Hacker News: apetrov

New comment by apetrov in "EU countries move to revive temporary message-scanning regime"

apetrov — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:49:29 +0000

Right. Russia has been grinding for 50km in eastern Ukraine for 4 years, and now suddenly it wants to attack an alliance 7x its population and 20x its economy. It sounds like yet another excuse to erode liberty than an actual threat to the west.

New comment by apetrov in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

apetrov — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:13:01 +0000

income tax is a particular instance of 'tax in general'.

New comment by apetrov in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

apetrov — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:42:05 +0000

surely there is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_as_theft

Pitfalls of Estimating Parameters from Aggregates

apetrov — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:25:50 +0000

Article URL: https://world.hey.com/apetrov/pitfalls-of-estimating-parameters-from-aggregates-e23c264b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48297490

Points: 1

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The longer you wait, the longer you should expect to wait

apetrov — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:34:41 +0000

Article URL: https://world.hey.com/apetrov/the-longer-you-wait-the-longer-you-should-expect-to-wait-30e2511a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280429

Points: 2

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New comment by apetrov in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

apetrov — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:24:21 +0000

great idea, let's people without skin in the game to vote for whose who have.

New comment by apetrov in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

apetrov — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:16:56 +0000

you can but they can't. just plain hypocrisy.

New comment by apetrov in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

apetrov — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:57:30 +0000

i this context, "who cares" means "whose business". and the answer by the western society is that no ones but person in question.

bucketing ppl by birth year is literally a discrimination.

Ports and Adapters: death by a thousand ports

apetrov — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:03:14 +0000

Article URL: https://world.hey.com/apetrov/ports-adapters-death-by-a-thousand-ports-8b42afcf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46764196

Points: 1

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New comment by apetrov in "Show HN: Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions"

apetrov — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 12:26:53 +0000

H/L/M - would be helpful (High/Low/Medium) Escape as finish a game is pretty annoying (that's what you press after 'i') f1/2/3.. would be nice to - go to the next number in the row open all unflagged around current cell would be useful

Compile Git Contributions to What_did_I_get_done_last_week.md

apetrov — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:31:34 +0000

Article URL: https://world.hey.com/apetrov/compile-git-contributions-to-what_did_i_get_done_last_week-md-7a1d8ab0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46732279

Points: 1

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New comment by apetrov in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

apetrov — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:47:24 +0000

Interestingly it has Thunderbolt 4 (40Gb), 6K typically saturates 30-31Gb, which leaves less 10Gb/s which isn't a lot especially assuming 2.5Gb network. Looks like a perfect case for TB5 and given its price.

New comment by apetrov in "Neural Networks: Zero to Hero"

apetrov — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 11:45:09 +0000

actually it's quite the opposite: lectures are as approachable as one could possible make them, no fancy math and a walkthrough over attention is all you need