Hacker News: gpvos

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

gpvos — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:20:17 +0000

Correct. At least, not that I know of. On the other hand, when you move, you must deregister with your old municipality and register with your new one. The exact system differs a bit per country.

New comment by gpvos in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

gpvos — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:35:16 +0000

Self-reported though; that throws a huge spanner in the works.

New comment by gpvos in "Adaptive PDFs"

gpvos — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:32:57 +0000

PDF has lots of facilities to do that.

New comment by gpvos in "Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine"

gpvos — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:53:03 +0000

I suppose this is about Ayn Rand. I haven't read her books, but from what I hear they aren't very nuanced though.

New comment by gpvos in "Adaptive PDFs"

gpvos — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:43:08 +0000

Interesting, earlier today the page didn't truncate the paragraphs, a minute a go it did, and now it doesn't again, all in the same browser. I haven't found a pattern yet.

Edit: looks like the author just fixed it while I was looking.

New comment by gpvos in "A PDF that changes based on who is reading"

gpvos — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:16:14 +0000

Looks like it, the author's name matches.

New comment by gpvos in "Adaptive PDFs"

gpvos — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:05:42 +0000

I would suggest changing the title to the actual title of the article: Adaptive PDFs.

Assuming the program works, the PDF will not actually look different to me than to anyone else looking at it, so there is nothing that "changes based on who is reading". It is just that text extraction, a wholly different (and much fuzzier) process than viewing the PDF, and something that the same person can do, will now return structured (Markdown) text. (One might say the PDF changes based on how you are reading it.) A great idea, IMHO.

New comment by gpvos in "Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway"

gpvos — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:11:19 +0000

Basically like it still is in the US.

New comment by gpvos in "A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent"

gpvos — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:30:20 +0000

https://xkcd.com/1053/

New comment by gpvos in "A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent"

gpvos — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:29:19 +0000

I think the current title, while admittedly a bit clickbaity, describes the core issue better.

New comment by gpvos in "Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway"

gpvos — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:14:29 +0000

The infrastructure operators have to allow anyone with a train operating license on their tracks, and such license is very nontrivial to acquire.

Usually you would hire a train from a train operating company, and those companies are not required to rent out their trains - although several have been set up explicitly with that goal, of course.

New comment by gpvos in "Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway"

gpvos — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:12:51 +0000

For day trains as well, more often within Spain than on the border with France.

New comment by gpvos in "Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway"

gpvos — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:08:14 +0000

On a night train such as the Transsib that takes several days to get from A to B anyway, being able to sleep through it and not needing to lug your stuff around is usually considered more important.

(Although in some cases you are woken up for border formalities.)

New comment by gpvos in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

gpvos — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:15:23 +0000

And reversed the polarity of the neutron flow.

New comment by gpvos in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

gpvos — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:09:57 +0000

No.

New comment by gpvos in "Mornings and nights no longer exist at 47C: A day in the hottest place in India"

gpvos — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:49:03 +0000

The number of straw men in your post is dazzling.

New comment by gpvos in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

gpvos — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:57:11 +0000

Apparently, yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411805

New comment by gpvos in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

gpvos — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:02:00 +0000

For many, there's a cost involved in stopping, and not all can bear it.

New comment by gpvos in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

gpvos — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:57:16 +0000

Side question: what's wrong with Sonos playing a song? Are they generating AI music now?

New comment by gpvos in "Mornings and nights no longer exist at 47C: A day in the hottest place in India"

gpvos — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:43:23 +0000

In what way does it do that? It in fact strongly urges people to take responsibility and stop being hypocritical.