Hacker News: angrais

New comment by angrais in "Half of Ireland's young people have low level of mental wellbeing"

angrais — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 18:52:10 +0000

The repetition in the last sentence and use of "Overall". The structure of the first paragraph too.

I appreciate this may not have been the case (sorry OP), which is why I asked the above question.

New comment by angrais in "Half of Ireland's young people have low level of mental wellbeing"

angrais — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:21:24 +0000

Was this comment generated by AI?

New comment by angrais in "How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger (2019)"

angrais — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 14:28:24 +0000

Would you explain why this makes you proud?

I assume as the kid is showing a good grasp on identifying his emotions.

New comment by angrais in "Why does sleep become more elusive as we age?"

angrais — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:40:49 +0000

Am I understanding this correctly: you let your 3-5 year old daughter stay up each night to 02:00?

When did the sun set where you lived during that time? I suppose that was a big influence on sleep times?

New comment by angrais in "Show HN: 80% faster, 50% less memory, 0% loss of accuracy Llama finetuning"

angrais — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 11:18:49 +0000

One approach you could take is to license the code (or simply the tricks) to big tech companies. They can use the tricks, but must pay you x amount. You can provide technical support for implementation and benchmarking.

That's how I would make profit from what you're doing as many big tech companies have already achieved (and more) of what you claim.

I know this as I work in such a company. However, I'd bet they'd pay a fair amount for new solutions that differ from their own.

New comment by angrais in "Almost half of Californians speak a non-English language at home"

angrais — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 16:26:11 +0000

I'm not OP, but the answer is obviously both. Multilingual helps brain develop in new ways, and better personal development helps all nations.

New comment by angrais in "Writing a GPT-4 script to check Wikipedia for the first unused acronym"

angrais — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 08:50:46 +0000

Why did lists require less memory? Was it because you only held a subset of keys in the lists?

New comment by angrais in "Ask HN: What's the most interesting (non-AI) advancement in tech in 2023?"

angrais — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:02:11 +0000

I assume it's the mobile version of the website so probably has slightly different stylesheets.

New comment by angrais in "FFmpeg is getting multithreaded transcoding pipelines"

angrais — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 17:08:54 +0000

GPU acceleration may produce worse quality and slightly larger files. So there's a trade-off to be had.

New comment by angrais in "FFmpeg is getting multithreaded transcoding pipelines"

angrais — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 17:07:38 +0000

Exactly as some encoders (H264) have keyframes at intervals (e.g., every 30 frames) rather than where the action occurs.

As such, they are suboptimal by default if a lot of motion occurs.

New comment by angrais in "PyPI Security"

angrais — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 23:10:30 +0000

Why not run it on your main OS? Otherwise, Docker is fine.

New comment by angrais in "Tech: iCloud+ 6 and 12 Terabyte Plans and Apple One Premier Issues"

angrais — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:50:20 +0000

You're right - not ideal to manually transfer. Maybe iCloud will offer transcoding as a service next haha.

Many smartphones support recording H.265 encoded video directly and the resulting file size is tiny and quality is amazing. Not sure if it's the default setting (or possible) on iPhones though.

New comment by angrais in "Tech: iCloud+ 6 and 12 Terabyte Plans and Apple One Premier Issues"

angrais — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:10:20 +0000

Why not transcode the data after use to significantly reduce filesize? If the videos are uploaded elsewhere (e.g., YT) they're most certainly transcoded on such services anyway

New comment by angrais in "Meta reveals serverless platform processing trillions of function calls a day"

angrais — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:05:47 +0000

My point was that I have never heard anyone describe a server or serverless in that way: as simply a process. I agree that thinking about server as a process/Daemon is a great way to frame serverless.

I've also not considered that wireless headphones have wires so it's been fun to think about that too.

New comment by angrais in "Meta reveals serverless platform processing trillions of function calls a day"

angrais — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 08:20:09 +0000

Why are you defining server in that way? Do you have a reference?

A server is a physical machine with an operating system. It can run many processes.

New comment by angrais in "The Power of Food for People with Dementia"

angrais — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 11:10:27 +0000

What do you recommend as ideal foods to improve the microbiota? Are there any non-obvious foods, such we kefir?

New comment by angrais in "We’re all just temporarily abled"

angrais — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 07:49:21 +0000

Why do you have this concern? Did you notice any changes in breathing or such?

New comment by angrais in "Study shows dementia more common in older adults with vision issues"

angrais — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 08:46:08 +0000

Have you looked into correction vision, e.g., glasses or lens?

I wear a pair and have minimal problems when wearing them. When they're off I would likely experience similar to yourself.

New comment by angrais in "Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it (2021)"

angrais — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 06:34:18 +0000

Obviously there are edge cases when applying statistical tools at a population level. That's not the purpose of BMI though. If you're pregnant or weight training then OBVIOUSLY your BMI score is not comparable to others. Most people are neither pregnant nor weight training. I'd even bet that most people haven't performed a weighted squat.

>> I also think it is becoming apparent that weight alone is not as useful of a metric as was once believed.

Being fat is bad for your health. That is a fact. No amount of body positivity advertisements will change that fact. It is healthier to be thinner than obese. Look at the graph above to see BMIs impact on other health outcomes.

Also, if you think the obesity crisis is fake/blown up then simply go outside in most American cities and you'll see that many people are obese.

> There is a subset of people who are being misidentified as unhealthy or overweight. Idk how large it is but it seems significant.

Again, this is not relevant as the subset of people is so small compared with the whole population.

The "data given" is included in BMI. Your relative weight is an indicator of multiple other health outcomes.

New comment by angrais in "California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got data to study education"

angrais — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 16:26:00 +0000

So the $850 guy got $850×900? So $765k? How many months were the 900 hours split over? This sounds absolutely ridiculous