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New comment by divyekapoor in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

divyekapoor — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 04:57:26 +0000

What are you using to put Fable and Sol on each other?

New comment by divyekapoor in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)"

divyekapoor — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:49:28 +0000

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---------------- Please apply on LinkedIn if these sound interesting!

New comment by divyekapoor in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

divyekapoor — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 03:54:35 +0000

The US law is very expensive to comply with. Probably the most expensive in the world. Incorporate a subsidiary only and only if there’s a check in your hand. Then too, consider an LLC.

New comment by divyekapoor in "Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurrent, userspace software"

divyekapoor — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 17:09:07 +0000

We do not want red and blue functions. Any language that implements async / await as coroutines instead of green threads is making a fundamental CS mistake. https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...

Concurrency's correct primitive is Hoare's Communicating Sequential Processes mapped onto green threads. Some languages that have it right are Java (since JDK17 - Java Virtual Threads), Go, Kotlin.

New comment by divyekapoor in "Ask HN: Gandi.net Blocked in India?"

divyekapoor — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 02:23:08 +0000

Broken for me as well.

Tuning Flink Clusters for Efficiency and Stability

divyekapoor — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:11:55 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/tuning-flink-clusters-for-stability-and-efficiency-50d3d50384ed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36699139

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by divyekapoor in "Google DeepMind"

divyekapoor — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 17:35:49 +0000

"Sundar is announcing"... not "we are announcing"... speaks volumes as to the fact that this was a unilateral decision.

New comment by divyekapoor in "Newsraft: feed reader with ncurses user interface"

divyekapoor — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:00:21 +0000

Demo gif & video please! You'd have more adoption if I knew what I was getting upon install.

New comment by divyekapoor in "Show HN: Portable Secret – How I store my secrets and communicate privately"

divyekapoor — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 22:42:37 +0000

Hate to be that guy that ruins your security researcher dreams. Your Argon2 memory hard function is useful against mass surveillance and belongs in mass market products. Let's leave it there.

Despite your protests, for an average joe who just wants to stash a secret somewhere and not have it in plaintext, this is absolutely ok.

New comment by divyekapoor in "FTC restores rigorous enforcement of law banning unfair methods of competition"

divyekapoor — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 04:08:06 +0000

This reply is spot on. A vague policy statement means that the FTC itself can't be and won't be held to any standard. They might define Ecommerce one way when it helps with Amazon's prosecution and define it another way to help with Facebook and Google's prosecution. I read the policy statement - it's so broad that it's meaningless. Just lobby the politicians and hope and pray they keep the FTC at bay is not the way to run a developed country.

New comment by divyekapoor in "The hotel I booked online became a homeless shelter and no one told me"

divyekapoor — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 02:25:46 +0000

Booking.com is a large travel aggregator, Nasdaq listed (BKNG) with a 74B market cap - 6x the size of Expedia. They’re just not as big in North America.

And the reason she experienced what she did is because of Project Roomkey and other similar initiatives - https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/cdss-programs/housing-...

These initiatives saved the hotel industry during COVID when demand fell off a cliff. These hotels still had mortgages but no clients. State intervention saved the industry.

New comment by divyekapoor in "The hotel I booked online became a homeless shelter and no one told me"

divyekapoor — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 02:20:46 +0000

Project Roomkey: https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/cdss-programs/housing-...

New comment by divyekapoor in "Write your own task queue"

divyekapoor — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 19:59:31 +0000

The only task queue I loved was beanstalkd -- it's beautifully written and highly performant. Starting it takes seconds and it's been running for a decade:

https://beanstalkd.github.io/

New comment by divyekapoor in "Richard Li owns a personal top level domain"

divyekapoor — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 23:19:29 +0000

Who is Richard Li?

New comment by divyekapoor in "Improving distributed caching performance and efficiency at Pinterest"

divyekapoor — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 07:14:58 +0000

I've started a thread internally to double check these numbers. Please wait for an update.

New comment by divyekapoor in "Improving distributed caching performance and efficiency at Pinterest"

divyekapoor — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 06:37:11 +0000

Google serves up way way more than 63k queries per second (several million requests/s is common for the critical services around search). Source: I worked there.

However, your main point is valid (180 million/s seems way too high). I've started a thread internally to double check these numbers. Please wait for an update.

New comment by divyekapoor in "Apple has a bug in its disk I/O throttling code that affects raw disk copies"

divyekapoor — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 15:32:04 +0000

Fantastic writeup and a great exposition of how to do kernel debugging. Thank you!

New comment by divyekapoor in "Why am I no longer qualified to be a Brex customer?"

divyekapoor — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 03:35:19 +0000

+1 - have had a super solid amazing experience with Mercury. Highly recommended.

New comment by divyekapoor in "California’s economy may seem healthy. Just wait for the next recession"

divyekapoor — Sun, 22 May 2022 20:35:18 +0000

Because debt-to-GDP doesn't make sense as a financial measure and most people don't understand it. CA economy is $3.4T, CA debt-to-GDP is 14.9%, the US Federal Debt to GDP is 133.9%, so the total debt to GDP on the revenue dollars in California is 148.8%.

If California were a country, it would rank 5th highest in the world in debt-to-GDP ratio right behind Japan, Venezuela, Sudan, Greece and Lebanon.

That said, debt-to-tax-revenue is a more useful financial measure. The total CA tax revenue (income, sales, corporate tax) is about $173B [1]. The debt-to-total-tax-revenue is 293%. Since we don't want to shut down Schools, Medicare, SNAP, Pensions & Unemployment, the debt-to-discretionary-expenses is even more dire at 704% limiting the ability of the state to make a dent in the debt payments without increasing taxes.

In effect, CA is neck deep in debt no matter how you look at it.

[1] https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4448

New comment by divyekapoor in "The AMD Branch (Mis)Predictor Part 2: Where No CPU Has Gone Before"

divyekapoor — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 02:03:15 +0000

Very well done.