Hacker News: myegorov

New comment by myegorov in "Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm"

myegorov — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:56:14 +0000

Reads like it's straight out of The Onion.

New comment by myegorov in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

myegorov — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:15:19 +0000

>My productive output as a programmer in software and business have expanded 3x compounding monthly.

In what units?

New comment by myegorov in "Ilya Sutskever, Yann LeCun and the End of “Just Add GPUs”"

myegorov — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 02:30:48 +0000

Try talking to white collar workers outside your bubble. Better yet get a job.

New comment by myegorov in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)"

myegorov — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 14:30:33 +0000

My sense is there's a long queue of candidates for the NYC and Boston offices stuck without a team match.

New comment by myegorov in "Generic drugs in the US are too cheap to be sustainable, experts say"

myegorov — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 01:22:46 +0000

How is a $25 life saving medication "too cheap"? That's 1/10 of the out-of-pocket maximum per year in Norway or Sweden. Which by the way covers all of medical visits, hospital stays, prescriptions.

New comment by myegorov in "Autonomous excavator constructs a six-metre-high dry-stone wall"

myegorov — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 03:08:46 +0000

This would be discussed in an introduction to soil mechanics and foundation design (Braja Das's textbooks used to be the standard reference in the US when I was a student 15+ years ago) but I'm afraid they're too dry for anyone outside the profession. I'm not aware of an author who can animate civ eng subjects for the adult with the talent of David Macaulay. But I can point you to a few "engineering gems" that might pique your interest if you like this sort of stuff: prestressed and post-tensioned concrete (the work of Freyssinet, see Billington's books), readings from John Ochsendorf's class on historic structures in https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/4-448-analysis-of-historic-struc..., bicycle wheel as prestressed structure (the same principle used in some tension-compression stadium roof structures): http://www-civ.eng.cam.ac.uk/cjb/papers/p20.pdf

New comment by myegorov in "Autonomous excavator constructs a six-metre-high dry-stone wall"

myegorov — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 23:48:20 +0000

The ability of a dry stack retaining wall to shift and breathe is a feature, not a bug. For stone walls that require added reinforcement against lateral loads, look into tiebacks or geogrid reinforcement.

New comment by myegorov in "America’s largest tool company couldn’t make a wrench in America"

myegorov — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 04:04:38 +0000

Right on. Craftsman tools have been frowned upon at least for the last 20 years. Milwaukee sawzalls are legendary.

New comment by myegorov in "Tuition costs have risen 710% since 1983"

myegorov — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 03:56:07 +0000

+1 to no labor shortage in the construction industry. Good luck getting trained as a tradesman outside the unions. Joining a union is a practical impossibility if you're a white male. You'll be subsidizing your non-union employers with your own savings as an apprentice well into your journeyman career. You'll be sitting idle unpaid in between jobs, when it's raining or snowing, when your car doesn't start... Even when employed, you'll have no benefits, no health insurance, no paid vacation. You'll be competing for the scarce work with people who're in this country without a work permit. Guess what the going wage is for your services.

New comment by myegorov in "New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices"

myegorov — Sun, 07 May 2023 05:17:26 +0000

Sucralose (Splenda) increases insulin resistance.

New comment by myegorov in "Ask HN: What book changed your life?"

myegorov — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 21:35:39 +0000

I can trace some drastic changes in my own life's trajectory to this book. Baxandall treats a familiar subject in starkly unfamiliar terms. Putting it in context but not making it any more relatable as it would be in a work of fiction or scholarly microhistory. Rather he works out some fundamental relations, social networks, kin structures, schooling and tribal knowledge, higher cortical functions etc. from the basic principles. The canonical works of art (lesser known but no less striking when presented through this lens in his Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany) served me as a vehicle to self discovery.

New comment by myegorov in "Ask HN: What book changed your life?"

myegorov — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 16:28:47 +0000

Painting and Experience in 15th Century Italy by Michael Baxandall

New comment by myegorov in "Ask HN: How do you teach 9-year old to code?"

myegorov — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 21:23:28 +0000

I've been going over Touretzky's Common Lisp book [1] with a 10-year old.

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/book.pdf

New comment by myegorov in "Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)"

myegorov — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 04:37:00 +0000

I'm not familiar with Stuyvesant, TJHSST and the like. The best Russian schools follow the Konstantinov [1] tradition of "listki" (handouts), where each student is essentially guided to re-invent the math curriculum by solving problems. There're no textbooks or lectures. You solve problems from the handouts at your own pace and discuss them with a TA when ready (typically volunteers from among former graduates of the same school).

You can get some taste of these handouts for grades 8 and above from https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%...

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=ru&tl=en&u=htt...

New comment by myegorov in "President Trump says that he’s waiving interest on federal student loans"

myegorov — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 04:30:08 +0000

Is this a sign of a forthcoming job market collapse? I don't remember anything similar during the previous recession.

New comment by myegorov in "A hiring test I'd like to run"

myegorov — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 08:11:01 +0000

fwiw this describes my experience of interviewing at Databricks

New comment by myegorov in "Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads"

myegorov — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 06:11:56 +0000

To its credit, Twitter has been doing this for some time now.

New comment by myegorov in "Payless is closing all its U.S. stores"

myegorov — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 08:51:06 +0000

Most comments seem to quibble about exact numbers. That the number of people let go is comparable is enough to give you a pause.

New comment by myegorov in "This person does not exist"

myegorov — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 07:53:06 +0000

Could be used to generate building plans or other schematics (pretty sure of no use though). Could certainly be put to good use generating pornographic images.

New comment by myegorov in "U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers"

myegorov — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 06:18:21 +0000

I don't know about what's in America's favor. I know for a fact that I would not willingly compete with all software developers in a global marketplace. I'd lose my big4 job in a split second. Canada's tech sector may stand to gain, but I'd lose half my real income if I were to relocate to a sister office across the border. So much for progressive visa policy.