Hacker News: kvakerok

New comment by kvakerok in "I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace"

kvakerok — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 19:38:26 +0000

What is even a point of having a self hosted gpt5 equivalent that's not into petabytes of knowledge?

New comment by kvakerok in "Uber Just Reinvented the Bus Again"

kvakerok — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 13:10:24 +0000

My city is several years into on-demand bus routes. It's a clusterfck to say the least.

New comment by kvakerok in "The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs"

kvakerok — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 13:07:52 +0000

And there I was wondering why R&D was getting moved to Canada.

New comment by kvakerok in "Software-Defined Radio for Engineers (2018) [pdf]"

kvakerok — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 03:37:42 +0000

Are you piping to influx db through ignition?

New comment by kvakerok in "Teslas monitor everything – including you [video] from WIRED"

kvakerok — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 04:16:46 +0000

Jailbreak your Tesla

New comment by kvakerok in "Microsoft is killing Skype"

kvakerok — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:13:24 +0000

Pre Microsoft Skype was malware-grade good. I still remember sysadmins imploding in impotent rage as it near effortlessly evaded their firewalling attempts.

New comment by kvakerok in "Teslas monitor everything – including you [video] from WIRED"

kvakerok — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 09:33:38 +0000

In your car you have an expectation of privacy. Public transport is by definition a public space and thus has no expectation of privacy. Whole different ruleset applies. Anyone can monitor you on a bus. Without your consent too.

New comment by kvakerok in "Kafka at the low end: how bad can it get?"

kvakerok — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:15:43 +0000

Coincidentally another SCADA module we made was handling bi-directional RabbitMQ comms. Not everyone is a one-trick pony :)

New comment by kvakerok in "Elon Musk Says He'll 'Fix' Community Notes on X After It Disagreed with Him"

kvakerok — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:10:13 +0000

Nah, power forces you to operate in a different paradigm as does absolute power to an absolute degree. It's a known psychological factor, called "professional deformation" or even "occupational psychosis".

New comment by kvakerok in "Why can't we remember our lives as babies or toddlers?"

kvakerok — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:48:55 +0000

I remember everything. Eidetic memory. Things before vision developed are obviously blurry or fully dark from before birth. What do you want to know?

New comment by kvakerok in "Elon Musk Says He'll 'Fix' Community Notes on X After It Disagreed with Him"

kvakerok — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:47:05 +0000

"Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

New comment by kvakerok in "The most underreported story in AI is that scaling has failed to produce AGI"

kvakerok — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:33:47 +0000

Now we're back to Chinese room debacle

New comment by kvakerok in "Kafka at the low end: how bad can it get?"

kvakerok — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:27:07 +0000

Yep

New comment by kvakerok in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

kvakerok — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:50 +0000

You can absolutely give read only access in COBOL systems. That's just lazy administration and IT security on a shoestring budget.

New comment by kvakerok in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

kvakerok — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:14 +0000

Doesn't feel like it's growing to be honest.

New comment by kvakerok in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"

kvakerok — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:04:55 +0000

"We can't build a bigger coop - Joey's going into soup."

New comment by kvakerok in "The most underreported story in AI is that scaling has failed to produce AGI"

kvakerok — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:01:52 +0000

> You’re still anthropomorphizing what these models are doing.

Didn't we build them to imitate humans? They're anthropomorphic by definition.

New comment by kvakerok in "Kafka at the low end: how bad can it get?"

kvakerok — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:50:09 +0000

You haven't seen the worst of it. We had to implement a whole kafka module for a SCADA system because Target already had unrelated kafka infrastructure. Instead of REST API or anything else sane (which was available), ultra low volume messaging is now done by JSON objects wrapped in kafka. Peak incompetence.

New comment by kvakerok in "Aluminum batteries outlive lithium-ion with a pinch of salt"

kvakerok — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 04:59:18 +0000

Came here to ask about energy density, but it seems the article answered it without answering it.

New comment by kvakerok in "Homemade AI Drone Software Finds People When Search and Rescue Teams Can't"

kvakerok — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:54:17 +0000

The same could be said about many people.