Hacker News: banach

New comment by banach in "TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool"

banach — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:51:11 +0000

One justification for TUIs is remote access over SSH.

New comment by banach in "How Much Money Jeff Bezos Made Since You Started Reading This Page"

banach — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:27:34 +0000

How much he worked has nothing to do with what he is earning - there are people working three jobs out there who barely make ends meet. The page illustrates the absurd level of inequality our society has reached, a level that pure numbers are useless at illutrating.

New comment by banach in "Drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day tied to lower dementia risk"

banach — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:06:22 +0000

In case you haven't read it, I can recommend https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12216/my-house-killing... for ideas on what is causing your allergy.

New comment by banach in "Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server"

banach — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:53:53 +0000

Sounds like a good feature request for the open source developers

New comment by banach in "Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences"

banach — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:59:47 +0000

We live in dark ages.

New comment by banach in "Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio"

banach — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 19:56:07 +0000

I can see this working reasonably for text that you can understand without referring to figures, and for texts for which there is external content available that such a conversation could be based on. For a new, say, math paper, without prose interspersed, I’d be surprised if the generated conversation will be worth much. On the other hand, that is a corner case and, personally, I suspect I will be using this for the many texts where all I need is a presentation of the material that is easy to listen to.

New comment by banach in "Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst famine in 40 years"

banach — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 11:24:06 +0000

Ah yes, blame the lack of rulers and not colonialism or war.

New comment by banach in "Not a single emperor penguin chick survived spring in parts of Antarctica"

banach — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 08:47:43 +0000

As if their lives are not already hard enough as it is.

New comment by banach in "Patterns of mean-level change in personality traits across life course (2006)"

banach — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 12:07:22 +0000

Maybe there is a causal relationship there. Being viewed as useless might make you grumpy, being viewed as wise might make you kind.

New comment by banach in "Amazon will require employees return to the office 3 days a week"

banach — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 19:14:05 +0000

Great way to contribute memberships to the Amazon Union.

New comment by banach in "DeepMind has open-sourced the heart of AlphaGo and AlphaZero"

banach — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 13:09:43 +0000

...and announce that they are changing name to OpenMind?

New comment by banach in "Silicon Valley offices less empty than other regions"

banach — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 16:27:54 +0000

I am still waiting for companies to realize that offices in the pre-pandemic sense are a completely unnecessary expense, a drag on productivity and a competitive disadvantage for the organizations that keep clinging on to this idea. It's easy to talk about the importance of meeting face-to-face, when you ignore the opportunity cost of enabling this versus scaling down to more up-to-date spaces that make things like workshops, larger meetings and pair programming truly comfortable, and reinvesting the savings into higher salaries and other benefits. Are the management teams in our industry just waiting for someone to pull the trigger, or are they hoping that no-one will do so, and that everyone will just forget that the pandemic taught us how meaningless commuting to work is?

New comment by banach in "'Big Short' investor says white-collar jobs bubble is 'bursting'"

banach — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 20:24:19 +0000

The Bullshit Jobs bubble is bursting.

New comment by banach in "Why we’ve decided to decommission Gov.uk PaaS"

banach — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 11:21:48 +0000

China

New comment by banach in "The effects of sleep debt"

banach — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 11:18:00 +0000

While the importance of getting enough good sleep has recently become mainstream, we are still living in a culture where just striking a balance between work and a personal life is an unattainable goal for many people. We should really be talking about work/life/sleep balance, since excelling at the former two easily come at the cost of the latter. As the article highlights, sleep seems like a facet that is important to optimize above most others.

New comment by banach in "Why we’ve decided to decommission Gov.uk PaaS"

banach — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 15:21:27 +0000

A pathetic example of the ideological myopia that plagues Europe these days. States have provided services to their inhabitants since prehistory, and the notion that this infrastructure does not need financing is as healthy as a corporation that thinks it does not need to invest to succeed. At best, this strategy of living off of investments made by previous generations is doomed to underperform compared to states that take an active role in their own development.

New comment by banach in "Meta managers are urged to identify, push out low performers"

banach — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 06:17:25 +0000

Two reasons: wanting to be able to hire in the future, and to retain high performers who also value a good atmosphere in the workplace.

New comment by banach in "Ask HN: Thinking of writing article(s) on Sales for Engineers"

banach — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 08:58:49 +0000

Thank you! I will try to apply both of your suggestions when I get back to work from vacation :) looking forward to your articles, I think the topic has a lot of potential.

New comment by banach in "Ask HN: Thinking of writing article(s) on Sales for Engineers"

banach — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 21:39:44 +0000

I would be interested in some advice on how to support the sales team without doing their job for them. Our managers have lately started talking a lot about “focusing on the value we bring to the client” and so on, and while that is surely a crucial perspective to be aware of, there are perspectives that the sales team are not expected to be aware of that are the technical team’s responsibility and I would like to strike a balance there. Are there some things you are now aware of that you wish your engineer colleagues would have shared with the sales team, for example?

New comment by banach in "When can liquid democracy unveil the truth? (2021)"

banach — Sun, 22 May 2022 15:49:42 +0000

Fascinating! Something to pull out next time someone quotes Chruchill on (representative) democracy.