Hacker News: dm33tri

New comment by dm33tri in "Huly – Open-source project management platform"

dm33tri — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 10:20:32 +0000

Totally not a coincidence

https://x.com/platoff/status/1737142050603086281

New comment by dm33tri in "Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder"

dm33tri — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 10:23:50 +0000

I don't even know what DRM brings to the browsers apart from breaking external monitors and blacking out screenshots

All the content behind it is still available day 0 on trackers

New comment by dm33tri in "Oxlint – JavaScript linter written in Rust"

dm33tri — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 12:35:25 +0000

I think they have custom rules in the works, using `trustfall` query engine and yaml definitions

https://github.com/oxc-project/oxc/tree/main/crates/oxc_quer...

New comment by dm33tri in "I want to talk about WebGPU"

dm33tri — Thu, 04 May 2023 12:00:50 +0000

I think you only write WebGPU code if you are using JS or Rust for your hobby project

New comment by dm33tri in "I want to talk about WebGPU"

dm33tri — Wed, 03 May 2023 19:20:47 +0000

Nowhere near CUDA. Maybe OpenCL and Metal replacement because nobody bothers to support them, so just a fallback option for AMD and ARM chips.

New comment by dm33tri in "GPT-4 Designed a Programming Language"

dm33tri — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 08:32:26 +0000

These comments are deceptive. Yes, this is how LLMs work, but that doesn't mean they only repeat things they have seen before. LLMs are capable of following instructions to construct new words in any language they know, words never seen before.

I've seen it being dumb in maths or real world problems. But as a large language models, they understand and speak languages fine, and even mistakes they make look like mistakes humans who are not natives in the language would make.

We may as well say that when we speak, we are just predicting words we have trained on. I don't see how these models are worse than people in that regard.

The general knowledge and thinking of these models are surely limited. But seeing GPT-4 go from text only input to text with images, I think it is very possible to break the barriers very soon.

New comment by dm33tri in "Nearly every person in Iraq is an illegal streaming pirate, sources say"

dm33tri — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 01:32:15 +0000

Kinopoisk and Amediateka (legal places to watch content) grew a lot before 2022. Netflix launch there was a success too. Now there's no Netflix and shows are being pulled off Kinopoisk.

I guess there's not a lot of paid content in Iraq too.

New comment by dm33tri in "Making macOS Apps Uninstallable"

dm33tri — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 13:22:35 +0000

I think on macOS programs are able to store data "inside" themselves, because .app files are just folders. They usually shouldn't put stuff in Library.

New comment by dm33tri in "Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment"

dm33tri — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 15:04:48 +0000

I think three.js is pure JavaScript, it may be some physics engine that uses WASM (like Rapier)

New comment by dm33tri in "Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by EU laws"

dm33tri — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 22:28:18 +0000

You don't need to pay a fee to develop an app, only to publish it

New comment by dm33tri in "Someone hacked YandexTaxi and ordered all available taxis to the same location"

dm33tri — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 23:54:40 +0000

The message on driver's screen says something like "Note from passenger: Guys and girls, stop feeding the yellow [Yandex], switch to Wheely!"

New comment by dm33tri in "TikTok’s Poison Pill"

dm33tri — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 12:25:41 +0000

Yeah to me seems they rather buy data, so in the app I see ads about things things I've looked for somewhere else. Never seen it other way around, but maybe it is more subtle - YouTube Shorts and TikTok have a huge overlap in content for me, but does it mean YouTube buys my data from TikTok?

New comment by dm33tri in "I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now"

dm33tri — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 12:08:15 +0000

In less developed countries $10k is >= 40% annual salary for most developers with almost any skillset

New comment by dm33tri in "HTTP/3 Is Fast"

dm33tri — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 12:35:32 +0000

Sometimes when I have a very limited connection on mobile, nothing helps the web and no pages would load over https, even if it's just plain HTML. And if the connection drops, then it almost certainly won't recover and full page reload is necessary.

Other protocols may work much better in such conditions, for example popular messengers can send and receive text, metadata and blurry image previews just fine. In some cases even voice calls are possible, but not a single website would load ever.

I think HN crowd won't notice the changes. I hope that the protocol would improve experience for smartphone users without reliable 4G connection.

New comment by dm33tri in "Piracy release group EVO ‘blames’ movie industry for its popularity"

dm33tri — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 16:33:48 +0000

After some local streaming service took over like 70% of market (largely by expanding it, because it costs $3 compared to competitors at $5-10) other companies made a deal and now you can subscribe to "Most popular streaming service + exclusives from some other service at $5/$10 etc" and stream everything on one website/app.

New comment by dm33tri in "Financial innovations brought by technology"

dm33tri — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 11:28:58 +0000

Sometimes I'm baffled how basic functionality is considered innovation in other places. Where I live most banks allow turning online payments on and off, and you can issue a virtual card for your account and then set any limits on it. Stripe is barely used because business use their bank's acquiring and some of them allow logging in and saving payment details. Some banks have automatisation, but AFAIK it's not popular. For example, suggestions and quick buttons to do repeated patterns (like transfer X amount from my paycheck to savings account). There's even "round my purchases up and use extra to buy ETF" feature. All these things are made inside the banks and don't require fancy technology. I think western engineers in finance are busy trading stocks rather than coding some basic user interactions.

New comment by dm33tri in "iOS 15 Humane"

dm33tri — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 12:59:19 +0000

In my country we confirm every transaction with 2FA, if the site supports secure payments (almost every website)

New comment by dm33tri in "GraphQL Conf. 2021"

dm33tri — Mon, 31 May 2021 13:03:23 +0000

This website is so laggy, really tells us about the state of frontend in 2021

New comment by dm33tri in "The ClickHouse Community"

dm33tri — Mon, 17 May 2021 06:35:18 +0000

In a nutshell: like MySQL but for analytic applications

New comment by dm33tri in "Wi-Fi packet capturing on M1 Macs is broken"

dm33tri — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 04:23:24 +0000

Yeah same I thought my laptop broke because my AirPods and my mouse weren't working. Turned out it's the other laptop connected to 2.4GHz across the room.