<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: lkois</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lkois</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:41:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=lkois" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Who said that?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:27:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588190</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588190</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What do you mean by proportion? They are different data sources, and their usage is determined by system design.<p>eg A driving decision system needs to know object distances AND traffic light colours. It doesn't particularly need to know the source of either.
You could have a camera-only system that accurately determines colour and fuzzy-determines distance. Or you could have a LIDAR-only system that accurately determines distance and fuzzy-determines colour.<p>Or you use both, get accurate LIDAR-distance and accurate camera-colour and skip all the fuzzy-determination steps.
Or keep the fuzzy stuff and build a layer of measurement-agreement for redundancy.<p>So then the question becomes, what's your proportion when deciding whether to stop at a traffic light? Is it mostly light colour or mostly distance to other objects? Or 50/50?<p>I'd say it's 100/100.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 04:28:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46584118</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46584118</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46584118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> To the extent that "ban cars" even exists as a real political archetype rather than a meme, this is just patently not true. At least one of the two co-hosts of The War on Cars (again, a title which is intentionally tongue-in-cheek) has a preteen son.<p>Similar for the YouTube channel NotJustBikes, who has gone into great detail about the advantages of raising kids in a city planned around pedestrian and cyclist usage, and not in a suburban sprawl.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 05:38:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45320328</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45320328</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45320328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "South Korea will bring home 300 workers detained in Hyundai plant raid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sure they may become mercenaries. Maybe "Hyundai factory worker" is akin to "remote oil rig worker".<p>Or they could just be regular people with regular, stable jobs because they haven't chased a life of risk.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:54:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45163736</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45163736</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45163736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But China banning foreign apps also plays into their stranglehold on their domestic media and economy, so it's not a purely adversarial move against the US.<p>Or to put it another way, should the US also ban/censor Chinese art and cinema within it's borders?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 02:45:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42720425</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42720425</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42720425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So basically a stream deck. Those things are pretty tempting, I must admit. When similar functions are shrunk down and integrated into regular keyboards, my wallet will be in trouble.<p>Although this reminds me, my old Logitech G15 from 2008 already had an LCD screen and a bunch of app-customisable buttons.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:17:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41495812</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41495812</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41495812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So, paying for a night shift will increase the cost to customers, but higher salaries negotiated by on-call employees won't?<p>Or did you leave out the part where those employees discover how little negotiating power they really have</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 05:42:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41354330</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41354330</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41354330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But, but, if the employer doesn't steal wages from employees, where will they get the money to pay them higher salaries?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 05:29:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41354262</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41354262</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41354262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I recently had a slack message on my Friday evening from my delayed-timezone manager starting his Friday. 
There was no expectation to answer out of hours, but it was some small detail I could answer in a few seconds. And this was from a new and intense 24/7 workaholic ex-FAANG manager, whose high expectations I was still getting used to, and who would likely spend his whole weekend working on this project. So I gave a quick response.<p>He said thanks, told me to turn my phone off, and sent a group message to the team reminding us not to work outside hours, with a link to instructions on disabling slack notifications. And then he started scheduling his own overnight/weekend DMs to send at 9am Monday.<p>It was an awesome response, and those firm self-imposed boundaries helped allow the work to be rewarding, rather than an absolute nightmare.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 05:20:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41354221</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41354221</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41354221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "They make USB-C cables with displays now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had one of these and quite liked it. Then one day I plugged my phone in before bed as a million times before and the cable display popped and started emitting smoke.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 05:00:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40702451</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40702451</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40702451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been getting this a lot. Especially with Rust, where it will use functions that don't exist. It's maddening</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2024 16:22:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40483319</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40483319</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40483319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "Nolan Says Buy Oppenheimer on Blu-ray So No Evil Streaming Service Can Steal It"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What’s the story there?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2023 05:23:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38286044</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38286044</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38286044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "Show HN: Use an old tablet as an extra monitor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or the free Spacedesk, does the same.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2023 14:50:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37791548</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37791548</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37791548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It really isn't a trick question. If your needs are 100% satisfied through wireless, why would you ever care?<p>THIS is a trick question.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2023 19:57:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37487195</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37487195</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37487195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "Cophone – Mobile work phones running in the cloud"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Doesn't Android allow sandboxed MDMs to be added to the phone? I've seen this when using Island, which basically creates a fake work profile on the phone which is completely separated from your personal profile. For dual apps like a second WhatsApp it worked well, to the point that sharing photos from the second account was a pain because it couldn't see the main file system. 
And when you don't want it anymore, that whole sandbox can be burned without touching the rest of the phone.<p>It'd be nice if iPhones had something similar. Not sure how anyone is supposed to use them for work when it comes to apps like WhatsApp and Signal. Or even less work stuff like dealing with recruiters, real estate agents and online dating where you might end up sharing primary contact details with people you don't want to hear from a few weeks later.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2023 02:42:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36916280</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36916280</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36916280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've used this to get to a browser that almost does full screen videos in a borrowed Tesla, from the YouTube app.<p>Then navigated to some dodgy adware infested streaming site and it was working okay until changing to another video, when it froze the whole Tesla computer and the car needed a hard reboot</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2023 10:44:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36491166</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36491166</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36491166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>iOS happily kills backswipes with inconsistent alternatives.<p>eg View details in Photos, and swiping back doesn't work. But there are also no back buttons or visual cues. But there are 3 ways to get out of that screen AFAIK, which some might label intuitive. 
But if you go one step deeper and Adjust the photo details, the only exit is a Cancel button.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2023 03:04:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35896841</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35896841</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35896841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Even native iOS apps have some terribly inconsistent back behaviour, particularly when handling overriding swipe functions.<p>Eg Photos seems to change Back on almost every view. Swiping back navigates around albums and locations and such. Until you open a photo, then it flicks between individual photos. 
If you are looking at a photo and want to return to album view you need to click the Back arrow at the top left. 
If you swiped up to view photo details and want to go back to the photo, you need to swipe down. 
If you are Adjusting photo details, you need to click Cancel at the top left. 
If you are editing a photo and want to go back to the photo, you need to click Cancel, which is at the bottom left this time.<p>The only place I don't notice a back button in Photos is the top right. But that's exactly where Books puts it.<p>On Android, every single one of navigations would be performed by the dedicated back button/swipe. Which might explain why the iOS Google Photos app seems to just stick with a top-left back button on almost all views.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2023 02:48:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35896715</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35896715</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35896715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "US still has the worst, most expensive health care of any high-income country"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And in Australia they dominate the list of highest paid professions, so I immediately wonder how many other wealthy countries were skipped before settling on Cuba as a comparison.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2023 02:04:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34605376</link><dc:creator>lkois</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34605376</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34605376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lkois in "US still has the worst, most expensive health care of any high-income country"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cancer survival rates are gameable anyway. They depend highly on early screening. As a statistic I mean. You can have pretty solid 5 year stats without treatment, if it takes 10 years to kill people. 
OTOH, without screening, finding it 8 years later might make the best treatment futile, and the stats worse.</p>
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