<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: kilotaras</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kilotaras</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:57:16 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kilotaras" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kilotaras in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> But if there are a bunch of children milling about an elementary school in a chaotic situation with lots of double parking, 17 mph is too fast, and the Waymo should have been driving more conservatively.<p>UK driving theory test has a part called Hazard Perception: not reacting on children milling around would be considered a fail.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.safedrivingforlife.info/free-practice-tests/hazard-perception-test/" rel="nofollow">https://www.safedrivingforlife.info/free-practice-tests/haza...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:50:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46813669</link><dc:creator>kilotaras</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46813669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46813669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kilotaras in "Why AC is cheap, but AC repair is a luxury"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>IIUC grandparent is in Norway as he quoted the price in NOK.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 09:40:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45809072</link><dc:creator>kilotaras</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45809072</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45809072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kilotaras in "Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Alibaba Cloud claims to reduce Nvidia GPU <i>used for serving unpopular models</i> by 82% (emphasis mine)<p>> 17.7 per cent of GPUs allocated to serve only 1.35 per cent of requests in Alibaba Cloud’s marketplace, the researchers found<p>Instead of 1192 GPUs they now use 213 for serving those requests.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:05:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45644776</link><dc:creator>kilotaras</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45644776</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45644776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kilotaras in "Poland shoots down drones in its airspace during Russian attack on Ukraine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Two of the downed drones were on pretty reasonable path to fling back into Ukraine.<p><a href="https://x.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1965668064865013884" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1965668064865013884</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:12:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45195172</link><dc:creator>kilotaras</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45195172</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45195172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kilotaras in "Swiss vs. UK approach to major tranport projects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I thought that this kind of experience was reserved for Eastern Europeans<p>Being casually racist on the other hand is a time-honored pan-European tradition, proudly upheld by Swiss.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2025 08:53:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44921532</link><dc:creator>kilotaras</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44921532</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44921532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kilotaras in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Team X is responsible for feature Foo; feature Foo is slow; team X introduces Foo-preload, metrics go up, person responsible gets a bonus.<p>Multiply that by tens (or even hundreds) of teams and your app startup (either on desktop or mobile) is now a bloated mess. Happened to Office, Facebook iOS and countless others.<p>One solution is to treat startup cycles as a resource similar to e.g. size or backend servers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 09:00:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43855194</link><dc:creator>kilotaras</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43855194</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43855194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kilotaras in "US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I believe a big crux is in definition of "war ended".<p>You (and Donald Trump) seem to be using "Ukraine and Russia stop shooting at each other right now", while Ukraine operates more under "Russia stops shooting at us for the foreseeable future, 20 years at least." Russia has previously broken a number of ceasefires and written agreements (including the infamous Budapest memorandum) and so Ukraine is not super trusting to agreements not backed by anything.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 16:39:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43310825</link><dc:creator>kilotaras</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43310825</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43310825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kilotaras in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> or you can include them in the broad pool, and the people with a full-cinderblock home in a non-flammable state pay $20 more a year so the entire endeavour can work<p>And you immediately start loosing customers to insurers that either did the former or left LA alltogether. This changes $20 surcharge into $25 surcharge, causing more customers to leave, causing surcharge to increase and so on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 12:17:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42736741</link><dc:creator>kilotaras</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42736741</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42736741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kilotaras in "China's EV Boom Threatens to Push Gasoline Demand Off a Cliff"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> cleaner air<p>I'm not sure that move will help much. EVs PM2.5 footprint, is 0.5x of ICEv [0]. Good but not game-changing.<p>[0] <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35760182/" rel="nofollow">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35760182/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2024 21:39:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42290922</link><dc:creator>kilotaras</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42290922</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42290922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kilotaras in "How good are American roads?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> IRI measures how much a car moves vertically as it travels over a given distance, and is typically given in units like “inches per mile” or “millimeters per meter.<p>How accurate are phone accelerometers these days? Could Uber/Lyft/etc. start collecting that data from drivers phones.