Hacker News: nandemo

New comment by nandemo in "Ask HN: Why would Human Interest (YC SC15) make such arrogant statement?"

nandemo — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 07:11:32 +0000

I don't see anything wrong with it. Honestly it is your post that sounds off to me. You're implying that somehow Human Interest is discriminating against people with Asperger's but there's nothing in their post that says that.

New comment by nandemo in "A Brief Guide to a Few Algebraic Structures"

nandemo — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 05:26:35 +0000

My favourite abstract algebra textbook is Fraleigh's A First Course in Abstract Algebra. Unlike the article here, which just dumps you a bunch of definitions, the book introduces each structure with proper motivation. It's not a CS approach though.

https://www.amazon.com/First-Course-Abstract-Algebra-7th/dp/... (the 1-star reviews apply to the Kindle version, not the contents. Just get the paperback and you'll be fine)

If you want a CS approach I suggest learning basic Haskell then tackling the fantastic Typeclassopedia. The downside is you'll be missing on structures/theorems that are super useful in math but not that useful in programming.

https://wiki.haskell.org/Typeclassopedia

New comment by nandemo in "What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning"

nandemo — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 01:10:33 +0000

In TFA, "slow morning" doesn't mean waking up late. It means waking up early but taking your time before starting work. If you're a night owl you're probably not doing slow mornings.

New comment by nandemo in "Snapshots of Tokyo’s vivid street life"

nandemo — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 08:48:55 +0000

Tokyo's public transit system is overrated IMO. Sure, trains and subways cover a lot of ground and are usually on time, but most of the lines are well over 100% crowdedness during rush hour:

https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/the-most-...

New comment by nandemo in "China can apparently now identify citizens based on the way they walk"

nandemo — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 00:56:27 +0000

Forced? That sounds a bit too 1984-ish. I believe in a more Brave New World future, where people will pay good money to get chipped and the only "natties" (unchipped people) will be people who either cannot afford it, or "wackos".

New comment by nandemo in "Insane complexity of calendrically correct date and time operations"

nandemo — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 07:38:11 +0000

What do you mean by "actually reflecting the world"? If you mean using objective criteria of some sort, how would that help deciding if the week starts on Sunday or Monday, or what days of the week are to be business days?

New comment by nandemo in "Sony Finally Admits It Doesn’t Own Bach"

nandemo — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 05:41:40 +0000

No one. That's the joke.

New comment by nandemo in "How WhatsApp Destroyed a Village"

nandemo — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 06:19:33 +0000

It's clickbaity as hell.

If anything, I wish it was more "negative" about India; instead of talking about why people take part in lynchings and why they are so common in the country, the blame goes to WhatsApp, which "has been getting Indians killed". It's as if the actual killers had no agency.

Same thing about the anti-vaccination groups in Brazil: as a Brazilian citizen my concern is that those groups exist at all and are affecting public health, not what app they happen to use.

New comment by nandemo in "The Servers Are Burning"

nandemo — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 02:02:56 +0000

In a surprising turn of events, the user showed they did care.

> “@okcupid how am I supposed to get my daily dose of crushing rejection and emotional humiliation if your site is down????”

New comment by nandemo in "Don't Steal Money from Day Traders Before They Lose It"

nandemo — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 00:21:19 +0000

Just by the title I knew it had to be a Matt Levine story.

New comment by nandemo in "PagerDuty (YC S10) Raises $90M at a $1.3B Valuation"

nandemo — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 00:14:25 +0000

Banks do lend against receivables.

New comment by nandemo in "Tell Your Co-Workers How Much Money You Make"

nandemo — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:23:48 +0000

Japan.

New comment by nandemo in "Tell Your Co-Workers How Much Money You Make"

nandemo — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 06:11:59 +0000

Where I live permanent employees are protected, so the probability of being legally fired for disclosing my salary is 0, and the probability of illegally being fired should be very close to 0. However, the probability of my salary going up is also very close to 0. In fact, the probability of my salary decreasing is arguably higher than the probability of my salary increasing, since bonuses vary and are decided semi-arbitrarily. :-)

In any case I know a much more effective way to increase my salary: getting a green card and moving to the US. The flipside is that my American wife would have a hard time finding a good job in her field in the US.

New comment by nandemo in "More Americans report near-constant cannabis use"

nandemo — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 02:25:59 +0000

> Posting with a throwaway for obvious reasons.

Not obvious to me at all. Weed is already legal in several states in the US; weed use is far from taboo on HN; you have FU money. So why the throwaway? (Of course you have right to your privacy, I just wonder what are the "obvious" reasons ...)

New comment by nandemo in "Credit-Card Backlash Mounts as Kroger Weighs Expanding Visa Ban"

nandemo — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 04:25:56 +0000

AFAIK such cards make money primarily on breakage, i.e., points that people buy but do not use.

New comment by nandemo in "Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine"

nandemo — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 08:19:48 +0000

AFAIK the main reason is that Japanese whiskeys started getting awards and demand exploded. Even here in Japan they're expensive, to the extent that scotch has a better bang to the buck ratio.

New comment by nandemo in "Amazon Prime Day deals 'not what they seem'"

nandemo — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 01:04:44 +0000

In Japan too.

New comment by nandemo in "The Japanese Calendar’s Y2K Moment"

nandemo — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 01:19:27 +0000

Two things that are missing from the article:

1) because of this problem, the government is considering keeping Heisei for a while after the emperor steps down https://minhan.jp/4599 (in Japanese)

2) the Japanese calendar (specifically the year) is used in some official documents and formalities, but in daily life people mostly use the Gregorian calendar. If you ask a bunch of Japanese people what Heisei year is now, I bet a significant percentage of them won't remember. I've worked as a software engineer in Japan for over 10 years and I've never had to deal with Japanese calendar years.

New comment by nandemo in "Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning"

nandemo — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 08:57:41 +0000

Presumably tlb meant what is humanly possible...

New comment by nandemo in "Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning"

nandemo — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 08:38:33 +0000

Wait, how's the 24h x 5000 TPUs relevant? That is training time, and that training corresponds to years and years of hardcoding evaluations in Stockfish, not to compute time during the match.