Hacker News: lawlorino

New comment by lawlorino in "South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones"

lawlorino — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:39:54 +0000

> So a tree got squeezed underground until it turned into a crystal? Cool, I guess, but big deal.

In fairness, this is actually pretty cool

New comment by lawlorino in "Higher Multipoles of the Cow"

lawlorino — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:56:37 +0000

Near miss of nominative determinism; the authors name (Lehmann) is almost the same as the Finnish word for cow (Lehmän)

New comment by lawlorino in "Ryanair passenger sucked toward broken window after midair engine failure"

lawlorino — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:42:53 +0000

I could see this being a safety issue if there’s a problem with the wing or engine and the panels fail, so zero visibility. Its why they ask you to open the window blinds during take off and landing

New comment by lawlorino in "Ask HN: When will the stock market crash?"

lawlorino — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 06:05:14 +0000

> Reportedly Michael Burry has recently placed massive put option bets

Do you think this a meaningful signal?

New comment by lawlorino in "Ask HN: When will the stock market crash?"

lawlorino — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 05:56:12 +0000

Nobody knows.

Over the last ten years of following investment news and discussion regularly, I see this question comes up very regularly, or there’s news that some economic indicator changing in X way or such-and-such person predicts for Y reason, that means that we have a huge crash coming in the next few months. This is all just noise with very little or no meaningful signal.

You can even see it here in this thread. I will reiterate - nobody knows.

If your question is motivated by personal finance reasons I recommend not trying to time the market, and reading the Bogleheads wiki https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page

New comment by lawlorino in "Ask HN: Smallest amount of working ML weights that can be tattooed on a body?"

lawlorino — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:51:25 +0000

I don’t think you can get a more simple ML model than linear regression?

y=w0+x*w1

New comment by lawlorino in "Ask HN: Smallest amount of working ML weights that can be tattooed on a body?"

lawlorino — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:47:49 +0000

That’s lines of code, not weights

New comment by lawlorino in "Fintech Engineering Handbook"

lawlorino — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:44:24 +0000

> I consider running from “amounts as integer” systems these days (but usually unfortunately can’t).

In the context of Fintech, how do you otherwise resolve floating point rounding issues if not representing amounts with integers?

New comment by lawlorino in "Big Tech is stoking unrest in the UK. Why?"

lawlorino — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:12:28 +0000

I’m not taking sides on the wider argument here, but I think it’s you who should check your sources? Copy pasting direct from wikipedia:

> The city of Bradford is 45.8% White according to the latest 2021 census data, with the White British population being 40.5%. 45.3% of the city's population is Asian, primarily from the Pakistani community

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Bradford

> According to figures from the 2021 census, 48.7% of the population was White (42.9% White British

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham

New comment by lawlorino in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

lawlorino — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:25:55 +0000

Are we talking about the same Outlook here? And I mean that sincerely. I just joined a new company and now have to use MS software for the first time since Windows 7. Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, you name it, are all a clunky mess (at least on MacOs).

New comment by lawlorino in "Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?"

lawlorino — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:08:47 +0000

There was some trial where they painted <100 yellow, as part of some rebranding and privatisation of British Telecom. There was a public outcry and they reverted

New comment by lawlorino in "SFO Quiet Airport (2025)"

lawlorino — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:00:59 +0000

I thought you were going to link Brian Eno’s Music for Airports

> intent of defusing the anxious atmosphere of an airport terminal as an alternative to "canned" Muzak and easy listening styles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_1:_Music_for_Airports

New comment by lawlorino in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

lawlorino — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:14:50 +0000

> The next idea is music to drown out what's left but that just distracts me too.

You could try using white noise, either an app or if you have a Mac or iPhone they have native white noise generation (Accessibility -> Hearing -> Background Sounds iirc)

New comment by lawlorino in "Two Planes Destroyed by U.S. During Rescue Operation"

lawlorino — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:15:02 +0000

Paywall

New comment by lawlorino in "Have mental health labels like ADHD and autism gone too far?"

lawlorino — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:08:49 +0000

Article is behind a paywall

New comment by lawlorino in "Ask HN: Have you successfully treated forward head posture ("nerd neck")?"

lawlorino — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:21:54 +0000

Please don’t actually do this. Forcing “correct” alignment would likely cause more issues.

Foley (Sound Design)

lawlorino — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:12:41 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_(sound_design)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46836386

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by lawlorino in "Can Walking Be My Whole Workout?"

lawlorino — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 10:38:22 +0000

As someone with perfectionist tendencies I'd say for some people it's perhaps best to enjoy walking aimlessly rather than seeking to optimise yet another part of life, at least at the start.

Personally I found this with running. It never became a consistent habit and something I looked forward to until I stopped thinking about where, when and how fast I was running and just did whatever I felt like. This realisation came after many years of trying and failing to stick to any kind of cardio exercise, and now a couple of years later I have a few half marathons under my belt and am training for my first marathon later this year. I attribute this entirely to the mindset change I described.

New comment by lawlorino in "What would an efficient and trustworthy meeting culture look like?"

lawlorino — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 05:06:14 +0000

I like this. To add: It serves as a strict lower bound, since it doesn’t account for the hidden cost of context switching etc.

New comment by lawlorino in "Window cleaner in quest to confirm priceless Shakespeare portrait"

lawlorino — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 10:21:42 +0000

Agreed it's not clear from the article, but I think the reason is the similarity to an engraving called the Droeshout portrait [0]

> It is one of only two works of art definitively identifiable as a depiction of the poet

> ... commentators have used the Droeshout print as a standard by which to judge other portraits alleged to depict Shakespeare.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droeshout_portrait