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 09:24:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42202517</link><dc:creator>kilotaras</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42202517</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42202517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kilotaras in "Albertsons kills rural grocers with land use restrictions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In a supply-restricted markets taxes and subsidies are ultimately paid by a supplier independent on who actually transfers the money to government.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 14:05:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42051534</link><dc:creator>kilotaras</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42051534</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42051534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kilotaras in "Albertsons kills rural grocers with land use restrictions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a reasonably simple change that would allow application of Harberger's taxes.<p>1. Restrictions have to have a "controlling party": a dedicated party that controls the restrictions and can agree to lift it. Classical example would be HOA, but it can also be a seller if they want to sell property with additional restrictions.<p>2. The controlling party sets the price of a restriction<p>3. Restricted party can remove the restriction paying price set in 2 to controlling part.<p>4. The controlling party pays tax as percentage of price set in 2.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 05:33:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42048845</link><dc:creator>kilotaras</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42048845</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42048845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kilotaras in "Intel Honesty"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Non-housing costs are quite low in Taiwan. Food and childcare, in particular, are so much cheaper than California that it’s hard to believe.<p>Those are downstream of housing restrictions to a large extent. From "Housing theory of everything" [0]:<p>Consider a cleaner living in Alabama. In 1960 they could move to NYC and earn wages 84% higher, and still end up with 70% higher income after rent. In 2010, they could move to New York City and become 28% more productive, and earn a wage 28% higher – and reduce the surplus of workers back home, letting them demand higher pay. But since housing costs are so much higher, the net earnings and living standards of someone like this would fall if they moved today, and wouldn’t be worth it. The same would be true for plumbers, receptionists and other professions that allow other people to specialise at what they’re best at and minimise the time they spend on things like DIY and answering the phone. By contrast, top lawyers get wage boosts that are still sufficiently higher to justify a move in both 1960 and 2010, even after the higher rents they’ll have to pay.<p>[0] <a href="https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-everything/" rel="nofollow">https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-every...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2024 18:57:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41449254</link><dc:creator>kilotaras</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41449254</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41449254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kilotaras in "Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i.e. the paper[0] states that first "discharging" produced 7.09kg of H2 out of 8.71 theoretically possible<p>the efficiency is super low, but again, according to the paper, "most of the energy input was due to thermal losses at the reactor surface (83.9%)", which also benefits from square/cube law.<p>[0] <a href="https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/se/d3se01228j" rel="nofollow">https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/se/d3se0...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2024 15:27:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41409543</link><dc:creator>kilotaras</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41409543</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41409543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kilotaras in "Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>27 tons of iron oxide have a volume of 5m^3 and can be stored in pretty much a hole in the ground.<p>2.7 tons of hydrogen have a volume of almost exactly 30000 m^3, requiring storing it under high pressure in specialized containers. Hydrogen is famous for being hard to store without losses.<p>For long-term storage storage and losses are a problem.<p>> But the round-trip efficiency of the tank is virtually 100%. The efficiency of the iron-based storage is only 50%<p>Maybe I'm missing something, but why? As you mentioned it takes 29kj to restore 3 moles of H2 out of (3 moles of H20 + 1 mole of Fe2O3). Where does 50% comes from?</p>
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<p>> homes to households hasn’t changed even as prices have gone up<p>Office for National Statistics (ONS) definition of a household: one person living alone, or a group of people (not necessarily related) living at the same address who share cooking facilities and share a living room, sitting room, or dining area.<p>By that definition (occupied homes)/households is always about 1, so homes/households is pretty much just homes/(occupied homes).</p>
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<p>> I don't buy it: As long as whatever they built brought in more money than the property taxes, there's more money to be had from building than from not building.<p>The lower the property tax - the lower "money brought in" needs to be for building to happen.</p>
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<p>> "Everything is a tradeoff"<p>But sometimes things we're trading off are less relevant and so the equilibrium changes e.g. losing weigh is hard, because humans evolved in low-calorie environment and being able to stock fat was important.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-to-start-an-advance-market-commitment">https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-to-start-an-advance-market-commitment</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40537629">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40537629</a></p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2024 17:06:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-to-start-an-advance-market-commitment</link><dc:creator>kilotaras</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40537629</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40537629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kilotaras in "Are commercial "third places" a dying breed?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> A work-friendly cafe<p>Funnily enough, what you're describing is actually called anti-cafe<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-caf%C3%A9" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-caf%C3%A9</a></p>
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