Hacker News: amypetrik214

New comment by amypetrik214 in "A university got itself banned from the Linux kernel (2021)"

amypetrik214 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:45:38 +0000

>I've also had to deal with the IRB a lot as a professor. The retroactive application is extremely weird (although maybe better than nothing?).

I mean I feel like the IRB is mostly dealing with medical stuff. "I want to electrocute these students every week to see if it cures asthma". "No that's too much.. every other week at most". "Great I'll charge up the electrodes"

So if a security researcher rolls in after the fact and says "umm yea so this has to do with nerd stuff, computers and kernels, no humans, and I just want it all to be super secure and nobody gets hacked, sound good" "ok sure we don't care if no people are involved and don't really understand that nerd stuff, but hackers bad and you're fighting hackers"

New comment by amypetrik214 in "Iran has now been offline for 96 hours"

amypetrik214 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:12:00 +0000

Fellow Iranian here. Admiral in the Navy (my handle is to throw them off my trail). By the name of Admiral Ackbar. I want to warn the western states not to intervene during this unstable protests - the state is in fact more stable than ever -- It's a trap!

New comment by amypetrik214 in "TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875"

amypetrik214 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:15:21 +0000

>.If the model comes up with anything even remotely correct it would be quite a strong evidence that LLMs are a path to something bigger if not then I think it is time to go back to the drawing board.

In principle I see your point, in practice my default assumption until proven otherwise here -- is that a little something slipped through post-1900.

A much easier approach would be to just download some model, whatever model, today. Then 5 years from now, whatever interesting discoveries are found - can the model get there.

New comment by amypetrik214 in "The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]"

amypetrik214 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:44:38 +0000

- the internet connection is excellent

I mean, maybe you had a different experience. In my experience in the northeast , the internet service is about as reliable and consistent as the trains themselves (ie not consistent, garbage fire)

New comment by amypetrik214 in "Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study"

amypetrik214 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 03:40:33 +0000

I mean OP said this is $80 / season, and salary rate is 25/hr.

So to your point, if we assume 4 appointments per season at one hour per, they are actually paying $100 in salary alone to only collect $80 season pass fee - a $20 loss! This business model is not sustainable

New comment by amypetrik214 in "Collection and Use of Biometrics by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services"

amypetrik214 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:09:37 +0000

I know of green card cases where it's (1) bring in wife from foreign country (2) she also has 3 kids over there that need to get cleared for the kiddos to come to the US and live here - all legal and above board, nothing undocumented.

In order to keep it legal and above board, the US state assumes they are not her kids until proven otherwise. So yes, a DNA test is required. The other stipulation is a state department person needs to be in the room with the kids blood is drawn. A lot of red tape!

On the one hand the whole thing seems aggressive and strict. On the other - you can imagine that these rules went in place from bad experiences i.e. the DNA test existed because people were scamming the "bring children over", and then a state department person needed to be present because people were scamming the blood draw. It's another example of a few bad apples ruining it for everyone.