<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: macksd</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=macksd</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 04:37:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=macksd" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by macksd in "Nvidia adds native Python support to CUDA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems to pretty much be about these packages:<p><a href="https://nvidia.github.io/cuda-python/cuda-core/latest/" rel="nofollow">https://nvidia.github.io/cuda-python/cuda-core/latest/</a>
<a href="https://developer.nvidia.com/nvmath-python" rel="nofollow">https://developer.nvidia.com/nvmath-python</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:56:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43583361</link><dc:creator>macksd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43583361</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43583361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by macksd in "Scientists uncover how the brain washes itself during sleep"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah this is very common. You might see the headline "Scientists prove X causes Y", and when you click through all the pop-science journalism until you get to the paper, you'll find "We found a weak positive correlation between X and Y and it's surprising because the prior research found the opposite".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 23:11:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42650801</link><dc:creator>macksd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42650801</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42650801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by macksd in "How good are American roads?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think other explanations replying are on point. I live in a town that's surrounded by a lot of farm traffic, and most of those roads are in good shape. But there are also routes used heavily by trucks servicing fracking sites, and those roads are TRASHED.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:32:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42197822</link><dc:creator>macksd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42197822</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42197822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by macksd in "SpaceX Astronauts Begin Spacewalk, Putting New Spacesuits to Test"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It took only 17 Space Shuttle flights before a crew-member threatened to kill themselves causing them to add additional locks to the hatches. I think a few seconds considering what a malicious actor could do would be worth it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:55:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41521693</link><dc:creator>macksd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41521693</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41521693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by macksd in "No X in Brazil? No problem, Brazilians say"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a terribly unclear name, though. I had no idea what "No X in Brazil" referred to. I had to clink on the article to find out I don't care.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2024 13:18:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41445417</link><dc:creator>macksd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41445417</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41445417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by macksd in "I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are plumbers who make a living but whose work results in leaks in people's homes. They're making a living, but I don't consider the way they work "a good idea".</p>
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<p>SpaceX is pretty open about optimizing for many iterations, a bit like the philosophy in software of shipping an MVP to get user feedback sooner for future iterations. Boeing has an established culture that's more like traditional waterfall development. When you watch their launches, they have tiers of objectives that get less and less likely to succeed - they plan to push even if failure is likely tlso they can learn from both their successful objectives and the eventual failure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2024 17:35:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41194157</link><dc:creator>macksd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41194157</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41194157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by macksd in "So you want to rent an NVIDIA H100 cluster? 2024 Consumer Guide"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you do, in fact, need H100s, they can be very hard to get. Even the smaller flavors of A100 you sometimes request, wait days for, and then 1 node might show up during a weekend. And for the reasons described in the article and the fact that large training jobs can be network-limited, nicer networks can be a big deal.</p>
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<p>Was it Hans Reiser who decided to randomly clean his car interior with bleach while there was a manhunt going on for his wife? Same vibes.</p>
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<p>And would anyone be surprised if asking to be removed was also a way to get subjected to additional screening in future?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:07:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40646332</link><dc:creator>macksd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40646332</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40646332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by macksd in "The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I actually attribute my high typing speed to the practice I got with OPEN DOOR, TAKE KEYCARD, CLOSE LOCKER, LOOK CAULDRON. Police Quest, King's Quest, Space Quest. Good memories.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2024 19:35:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40458939</link><dc:creator>macksd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40458939</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40458939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by macksd in "A comet approaching Earth could become brighter than the stars this fall"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you a product manager by any chance? Because I can totally imagine you telling someone to just use some cloud DB because it's infinitely scalable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2024 03:00:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40449959</link><dc:creator>macksd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40449959</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40449959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by macksd in "A comet approaching Earth could become brighter than the stars this fall"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, let's just measure the density and composition of a comet that will be here in a few months, and with expectations that it may be releasing new gaseous formations as it gets closer, predict what will happen with those formations.<p>Let me just code that up real fast.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2024 14:14:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40441300</link><dc:creator>macksd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40441300</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40441300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by macksd in "Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And people who do prefer to live with cochlear implants face pressure from the deaf community itself. You can't win. This was an achievement. A girl who probably saw this as a cure, saw success. Why can't we just be happy for her instead of detracting because others wouldn't make the same choice?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 17:42:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40310733</link><dc:creator>macksd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40310733</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40310733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by macksd in "Large language models are poor medical coders"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>> Our study reaffirms the limitations of LLM tokenization<p>Because they used data that needs to be tokenized differently, and didn't really tune the models for use on that data. That's not really a limit of LLM tokenization per se.<p>>> We did not evaluate strategies known to improve LLM performance, including ... retrieval augmented generation<p>Which is a shame because this is exactly the kind of use case RAG is supposed to be good for and they largely observed problems it's supposed to help with.<p>Looking at the authors, it seems to me they're all subject matter experts in medicine and digital medicine, but their conclusion is the one in support of medical professionals and they really don't seem to have tried that hard to get good deep learning results.<p>I've had nightmares every time I've seen a doctor in the US, frequently because of things not being coded correctly. So honestly I'd just love to see a rigorous study of how often the human staff is messing it up too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 17:11:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40276871</link><dc:creator>macksd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40276871</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40276871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by macksd in "Object that slammed into Florida home was space junk for ISS, NASA confirms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sometimes there are a lot of differences between what people say and reality, but the person isn't trying to be humorous.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:57:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40051926</link><dc:creator>macksd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40051926</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40051926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by macksd in "The return of never-ending job interviews: 'It can go beyond the pale'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Employed or unemployed, it's seems so offensive to me to not care about people's time. When I'm employed, I'm probably using a vacation day to talk to you. That's special time I would otherwise spend with my family and on not burning myself out.<p>When I was not employed, I paid for the gas to drive 90 minutes each way and spent an entire day not looking at other opportunities to be hired or other ways to improve my resume, only to be told by the director that although I did very well in the interviews, they would be getting back to me in 3 months when they found out if their hiring freeze was over then, because at the present time the opening was not yet truly open.<p>Have some respect for human beings, regardless of their employment status.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:58:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39932081</link><dc:creator>macksd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39932081</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39932081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by macksd in "Documentation as code: Principles, workflow, and challenges"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I always make going through our docs a part of new-hire onboarding. They learn the product, and you learn what in your docs is so confusing that a person who you hired for their supposed ability to help you MAKE your product, can't even figure out ABOUT your product.<p>But also, I did work on a project once where a test would scrape code snippets from documentation and make sure they still worked as expected. It's bad enough to break compatibility in your CLI, etc. but sometimes you need to do it. It's really bad when you have tutorials, recipes, etc. and they bit rot.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:47:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39907104</link><dc:creator>macksd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39907104</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39907104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by macksd in "Tell HN: ChatGPT has become untrustworthy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean for anything you could have easily verified via a search engine, I would say you always should have been verifying. I've had ChatGPT give me incorrect but correct-seeming information many times, and not just in the last several weeks.</p>
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<p>Well it's a bit like how I see universal healthcare. Would it be worth paying billions for? Oh absolutely. Do I believe the current US Gov could actually take all the money in the world and make it happen in a way I'd be happy with? LOL.</p>
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