Hacker News: ericye16

New comment by ericye16 in "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs"

ericye16 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:19:38 +0000

It's very sad how illiberal hackernews gets when it comes to H-1B visas and immigration in general. People will say that they are concerned about the welfare of H-1B holders because they can't leave their jobs but I've literally never heard anyone suggest an improvement (better portability, etc). Instead all anyone talks about is how bad it is that they have to compete against people from around the world. I think people are just afraid of a true meritocracy and maybe that's a bearish signal for the industry overall.

New comment by ericye16 in "Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers"

ericye16 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:13:34 +0000

Are there types of disability insurance you can buy that would cover you as a software engineer in case something like this happens and you're not able to go back to work or not work as effectively in this field? Does anyone have experiences with this?

New comment by ericye16 in "AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline"

ericye16 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 07:55:28 +0000

Maybe I ate too much marketing but it does feel like having the PS5 support SSDs raised the bar for how fast games are expected to load, even across platforms.

New comment by ericye16 in "Apple Photos app corrupts images"

ericye16 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:30:12 +0000

My read of the article is that they were importing photos from their camera to their laptop, so there's no phone involved anywhere here.

New comment by ericye16 in "Memory-Level Parallelism: Apple M2 vs. Apple M4"

ericye16 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:17:01 +0000

I wish the chart extended past 28, otherwise how do we know that it tops out there?

New comment by ericye16 in "2025 ARRL Field Day"

ericye16 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 23:11:51 +0000

What are some good ways to participate if you don't have an HF radio? (Alternatively, what's a good way to get into HF if you live in a small apartment)?

(I already have my license)

New comment by ericye16 in "Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears"

ericye16 — Sun, 25 May 2025 01:51:18 +0000

I'm a Canadian who moved to the SF bay area after graduating. A lot of my smartest friends who came with me at the same time are actively taking steps to move back due to the political environment.

New comment by ericye16 in "Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes"

ericye16 — Sun, 25 May 2025 01:47:37 +0000

I do have a ham license! I just need something to do with it haha.

New comment by ericye16 in "Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes"

ericye16 — Sat, 17 May 2025 08:16:17 +0000

I would love to build something like this, but it looks like the project is not quite complete yet? And also I don't see anywhere on the page where I can sign up for updates.

New comment by ericye16 in "Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations"

ericye16 — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 05:47:48 +0000

I was hit by this while working on a project for class and it was the most frustrating thing ever. The bot would completely hallucinate functions and docs and it confused everyone. I found one post where someone did the simple prompt injection of "ignore previous instructions and x" and it worked but I think it's delted now. Swore off ultralytics after that.

New comment by ericye16 in "RoboPianist: Dexterous Piano Playing with Deep Reinforcement Learning (2023)"

ericye16 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 02:01:15 +0000

We definitely tried extending the lookahead, but I don't think we tried having a curriculum-style thing where we gradually increased the speed of the song. Great idea though!

New comment by ericye16 in "RoboPianist: Dexterous Piano Playing with Deep Reinforcement Learning (2023)"

ericye16 — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 18:33:20 +0000

This was the basis of a project I did for my deep reinforcement learning class!

https://ericye16.com/stanford-cs224r

We were able to make some improvements by tuning how the reward is distributed and also by first pretraining the agent on scales before fine-tuning them on the final pieces.

Thanks to Kevin Zakka for helping us get started with the RL environment!

New comment by ericye16 in "LeetCode but You Can Force People to Code in Light Mode"

ericye16 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 02:51:55 +0000

lmao, halting problem solved with one weird trick!

New comment by ericye16 in "You don't link all of Libc"

ericye16 — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:07:08 +0000

Static linker supporter here, not to start a flame war but I like static linking because it means I don't have to worry about version mismatches of shared libraries between what I ship and what the user gets.

New comment by ericye16 in "DeepSeek not as disruptive as claimed, firm has 50k GPUs and spent $1.6B"

ericye16 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:46:14 +0000

Without the actual training corpus, you can't know how much it takes to train. They could have trained on twice as many tokens for example (not saying they did!)

New comment by ericye16 in "US bill proposes jail time for people who download DeepSeek"

ericye16 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 05:29:40 +0000

Does anyone have a magnet link for the weights? In case it's removed from HF.

New comment by ericye16 in "Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant"

ericye16 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:49:16 +0000

It's been a while since I took electrostatics, but I don't understand the theory behind this. If the rolls become charged and you are presumably neutral, wouldn't they attract you rather than repel you? That's what makes me think this story is apocryphal.

New comment by ericye16 in "100x defect tolerance: How we solved the yield problem"

ericye16 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:35:52 +0000

What if you chose a refrigerant with a lower boiling point?

New comment by ericye16 in "Computer Architecture, Fifth Edition: A Quantitative Approach (2011)"

ericye16 — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:48:43 +0000

Is there a 7th edition out? I couldn't find it.

New comment by ericye16 in "Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess"

ericye16 — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:19:10 +0000

I agree with some of the other comments here that the prompt is limiting. The model can't do any computation without emitting tokens and limiting the numbers of tokens it can emit is going to limit the skill of the model. It's surprising that any model at all is capable of performing well with this prompt in fact.