Hacker News: davidhowlett

New comment by davidhowlett in "Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity"

davidhowlett — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 07:46:02 +0000

I use and pay for the professional review site https://www.which.co.uk/

They are a charity funded by subscribing consumers. They don't get paid by the sellers so the incentive structure benefits the consumer. I trust what they write.

New comment by davidhowlett in "Coconut by Meta AI – Better LLM Reasoning with Chain of Continuous Thought?"

davidhowlett — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 09:31:39 +0000

The official pdf for the paper is at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.06769

I can find "Coconut" 54 times in the PDF. The movie does not look made up.

New comment by davidhowlett in "Lockheed is now tracking phones and walkie-talkies from space"

davidhowlett — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 23:24:32 +0000

Your altitudes for satellites are too high. Low earth orbit is defined as being below 2000km and very low orbit as being below 450 km. Starlink is at about 550km. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit https://ts2.space/en/what-is-the-altitude-at-which-starlink-...

New comment by davidhowlett in "How likely is losing a Google account?"

davidhowlett — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:31:54 +0000

I suspect you mean infallible rather than fallible.

New comment by davidhowlett in "El Salvador’s Historic Digital Asset Securities Law Passes"

davidhowlett — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:47:58 +0000

This might be a wording issue but how can a currency lose more than 100% of its value?

New comment by davidhowlett in "I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones"

davidhowlett — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 03:40:00 +0000

As a UK customer, I use Monzo bank and have pretty consistently had good experiences. They are a new bank. Recieving international money transfers was the only bit that they didn't support.

New comment by davidhowlett in "The McNamara fallacy: Measurement is not understanding"

davidhowlett — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 10:38:32 +0000

I believe you mean West Africa.

New comment by davidhowlett in "The code worked differently when the moon was full"

davidhowlett — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 12:50:29 +0000

I enjoyed the collection at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23005140

New comment by davidhowlett in "UK Online Safety Bill proposes age verification for all user-interactive sites"

davidhowlett — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 12:51:24 +0000

I am British and will be directly affected by this. What can I do to help stop this becoming law?

New comment by davidhowlett in "Hierapolis, Turkey's mysterious 'portal to the underworld'"

davidhowlett — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 17:31:19 +0000

The atmosphere is about 78% nitrogen. Carbon dioxide forms about 0.04%

New comment by davidhowlett in "A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python"

davidhowlett — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 10:55:19 +0000

"car path ey" sounds like a thing connected to finding paths for cars.

New comment by davidhowlett in "Amazon Fake Reviews Scam Exposed in Data Breach"

davidhowlett — Fri, 07 May 2021 17:02:00 +0000

I spent years worrying about misleading descriptions and fake reviews. I then bought a subscription to which.co.uk and have been a happy customer since. They review a wide variety of products and they are a non-profit registered as a charity in the UK. They are mainly funded by consumer subscriptions so conflicts of interest are avoided.

New comment by davidhowlett in "std::unique_ptr implementation backed by Ethereum NFTs"

davidhowlett — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 09:43:20 +0000

Flask was originally an April fools joke with what the author thought was a silly design. It is now widely used, including in production systems at my company.

http://mitsuhiko.pocoo.org/flask-pycon-2011.pdf

New comment by davidhowlett in "Senior Engineers Build Consensus (2019)"

davidhowlett — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 11:37:48 +0000

Individual contributor. A programmer who does not manage others.

Adversarial attack on image recognition (funny)

davidhowlett — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 15:41:30 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1367575109305794563/photo/1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26358043

Points: 2

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New comment by davidhowlett in "Free for Developers"

davidhowlett — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 01:53:14 +0000

My company has also hit capacity issues with the managed Azure Kubenetes that were not fixable as Azure users.

New comment by davidhowlett in "Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?"

davidhowlett — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 23:06:26 +0000

I personally bought all my team members a beer delivered to their houses. One guy didn't like beer and got whiskey instead. On Friday at 4pm we all had a casual chat about non work topics and drank together. That seemed to go down well.

New comment by davidhowlett in "Magic Mushrooms Injected into Man's Veins Started to Grow in Blood"

davidhowlett — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:03:55 +0000

I think you mean above 80 degrees Celsius

New comment by davidhowlett in "Tibor Gánti's ideas about the origins of life"

davidhowlett — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 20:33:00 +0000

I haven't seen that research but I find the idea fascinating. Where can I read more about this?

New comment by davidhowlett in "Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show"

davidhowlett — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:31:51 +0000

From the article: "Moderna's vaccine appears to be easier to store as it remains stable at minus 20C for up to six months and can be kept in a standard fridge for up to a month."