Hacker News: harshaxnim

New comment by harshaxnim in "Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees"

harshaxnim — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 22:51:18 +0000

You’re not wrong, but that bias is not stemming out of Racism imo. Also I’m not saying that the bias is acceptable, but it shows a different kind of social problem that often transcends classes and gender.

New comment by harshaxnim in "Show HN: Itineraries.io – I built a joint trip planner in between surgeries"

harshaxnim — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:04:18 +0000

A trip to Antarctica is cheaper than you might have thought.

New comment by harshaxnim in "Show HN: Time Flies"

harshaxnim — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:28:34 +0000

Curious, why?

New comment by harshaxnim in "Does “building in public” work?"

harshaxnim — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 19:10:34 +0000

While this is true in broad strokes, I think money fails to capture non quantifiable quality of life improvements. Hacker culture being close to the users could solve them, but being driven by money would definitely hinder that development

New comment by harshaxnim in "An NFC movie library for my kids"

harshaxnim — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 23:51:38 +0000

With only a little bit of effort you can prevent them from becoming obsolete. Most straightforward way is to just reprogram the nfc chip. Alternatively, Just add a redirector, one that maps show names/ids to the urls.

New comment by harshaxnim in "AnandTech Farewell"

harshaxnim — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 21:07:30 +0000

Tangential - your last line made me think about what "Fare well" means. Weird that I come across it so often, but never stopped to think what it means. :)

New comment by harshaxnim in "Ask HN: Share your idea that you feel would never be picked by YC?"

harshaxnim — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 08:03:36 +0000

Who are your competitors and why should I choose you over them?

New comment by harshaxnim in "Ask HN: Have you noticed your songs being swapped out with inferior versions?"

harshaxnim — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 02:57:15 +0000

As a YTMusic user, it's not much better, (probably worse with multiple uploads of the same song by regular people) but it doesn't happen often enough to be annoying to me.

New comment by harshaxnim in "FlightAware Leaks Customer Data (Name, Email Addresses and Passwords)"

harshaxnim — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 08:58:07 +0000

Of course it's not a likeable take, but it's a grounded one. And it's exactly the reason why companies don't care about climate change either.

New comment by harshaxnim in "Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels"

harshaxnim — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 16:18:27 +0000

May be you could put it up in the site too

New comment by harshaxnim in "Show HN: Slide the daily word into the bottom row or: Caesar's 20-puzzle"

harshaxnim — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 04:42:37 +0000

One insight is — characters remain the same when they move into a diagonal position. So if you want F, e.g., look for Fs on the diagonal, or Es 1 unit dist. Left/above from the diagonal or Gs 1 unit dist. To the right, etc.

New comment by harshaxnim in "macOS Sequoia Preview"

harshaxnim — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 22:07:29 +0000

With tiling managers you can do all you just listed + quick snapping. Who would say no to that?

New comment by harshaxnim in "Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet"

harshaxnim — Tue, 21 May 2024 15:30:35 +0000

Sadly "sensitivity" has been over done. It's a fine line and corporations would rather cross it for legal/social reasons. Similar to how too much political correctness will hamper the society, so does the overly done sensitivity in an agent, be it a human, or AI.

New comment by harshaxnim in "Downranking won't stop Google's deepfake porn problem, victims say"

harshaxnim — Thu, 16 May 2024 00:36:46 +0000

Fwiw, I agree w you. I think business incentives are sometimes misaligned w what is holistically good for a society. Just because what is good for society cannot be clearly defined, all effort to do so must not be given up. For instance Laws punishing google when ranking CP high will def bring a change in Google's attitude towards dealing with this stuff.

New comment by harshaxnim in "Judge believes Apple is violating Epic Games' U.S. injunction"

harshaxnim — Sat, 04 May 2024 17:08:40 +0000

With the kind of stakes involved for Apple, they are okay expending a bit of goodwill.

New comment by harshaxnim in "The IMEI Code: Your phone’s other number"

harshaxnim — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:49:28 +0000

Can you elaborate on what you meant by trackable when they're "continously in close proximity to you"?

New comment by harshaxnim in "Watch cars evolve using genetic algorithm"

harshaxnim — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 01:52:10 +0000

Just wait a little longer for the flying cars.

New comment by harshaxnim in "Planes in 3D Space"

harshaxnim — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 16:22:01 +0000

Anthropomorphic intuition has its advantages - it cuts down the ideas search space with its learnt heuristics. We are intuitive beings, and system 2 thinking is very deliberate and not so natural to us. Secondly, it might often be intractable to process things with sys2 thinking. That said, I don’t think anthropomorphic intuition is necessarily static; I can learn new intuitive skills with enough practice - for example, a person grown in a tribe with very rudimentary speech cannot intuit how to communicate even mildly non-simple ideas, but I can do half a decent job very intuitively.

And finally I think even if you don’t care for intuition, it cares for you. I mean, if you play with y=mx+c long enough, you’ll gain an intuition, intuitively. So, with these devices (like visualisers etc.), we’re essentially trying to gain an intuitive understanding deliberately, which I see nothing wrong with. It’s just meta intuition.

New comment by harshaxnim in "Feathers are one of evolution's cleverest inventions"

harshaxnim — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:22:02 +0000

Still doesn’t answer - How does the follicle know that I cut my hair and needs to grow again to that length?

New comment by harshaxnim in "Inkjets are for more than just printing"

harshaxnim — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 06:42:00 +0000

Actually not a pro tip anymore.