Hacker News: edding4500

New comment by edding4500 in "Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres"

edding4500 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:19:09 +0000

*edit: sorry, misread that. My answer is not valid to your question.

original answer: because if you dont come up with these ints randomly they are sequential which can cause many unwanted situations where people can guess valid IDs and deduce things from that data. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem

New comment by edding4500 in "A One-Minute ADHD Test"

edding4500 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:37:38 +0000

Getting treatment or not is a decision. It is linked to pressure of suffering. You write that you did well and managed your life well. Awesome. Other people feel extensive pressure of suffering and are not able to manage their lifes like you did. For those, professional treatment can be life saving.

New comment by edding4500 in "Radiant Computer"

edding4500 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 11:35:53 +0000

I do like the style of the images, though. Does anybody know how this style is named?

New comment by edding4500 in "Underdetermined Weaving with Machines (2021) [video]"

edding4500 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:09:39 +0000

Cool video, I just learned how the Denim pattern is made :D

New comment by edding4500 in "Show HN: Cadence – A guitar theory app"

edding4500 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:30:43 +0000

Beautiful website :) will try it

New comment by edding4500 in "AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks"

edding4500 — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 08:22:39 +0000

I think it is pretty safe to assume that at least one third of Googles users will take what the chatbot says as gospel and will not look any deeper, just as users previously took the first search result as the verbatim truth.

New comment by edding4500 in "AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks"

edding4500 — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 08:19:31 +0000

That, I think, is a very interesting question! I guess Google found itself in a situation where they had to jump on the AI bandwagon and add AI features to their search. Summaries existed before for certain topics, now they pop up always. In the long run they probably need to integrate ads into these responses or they find another way to monetize the combination of "knowing about user intent" and "present matching answers".

New comment by edding4500 in "Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?"

edding4500 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:46:58 +0000

I think there are different factors. One is that doping in cycling had big media coverage, especially in the 90ies to 2010s. Media uncovered that basically everyone in the race org knew that doping was involved. See for example Cofidis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cofidis_(cycling_team) This adds to the perception that cycling is very prone to doping.

Whether it is so more than other sports... I don't know. As was mentioned before, in cycling as in other endurance sports, doping can push you very far. Then there is the way the whole sport is organized. In the tour de france, privately sponsored teams compete against each other. I think this is very different to, say, a world championship. A country or trainer may have the interest of pushing their athletes beyond what is legal. But in a privately sponsored team, the pressure could be much higher.

New comment by edding4500 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

edding4500 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:27:27 +0000

https://docs.n2api.io/

A unified API for online advertising. Think Plaid for ads platforms instead of banks.

New comment by edding4500 in "Why Algebraic Effects?"

edding4500 — Sat, 24 May 2025 05:38:41 +0000

I wrote my bachelors thesis about IDE support for lexical effects and handlers: https://se.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/teaching/thesis/2021/11/01/ID...

All of what you state is very doable.

New comment by edding4500 in "Can LLMs do randomness?"

edding4500 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:54:51 +0000

But then the random seed is the source of randomness and not the training data. So the question "Can LLMs do randomness" would actually boil down to "Can PRNGs do randomness".

New comment by edding4500 in "Can LLMs do randomness?"

edding4500 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:53:34 +0000

Sorry, I did not mean to downtalk the blog post :) I did not mean silly as in stupid. It's rather the title that I think is misleading. Can a LLM do randomness? Well, PRNGs are part of it so the question boils down whether PRNGs can do randomness. As mentioned here before, setting the temperature of say GPT-2 to zero makes the output deterministic. I was 99% sure that you as the author knew about this :)

New comment by edding4500 in "Can LLMs do randomness?"

edding4500 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:05:59 +0000

This is silly. Behind an LLM sits a deterministic algorithm. So no, it is not possible without ibserting randomness by other means into the algo, for example by setting temperatures for gradient descent.

Why are all these posts and news about LLMs so uninformed? This is human built technology. You can actually read up how these things work. And yet they are treated as if it were an alien species that must be examined by sociological means and methods where it is not necessary. Grinds my gears every time :D

New comment by edding4500 in "A Math Lesson From Hitler’s Germany (2017)"

edding4500 — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 15:51:41 +0000

Among them were jewish nationalists like Fritz Haber. He was allegedly a very proud german. Didnt help him though.

New comment by edding4500 in "Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life"

edding4500 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:06:53 +0000

Uh, you are right, that was a silly comment I made.

New comment by edding4500 in "Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life"

edding4500 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:02:49 +0000

So basically a Zettelkasten?

New comment by edding4500 in "Why blog if nobody reads it?"

edding4500 — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:37:32 +0000

I sometimes feel like blogging in the developer world has become something that you copy from the great masters of the craft. Many famous devs blog about the craft. Same in the tech entrepreneur bubble. i remember times when blogging was as casual as having an instagram account. Then there were times were you would blog stuff that could potentially be helpful to others. Like a problem with configuring our linux audio device that ou were finall able to fix. For all these topics there are now established communities. The blogosphere is now divided into company blogs (for SEO, maybe also to tell a story or amuse people), and peesonal blogs. And of these personal blogs, some try to copy their role models in writing and thinking (a good way to become inauthentic and lose touch with yourself) and a minority manages to write whatever comes to their mind, no matter how awesome it reads and how many people will like the idea that is transported.

New comment by edding4500 in "Three Observations"

edding4500 — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 21:43:31 +0000

> In some sense, AGI is just another tool in this ever-taller scaffolding of human progress we are building together. In another sense, it is the beginning of something for which it’s hard not to say “this time it’s different”; the economic growth in front of us looks astonishing, and we can now imagine a world where we cure all diseases, have much more time to enjoy with our families, and can fully realize our creative potential

yeah, right. What world is this guy living in? An idealistic one? Will AI equally spread the profits of that economic growth he is talking about? I only see companies getting by on less menpower and doing fine, while poor people stay poor. Bravo. Well thought trhough, guy who now sells "AI".

What's taking up your mental bandwidth?

edding4500 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:23:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.raptitude.com/2025/02/whats-taking-up-your-mental-bandwidth-right-now/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42974462

Points: 2

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New comment by edding4500 in "Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder"

edding4500 — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 09:06:27 +0000

Mad props for offering a pump kit!