Hacker News: alphabeta3r56

New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "Why stdx is not on crates.io"

alphabeta3r56 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:58:21 +0000

This is hugely problematic behavior of github

New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation"

alphabeta3r56 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:52:57 +0000

I don't know whether his popular science work is plagiarized or not but about his thesis, it seems somewhat stupid To punish him

So many things in physics have to be written in a very specific manner , to convey the meaning of the precise concepts being used. in such cases, it is a very common practice to copy the sentences used before, in order to ensure that everyone understands the meaning in a precise manner.

So then to call it plagiarism doesn't make any sense

New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "US and Iran announce deal to end military operations"

alphabeta3r56 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:39:17 +0000

Why would Iran take that at that point? There's no trust.

New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "US and Iran announce deal to end military operations"

alphabeta3r56 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:36:21 +0000

They were working for that agreement. trump canceled it, not they.

New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

alphabeta3r56 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:42:50 +0000

Firefox is only sluggish because Chrome uses your data to prefetch pages.

New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

alphabeta3r56 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:21:06 +0000

One big reason is preparation, people start preparing for tests 2 to 3 years in advance. And the method of testing influences exams used in grades before as well.

So assume 4 years of high school and someone that just came in. They are still preparing for SAT like tests in their first year of high school. Someone in final year of high school is well trained in it. So even though the benefits do not carry, enough portion of incoming students are still reaping benefits of standardized tests. The decay only shows later when batches without any benefits of standardized tests are coming through.

New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team"

alphabeta3r56 — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:53:27 +0000

Also

> This system has been merged into OpenBSD base. If you'd like to contribute to openrsync, please mail your patches to tech@openbsd.org. This repository is simply the OpenBSD version plus some glue for portability.

Seems more cathedral than Bazaar to me.

New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "The worst job interview I ever had"

alphabeta3r56 — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:05:46 +0000

My worst interview: The recruiter forgot about me. Then joined 5 mins late, asking me if we had actually scheduled something.

I said yes, so assembled 3 people 20 mins to listen to my presentation on my PhD work. No questions at the end of the presentation, sent a mail 2 mins later telling me they are not moving forward.

New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

alphabeta3r56 — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:01:33 +0000

> The RTX 5090 is faster than an H200. It just has less ram

H200 has HBM and much more 64-bit compute

New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

alphabeta3r56 — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:39:17 +0000

Its just numbers only for rich. For poor ir can be the differnce between employability and not. In general, I believe that non-free tools like this are effective violence against poor nations since they trap those societies in unskilled sectors.

New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

alphabeta3r56 — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:37:17 +0000

Yeah this is such an own goal. You want students using your code to get them to use it in job. They have learnt nothing from cuda

New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark"

alphabeta3r56 — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:30:52 +0000

In this specific case, the city is essentially bordering a desert.

New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame"

alphabeta3r56 — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:48:20 +0000

Germany has half the percentage of forest as Japan

New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "We've made the world too complicated"

alphabeta3r56 — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:52:09 +0000

I feel the OP has not seen the poverty before the world was complex.

The complexity is the price we pay for keeping people fed in Africa and India. Having said that Juicero was too much complexity.

New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

alphabeta3r56 — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:17:45 +0000

That's temporary though. Or at least was supposed to be temporary to prevent immediately disqualifying existing vehicles

New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "Git Is Not Fine"

alphabeta3r56 — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:13:53 +0000

> There is No C

Well yes because git was supposed to be completely distributed. You can design a system which has this feature but then it wouldn't be as distributed as git, making unrelated forks second class citizens. It might still be a good idea for tool to have it but it is not strictly a better/worse scenario.

> Mutability

I think i can mostly agree to this. I do wonder if people never work in a scenario where they are only committing partial state and not complete state. Nevertheless being able to track and not losing uncommitted state is a strict improvement.

> workflows

Aren't worktrees enough here?

New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "UCF Commencement Speaker Draws Boos After A.I. Remarks"

alphabeta3r56 — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:29:18 +0000

I think its not as much about AI as it is about power grab. In the same sense that it would not be as much about Indusutrial reolvution as it would be for related colonialism.

New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

alphabeta3r56 — Sun, 10 May 2026 07:17:17 +0000

I am talking about have nots at a nation scale here. At level of British empire.

New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

alphabeta3r56 — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:08:17 +0000

Question is, are our optimization functions well specified enough? (No)

How important is well specified opt function? No one knows. We will find out

New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

alphabeta3r56 — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:05:39 +0000

Due to purchasing power parity, it is actually much hhigher in poorer countries, in that they are absolutely still asking the have nots.