Hacker News: akjetma

New comment by akjetma in "Waymo in Portland"

akjetma — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:35:33 +0000

Really horrifying lack of empathy in your thinking. Also, what a stupid, shortsighted plan.

New comment by akjetma in "Students invent quieter leaf blower"

akjetma — Fri, 17 May 2024 15:05:04 +0000

This is great. I live in a dense suburb and the weekend is just a cacophony of deafening noise from leafblowers, table saws, pressure washers, lawn mowers, etc. My neighbor had a team of people grinding and cutting stone slabs for their patio from 9-5 last weekend. Wish people would chill out.

As a side note, leafblowers aren't just disruptive to the sound environment: https://twitter.com/touchmoonflower/status/17242321111447757...

New comment by akjetma in "U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon"

akjetma — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 01:59:40 +0000

The United States carpet bombed North Korea, destroying 90% of all structures in the country, killing 300,000 in the immediate bombing run, then sanctioned them into the stone age. The relative poverty of North Korea is not a consequence of Chinese support.

New comment by akjetma in "We’ve filed a lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion"

akjetma — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 07:47:55 +0000

there are some artists with very strong, recognizable styles. if you provide one of these artists' name in your prompt and get a result back that employs their strong, recognizable style, i think that demonstrates that the network has a latent representation of the artists work stored inside of it.

New comment by akjetma in "We’ve filed a lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion"

akjetma — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 07:36:22 +0000

I don't think you have to reproduce an entire original work to demonstrate copyright violation. Think about sampling in hip hop for example. A 2 second sample, distorted, re-pitched, etc. can be grounds for a copyright violation.

New comment by akjetma in "Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?"

akjetma — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 09:10:40 +0000

mannn... i know i'm going to forget about flipping this http3 flag for a quick fix

Ask HN: What's going to happen to 3G infrastructure as it gets phased out?

akjetma — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 19:22:30 +0000

I wanted try going back to using an old 3G 'dumb phone' for awhile and in the process I learned that Verizon is going to stop allowing activation of 3G phones on 12/31/2019 and will be 'turning off' their 3G network on 12/31/2020.

I was wondering, what happens to all the old, incompatible infrastructure when a new mobile generation gets rolled out? Do the telecoms lease access to the old equipment? Sell the network wholesale, in-place? Do they liquidate all the equipment to make room for new antennas and equipment? What happens to the unused spectrum once all the providers are phased out?

P.S. I'm bummed out by the lack of truly dumb phones that'll work on 4G (at least, on Verizon's 4G network in the US). The dumbest phones I can find all seem to be android-based. I'm tired of carrying around such a powerful device and wish I could just have access to sms and non-ip-based telephony without it just being a pared down launcher for a general purpose operating system.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21784494

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Ask HN: Are high performance virtual desktops viable now?

akjetma — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 22:13:30 +0000

The new cloud gaming services (Stadia, xCloud, etc.) demonstrate that we can run computationally demanding graphical applications remotely with acceptable input latency and high visual fidelity. Regular, everyday usage of a PC is much less demanding than running a game, and video of regular desktop usage is much more compressible and less bandwidth hungry than video of a fast-moving game. There's a huge pricing disparity between Stadia (like $5/month with one-time fees for application purchases? Somewhere around there...) and virtual desktop services like amazon workspaces (like $700/mo for a similarly powerful, reserved machine or $22/mo+$2/hr of usage).

Do you think we might be moving to a new ultra-thin client structure for personal computing? What are the challenges?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21600290

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by akjetma in "Half-Life: Alyx"

akjetma — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 20:44:03 +0000

it's funny, VR doesn't give me motion sickness but browser parallax stuff does. i don't think i've ever seen a good implementation of this and i've seen tons of attempts. highjacking scroll just never feels good.

New comment by akjetma in "To motivate people, talk about the context of the work to be done"

akjetma — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 16:50:22 +0000

I love this, thanks for sharing!

