Hacker News: kofejnik

New comment by kofejnik in "A post by Guido van Rossum removed for violating Python community guidelines"

kofejnik — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 11:12:58 +0000

I'm sorry but I have to reuse an old comment:

Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.

Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.

The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.

New comment by kofejnik in "The 4-chan Go programmer"

kofejnik — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 10:51:53 +0000

a nice one!

ᖧchan (instead of _4chan) would've been even cooler

New comment by kofejnik in "London mayor says Brexit has cost UK over $178B so far"

kofejnik — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 22:37:51 +0000

London mayor is a complete twat

New comment by kofejnik in "We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO"

kofejnik — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 14:37:06 +0000

Larry Summers is EA and State, so not so sure about business interests

New comment by kofejnik in "The fascist state of Paw Patrol (2021)"

kofejnik — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 13:39:55 +0000

In terms of story and dialogue, Peppa Pig is quite ok, as is Ben and Hollys little kingdom. Both British, of course :)

New comment by kofejnik in "Spanish girls are reporting AI-generated nudes being circulated at school"

kofejnik — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 11:48:27 +0000

“Progressive” means a set of certain policies, and not actually progressive

Sadly, the word has been thoroughly hijacked

New comment by kofejnik in "Quality of new vehicles in US declining on more tech use: study"

kofejnik — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 05:56:39 +0000

Don’t fall off your high horse

New comment by kofejnik in "Reddit CEO Triples Down, Insults, Whines"

kofejnik — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 19:43:59 +0000

The second time I arrived at a privatized subreddit, I added all of Reddit to my ublock list. A few days later, I don’t feel like anything is missing

Uncovering Tor Hidden Service with Etag

kofejnik — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 11:22:46 +0000

Article URL: https://sh1ttykids.medium.com/new-techniques-uncovering-tor-hidden-service-with-etag-5249044a0e9d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36338893

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

White House nears unprecedented action on U.S. investment in China

kofejnik — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 16:22:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/18/biden-china-trade-00092421

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35616100

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Gradient Descent in Activation Space: A Tale of Two Papers

kofejnik — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 18:45:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HHSuvG2hqAnGT5Wzp/gradient-descent-in-activation-space-a-tale-of-two-papers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35544724

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Bay Area couple shocked by $200K hospital bill for rabies shots

kofejnik — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 22:24:12 +0000

Article URL: https://abc7news.com/rabies-shot-hospital-bill-vacaville-ca-couple-northbay-healthcare-vacavalley/12788545/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35532458

Points: 67

# Comments: 132

New comment by kofejnik in "Apple’s plunge in PC shipments is steepest among major computer makers"

kofejnik — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 21:36:11 +0000

an external usb-c m2 enclosure is amazingly fast and only $20 or so

New comment by kofejnik in "I wish GPT4 had never happened"

kofejnik — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 16:21:07 +0000

Define “fairly”

New comment by kofejnik in "Ask HN: What helps you focus and get things done?"

kofejnik — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 19:39:08 +0000

My personal drill sergeant

https://ubyjvovk.github.io/sarge/

New comment by kofejnik in "The day Windows died"

kofejnik — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 20:42:43 +0000

On my vanilla Mint install:

> mkfs.ntfs (8) - create an NTFS file system

New comment by kofejnik in "The day Windows died"

kofejnik — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 15:52:49 +0000

FYI, to get a bootable Windows USB key, you don't need any special tools or DD. Fresh format it with NTFS, and simply copy the contents of ISO onto it. Somehow it works pretty reliably.

New comment by kofejnik in "A different tipping culture compared to a few years ago"

kofejnik — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 15:26:49 +0000

And tipping enables it

New comment by kofejnik in "A different tipping culture compared to a few years ago"

kofejnik — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 15:19:41 +0000

My transaction is with the business. Staff’s well-being should not be my concern.

New comment by kofejnik in "Cigna saves millions by having its doctors reject claims without reading them"

kofejnik — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 20:44:57 +0000

It is working as intended. All parts of the system co-evolved to extract maximum value from you.