Hacker News: mayankkaizen

New comment by mayankkaizen in "Python Data Science Handbook"

mayankkaizen — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:54:42 +0000

There is a second edition?

New comment by mayankkaizen in "Python Data Science Handbook"

mayankkaizen — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:52:38 +0000

This was the solid book to get into data science and ML scene. Covers everything. Jake is a fantastic teacher. I really wish he comes up with updated second edition.

New comment by mayankkaizen in "Hyundai is now delaying its EV battery plant that was raided by ICE"

mayankkaizen — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:03:40 +0000

The link you referenced points to error page.

New comment by mayankkaizen in "Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot"

mayankkaizen — Thu, 22 May 2025 18:35:45 +0000

This made me sad because I served my need so well. Now I will have to think about alternatives. I wish they could open-source it.

New comment by mayankkaizen in "Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire"

mayankkaizen — Sun, 04 May 2025 10:09:47 +0000

Read his annual letters to shareholders. Fantastic writings.

New comment by mayankkaizen in "Am I too old to create a popular programming language?"

mayankkaizen — Sun, 19 May 2024 20:53:09 +0000

I am amateur and more or less an ignorant in programming domain so what I say doesn't matter much.

Why not a pick a language of choice and write some ambitious framework/library? Like Numpy/Pandas for Python. Maybe a web development framework? That way, there is a reasonable chance your work will be noticed or used. Look Maybe pick Julia and write a library for it. I believe Julia doesn't have as many libraries as Python does.

By the way, as much as I know, all the languages were written by 'old' people. Young people rarely have that much knowledge or experience. They don't even know one language fully well. So age is actually at your side.

New comment by mayankkaizen in "An introduction to the theory and practice of poker (2020)"

mayankkaizen — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 01:01:32 +0000

One week ago, I would've missed what you did there. Glad YouTube recommended that song. It is a good song.

New comment by mayankkaizen in "A practical guide to quitting your smartphone"

mayankkaizen — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 10:51:40 +0000

This sort of overemphasized paranoia about security is something which makes me, I dunno, irritated. If you decide to go to extreme, everything is unsafe but you don't want an old device even as a secondary device?

I'd rather work on my paranoia than on getting a fully secured device.

By the way, I am writing this on a mobile with 2 GB RAM and running Android 9 as my other mobile got broken.

Arrows of Time

mayankkaizen — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 08:53:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-time-a-history-of-physics-biology-clocks-and-culture-20200504/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38580013

Points: 79

# Comments: 16

New comment by mayankkaizen in "WhatsApp explores ads in chat app as Meta seeks revenue boost"

mayankkaizen — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 09:27:46 +0000

Whatsapp has already started stinking. These days I get many spam-ish messages from verified enterprises. As of now I am getting notification related messages from entities I am using services of but some of them have started sending spams. Although it is tolerable as of now but I can see where this is going. Too bad Whatsapp is defacto messaging app in India. So much so that even gov organizations are using it to interact with citizens.

New comment by mayankkaizen in "Why Is Everyone Watching TV with the Subtitles On?"

mayankkaizen — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 07:06:45 +0000

I am 40 yrs old and English is my second language. I cant give you some specific examples but when I watch old hollywood movies (50-60s), I mostly understand dialogues. Dialogues from modern movies are a bit harder to understand and I cant watch any movie without subtitle.

List of inventors killed by their own invention

mayankkaizen — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 06:44:09 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_their_own_invention

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35078841

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mayankkaizen in "Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone"

mayankkaizen — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 14:26:05 +0000

I am currently typing this on a 4 years old shitty Xiaomi budget mobile phone. I don't recall if I've ever updated mobile software (or if there was an update available) but my phone is working as good as it should. So far I haven't seen any problem in installing any app. I don't see myself replacing this phone in next 6 month at least.

I guess tech people are way too much worried about security/software updates.

New comment by mayankkaizen in "Ask HN: Books that teach programming by building a series of small projects?"

mayankkaizen — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:32:54 +0000

If you ignore his strong opinions, it can be good. Although he was (is?) very much hated back in the day (when Python 2 was still mainstream), many many noobs did benefitted from his book. So I'd say give it a try.

New comment by mayankkaizen in "Airbnb removed my negative review"

mayankkaizen — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:56:39 +0000

I've read 100s of comments from variety of sources over the years that Yelp is in the business of extortion. It extort money from restaurants by threatening to remove positive reviews and other such tactics.

Yelp is worse than AirBNB.

Uncomputable Numbers and Determinism

mayankkaizen — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 13:48:42 +0000

Article URL: https://lampx.tugraz.at/~hadley/uncomputable_numbers.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34217778

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mayankkaizen in "The Eureka Theory of History Is Wrong"

mayankkaizen — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 11:39:57 +0000

I was also ignorant about this so I googled. It said it means "Thanks for Asking" or "The fucking article". The second meaning sounded correct but I found it weird.

"The fine article" also sounds weird to me.

New comment by mayankkaizen in "Why on Earth are flowers beautiful? (2018)"

mayankkaizen — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 09:08:10 +0000

You are probably thinking backward. I am not an expert in evolutionary biology but the beauty of flowers is something which has helped them survive. Flowers themselves didn't decide to be beautiful or they don't even know that they are beautiful. Remember that evolution is blind. It is just that their beauty was in the eyes of beholders and those beholders helped them survive.

New comment by mayankkaizen in "Social media may prevent users from reaping creative rewards of profound boredom"

mayankkaizen — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 06:43:31 +0000

I am bugged by this question too. I've stopped reading newspapers 8 years ago. Closed FB account 7 years ago. Never been on IG or Tiktok. Never watched more than 2 YouTube Videos in a month. Twitter? 10 minutes in every three days and I only read tweets about STEM topics. Heck, I don't even join WhatsApp groups. Reddit and HN is what I browse. I very rarely post on Reddit and stay away from all political posts. The amount of time I spend on Reddit is gradually decreasing.

So that leaves me with HN. I like HN because topics I encounter here are not nonsensical or political. There are no memes, gifs or cheap jokes here. I find myself in awe of the knowledge people have here. I am forced to read stuff here rather than fast paced casual browsing. As a meme reads, "On Internet, typing is fun and reading is hard" but HN is exact opposite of that for me.

But deep inside my heart, I know HN is also a social media in many ways and I need to cut down the time I spend on this. I am addicted to this. I realized browsing HN is essentially a coping mechanism for my depression and lifelong failures. HN gives me a false sense of "look I am not wasting my time in frivolous stuff". HH helps me escape from harsh realities of my life in much the same ways drinking helps people cope with their life. In subtle ways, HN has polluted my mind and corrupted my ability to think in realistic ways.

New comment by mayankkaizen in "How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Get Bail?"

mayankkaizen — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 09:16:31 +0000

Likes of SBF or Holmes should be punished more harshly. They had access to all the resources in the world, the resources poor people dont even know exist. They were educated from the institutes not everyone can afford. They never had to worry about next meal. They have all the high profile contacts. And what did they choose to do? To fraud people. Your comment simply reeks of elitism. Imagine a poor all clean chap comes to you for a job. You wouldn't offer him any, given the logic in your comment. What will he do next? Commit another crime. Most common people dont commit crime out of choice. They are forced to commit crimes again and again.

In Most cases, it is the society which forces them to do shit. The same is not true for SBF or Holmes. They chose to fraud people out of choice.