New comment by akjetma in "35 Year-Old C64 Easter Egg Hidden on Vinyl [video]"

akjetma — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:11:57 +0000

this is every youtube video, to me

New comment by akjetma in "Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second"

akjetma — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 03:59:37 +0000

i wonder if there's a constant average reading speed (in terms of bits per second) across written languages. chinese is obviously more dense per symbol than english, but is each character processed more slowly as a result, preserving constant data rate across languages? also interesting to consider how much harder real time, verbal translation would be if data rates differed.

New comment by akjetma in "Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second"

akjetma — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 02:19:35 +0000

Scientists started with written texts from 17 languages, including English, Italian, Japanese, and Vietnamese. They calculated the information density of each language in bits—the same unit that describes how quickly your cellphone, laptop, or computer modem transmits information. They found that Japanese, which has only 643 syllables, had an information density of about 5 bits per syllable, whereas English, with its 6949 syllables, had a density of just over 7 bits per syllable. Vietnamese, with its complex system of six tones (each of which can further differentiate a syllable), topped the charts at 8 bits per syllable.

how can you encode 643 syllables using 5 bits? same for 6949 syllabes/7 bits?

New comment by akjetma in "3D interfaces are usually worse than 2D interfaces"

akjetma — Tue, 21 May 2019 01:58:27 +0000

you really dont use context menus for everything. a lot of functionality is based on modal key chords. so, different sequences/chords do different things based on the selected mode. watch this video and tell me this is inefficient: https://youtu.be/31A0s9HDRHU?t=483

New comment by akjetma in "3D interfaces are usually worse than 2D interfaces"

akjetma — Mon, 20 May 2019 17:49:42 +0000

media molecule's Dreams has the most impressive user interface i've ever used. it uses 2d panels laid out in 3d space but the panels can be anchored and resized in screen space, object space or world space and it's extremely intuitive. i highly recommend people interested in ux/ui check it out

World Building in Media Molecule's Dreams [video]

akjetma — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 07:25:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMXiGHq_kIM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19697697

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by akjetma in "San Francisco median one bedroom apartment rent hits a new peak of $3,690"

akjetma — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 06:47:39 +0000

man, this comment depressed the hell out of me.

New comment by akjetma in "Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite data breach"

akjetma — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 07:05:04 +0000

yeah, twitter users are notorious for how much they love jack and twitter

New comment by akjetma in "How Many Computers Are in Your Computer?"

akjetma — Sat, 10 Nov 2018 01:50:59 +0000

Ahhh, that makes sense, thanks!

New comment by akjetma in "How Many Computers Are in Your Computer?"

akjetma — Sat, 10 Nov 2018 01:44:32 +0000

Don't mean to nitpick, just wasn't able to parse this:

> Each of the 2-8 main CPU cores can run independently, shutting on or off as necessary, and has its own private cache (bigger than most computers’ RAM up to even recently) ...

Aren't CPU caches necessarily much smaller than RAM?

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New comment by akjetma in "Waymo in Portland"

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New comment by akjetma in "We’ve filed a law­suit chal­leng­ing Sta­ble Dif­fu­sion"

New comment by akjetma in "Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?"

Ask HN: What's going to happen to 3G infrastructure as it gets phased out?

Ask HN: Are high performance virtual desktops viable now?

New comment by akjetma in "Half-Life: Alyx"

New comment by akjetma in "To motivate people, talk about the context of the work to be done"

New comment by akjetma in "35 Year-Old C64 Easter Egg Hidden on Vinyl [video]"

New comment by akjetma in "Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second"

New comment by akjetma in "Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second"

New comment by akjetma in "3D interfaces are usually worse than 2D interfaces"

New comment by akjetma in "3D interfaces are usually worse than 2D interfaces"

World Building in Media Molecule's Dreams [video]

New comment by akjetma in "San Francisco median one bedroom apartment rent hits a new peak of $3,690"

New comment by akjetma in "Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite data breach"

New comment by akjetma in "How Many Computers Are in Your Computer?"

New comment by akjetma in "How Many Computers Are in Your Computer?"

New comment by akjetma in "We’ve filed a lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion"

New comment by akjetma in "We’ve filed a lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion"