Hacker News: dsamarin

New comment by dsamarin in "One Guy Crowdsourced More Than 500 Dashcams for Minneapolis to Film ICE"

dsamarin — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 01:23:36 +0000

I would be happy to see the corresponding crowd sourcing for more bodycams for ICE and CBP as well

New comment by dsamarin in "I'm a developer for a major food delivery app"

dsamarin — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:06:01 +0000

This is believable. I have a personal anecdote regarding "Priority Delivery". This was about 2 years ago. After watching the driver go to another business and house before me, I messaged support and they refunded this priority delivery fee. The driving tip and base pay accusation can be easily verified by testing tip amounts and asking drivers what they are awarded.

New comment by dsamarin in "LAPD helicopter tracker with real-time operating costs"

dsamarin — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:34:49 +0000

Would using drones nowadays end up being much less expensive but with all the same necessary capabilities for police work?

New comment by dsamarin in "Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support"

dsamarin — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:27:45 +0000

Would you like to work with me to create OurTube?

New comment by dsamarin in "Dithering – Part 1"

dsamarin — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 21:25:32 +0000

Do you consider the color yellow on your RGB monitor an illusion? (I do)

New comment by dsamarin in "Republicans use deepfake video of Chuck Schumer in new attack ad"

dsamarin — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:38:45 +0000

I'm glad they used a real quote from him and acknowledged the use of AI in the bottom right.

New comment by dsamarin in "The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation"

dsamarin — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:21:57 +0000

Quick self nerd snipe:

I think the area should be scaled proportionally, so the new width and height should be multiplied by sqrt(cents/50)

New comment by dsamarin in "Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits"

dsamarin — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:16:36 +0000

Maybe once we get another architecture breakthrough, it won't feel so slow.

New comment by dsamarin in "The Apache Software Foundation's New Logo"

dsamarin — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 09:05:59 +0000

To want to cleanse references to "Indigenous motifs or symbolism" as a community value brings about a touch of shame in me. It mostly weakens cultural memory and the ability of later generations to stay connected to the worldviews that these motifs carry. Taking away the symbols is like taking away the memory-keeping. Without them, it's much easier to forget the culture.

New comment by dsamarin in "I Don't Have Spotify"

dsamarin — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 06:33:28 +0000

I would also support this as a browser extension, possibly with an auto redirect!

New comment by dsamarin in "“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone”"

dsamarin — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 23:16:34 +0000

Modern cryptography solves this by using randomness (IVs, nonces, padding, salts) so that even identical plaintexts encrypt to different ciphertexts, eliminating predictable patterns.

New comment by dsamarin in "The fish kick may be the fastest subsurface swim stroke yet (2015)"

dsamarin — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 16:07:21 +0000

I want to see world records get broken

New comment by dsamarin in "QR-style codes could replace barcodes 'within two years'"

dsamarin — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 20:39:07 +0000

We need to decentralize barcodes by treating product lookups as a URL, with metadata as query parameters. This way GS1 can operate much differently.

New comment by dsamarin in "Markov Keyboard: keyboard layout that changes by Markov frequency"

dsamarin — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 06:46:32 +0000

Fun concept. I had a thought about having it optimize in a way where left and right hands alternate for increased speed

New comment by dsamarin in "Uber Stock Down 10% Because Waymo Is Expanding to Florida"

dsamarin — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 02:15:18 +0000

Will Waymo ever decide to route on freeways? Last I heard the lidar doesn't see far forward enough to meet their safety standards, but they should really figure this out.

New comment by dsamarin in "Let Google decide"

dsamarin — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 06:08:26 +0000

There were a few things that need to be clarified as to how addresses are recorded. The author says:

> Because of Google, our address wasn’t even present for the USPS

In fact, USPS has its own database of addresses which Google most certainly solicits their data from. I know because I have dealt with customers who have found the same issue. We urge anyone with this issue to direct the issue to the USPS Address Management System Offices to file their address. Other services like those from Auctane (ShipStation, ShipEngine) references this data too.

https://postalpro.usps.com/ppro-tools/address-management-sys...

New comment by dsamarin in "Ardour 8.8 Released"

dsamarin — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 03:50:07 +0000

I'd classify it more as a digital audio workstation. Very similar to Cubase or Pro logic.

New comment by dsamarin in "Were RNNs All We Needed?"

dsamarin — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 18:48:17 +0000

The name of the paper contrasts with the paper that spawned Transformer architecture, which itself is a reference to the song "All You Need Is Love" by the Beatles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_Is_All_You_Need

New comment by dsamarin in "52 Factorial"

dsamarin — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 21:46:58 +0000

With this, you could invent a very unique magic trick where your spectator well-shuffles a deck of cards, then you can secretly swap your deck with one of the decks from your collection to reveal that yours was shuffled in the exact same way.

New comment by dsamarin in "What happens if your CPU gets something wrong?"

dsamarin — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:52:53 +0000

Are these errors consistent for the same instructions? For example, in the same ALU, will 2+2 always equal 5, or will it spontaneously produce 5 and not happen again for a "long while"?