Hacker News: envp

New comment by envp in "The Silicon Valley push to breed super-babies"

envp — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 16:24:15 +0000

Am I missing something… why does this sound like eugenics with extra steps?

New comment by envp in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

envp — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:48:54 +0000

So it’s okay because he’s rich?

New comment by envp in "Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO"

envp — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:37:42 +0000

It already underwent some recent shrink flation. I used to be able buy 12oz bags but they’re 10oz now, consumers are getting shafted regardless :D

New comment by envp in "Hackers leak cop manuals for departments after breaching major provider"

envp — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 01:32:11 +0000

The website is absolutely awful to use on mobile, archived here for sanity: https://archive.is/qdSIr

New comment by envp in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)"

envp — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 02:01:53 +0000

fyi, the resume link is dead/inaccessible

New comment by envp in "Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?"

envp — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 16:38:06 +0000

Beyond a points its curiosity and pushing existing computational techniques to their limits. Sometimes it leads to new discoveries in computational techniques or in rarer cases new theoretical work.

Long story short, it’s fun to find out new things about weird numbers :)

New comment by envp in "'Entire ecosystem' of fossils 8.7M years old found under Los Angeles high school"

envp — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:48:33 +0000

Another joins the ranks of Chai Tea, Naan Bread, and Lake Michigan :D

New comment by envp in "AI Is Ruining the Internet"

envp — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 12:13:51 +0000

The problem is also that the rate of, and ease of production of terrible content far outpaces good content. So it does matter that there’s loads of junk because finding something worthwhile gets hard very quickly.

New comment by envp in "ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, X exposed driver licenses"

envp — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 23:15:04 +0000

There’s already regulation affecting SDLC practices in the financial industry (SSDF in the US, DORA in the EU).

Definitely not a stretch for other (“important”) areas to start receiving such attention in the future.

New comment by envp in "Guess my RGB"

envp — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 09:52:28 +0000

So far I’ve gotten to the end for a few colors. Quite fun, took my about 20-30 guesses!

NYT: Ankle Monitors and Curfews

envp — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 22:10:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/16/us/politics/immigrants-tracking-program.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39729933

Points: 1

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New comment by envp in "23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users"

envp — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 19:35:21 +0000

Sure the customers decided, but what about their relatives? If any of my relatives uploaded their genetic info to this, it by extension has a huge part of my genetic info too, and my consent was decided without my knowlegde...

What I'm trying to say is: I don't think comparing it to equifax is reasonable in that regard.

New comment by envp in "Video Ads Are Coming to All Your Uber Apps"

envp — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 12:50:39 +0000

I typically associate in-app video ads with C-tier mobile games that are a few steps removed from a click farm. None of those has a home on my device.

I’m glad and feel lucky to live in a city with good public transportation, guess I can go back to the old call restaurant and pickup order method in peace now.

It also seems that they are planning on adding tablets to the cars to play ads? We’ve come full circle to taxis…

New comment by envp in "Big Pharma Greed’s Knows No Bounds"

envp — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 21:09:29 +0000

What good is a treatment if you can’t access it? If you’re poor enough even food poisoning is “untreatable”.

New comment by envp in "IBM shifts remaining US-based AIX dev jobs to India – source"

envp — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 07:13:11 +0000

Best summarized by this quote from a coworker: “AIX is what you’d get if aliens implemented a UNIX.”

Utilities exist, but they tend to be different.

There’s also oddities like the compiler (xlC) emitting code that is able to dereference null pointers, with the zero page. It’s a valid but odd choice of undefined behavior. [1]

[1]: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c/c/OJwY1pWFYhE

New comment by envp in "Endless Horse"

envp — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 15:04:13 +0000

That’s an average dachshund

New comment by envp in "Tensorbook"

envp — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 05:53:09 +0000

Certainly, but without knowing the workload that was used for the benchmark it’s a meaningless marketing number.

New comment by envp in "Tensorbook"

envp — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 16:57:05 +0000

> up to 4x

Thats not a minimum performance guarantee. They’re talking about an upper bound. It’s possible that the 4x is some niche benchmark.

New comment by envp in "Sepsis can lead to cell death"

envp — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 16:32:26 +0000

Perhaps the title could be better worded as:

“New insights into cell death brought on by Sepsis”

New comment by envp in "I wrote a Ruby extension in Zig"

envp — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 19:41:42 +0000

I’d bet that’s unlikely. A lot of if Rail’s power comes from the meta progamming (convention over configuration, was it?) which would be needlessly hard in extension land.

Extensions shine brightest on CPU bound workloads by doing away with a lot of the intermediate Object allocs/frees. The gains tend to not be worth the investment in IO bound settings.

This doesn’t mean Rails won’t benefit from extensions.