Hacker News: magnetometer

New comment by magnetometer in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

magnetometer — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:25:27 +0000

Usually, companies value opex more than capex - opex is much more flexible. That's one of the reasons why printers, coffee machines, companies cars and other things are typically leased.

New comment by magnetometer in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

magnetometer — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:49:32 +0000

The company I work for is rather slow in adopting AI-based tooling. Recently, I discovered that our Databricks instance exposes an API endpoint that provides access to a wide range of LLMs. So I built a small local Streamlit-based chat app that lets me switch models within a conversation, add or remove files from the context, and clean up dead ends. It actually works much better than the Microsoft Copilot app we’re officially supposed to use.

New comment by magnetometer in "GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack"

magnetometer — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:21:13 +0000

Python wheels don't run arbitrary code on install, but source distributions do. And you can upload both to pypy. So you would have to run

pip install --only-binary :all:

to only install wheels and fail otherwise.

New comment by magnetometer in "Burnend alive inside a Tesla as rescuers fail to open the car's door"

magnetometer — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:36:06 +0000

The doors of an ID.3 will unlock automatically when the airbags are deployed. It's described in the AutoLock section of the owners manual.

New comment by magnetometer in "Calling Their Bluff"

magnetometer — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:30:57 +0000

I've never had this issue with any government communication in Germany. Also, all appointments I need can be booked online, so I never had to pay someone for them (wouldn't even come to my mind). Maybe it's more of an issue for particular cities?

New comment by magnetometer in "Calling Their Bluff"

magnetometer — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:27:25 +0000

Sorry, should have specified that I'm looking for examples for Germany, as this was what the parent comment was talking about.

New comment by magnetometer in "Calling Their Bluff"

magnetometer — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 08:38:18 +0000

I've never experienced any government process where paying a third party would have simplified things. I've also never heard of any third party offerings for that purpose. Could you share some examples?

New comment by magnetometer in "Grok 4"

magnetometer — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:49:29 +0000

Happens to me, too

New comment by magnetometer in "EU Energy labelling will apply to phones and tablets from June 2025"

magnetometer — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:49:45 +0000

Yes,measuring the energy consumption and efficiency of the conversion from electricity to light is part of the label. The light bulb example is not as unsuitable as you seem to assume. Incandescent light bulbs only convert about 5 percent of the energy consumed to light, the rest is converted to heat. LEDs, in contrast, are 6 to 8 times more efficient.

Your "does image processing..." part is also important. Different processors consume vastly different amounts of energy. A hobbyist example would be trying to run something on a battery powered ESP32 with or without deep sleep.

New comment by magnetometer in "Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?"

magnetometer — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 09:37:36 +0000

> most sensitive achieve so fine accuracy, they detect daily Earth rotation and even yearly Earth rotation

Daily rotation is 360°/23.934h, so 0,25°/min, which is acutally quite a lot if you want to use a device to track your orientation.

New comment by magnetometer in "Apple M3 Ultra"

magnetometer — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:58:34 +0000

Didn't really think about this before, but that seems to be mainly an issue in Northern / Central America and Japan. In Germany, for example, typical household plugs are 16A at 230V.

New comment by magnetometer in "My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation"

magnetometer — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:17:02 +0000

Is that a joke I am missing? If it's adjustable, it doesn't matter. My adjustable ones have both scales on it

New comment by magnetometer in "Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed"

magnetometer — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:04:38 +0000

Why should there be only two sides?