Hacker News: derivagral

New comment by derivagral in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

derivagral — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:38:01 +0000

Did you use some stuff like https://github.com/CouncilDataProject or roll your own? Been curious about how to integrate local knowledge like this since local news seems to have lost the niche.

New comment by derivagral in "You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer"

derivagral — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:30:58 +0000

> Company policy doesn't apply to their personal computing.

Sure, it'll come over as "oh I'm just running an experiment" after your infra/security teams notice. Seen @ public company before current ai hype.

New comment by derivagral in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

derivagral — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:23:28 +0000

Nontechnical people I know are buying hardware to run claws on. As I understand it, the innovation here isn't the tech but in availability/ease of access.

New comment by derivagral in "Why Single-Payer Health Insurance Fails"

derivagral — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:02:29 +0000

I had always thought the primary focus on single-payer was risk pool economics, not administrative efficiency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_pool

New comment by derivagral in "Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States"

derivagral — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:34:08 +0000

> buyers think they’re buying domestic

This is hard to tell from the discussion, but are you defending this practice?

New comment by derivagral in "An engineer's perspective on hiring"

derivagral — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 01:20:36 +0000

> this also loses you taste

I won't forget the in-person interview round where I coded a frontend visualization for a data graph (tracking global shipping), then fielded a post-work general interview round from the whole company (~10 ppl) about specifics and "choices" made during a rush to finish. I ended up not going due to comp, but they were acquired months later. Life is funny.

New comment by derivagral in "Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process"

derivagral — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 02:38:48 +0000

Late thought, but you could set up "beacon" locations for each client to pull a local grid derived from coordinates?

Wouldn't solve that 1s latency thing, but might be interesting in other applications.

New comment by derivagral in "Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates into 2026"

derivagral — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 15:44:54 +0000

That free upgrade refuses to work with my hardware. I am glad they are continuing security, but they are literally forcing me to install another OS (as I understand the security difference).

New comment by derivagral in "Alpha Centauri"

derivagral — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 11:40:29 +0000

This project improves the AI, but might not be quite what you want?

https://github.com/induktio/thinker

New comment by derivagral in "Object personification in autism: This paper will be sad if you don't read (2018)"

derivagral — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 22:27:56 +0000

> "feel" systems

I used to play a tcg a bit too seriously, and sometimes seeing incorrect game states would trigger something. Part of tracking game states and derivations I guess. Only sometimes helpful in software.

New comment by derivagral in "The U.S. Housing Market Has Nearly 500k More Sellers Than Buyers"

derivagral — Fri, 30 May 2025 02:58:08 +0000

Even the article points out this analysis includes both condos and single-family homes, despite their wildly different demand situations.

New comment by derivagral in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"

derivagral — Mon, 12 May 2025 13:43:15 +0000

The average consumer now sees mostly ads above the fold. Also, lots of internal stuff like this coming out. Not sure how this is meant to benefit the consumer aside from "they have to love what we deign to give them."

https://searchengineland.com/google-ads-search-and-chrome-bo...

New comment by derivagral in "Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4"

derivagral — Sat, 10 May 2025 21:49:30 +0000

Some time ago, this was important to decipher the marketing behind MongoDB. Their benchmarks ran with a loose isolation (read_uncommitted iirc) that didn't guarantee a durable flush, and they'd benchmark against defaults from postgres, etc, which didn't use this isolation.

Clearly it worked for them, but I spent a few different stints cleaning up after developers who didn't know this sort of thing.

New comment by derivagral in "Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down"

derivagral — Fri, 09 May 2025 21:34:06 +0000

Thanks for the link. My memory from that time had it as "merely" excel issues, but as described it is a fair bit worse than that.

New comment by derivagral in "Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire"

derivagral — Sun, 04 May 2025 01:22:06 +0000

Generally the latter. The very short version is that he focused on cash flow, and liked (re) insurance due to success managing float and risk. From there, he'd buy/invest stable businesses and brands. Insurance wasn't his first go, he started bookie work as a kid.

As for saving, he was the guy with a big pile of money in '08 (and other times). Someone you call when your business is dying or you want to retire; he gets the deal, not you. His Bank of America warrant play was a big one from that time.

I didn't finish snowball, but the first half goes over a lot of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snowball%3A_Warren_Buffett...

New comment by derivagral in "Can China fight America alone?"

derivagral — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:07:57 +0000

Did archive strip the author, or is this an unattributed piece? I became curious due to some of the non-neutral adjectives used.

New comment by derivagral in "OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules"

derivagral — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:29:40 +0000

I agree this would be a positive direction, but something that gives me pause is the forced upgrades and hardware cycle of both mac and windows now. They both scan files in your system constantly for various reasons, so for this purpose you're really stuck on *nix variants, right?

New comment by derivagral in "Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal"

derivagral — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:18:01 +0000

> which is accounted for in GAAP

This isn't the accounting definition of goodwill; to an accountant, its just "hey you overpaid according to book value." I don't think the HR "goodwill" is formally accounted for.

https://www.purdueglobal.edu/blog/business/gaap-treatment-of...

New comment by derivagral in "Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed"

derivagral — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:10:32 +0000

Cool idea! I had something similar for using LLMs as an intermediary not for spam but for "boring" local news matching to your profile. Court stuff, town meetings on youtube, that kind of thing.

New comment by derivagral in "Extracting financial disclosure and police reports with OpenAI Structured Output"

derivagral — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:00:52 +0000

My (admittedly aged) experience with XBRL is that each company was able to define its own fields/format within that spec, and that most didn't agree on common names for common fields. Parsing it wasn't fun.