Hacker News: improv32

New comment by improv32 in "Amazon is closing its cashierless stores in NYC, San Francisco and Seattle"

improv32 — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 15:00:26 +0000

I'm guessing the longer term interest Amazon has is to use these stores to generate a dataset for their computer vision system, which they could license as a loss prevention technology to other stores

New comment by improv32 in "TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy"

improv32 — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:19:02 +0000

Thank you for voicing this, I really agree that something about the culture growing up around tiktok is special and feels like a breath of fresh air. I think a lot of the doom and gloom talk is coming from people with a totally outside perspective who haven't actually tried to engage with the platform.

One thing that stands out as special to me, since it started out as an app for dance videos, so much of the cultural threads still revolve around that, and so it encourages an embodied way of presenting yourself. It makes text heavy sites like twitter and facebook feel... detached, cerebral, sterile in comparison. Whereas tiktok keeps a playful frivolity that that is so often lacking online. It seems to me a big step towards solving the big challenge with "online culture": considering the human.

New comment by improv32 in "Tesla FSD Beta 10 veers into pedestrians with illegal right turn"

improv32 — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 22:53:37 +0000

This is in Seattle, on 5th ave. The concrete pillars are the monorail track. The street confused me driving as a human sometimes. There are more videos of the Tesla software being confused on this particular street floating around

New comment by improv32 in "One Letter Programming Languages"

improv32 — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 22:06:54 +0000

I worked in a CNC shop for 6 years and never once heard "G programming language"

New comment by improv32 in "What was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]?"

improv32 — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 00:07:02 +0000

Interestingly enough, this isn't a mess in the shell's own builtins. The [ ] expression syntax is provided by the program /usr/bin/[ which is (often) a symlink to /usr/bin/test. It's just a clever trick! [ is a program that evaluates it's argv as an an expression, less the trailing ], and then returns the result as an error code.

Actually re-reading your post you probably know that already! Nevermind then. Maybe someone reading this will be enlightened

New comment by improv32 in "Conflicted Capital"

improv32 — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 00:56:21 +0000

I thought it was pretty clever!

New comment by improv32 in "iMessage for Windows: A labor of love that will never see light of day (2018)"

improv32 — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 03:17:54 +0000

iMessage has read receipts, faster and more reliable delivery, higher quality images/videos. More than just the color of the bubble

New comment by improv32 in "DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux"

improv32 — Wed, 20 May 2020 00:44:24 +0000

> AF_PACKET

Just run a Linux hyper-v vm. That's what WSL2 is doing under the hood anyway. I run it this way and it's great. I have windows terminal auto ssh into it. Performance is great. And using the X server x410 on the windows side gui performance is fantastic (though no hardware acceleration) because instead of ssh tunneling x410 suports AF_VSOCK for the x socket, which hyper-v supports for performance as good as a domain socket on the same machine.

New comment by improv32 in "Why do we find comfort in terrifying stories?"

improv32 — Tue, 19 May 2020 20:14:10 +0000

Got a link to read more about this?

What Happened at UserLand

improv32 — Mon, 18 May 2020 22:53:59 +0000

Article URL: https://inessential.com/2014/05/24/what_happened_at_userland

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229330

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by improv32 in "Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think"

improv32 — Wed, 13 May 2020 05:00:22 +0000

There is a huge amount of these $20 bills lying around in fact. The thing is they're not that easy to pick up. These ERP systems are often fairly bespoke, designed for the workflow and needs of specific industries, or even specific niches in industries.

I work for one of these bespoke ERP companies, our niche is CNC machine shops (huge industy you don't hear much about). Our software was grown organically out of tools we made to manage our own CNC shop, spun out into its own company. That deep domain knowledge is what allows us to make a competitive product.

If this kind of stuff interests you we're hiring: https://www.proshoperp.com/company/careers/

New comment by improv32 in "Dissecting the code responsible for the Bitcoin halving"

improv32 — Tue, 12 May 2020 02:45:42 +0000

Well it shouldn't make a difference in practice because everyone knows exactly how far away the halving is and makes their financial calculations accordingly

CyberBunker

improv32 — Sat, 09 May 2020 01:53:27 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberBunker

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23121489

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by improv32 in "X410 – X Server for Windows 10"

improv32 — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 06:50:08 +0000

What differentiates x410 from other x servers is that it support communication over VSock, which Hyper-V supports, and it's probably 3x less latency than tunneling x over ssh. Made it possible for me to comfortably use emacs in my hyper-v arch vm

New comment by improv32 in "OK Soda"

improv32 — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 09:25:56 +0000

Weird to see my tiny hometown (Lynden, WA) was used as a test market

New comment by improv32 in "Fed “digital dollars” are part of debate over coronavirus stimulus"

improv32 — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 02:07:26 +0000

Your entire withholding from 2019 would be returned as a tax refund, thus the cash

New comment by improv32 in "Sometimes all functions are continuous (2006)"

improv32 — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 04:18:25 +0000

For a very nice into to constructive math, see this[0] link as well as some good HN discussion here[1].

[0]: https://home.sandiego.edu/~shulman/papers/rabbithole.pdf [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18411935

Brownian Ratchet

improv32 — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 03:39:58 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_ratchet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22008138

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by improv32 in "Why are some things darker when wet?"

improv32 — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 20:36:26 +0000

The photon has some amplitude for reflecting in all possible directions, it happens that for certain directions these amplitudes are very close to the same value and so reinforce and become more probable, and at wider angles tend to cancel out and become less probable. When this is not the case and wider angles instead reinforce you can observe this directly in for instance a diffraction grating.

New comment by improv32 in "List of Statements Independent of ZFC"

improv32 — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 03:05:06 +0000

I don't think finitists have a problem with convergent sequences, they just wouldn't talk about infinities, rather than extending the sequence gets you as arbitrarily to 1/3 as you wish to go