Hacker News: mrich

New comment by mrich in "Cosmos Keyboard: Scan your hand, build a keyboard"

mrich — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:59:36 +0000

What is breaking? FYI, you need to remove the ball from time to time and remove the dust that might be blocking the optical sensors.

New comment by mrich in "Tesla Robotaxi"

mrich — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 08:23:30 +0000

Tesla at a forward P/E of 80 is massively overvalued as a car company. You can get Mercedes or BMW at a P/E of 6, with a 9% yield. Sure, the EV market is still growing, but Tesla is not the only player. All brands now have EVs, there are both cheaper and more luxurious Chinese EVs, that's some massive competition.

The only reasons Tesla could be valued differently are FSD and Robotics, which Musk and Tesla-friendly analysts are heavily pushing. Since Musk has made massive loans against his Tesla stake you can expect that he will keep highlighting those narratives as well. A revaluation of the stock to sane levels would certainly cause him some financial difficulties.

New comment by mrich in "Tesla FSD no longer offered for purchase"

mrich — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:34:32 +0000

So it's ok to sell a feature to customers if you only find out later it's not possible?

Using the mold linker for fun and 3x-8x link time speedups

mrich — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 15:38:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.productive-cpp.com/using-the-mold-linker-for-fun-and-3x-8x-link-time-speedups/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41348063

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by mrich in "Wireless power transfer system achieves 270-kilowatt charge"

mrich — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:44:46 +0000

Can not recommend charging your phone all night wirelessly next to your head while you are sleeping.

New comment by mrich in "Automated Unit Test Improvement Using Large Language Models at Meta"

mrich — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 07:48:25 +0000

So you're saying they knew engineers would be wasting their time doing useless things, but still went ahead? (instead of mandating 75% and spending 1/100 of the wasted time to adjust the metric to filter out getter/setter)

New comment by mrich in "Don't use NameCheap for the .fr TLD"

mrich — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 19:14:41 +0000

Worst experience for me was .us. I bought three, don't know if they mentioned it at checkout, but those can only be registered by US citizens, which I am not. I could buy them, but after a couple months I received an email from the registry regarding one domain telling me to prove I was an US citizen. I couldn't, Namecheap support told me they couldn't help either. So the domain was suspended. A few days later they suspended the other domains which they found since they belonged to the same contact. Partly my fault for not reading the registry rules I guess but definitely a bad experience.

New comment by mrich in "Mozilla thinks Apple, Google, Microsoft should play fair"

mrich — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 07:29:37 +0000

What do you mean by extension heavy? In my experience, Firefox has the best extension ecosystem amongst all browsers. It took them quite long to get that to work on mobile, but even there you could use all extensions already on a developer build for years.

Especially with the manifest v3 changes, which will basically break adblockers on Chrome-based browsers, I can't imagine ever using something else than Firefox.

New comment by mrich in "Portable EPUBs"

mrich — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 13:19:01 +0000

Also loads instantly for me now, didn't make any changes.

New comment by mrich in "Portable EPUBs"

mrich — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 07:59:04 +0000

Ironically this did not render in Firefox on Android (just the spinner kept spinning) Worked in Chrome.

That said, epubs are great for reading books on mobile. The advantage for pdfs is that they contain highlights/notes, so you can directly import them into Zotero and all your annotations are there. For epub, you have to hope there is a way to export the annotations that are stored by the reader app, and then you have to process them further. Readera is a great reader for mobile that makes this possible. I'm currently working on a script that will convert an epub to pdf, extract the annotations from Readera, and mark them in the pdf. Then I can import the pdf into Zotero, while still retaining the great reading experience of epubs.

New comment by mrich in "Duplicity: Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup"

mrich — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:37:58 +0000

If you don't need incremental backups (thus saving space for the signatures) and want to store to S3 Deep Glacier, take a look at https://github.com/mrichtarsky/glacier_deep_archive_backup

New comment by mrich in "Ask HN: Are height adjustable desks worth it?"

mrich — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:07:42 +0000

If you are spending more than two hours per day at your desk, it is worth it. There are some cheap ones out there that are OK (200€) but even a sturdy one is not that expensive, when you consider the time you spend there and the benefits to your health.

One Wide Feedforward Is All You Need

mrich — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 20:13:43 +0000

Article URL: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/one-wide-ffn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39094785

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mrich in "Scientists discover 100 to 1000 times more plastics in bottled water"

mrich — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 10:39:09 +0000

From the article:

  The new study found pieces of PET (polyethylene terephthalate), which is what most plastic water bottles are made of, and polyamide, a type of plastic that is present in water filters. The researchers hypothesized that this means plastic is getting into the water both from the bottle and from the filtration process.

New comment by mrich in "Scientists discover 100 to 1000 times more plastics in bottled water"

mrich — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:11:35 +0000

Just buy glass bottles, tastes better anyway (or use tap water).

New comment by mrich in "Fastmail Employees Form a Union"

mrich — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 02:45:46 +0000

Notably a workers' council does not have power to negotiate compensation/raises. That's a major difference to a union.

New comment by mrich in "Prompt engineering"

mrich — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 02:39:28 +0000

Agreed, you can use ChatGPT similarly to Google now. Except you do not have to parse and filter the results, plus there are no ads.

New comment by mrich in "Stanisław Lem's vision of artificial life"

mrich — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:33:25 +0000

Great book, recommended read.

New comment by mrich in "Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data"

mrich — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 16:20:08 +0000

It's certainly not enough if you assume there can ever be an error in the backend which Google is unable to recover from.

New comment by mrich in "Ask HN: Which non-fiction books had the biggest impact on you?"

mrich — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 04:39:09 +0000

In a similar vein, Factfulness by Hans Rosling.