Hacker News: glitchc

New comment by glitchc in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

glitchc — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:17:25 +0000

Are you sure? The warranty is on the car, not the owner. Almost all manufacturers (except Tesla) transfer automatically and are based on mileage.

New comment by glitchc in "U.S. science is in chaos"

glitchc — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:34:54 +0000

It's important to note that the US has the largest number of Protestants (across all denominations) among all countries.

New comment by glitchc in "Running local models is good now"

glitchc — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:59:00 +0000

Once they feed your data into the training dataset, they can delete the individualized copy. The training dataset is, of course, a trade secret that can never be exposed without causing serious harm to the company's model, or equivalent legalese that will prevent it's disclosure to all, governments included.

New comment by glitchc in "10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module"

glitchc — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:32:39 +0000

That can't be right. The old network must've had a problem somewhere. I'm running 10G copper throughout the house and my latency is ~1ms from the office upstairs to the server in the basement (across three switches). Using moonlight to game for example and it is flawless.

New comment by glitchc in "10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module"

glitchc — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:30:08 +0000

640KB still enough for everyone?

New comment by glitchc in "I Love the Computer"

glitchc — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:22:32 +0000

Given that I get ~1 ms between basement and upstairs, going through three switches, this is indeed a sad state of affairs.

New comment by glitchc in "Every Frame Perfect"

glitchc — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:31:34 +0000

We do not perceive the world as a series of still frames. Any UI forcing that upon us is unnatural and will break immersion in subtle and unexpected ways. Apple and macOS may have their faults but the UI design is head and shoulders above anything the Wayland team has produced to date.

New comment by glitchc in "Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages"

glitchc — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:54:57 +0000

This is great but ultimately unactionable advice, which makes it worse than useless because it sounds good at first brush but upon inspection turns out to be ridiculous. There is more code out there than is readable by any human being in their lifetime.

I'm willing to bet you yourself have read <1% of the source code currently running on your computers. Does this mean you have stopped using your computer(s)? How can you trust anything that happens on them?

New comment by glitchc in "US bans differential privacy in Census data"

glitchc — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:49:26 +0000

> We don't need to know the rest of it, or if we do, it should be surveyed separately with voluntary participation.

But we do. A detailed census is essential for making good policy. For example, knowing the age and distribution of children across the country helps local and state governments decide where to put the next school or children's hospital. The federal govt. allocates funds for education and daycare accordingly.

The census is the best and most important measure of govt. policy. Taking it away would leave everyone worse off.

New comment by glitchc in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

glitchc — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:42:22 +0000

> Ban it from the dataset, add it to the analysis. You can choose your own flavor of noise.

It is introduced in the public data, not the secret data.

New comment by glitchc in "Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22"

glitchc — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:11:05 +0000

Canada definitely has a "first buyer problem" which makes it hard to get liftoff. A great many Canadian startups end up going to the US to get funding to get around this issue.

New comment by glitchc in "Car headlights don't have to be this blinding"

glitchc — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:07:52 +0000

I'm sure they don't. The law requires a 10 degree downward angle for directed headlights out of the factory. It would never pass NHTSA testing without it. High beams are a different matter: They are designed to scatter in a wide arc, but people shouldn't be using them when there's opposing traffic.

New comment by glitchc in "Reverse engineering the Creative Katana soundbar to control it from Linux"

glitchc — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:54:51 +0000

Agreed, a bit too on the nose. I have one, a great first amp.

New comment by glitchc in "πFS"

glitchc — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:32:46 +0000

At what point is the metadata larger than the actual file?

New comment by glitchc in "Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?"

glitchc — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:44:53 +0000

I suggest reading the book if you can get your hands on a copy. It's a short and highly entertaining read:

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/parkinsons-law_c-northcote-par...

New comment by glitchc in "RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon"

glitchc — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:55:17 +0000

Judges are managers with typical mediocre technicality

New comment by glitchc in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"

glitchc — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:36:37 +0000

Who wants to be CEO for that long? The company will be sold off to a larger conglomerate long before that happens.

New comment by glitchc in "The Cypherpunk Library"

glitchc — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:48:42 +0000

You have to read better non-fiction then. Take history for example. Certain real events are more fascinating than any fictional story, and the right author can take you on an unforgettable journey, unfolding the world as it developed.

New comment by glitchc in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

glitchc — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:26:46 +0000

How proficient a country is at a given sport is derived from the size of the feeder pool. Baring extremely rare exceptions, top talent is strongly correlated with deep feeder pools.

Sports are always cultural: Kids grow up idolizing the stars of their childhood, and those stars are drawn from the sports their parents and community expose them to. In Europe, soccer is the biggest sport, everyone grows up watching soccer on weekends and so the feeder pool (i.e. the pool of kids who are drawn to the game) is much greater than other sports. Deep feeder pool allows the system to filter relentlessly to tease out the best.

In the US, and North America in general, kids grow up watching football, basketball, baseball and hockey. So that's what kids end up playing, and all of those sports have deep feeder pools. Soccer not so much.

New comment by glitchc in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

glitchc — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:54:29 +0000

Memory bandwidth is what matters, unified or otherwise. Discrete GPUs don't have unified memory either.