Hacker News: eipipuz

New comment by eipipuz in "Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA"

eipipuz — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 05:57:47 +0000

I agree with what you are saying but remember the twin scenario. Spoiler alert, the kids are nonetheless different.

New comment by eipipuz in "Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall"

eipipuz — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:48:22 +0000

Is it just me or the s Z and z S should be swapped?

New comment by eipipuz in "Fun with uv and PEP 723"

eipipuz — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:37:47 +0000

The learning curve is so low that yes.

Try it for <20mins and if you don't like it, leave it behind. These 20mins include installation, setup, everything.

New comment by eipipuz in "The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs"

eipipuz — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 17:14:08 +0000

Assuming this change is causing the layoffs, then these companies know about this.

If these companies don't know about this change, then why would we believe this change is causing it.

New comment by eipipuz in "Software component names should be whimsical and cryptic"

eipipuz — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 19:11:14 +0000

Except as the article says, names tend to stick, scopes don't.

This PaymentService grew into fraud detection. So the new hire will be even more confused. Asking "What does Picard do?" is natural, where a new hire might have trouble asking "What does the PaymentService do?"

New comment by eipipuz in "Ask HN: How to Make 1M $?"

eipipuz — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 16:37:44 +0000

just in case you weren't aware, http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

New comment by eipipuz in "How Metro Agencies Design the Letter 'M'"

eipipuz — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 22:09:56 +0000

They ruled out logos where the M is not the main element. The Muni logo spells "muni" giving each letter roughly equal value.

New comment by eipipuz in "Why SQLite does not use Git (2018)"

eipipuz — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 00:39:00 +0000

I don't get that at all. To me the answer is "we want things out of the vcs that we don't get from git nor github/gitlab."

The fundamental difference is: sqlite is a cathedral, git is for bazaars. That's kind of a big deal.

The Crane Who Fell in Love with a Human

eipipuz — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 21:13:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2018/07/23/feature/the-crane-who-fell-in-love-with-a-human/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28778500

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by eipipuz in "Amazon Appstore will reduce its developer revenue cut"

eipipuz — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 18:19:54 +0000

That's what I understand as well.

New comment by eipipuz in "Learn American Sign Language Fingerspelling with Machine Learning"

eipipuz — Fri, 28 May 2021 20:51:25 +0000

If you are interested in ASL, I think a good resource is: https://www.lifeprint.com/

New comment by eipipuz in "Learn American Sign Language Fingerspelling with Machine Learning"

eipipuz — Fri, 28 May 2021 20:50:16 +0000

(disclaimer: I'm not Deaf, just interested in ASL.)

Signs very geographically even in ASL. (See: https://www.reddit.com/r/asl/comments/dcvqo9/is_there_much_d...)

Wouldn't your argument hold for spoken languages as well? Why do we have french and spanish? Because it would be impossible to force most people to learn the other language.

English is the widely spoken for economical reasons and yet that's only 13% of the world population.

No sign language has that kind of pull. We would need TV shows / movies that pushed a particular sign. The internet helps but how do you prevent groups from drifting?

At some point accents become dialect that become languages. Written ASL doesn't seem to be growing.

Why do people communicate in different languages? Because they live in slightly disconnected social circles.

You Can’t Trust Amazon When It Feels Threatened

eipipuz — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 15:35:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/you-cant-trust-amazon-when-it-feels-threatened/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26661802

Points: 58

# Comments: 20

Improving Mobile App Accessibility with Icon Detection

eipipuz — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:06:23 +0000

Article URL: https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/01/improving-mobile-app-accessibility-with.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26393435

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by eipipuz in "Google's Sundar Pichai says future of office is employee 'on-sites'"

eipipuz — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 05:10:38 +0000

There might be a survivor bias here. How can we know how many similar projects didn't make it out of that cohort?

New comment by eipipuz in "Black holes are like a hologram"

eipipuz — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 18:36:22 +0000

IANAP but black holes evaporate without losing information. So in your model, how does that work?

Also, observation is that inflation has been ongoing for a long time, we don't seem to have spikes of growth. Afaik we have basically 2 phases one where inflation dominates and the one prior.

New comment by eipipuz in "Facebook is giving $1k to every employee"

eipipuz — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 17:18:20 +0000

Because then you would be taking away the employee's bonus? Not every employee might be charitable. Probably giving everyone 1k is keeping them within budget.

New comment by eipipuz in "Why does the coronavirus spread so easily between people?"

eipipuz — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 17:08:37 +0000

Don't know but look at places like Kaggle:

* https://www.kaggle.com/brendaso/2019-coronavirus-dataset-012...

* https://www.kaggle.com/kimjihoo/coronavirusdataset

Facebook Gives Workers a Chatbot to Appease That Prying Uncle

eipipuz — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 21:50:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/02/technology/facebook-chatbot-workers.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21697147

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by eipipuz in "A Mexican Hospital, an American Surgeon, and a $5k Check"

eipipuz — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 23:14:43 +0000

As the article mentions, so you can sue if something goes wrong.