Hacker News: iorrus

New comment by iorrus in "Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament"

iorrus — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:32:50 +0000

You need to spend a lot of time publishing, studying etc to become an academic it's not a highly social pursuit. In fact techies in order to achieve anything mostly have to operate in a team and it's not the zero sum ruthless game of academic careerism (only so many tenured spots available).

Also the output of tech companies is ideally something tangible not just the careerist publish or perish mindset of academics. Academics are not exactly principled either they will go to exactly where the funding/grants are.

New comment by iorrus in "Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament"

iorrus — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:29:12 +0000

Definitely not my experience in academia, mostly small mini czardoms who can't stand and won't speak to their competitors. Often engaged in ancient blood feuds with the person two doors down. Add a dash of corruption in publishing and citing each others works while excluding those they disagree with etc.

New comment by iorrus in "Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature's research papers"

iorrus — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 21:45:19 +0000

Absolutely, the quickest way to lose faith in "The Science" is actually to do Science in a formal research institute....

New comment by iorrus in "Ask HN: Dot EU domain instead of dot com?"

iorrus — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:35:23 +0000

As someone based in the EU but an English speaker I like to buy from .eu domains, the language will probably be in English and the shipping pan Europe while still priced in Euro with no import duties.

I trust .de domains too for the same reasons as that's a kind of default pan European domain mainly based on amazon.de and caseking.de.

New comment by iorrus in "Ask HN: Which browsers did you try in 2024, and what's your daily browser?"

iorrus — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 03:52:27 +0000

I use brave, it’s Crome without all the crud

New comment by iorrus in "TexTube: Chat with any YouTube video transcript in ChatGPT fast"

iorrus — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:26:45 +0000

Hmm it didn’t work that way for me, first I asked it to summarise a video, then I simply posted the link to the video assuming it would give the transcript, in both cases it summarised the transcript.

But if I start a new session and simply paste the link to the video it gives the transcript. I’m not sure an llm is the best solution to getting full transcripts.

New comment by iorrus in "TexTube: Chat with any YouTube video transcript in ChatGPT fast"

iorrus — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:16:00 +0000

I've been using Voxscript [0] for a while, after comparing the two I think voxscript is better, gives longer more detailed summaries, TexTube just seems to give a very brief impersonal overview. Easy to try both and see which you prefer.

[0] https://chatgpt.com/g/g-g24EzkDta-voxscript

New comment by iorrus in "Thoughts and Observations in the Wake of Apple's 'It's Glowtime' Keynote"

iorrus — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:34:03 +0000

Obvious counter argument is the Vision Pro

New comment by iorrus in "House votes to ban TikTok in the U.S. if it's not sold"

iorrus — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 03:20:36 +0000

There is this false idea that setting up an AWS or Google or Facebook competitor is in some way difficult. It’s not, if Meta, AWS, Google were banned in the EU perfectly functional European equivalents would pop up very rapidly similar to Russia and China.

New comment by iorrus in "House votes to ban TikTok in the U.S. if it's not sold"

iorrus — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 03:14:18 +0000

In some ways I wish the EU would ban US tech companies, EU basically has no indigenous tech landscape compared to Russia and China who have suppressed US tech.

New comment by iorrus in "Meta Llama 3"

iorrus — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 22:41:10 +0000

Let’s be honest VR is about the porn. I’d it’s successful at that Zuck will make his billions.

New comment by iorrus in "Obituary for a quiet life (2023)"

iorrus — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 13:10:02 +0000

I have to agree, it’s unusual the way the writer described this man as living a “quiet life”. He was the head of the union in what was likely a major employer and had a large family along with probably a large extended family.

He didn’t seek fame but I wouldn’t describe this man as a quiet one, he probably lived in a rich social network full of visitors, work colleagues, veterans, friends etc. There are very few people aside from egotists who seek large scale recognition for their work etc.

New comment by iorrus in "Workman Layout for Vim"

iorrus — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 02:09:48 +0000

It’s an old blog post from over a decade ago (2013). Here is what I assume it originally pointed to: https://workmanlayout.org/

New comment by iorrus in "Fired Americans Say Indian Firm Gave Their Jobs to H-1B Visa Holders"

iorrus — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 21:43:54 +0000

TCS is a very Indian organisation, it would make sense for them to hire Indians in the US. The reason this lawsuit is proceeding at all is because a senior exec said exactly this, they want to have more Indians working for TCS in the US. There is no evidence they were fired because they were American they’re just latching onto this throwaway comment which was stupid but at the same time completely understandable.

TSMC wants more Taiwanese working on its semi plants in US for similar reasons, but at least their executive team is a bit more diplomatic in how they say these things.

New comment by iorrus in "Fired Americans Say Indian Firm Gave Their Jobs to H-1B Visa Holders"

iorrus — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 21:10:44 +0000

Maybe the company simply prefers to hire Indians better cultural fit etc. this is one of the main things considered when making a hiring decision. Will this person get on well with the team, be productive etc.

New comment by iorrus in "Nobody knows what's happening online anymore"

iorrus — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 08:11:29 +0000

I can’t imagine communists were too comfortable around other committed communists, being sent to the gulag was always a latent possibility if you were determined to be an ideological enemy.

New comment by iorrus in "How South Korea’s birth rate dropped below Japan’s"

iorrus — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 08:54:22 +0000

Yes and what people don't realise is that exponential effects start to take place as a smaller population is than having fewer children and is this continues, the Korean people will effectively disappear in 100 years or so. Those fewer people must also support an aging population. It's a death spiral both for the people and the economy. If North Korea keeps fertility rate at its current level, they will exist into the future and the South will disappear.

New comment by iorrus in "Tkinter Designer: Quickly Turn Figma Design to Python Tkinter GUI"

iorrus — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 13:00:35 +0000

I just use it to create the initial layout and then if I need anything additional I just ask chatgpt to create it. You still have to know what you’re doing but I find that GUI code is mostly boilerplate code that is really tedious to create from scratch. ChatGPT is a 5x productivity boost.

New comment by iorrus in "Tkinter Designer: Quickly Turn Figma Design to Python Tkinter GUI"

iorrus — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 12:21:15 +0000

I find chatgpt good for this kind of simple GUI design tasks, you can just tell it to create a simple GUI incl drop downs etc. It won’t be perfect but removes a lot of the tedious work.

New comment by iorrus in "Geektools whois gateway has shut down after a 25-year run"

iorrus — Thu, 11 May 2023 11:09:12 +0000

I used to use this when I was just starting out on the web and the internet was still new. I used it quite frequently over the years initially but not for a long time.

I feel a bit sad, it represented the hacker culture of the early web which unfortunately is long gone. A different time.