Hacker News: ericpauley

New comment by ericpauley in "Warm up your MacBook (2019)"

ericpauley — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:50:10 +0000

The uncomfortable fact about the mentioned Wisconsin winters is that inside dew point tends to be quite low.

New comment by ericpauley in "DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD"

ericpauley — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:08:13 +0000

Really cool stuff. Out of curiosity what made you select PowerDNS (and in general a commodity DNS server) vs. developing a custom DNS server integrating your logic (using https://github.com/miekg/dns for instance).

New comment by ericpauley in "[dead]"

ericpauley — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:49:01 +0000

AI;dr

Understanding Data Collection, Brokerage, Spam in the Lead Marketing Ecosystem

ericpauley — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:36:43 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06759

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186041

Points: 2

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New comment by ericpauley in "Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels"

ericpauley — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:26:14 +0000

Are these payback periods factoring in opportunity cost? If not the game is already lost. If so periods that long are so sensitive to alternate asset returns that they could easily be infinity.

New comment by ericpauley in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

ericpauley — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:36:16 +0000

You and Matt Levine would get along: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/matt-levines-money...

New comment by ericpauley in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

ericpauley — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:22:12 +0000

This is far from a universal truth: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/upshot/buy-rent-cal...

Real estate is only a clearly good investment if you ignore opportunity cost.

We Keep Tricking Ourselves into Thinking A.I. Is Conscious

ericpauley — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:44:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/opinion/ai-consciousness.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153561

Points: 6

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New comment by ericpauley in "More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions"

ericpauley — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:35:20 +0000

Title is somewhat incorrect: more than 60% of the U.S. is facing drought, making it overall the worst in decades. The data do not show that the drought in each area is the worst in decades.

New comment by ericpauley in "USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought"

ericpauley — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:39:08 +0000

Title claims "due to plains drought" but the article text largely attributes this to increased planting of soy for its lower fertilizer requirements (related to Strait of Hormuz).

New comment by ericpauley in "Taxpayers May Be Eligible for Significant Tax Refunds – If They Act by July 10"

ericpauley — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:50:58 +0000

This is potentially the most usful AI slop blog post I've ever read.

New comment by ericpauley in "Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI"

ericpauley — Sat, 09 May 2026 18:16:00 +0000

Phenomenal piece. I particularly appreciate how transparently the ideas generalize to AI coding without ever having to explicitly say it.

New comment by ericpauley in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

ericpauley — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:46:54 +0000

What component in particular goes substantially beyond CRUD?

New comment by ericpauley in "As U.S. Debt Hits a Worrying Milestone, Washington Barely Notices"

ericpauley — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:56:19 +0000

The GDP-relative amount of US debt held by foreign investors has actually gone down on since 2014: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HBFIGDQ188S

New comment by ericpauley in "Gap between national food production and food-based dietary guidance (2025)"

ericpauley — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:20:12 +0000

Food groups seem like such a strange way to quantify this, especially given that production of several of the food groups is a net macronutrient destroyer.

The macronutrient story is far more telling. For instance my math says (based on 17B bushel annual production) that the US produces 11,400 calories and 250g protein per person, per day, just in corn. The vast majority of this is used for animal feed and ethanol.

Whether resorting to eating just corn and multivitamins is a good life could be debated, but it's silly to suggest (as the paper figures do) that the US has a food security issue.

New comment by ericpauley in "Redis array: short story of a long development process"

ericpauley — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:44:07 +0000

Couldn't some of the use cases presented for this be accomplished with ZSETs? I get the performance angle, but it seems that this could have been accomplished without the new API surface by selectively optimizing ZSET storage for dense values (in the same way that Arrays selectively use sparse representations).

The RE component is interesting, but as commentary here has noted it seems orthogonal to the array data structure (i.e., usable on others as well). Does this not make more sense to accomplish with Lua scripting? Or if performance of Lua is an issue perhaps abstracting OP to be composable on top of any command that returns a range of values.

I say this with reverence for Antirez as the expert in this space, but some of this new feature set feels like the sort of solution that I tend to see arise from LLM-driven development; namely creation of new functionality instead of enhancement of existing, plus overcomplicating features when composition with others might be more effective.

New comment by ericpauley in "OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API"

ericpauley — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:02:23 +0000

Has that task accomplished anything yet?

New comment by ericpauley in "98% of all recent environmental claims can be categorized as "greenwashing""

ericpauley — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:09:59 +0000

“from the world’s largest meat and dairy companies”

Title length limits are tough but this is pretty critical context.

New comment by ericpauley in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

ericpauley — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:48:17 +0000

Off by an order of magnitude. Average TBO (which airplane engines routinely exceed if they don’t rust out) is 2,000 hours assuming piston, or about 300,000 miles for a Piper Arrow at cruise speed.

New comment by ericpauley in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7"

ericpauley — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:40:45 +0000

Going to have to disagree on the backup test. Opus flamingo is actually on the pedals and seat with functional spokes and beak. In terms of adherence to physical reality Qwen is completely off. To me it's a little puzzling that someone would prefer the Qwen output.

I'd say the example actually does (vaguely) suggest that Qwen might be overfitting to the Pelican.