Hacker News: lrossi

New comment by lrossi in "We live in an age of distractions, dealing with constant mental stimulus"

lrossi — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 02:28:35 +0000

I had no idea about this. Thanks, I will try it out.

New comment by lrossi in "New plant-based plastics can be chemically recycled with near-perfect efficiency"

lrossi — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 01:57:43 +0000

It’s a complex problem for which solutions have many ramifications, so it’s perfectly normal to see different opinions. Personally, I enjoy the friendly and constructive discussion I have seen so far, and can say that I learned a few things.

New comment by lrossi in "United B772 at Denver on Feb 20th 2021, engine inlet separates from engine"

lrossi — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 01:49:03 +0000

I can draw some parallels between that and a healthy SRE culture. Except for the casualties, of course. Wondering if the first SREs who created the guidelines had aviation industry experience.

New comment by lrossi in "We live in an age of distractions, dealing with constant mental stimulus"

lrossi — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 01:09:52 +0000

Sorry to say this, but HN is a problem as well.

I’m looking for that 1% of the posts that interest me, and when I find them it’s fantastic, since it’s info I would not be able to find anywhere else. But going through the other 99% is a waste of time.

These two combined have a harmful effect on me. I don’t know if there’s a name for it, but it’s the same as the one causing addiction in gambling/bets/games. Gathering energy/motivation to do something productive instead takes effort.

Just a few days ago I was thinking of adding a dns block for it. But that 1% of the links is sweet...

New comment by lrossi in "School board resigns after making comments not realizing meeting was broadcast"

lrossi — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:59:43 +0000

> in a specialized industrial society, it would be a disaster to have kids running around loose

Parents who think about their kids in this way don’t deserve them and should not have them.

New comment by lrossi in "School board resigns after making comments not realizing meeting was broadcast"

lrossi — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:42:41 +0000

Based on the record in video game sales, I suspect that a lot of kids took the opportunity to improve certain skills during this period. I play a bit, and noticed that even old multiplayer games that used to be almost deserted are flooded with kids. I highly doubt that they are as eager to go back to school as their parents claim.

New comment by lrossi in "Metallica's BlizzCon Performance Ruined by Twitch"

lrossi — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 17:10:46 +0000

This is karma for all the pain caused to independent artists by copyright censorship “AI”.

New comment by lrossi in "NSan: a floating-point numerical sanitizer"

lrossi — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 13:23:32 +0000

Makes sense now, thanks.

New comment by lrossi in "Wayland on Wine: A First Update"

lrossi — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 02:56:09 +0000

You can add client side decorations to the list. It feels wrong because it is.

New comment by lrossi in "NSan: a floating-point numerical sanitizer"

lrossi — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 02:46:05 +0000

Is there a pdf available or just the abstract?

New comment by lrossi in "Researchers looking for mRNA were ridiculed by colleagues"

lrossi — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:17:53 +0000

Right, there are plenty of such examples from physics. I was wondering if biology is the same. But it actually sounds worse.

I think computer science is doing much better nowadays. The “NoSQL” movement for example was particularly impressive, it’s something that wouldn’t fly in most other sciences.

New comment by lrossi in "Researchers looking for mRNA were ridiculed by colleagues"

lrossi — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:08:50 +0000

Right, maybe “conservative” was not the best choice of word as it has many meanings. I was thinking about “cautious”, not “traditionalist”. Sorry for the confusion, I’m not a native speaker.

New comment by lrossi in "Researchers looking for mRNA were ridiculed by colleagues"

lrossi — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 00:19:11 +0000

Personally, I think it’s best if scientists lean towards the conservative/skepticism side, to filter out scams or bad science. But there should be a balance between that and allowing new ideas to surface. Do you think it’s taken too far?

New comment by lrossi in "Brave Browser leaks your Tor / Onion service requests through DNS"

lrossi — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 00:08:44 +0000

I’m not familiar with tor, but isn’t it possible to run it on a pi and route traffic through it? This way nothing would leak. Are there any disadvantages of that?

New comment by lrossi in "Margaret Mitchell fired from Google"

lrossi — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 00:00:06 +0000

I don’t see why you say US, it’s the same in any country.

Nobody in their right mind is going to quit their job over this during a pandemic, when it’s already so hard to find a job. I imagine ethics jobs are not in high demand.

Google fires research leader amid diversity, research freedom controversies

lrossi — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 23:38:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-research/google-fires-research-leader-amid-diversity-research-freedom-controversies-idUSKBN2AJ2JA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26199542

Points: 63

# Comments: 1

New comment by lrossi in "The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports"

lrossi — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:09:08 +0000

Do you ever dream about programming?

I sometimes dream about code or debugging, especially when my team is working on a deadline. A few times I dreamt of solutions to problems we had. It felt good on the spot, calming and relaxing. Unfortunately, after waking up, they don’t make any sense.

New comment by lrossi in "“I will slaughter you”"

lrossi — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:25:05 +0000

The elephant in the room is the poor choice of domain name. A lot of people are getting the wrong idea about the purpose of his software.

New comment by lrossi in "12 requests per second: A realistic look at Python web frameworks"

lrossi — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:36:15 +0000

This benchmark was run on a laptop, which has a very small number of cores compared to the servers that usually run such apps. The author doesn’t mention any attempt to tweak the number of workers, which would make sense in this case. Given that they did notice at some point that CPU usage is lower than expected, I am surprised that they did not try it.

New comment by lrossi in "Super fast super property access"

lrossi — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 20:05:34 +0000

We’re talking about corporations of the size of small cities. There are going to be some amazing people in there, but some that you don’t like as well. Both groups will stand out. So it’s normal to hear apparently conflicting news about the org as a whole.