Hacker News: danck

New comment by danck in "Anthropic S-1"

danck — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:37:51 +0000

This isn't a quote from the document - why is it the top comment?

New comment by danck in "Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude"

danck — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:11:15 +0000

> At the same time, the press service states that some of the staff will continue to have access to a special platform for AI assistants, which the Government Offices themselves developed, and through which they gain access to ChatGPT and Claude.

Sounds like they just want to maintain control over the outbound traffic which sounds rather sensible to me.

New comment by danck in "The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs [pdf]"

danck — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 03:57:46 +0000

In figure 1 bottom-right they show how the correct answers are being found later as the complexity goes higher. In the description they even state that in false responses the LRM often focusses on a wrong answer early and then runs out of tokens before being able to self-correct. This seems obvious and indicates that it’s simply a matter of scaling (bigger token budget would lead better abilities for complexer tasks). Am I missing something?

New comment by danck in "A case for toe socks"

danck — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 19:16:18 +0000

The obvious solution to narrow socks is wider socks. Ideally also with an asymmetrical shape that follows the feets anatomy.

Surprisingly there seems to be only one company that makes them: Plus12Socks

Their story is quite interesting. The company is a spin-off of an Austrian research group on children's foot health

New comment by danck in "The default effect: why we renounce our ability to choose"

danck — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 08:30:30 +0000

Given the title I was very surprised to not have decision fatigue mentionend even once. Decision fatigue is the well studied and obvious answer to why we don't like to choose ALL THE TIME.

New comment by danck in "The Saint of Mathematics"

danck — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 18:39:12 +0000

“The world, for years, had been waiting for a solution for the most difficult problem in mathematics. Termed as the millennium problem by the Clay Mathematical Institute, it challenged the world’s best brains.”

This is a bit overly dramatic since there are actually six more so called ‘millenium problems’ to solve. Anyway I enjoyed the read and learned something new about this fabulous achievement.

New comment by danck in "BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year"

danck — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:35:11 +0000

It may help to know that BioNTech were in fact the developers of the Pfizer vaccine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer%E2%80%93BioNTech_COVID-...

New comment by danck in "Why do drum sets have descending toms?"

danck — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 13:05:01 +0000

Absolutly amazed to see this article on Hacker News.

This guy (the author) is the real deal. I once had the pleasure to visit his workshop and he had me test a bass drum he recently made. An amazing piece indeed. Just a gentle tap from the beater and it produced a rich and powerful but quiet sound!

I often hear famous and extraordinary drummers on Youtube state that playing quiet is a skill every drummer can acquire. Yes, but no: It really does depend on the instrument as well if that sounds good! And most drums just aren’t made for it.

New comment by danck in "How to Study Mathematics (2017)"

danck — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 00:12:44 +0000

I dropped out of my maths degree after struggling for six years (!) at university - I had fallen too far behind. I can't just blame my part-time jobs for that.

Especially early on I often dismissed problems and assignments that I felt I wouldn‘t be able to tackle in terms of time or intellect.

This wasn‘t what the successful students did. They took on every problem with determination and focus. No matter how hopeless. Along the way of failing they quickly developed their skills whereas I was falling more and more behind.

I then applied this lesson on my second attempt at university. A CS degree. Again I struggled at the beginning, but I became competent much quicker and in the end the degree was a breeze.

Still wish I‘d known this from the beginning...

Ask HN: Who Has Experiences in Group Financial Reporting?

danck — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 11:43:36 +0000

I am looking for peers. So far I have not been able to make connections with people in similar environments.

I have been working in financial reporting and performance management for the holding company of a large group for several years. The group consists of several hundred legal international entities and has activities in several business areas.

My job (that of my team) is to select the technical systems for planning, consolidation and reporting, to ensure their operation and to continuously adapt them to new requirements.

At this point, our data model is so bloated that new (non-technical) colleagues need several months before they can work with reports (SAP BW "Queries") without regular support.

Is this normal??

The complexity is usually driven by:

- Different aggregation types for key figures

- Step-by-step consolidation of each subgroup

- Time-dependent hierarchies and master data

- Translation of financial statements into foreign currencies

- Different group structures in planning, forecasting and actual comparisons.

Some specific questions I would like to discuss are:

Data model

- (How) do you align business specific KPIs with IFRS KPIs?

- Do you use step consolidation across all subgroups? Or does your reporting only take place on reported data or the entire consolidation group?

- What happens when the group hierarchy is restructured during the year? Do you use time-dependent hierarchies or master data?

- Do you distinguish between planned and actual hierarchies?

- How many currencies do you translate your planning/financial statements into? How?

- ... many more on this topic

Platform

- What stack do you use? I would love to see something beyond the SAP universe that could meet our requirements.

Reporting

- What is your experience with online self-service solutions?

- Anything beyond Microsoft Office products?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26410240

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by danck in "Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial"

danck — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 18:24:14 +0000

You are suggesting that these are quotes from the article. They are not. Also in the linked interview one of the scientists leading the study openly admits these points: “We cannot simulate a world of UBI. [...] We will not find out anything about these economic consequences, not even about possible power shifts between employers and employees, the amount of net costs or the effects on migration.” This study is meant to add data to the picture and improve the discourse.

New comment by danck in "Ask HN: Moving from a startup to a big co, what should I be aware of?"

danck — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 15:53:07 +0000

Once when I was frustrated with my current Job at a large corporation, an experienced friend told me the secret.

He said, they'd value "predictability over excellence".

Meaning, talk about your goals, give an estimation and arrive exactly on point. It doesn't matter if it's your personal project or projects/processes where you take the lead.

Being faster than estimated, or finding a better way and switching while your doing it will not be appreciated.

This really unlocked a lot of success and explained many glass walls i've been running into before.

New comment by danck in "Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [video]"

danck — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 18:28:12 +0000

Well, I have to agree. From a practical perspective.

New comment by danck in "Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [video]"

danck — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 09:27:58 +0000

You can invent and pick axioms in many ways that (probably) won't lead to inconsistencies. But they won't all be powerful enough or relevant in the real world.

New comment by danck in "Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [video]"

danck — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 09:17:27 +0000

If you only look at mathematics I think it's simply: - Axioms are invented - Conclusions are discovered

The magic part for me is that some axioms have been chosen so well that their conclusions are confirmed in the real world.

Live Patching the Linux Kernel – Meltdown Edition

danck — Sun, 06 May 2018 09:11:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.suse.com/c/live-patching-meltdown-suse-engineers-research-project-part-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17005792

Points: 3

# Comments: 0