Hacker News: inamiyar

New comment by inamiyar in "Why I Left Google DeepMind"

inamiyar — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:12:03 +0000

This is a long post about someone who has very obviously just gotten into politics. It is good for people to try and see how to impart change. Here are some constructive critical questions for the author:

1. Why no mention of No Tech For Apartheid or Google Workers United, who have been doing similar work for years?

2. What about all of the other police, DHS, and military contracts Google has been a part of? Did this problem really just start with the second (not even the first!) Trump presidency?

3. What does a focus on exclusively those at the top levels of a hierarchy, with minimal focus on incentive structures and wider systems, say about your theory of change? Was there a power analysis done, or was it assumed that "big title" = "powerful"?

Side Note: Incredibly insulting of James Dean to say email 3 CEOs.

New comment by inamiyar in "The problem with “doing your own research”"

inamiyar — Tue, 10 May 2022 23:55:55 +0000

Not to be rude, but this post just puts unwarranted faith in "science" and "experts".

For example, experts apparently collect evidence in "an unbiased, objective manner". What? Says who. Those "methods have to be available to other scientists for replication." Seems like an odd thing for an article with no author and two citations.

Frankly, there is no objective research, and fetishizing authority and "experts" (a group of people where, e.g., African Americans are underrepresented) is both harmful and dumb. There is a ton of literature on how science often does not follow it's systematic claims at all, check out Kuhn's work for an intro.

New comment by inamiyar in "China has pioneered a law to empower people over algorithms?"

inamiyar — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 23:33:00 +0000

the point is the people in power represent a limited set of elites that are not invested in the best interests of anyone but themselves

New comment by inamiyar in "Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?"

inamiyar — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 20:33:20 +0000

This book was absolutely revolutionary for me

New comment by inamiyar in "Ask HN: Does Java need a modern Java UI toolkit for desktop/web?"

inamiyar — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 14:43:25 +0000

I'm not sure if I'm reading this right but either duktape or WebView might do what you want.

https://duktape.org/ https://github.com/webview/webview

New comment by inamiyar in "Where Have All the Sex Scenes Gone?"

inamiyar — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 14:20:28 +0000

A far more interesting article with less focus on discounting feminist concepts out of hand

New comment by inamiyar in "Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?"

inamiyar — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 17:10:55 +0000

this vaguely aligns with my experiences

New comment by inamiyar in "Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?"

inamiyar — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 13:35:31 +0000

If you could anywhere it'd be the east side (think starting in NY), itd be a lot easier if coaches and trains were allowed though.

New comment by inamiyar in "Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'"

inamiyar — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:51:18 +0000

I mean...hopefully eventually ..

New comment by inamiyar in "Clubhouse Is a Cargo Cult"

inamiyar — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 16:24:28 +0000

I wish I could tell you, there is something to be said about 1) being live with no recording so records of dissent dont exist and 2) like the other commenter said slow government response

I suspect it's a lot of small things and social network multiplicative effect

New comment by inamiyar in "Clubhouse Is a Cargo Cult"

inamiyar — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 18:35:34 +0000

I'm an Iranian-American and it's MASSIVE in Iran, only heard about it here and there in the US

New comment by inamiyar in "My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry"

inamiyar — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 13:46:33 +0000

That's so cool! Are you able/willing to share the course name/a course page?

New comment by inamiyar in "Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pdf]"

inamiyar — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 19:45:24 +0000

Probably true, but the point was that the daughter was capable of quick multiplication, the age of the dog was..decidedly a minor detail.

New comment by inamiyar in "Show HN: Anki alternative with integrated notes and import/export"

inamiyar — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 17:52:33 +0000

Some things just need more memorization than others. I used a ton of flashcards for Latin vocab and learning the farsi alphabet but almost none for my CS classes (used notes for those).

New comment by inamiyar in "Problems with math rendering on the web (2020)"

inamiyar — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 00:37:12 +0000

Hello! I'm an osu student that has taken the calc sequence and very much appreciates the effort. I'll be watching the repo for sure

New comment by inamiyar in "Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday"

inamiyar — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 13:47:26 +0000

I don't think that's what they meant but it's a good point! I've seen embedded developers write some...truly terrifying code though.

New comment by inamiyar in "The YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal"

inamiyar — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 23:12:53 +0000

Communism is not built on equality really "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" conveys inequalities everywhere.

New comment by inamiyar in "Web Publications – LaTeX Style – HTML View"

inamiyar — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 17:34:00 +0000

Yeah the serif/sans distinction is definitely down the list compared to font size, column width, line spacing, contrast, etc. I just brought it up because I consider it part of the "LaTeX" style. But you're right...something something premature optimization

New comment by inamiyar in "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)"

inamiyar — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 17:28:33 +0000

I think it depends on the language and background. Learning Go is maybe a 20 hour enterprise. Learning C++ if you're coming from Rust? Maybe 20-40 hours, not sure. Learning C++ coming from Python? Well....buckle up.

Same in reverse btw. Going from C++ to Python is probably easier than Python to C++, but it's still not going to be as easy as, let's say, java -> C# imo.

New comment by inamiyar in "Web Publications – LaTeX Style – HTML View"

inamiyar — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 17:10:40 +0000

I also forgot to mention that for most people at low dpi (I would say 300dpi and lower, but I personally wouldn't use a serif till ~1500dpi) sans-serifs are more legible. This blog post has some good information: https://geniusee.com/single-blog/font-readability-research-f...

I had better sources at some point but I'll have to dig them up.