Hacker News: durovo

New comment by durovo in "Car has more than 1.2M km on it – and it's still going strong"

durovo — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 18:02:38 +0000

Speak for yourself, old man

New comment by durovo in "What would a decentralised Uber look like?"

durovo — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 16:55:47 +0000

You can use a service like TaskRabbit for it.

New comment by durovo in "Amazon putting a three-day pause on reviews for Rings of Power"

durovo — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 02:43:22 +0000

Couldn't most of the backlash (the legitimate parts) be addressed by changing the title of the show to LOTR fanfic: Rings of Power?

New comment by durovo in "GPT-3 can run code"

durovo — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 22:47:45 +0000

I believe GPT-3 has a transformer-based architecture. So it doesn't recursively ingest it's own output in each iteration. I believe attention-based transformer models have enough complexity to be able to learn what you are talking about on their own.

New comment by durovo in "If the US Market for SWEs is on fire why isn’t Europe’s, or India’s?"

durovo — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 08:50:22 +0000

80-100k for 6-10 years of experience sounds about right. I have even seen cases of people earning around 80k at 3-4 YOE.

New comment by durovo in "Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine"

durovo — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 01:34:11 +0000

I don't think he is making any moral judgements in his analysis. It is you who are imposing your moral judgement here. He is taking a realist position here.

New comment by durovo in "Ask HN: How much gas we could save in EU if we reduce our heating temp by 3°?"

durovo — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 19:28:56 +0000

My apologies. Point taken

New comment by durovo in "Ask HN: How much gas we could save in EU if we reduce our heating temp by 3°?"

durovo — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 19:17:03 +0000

Yeah, this is the right place to fight about who has better tolerance for either extremes of heat without recognizing that people grow up in and adapt to very different climates.

New comment by durovo in "Ask HN: How much gas we could save in EU if we reduce our heating temp by 3°?"

durovo — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 19:09:58 +0000

When saying things like this, it is better to contextualize by giving some information about where you live. Some people live in areas where temperatures go as low as -20~30 C and not leaving the heating on can damage the house infrastructure. In other areas, where the temperatures only go down to -2~3C, you can get away with never turning the heating on.

New comment by durovo in "What are your company's anti-values?"

durovo — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 19:10:10 +0000

Are you talking about a hypothetical scenario or do you actually do this? I am asking because as people start earning more money, lifestyle creep introduces new types of expenses. So they also have expenses to think about other than business class tickets. Most well-to-do folks that I know tend to spend more hotels than on the travel. Very well-to-do folks do spend on business class tickets though, but a $500k job doesn't fall into that category in my opinion.

New comment by durovo in "Ask HN: Are CO salary disclosure laws affecting remote work opportunities?"

durovo — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 19:04:12 +0000

I agree with the general point but in practice you will find a range of people with the same supposed responsibilities. Not all of them would be executing them at the same level.

Of course, this could be rectified by having finer grained titles. However, finer grained titles introduce their own overhead, introducing more politics/bureaucracy into the system (people at Microsoft would be familiar with this scenario).

New comment by durovo in "Ask HN: Are CO salary disclosure laws affecting remote work opportunities?"

durovo — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 18:21:47 +0000

It might benefit workers in general but I don't think it will benefit me as a software engineer. The salary becomes tied to the job title/level and it becomes hard for me to individually negotiate. When the salary is tied to the job title, it is also much harder to get meaningful raises in many companies because the promotion process is a lot more bureaucratic.

New comment by durovo in "Ask HN: Stuck as a CS Major. Is there a way out?"

durovo — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 13:57:46 +0000

Even computer engineering is like that --- a bunch of neat ideas supported by an inordinate number of man-hours.

But since you are stuck as a CS Major, here are some areas that you might find interesting:

1. Security --- This is an arms race, so there is always something interesting to do

2. Machine Learning --- While this field is very hyped up right now, there are still many areas that need a lot of work. Things like robustness against adversarial attack

3. Quantum Computing --- Honestly, I don't have much experience with this. But this is one field where your interest in physics can complement your current major

New comment by durovo in "Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack"

durovo — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 20:30:26 +0000

That is ironic coming from a Canadian. Just recently, a lot of money poured in from Canada to support the farmer protest in India. Here is one example: https://www.gofundme.com/f/donatetofarmers

PS: Not that I support the current Canadian protests.

Edit: Some other examples: 1. https://globalnews.ca/news/7680005/farmers-india-protest-bil... 2. https://thewire.in/rights/justin-trudeau-farmers-protest-ind... 3. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/farmers-prot...

New comment by durovo in "Meta is not threatening to leave Europe"

durovo — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 17:48:51 +0000

This was not just fake news, this was deliberate misinformation. A title saying 'FB threatens to leave EU' means something very different from 'FB lists EU regulation as a potential threat to business in SEC filings'

New comment by durovo in "Burgeoning bike cities emerge across America"

durovo — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 15:18:06 +0000

My knowledge about biking infrastructure is lacking but doesn't it make sense to allow/promote biking on the sidewalks as a start? Once biking gains more acceptance, allocating more budget for proper biking lanes would become much easier.

New comment by durovo in "Framework Raises $18M Series A"

durovo — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 18:15:32 +0000

"I can't reliably click-and-drag using a singe hand" --- Does a single-finger double tap and drag not work?

New comment by durovo in "About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated"

durovo — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:26:24 +0000

Not all religions are centered around the existence of a god though. A religion can be centered around any ideology, you only have to treat it as sacrosanct.

New comment by durovo in "I Can’t See You but I’m Not Blind"

durovo — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 18:43:36 +0000

Yeah, I have the same concern as well. However, I felt that being able to visualize things in my head allowed me to solve some of these problems very quickly (in around 4-5 seconds). I can make the 2-d image collapse into the 3-d object in my head. I guess not having aphantasia would make you quicker on these tests? I must admit though, I had to look back and forth for some problems as well.

New comment by durovo in "“Open source” is not broken"

durovo — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 23:28:31 +0000

But each according to their needs in the end devolves into each according to their abilities. There was never a need for computers, there was never a need for the internet. I would say that it is tough to say whether there is any need for a person to live. On the other hand if you let people define their own needs, you end up with the scenario where one needs 1 billion dollars.