<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: anamax</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=anamax</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:28:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=anamax" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anamax in "Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's also a .com - <a href="https://thekalmanfilter.com/kalman-filter-explained-simply/" rel="nofollow">https://thekalmanfilter.com/kalman-filter-explained-simply/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:35:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699658</link><dc:creator>anamax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anamax in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And if this guy isn't Satoshi?<p>And if he comes to harm as a result of someone believing the NYT?</p>
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<p>The energy saved by a new washer or dryer vs an older one is dwarfed by the energy needed to make the new washer or dryer.<p>FWIW, the same applies to most building replacements.  Yes, the newer buildings use less energy, but the savings doesn't pay for the cost of replacing an old one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:30:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47671063</link><dc:creator>anamax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47671063</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47671063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anamax in "The bachelor tax – what it costs in taxes to be single"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A marriage differential is a mathematical consequence of progressive marginal rates and community property (specifically the ability to shift income between spouses).<p>To put it another way, eliminating the marriage differential[1] in all cases requires giving up progressive marginal rates or community property.<p>Which one do you want to give up?<p>[1] The current US brackets and deductions taxes some married couples more than comparable pairs of individuals, taxes some less, and is basically a wash in other cases.  It's easy to move couples between the first two groups and you can move some of each to the third, you can't move all of them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:05:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46799179</link><dc:creator>anamax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46799179</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46799179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anamax in "Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> the lawnmowers and weed-whackers in California with their two-stroke engines<p>What's the intended precedence in that sentence?<p>I ask because I've never seen a lawnmower (in the US) with a two-stroke engine.  There are probably some, but they're not common.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:51:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761682</link><dc:creator>anamax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761682</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anamax in "The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How often do people die during football riots?<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests</a> says $1-2B in damage and more than 19 deaths.<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/31/americans-killed-protests-political-unrest-acled" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/31/americans-kill...</a> says 25 deaths.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:25:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761519</link><dc:creator>anamax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761519</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anamax in "To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had to talk to a human in PayPal's customer service because neither their documentation nor their chatbot says anything about how to "remember" a device, even though certain operations only work on remembered devices.<p>They do document how to delete an unrecognized device.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:51:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686586</link><dc:creator>anamax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686586</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anamax in "To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> When it became cheaper to publish text did the quality go up?<p>Average quality or peak quality?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:37:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686518</link><dc:creator>anamax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686518</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anamax in "Some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The data is supposed to be available from the authors in almost all cases, but in many (most?) cases the authors won't provide it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:43:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46597120</link><dc:creator>anamax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46597120</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46597120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anamax in "The unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> My suspicion is that we are in Ptolemaic state as far as GPT like models are concerned. We will eventually understand them better once we figure out what's the better coordinate system to think about their dynamics in.<p>Most deep learning systems are learned matrices that are multiplied by "problem-instance" data matrices to produce a prediction matrix.  The time to do said matrix-multiplication is data-independent (assuming that the time to do multiply-adds is data-independent).<p>If you multiply both sides by the inverse of the learned matrix, you get an equation where finding the prediction matrix is a solving problem, where the time to solve is data dependent.<p>Interestingly enough, that time is sort-of proportional to the difficulty of the problem for said data.<p>Perhaps more interesting is that the inverse matrix seems to have row artifacts that look like things in the training data.<p>These observations are due to Tsvi Achler.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 01:02:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46561565</link><dc:creator>anamax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46561565</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46561565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anamax in ""They Saw a Protest": Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction [pdf] (2012)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There seems to be an assumption that there's a right to an effective protest.<p>That said, impeding a college student who wants to walk through part of a college campus isn't "violence against the state."</p>
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<p>Of course, you were concerned about how the folks who previously ran Twitter used it to influence national politics, right?  You're concerned about such influence by the folks who run each of the four major networks, the folks who run the major newspapers, etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:05:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560040</link><dc:creator>anamax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560040</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anamax in "Larry Page leaves California to protect $12.5B from proposed wealth tax"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> billionaires became as such without utilizing any resources or regulations paid for by the public<p>Strawman.<p>No one is claiming "without utilizing".<p>However, they are part of the public that paid.  Moreover, if I let you use my pen to take a note, I'm not entitled to all of the gain that you get from taking said note.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:02:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560003</link><dc:creator>anamax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560003</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anamax in "Minneapolis Mayor Blasts Kristi Noem's BS ICE Shoots Kills Woman in Minnesota"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The National Guard is NOT a state militia.  Its funding and equipment come from the Feds, and any state-level authority can be removed at the president's whim.<p>This was settled when Reagan sent NG units from some states NG members overseas over the objection of said states' governors.<p><a href="https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/ROA-Times/issues/1990/rt9006/900612/06120395.htm" rel="nofollow">https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/ROA-Times/issues/1990/rt9...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:17:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46534638</link><dc:creator>anamax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46534638</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46534638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anamax in "A congressman wants to criminalize insider trading on prediction markets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While "insider trading" harms prediction market participants, insider trading provides useful information to prediction market observers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 06:21:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46523205</link><dc:creator>anamax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46523205</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46523205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anamax in "FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My inference was that you were suggesting that the "independent FCC commissioner" was just as subject to control by elected officials as the Secretary of State because both are appointed by elected officials.<p>That's why I pointed out that the Secretary of State can be fired at whim by an elected official while the "independent FCC commissioner" can't.<p>I apologize if my inference was incorrect.</p>
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<p>On the off-chance that someone believes that there is border security between US states but that these states are an exception.<p>The US doesn't have border security between states.<p>The closest thing to an exception is the "don't bring agricultural products into California" stations.  However, there's a bypass lane for folks who stayed within 10 miles of the border, and no one checks whether someone is using that lane inappropriately.</p>
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<p>> Saying you can't vote for the head of the FCC is like saying that you can't vote for the Secretary of State.<p>The Secretary of State serves at the pleasure of the president.<p>You're arguing that FCC commissioners shouldn't.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:51:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46304615</link><dc:creator>anamax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46304615</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46304615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anamax in "Belgian Police exposed using botnets to manipulate EU data law impact assessment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> 7 million people protested against Donald Trump on October 18th, one of the largest protests in human history.<p>What should have happened if 6 million people had protested against Biden?  How about 8 million?</p>
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<p>Does your bash script use rsync or does it duplicate some of rsync's functionality?  (rsync also uses zip to speed things up.)</p>
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