Hacker News: dron57

New comment by dron57 in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

dron57 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:06:13 +0000

Meta is going to have higher ads revenue than Google this year.

New comment by dron57 in "19 States approved permanent daylight saving time"

dron57 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:35:45 +0000

My kid’s elementary school in Seattle starts at 7:50 AM

New comment by dron57 in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

dron57 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:48:56 +0000

Nor do they have to. Inference from different users is batched together.

New comment by dron57 in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

dron57 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:02:20 +0000

Because a nanny in Seattle charges $30/hr.

New comment by dron57 in "America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom"

dron57 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:21:25 +0000

Do you think Shanghai has better career opportunities?

New comment by dron57 in "Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship"

dron57 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 01:59:05 +0000

In Polish ch and h would be read the same (kinda like the English h sound).

New comment by dron57 in "Drones Are Key to Winning Wars Now. The U.S. Makes Hardly Any"

dron57 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:22:01 +0000

Civilian telecoms are absolutely used in military UAVs. Ukraine and Russia both use their opponents SIM cards in long range strike drones. And I’m pretty sure that attack vector would work well anywhere, including the US.

New comment by dron57 in "Tesla Used Car Price Crashes – Model Y, Model 3 Deals Explode"

dron57 — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:07:22 +0000

In China there are. But of course the hardware and supplier integration is much easier for them than for American competitors.

New comment by dron57 in "Japan ranked 31st in digital competitiveness, 92nd for English skills"

dron57 — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 23:38:11 +0000

Why is Singapore even in an English language competition? It's the dominant language there.

New comment by dron57 in "Post World War II Food"

dron57 — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:52:22 +0000

The Soviet and now post-soviet "tushenka" is 100% derived from American WW2 spam. But I think it actually tastes better, try some if you have an Eastern European store around.

New comment by dron57 in "For polyglots, there's something special about their native tongue"

dron57 — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 21:15:57 +0000

Albanian is not a Slavic language at all.

New comment by dron57 in "Kremlin runs disinformation campaign to undermine Zelensky, documents show"

dron57 — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 22:40:07 +0000

> Ultimately what you're implicitly suggesting is to surrender to the aggressor, but that's not going to happen. Even if the West stops support, Kyiv is conquered, there will be guerilla war for years to come.

That's what everyone thought at the beginning of this war. Unfortunately, I think the lack of a massive guerilla movement in the occupied territories disproves this theory. Russian brutality and torture is very effective at fighting guerilla movements.

The Russian invasion needs to be beaten back on the field! Please, vote for candidates that support Ukraine.

New comment by dron57 in "Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books?"

dron57 — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:46:12 +0000

If you're from Canada your best bet is to get an engineering degree and to land a job with a startup. Look into the TN Visa for Canadians. There are no limits on application numbers and they're very easy to get (if you have a qualifying degree).

New comment by dron57 in "Anime is a $25B industry that pays its animators pennies"

dron57 — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 03:08:06 +0000

Since you mention Western animation and Netflix. Have you seen Blue Eyed Samurai?

Amazing show and it has a beautiful style that looks like it's hand drawn and Japanese, but it's actually French made CGI. I suspect that even this industry can be disrupted by technology.

New comment by dron57 in "Pinker was right, I was wrong"

dron57 — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 15:50:52 +0000

Let's see. One is a brutal, colonial invasion with the intent of totally replacing the local population. And the other is Israel responding to the rape and murder of hundreds of their civilians.

New comment by dron57 in "Python 3.13 Gets a JIT"

dron57 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 17:15:03 +0000

AI heavy lifting isn't just model training. There's about a million data pipelines and processes before the training data gets loaded into a PyTorch tensor.

New comment by dron57 in "datetime.utcnow() is now deprecated"

dron57 — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 01:54:31 +0000

The worst case is all of China being in the same time zone. It's quite crazy. China has about the same land area as the US.

New comment by dron57 in "California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment"

dron57 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 20:02:08 +0000

The companies do track that data internally. It would be nice if the DMV mandated it's release to the public. But of course this type of data is a counterfactual, so much more subjective.

New comment by dron57 in "Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau"

dron57 — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 04:04:06 +0000

Their current track is not demographically suicidal?

New comment by dron57 in "Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus"

dron57 — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 14:32:02 +0000

Seems that the NSO business model is based on ultra exclusivity and a very small number of business clients. Technically, Pegasus could probably retransmit itself to infect another device, but it doesn't fit their business model so I doubt NSO would do this regularly.