Hacker News: lo0dot0

New comment by lo0dot0 in "A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times"

lo0dot0 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:19:54 +0000

I think that the solution is very simple, remove the citation metric. Citations don't mean correctness. What we want is correctness.

New comment by lo0dot0 in "Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas"

lo0dot0 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 12:11:21 +0000

Do the cars not have a trunk door on the back?

New comment by lo0dot0 in "Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas"

lo0dot0 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 12:06:55 +0000

Tunnels can recoup their cost easily if they are used massively by many people every day. Any reason why you are against building a subway / underground railway?

New comment by lo0dot0 in "Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left"

lo0dot0 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 12:00:41 +0000

Yes. Similarly, safety needs to be there even after the aging of materials over product lifetime. So basically when aging is the only variable to be considered end of life date is the worst case scenario.

New comment by lo0dot0 in "Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left"

lo0dot0 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 11:45:04 +0000

There must be measurements of the fuel tanks state, right?

New comment by lo0dot0 in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

lo0dot0 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:34:20 +0000

Seeing a discord channel for special software recommended on a corporate presentation was definitely a first for me. Happened yesterday.

New comment by lo0dot0 in "Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link"

lo0dot0 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:03:06 +0000

Fritzbox brand and possibly others updates itself automatically by default. ISPs often also control the devices they ship to clients and install updates as part of a "fleet management".

New comment by lo0dot0 in "Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link"

lo0dot0 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:54:24 +0000

"if you don't know what you're doing don't do it" vs. "Secure out of the box"

New comment by lo0dot0 in "A qualitative analysis of pig-butchering scams"

lo0dot0 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:38:30 +0000

You're arguing for sending money to criminal organizations which will make them more powerful. It's a terrible advice.

New comment by lo0dot0 in "A qualitative analysis of pig-butchering scams"

lo0dot0 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:37:54 +0000

Agree that we are allowed to waste time. Sending money to scammers doesn't help anyone it just makes whoever is in charge of the criminal ring more powerful.

New comment by lo0dot0 in "Language models pack billions of concepts into 12k dimensions"

lo0dot0 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 10:30:24 +0000

Not liking a writing style because LLMs use it is not a good reason. What exactly do you dislike about it?

New comment by lo0dot0 in "E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens"

lo0dot0 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:14:27 +0000

Answers would be more helpful if you answered based on the panel you were using rather than saying it depends on the panel

New comment by lo0dot0 in "E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens"

lo0dot0 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:12:59 +0000

The display can only show a video well that has this property of only updating parts of the screen but not everything at the same time? What if the video content is like so?

New comment by lo0dot0 in "Light exposure at night predicts incidence of cardiovascular diseases"

lo0dot0 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:51:55 +0000

No, measuring light doesn't remove the air quality confounder. Measuring air quality would allow to remove the air quality confounder. What are you smoking?

New comment by lo0dot0 in "Revisiting Knuth's “Premature Optimization” Paper"

lo0dot0 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:00:38 +0000

It's also good practice to chose an appropriate language for the problem. It's not premature optimisation to use a compiled language instead of Python when you already know the code will run thousands of times in a loop because of the application and use a lot of electrical energy in the process.

New comment by lo0dot0 in "Enterprises are getting stuck in AI pilot hell, say Chatterbox Labs execs"

lo0dot0 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 10:16:57 +0000

A part of my question that you didn't go into was, can new knowledge be added in a new version without making the answers with knowledge learned in previous versions non-deterministic?

New comment by lo0dot0 in "Enterprises are getting stuck in AI pilot hell, say Chatterbox Labs execs"

lo0dot0 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 08:31:43 +0000

The answers can be recorded and reviewed. The other points are true, or is there a way to make outcomes deterministic, when compared to previous versions while allowing to add more knowledge in newer versions?

New comment by lo0dot0 in "Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed"

lo0dot0 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 08:24:33 +0000

You don't need context there is terms and services that no one reads

New comment by lo0dot0 in "Forests offset warming more than thought: study"

lo0dot0 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 08:22:52 +0000

It's also not possible to tap into the full amount of reduction because of the land use

New comment by lo0dot0 in "Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed"

lo0dot0 — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:38:43 +0000

If you are unsure what you are doing, do not do it. For example, I just posted to hackernews. The button in my app says "submit", but doesn't warn me about posting to the internet. Is there any problem with that? No, because I know what I'm doing and anyone using the Internet should too.