to an investigation it is not deleted, so is there an implicit "*unless retained"?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:22:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172752</link><dc:creator>advisedwang</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172752</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by advisedwang in "Haters (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Labelling people as haters (or fanboys, for that matter) is just another way of dismissing people.</p>
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<p>And Iran, for that matter</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:02:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171693</link><dc:creator>advisedwang</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171693</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by advisedwang in "200 Milliseconds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Users know to expect different things at different speeds, and have come to expect the actual "buy" button to be slow. 200ms is pretty fast for that, tbf</p>
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<p>You could, but there's two big reasons why this isn't useful:<p>1. The translation system would still have to implement the underlying ideas. For example, your spec might explain "key frames are made by doing a wavelet transform ABC, dropping frequency XYZ, applying Heuristic Alpha and then doing LZ encoding on the result" or something like that. You still need implementations of those specific operations. Having to explain all that stuff in the spec would mean each english language doc would be book length tretsie on  encoding. As a result, you don't really gain much by doing this kind of meta-explaination.<p>2. Video encoding/decoding is something where optimization is extremely important. Writing code that is specific to a single purpose is generally going to be faster than generic code that could be applied to any theoretical format. For example, by knowing the exact size of a transformation matrix, you can decide whether to build a lookup table or calculate on the fly - you can use hardware level features that require knowing exact sizes at build-time etc.</p>
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<p>Dangerous game... getting in a legal battle is expensive and stressful even when you win.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:37:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151262</link><dc:creator>advisedwang</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151262</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by advisedwang in "Severance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you do it, don't say so in front of witness or where a call might be recorded.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:59:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129467</link><dc:creator>advisedwang</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129467</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by advisedwang in "The RECAP Suite is a collection of tools for working with PACER"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love recap. Their pages are <i>easier</i> to use than PACER itself. I fetch from PACER when needed to contribute, and have never hit the $30 charging threshold.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:59:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115700</link><dc:creator>advisedwang</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115700</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by advisedwang in "I obtained Claude Opus 5 system prompt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How do you know that this is the system prompt and not just a hallucination of the system prompt?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:57:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115675</link><dc:creator>advisedwang</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115675</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by advisedwang in "I obtained Claude Opus 5 system prompt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My understanding is that it's not actually XML, but special tokens that can be injected into the input stream (and read from output stream).  The XML format is just how those tokens are sometimes rendered for human consumption.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:56:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115662</link><dc:creator>advisedwang</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115662</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by advisedwang in "So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> what does it matter how much CO2 I produce<p>Because the author of the piece is worried about the CO2 levels in their home, not about global warming. (well maybe they are worried about global warming too, but that's not what this is about)</p>
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