Hacker News: ndarray

New comment by ndarray in "What will our economic future look like?"

ndarray — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:40:21 +0000

You live on Mars?

New comment by ndarray in "iPhone Duo"

ndarray — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:21:41 +0000

Seriously though, for 2k you can get a good gaming PC even in today's market.

New comment by ndarray in "iPhone Duo"

ndarray — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:43:50 +0000

Would probably push the engineers to deliver three-way foldables like the Huawei Mate XT from two years ago. The two-way folding phones are wasting a screen and will go down in history as an abomination. The weird 1:1.4 width:height ratio wouldn't be necessary if you could 3x the screen size instead of only 2x. At 3x, the ratio could be 1:1.73 folded, giving you 3:1.73 unfolded (which equals 1.73:1). 1.73 is much closer to 16:9 (1.77) than 1.4 is.

New comment by ndarray in "ChatGPT Images 2.5"

ndarray — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:09:00 +0000

Sounds like a complex question. On average you'll visit like 1.5 sites. Those SQL queries are peanuts compared to an LLM burning through tokens. Besides, for hard questions, the LLM itself might download 30-60 websites to find the info on your behalf, e.g. checking the state of RAM prices.

New comment by ndarray in "ChatGPT Images 2.5"

ndarray — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:22:50 +0000

Do you want to know how many identical questions ChatGPT gets asked every week, recomputing its answer each time because people stopped sharing results? I don't, but I'm sure it far exceeds 3 billion. "How to center a div", "how to install this and that package", "what is this pop culture reference", "who is this famous person",...

New comment by ndarray in "ChatGPT Images 2.5"

ndarray — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:14:55 +0000

even the whataboutism is slop

New comment by ndarray in "Literary Sins"

ndarray — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:39:47 +0000

"Show don't tell" has been a disaster for mankind. I'm sick of authors turning every scene (especially openings) into a puzzle because just telling the reader what's going on would be too low-brow for them. If telling, or even summarizing, your story in a straight manner makes it bad, you just have a bad story. Part of the reason why Harry Potter was so ridiculously successful even before the movies is that it broke this rule. Intended as a children's book this was probably deemed necessary, but in reality it's just better writing, period.

New comment by ndarray in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

ndarray — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:07:13 +0000

The notes only make sense with context. I'm not interested in copying three or so sentences for every small comment or even just a highlight.

New comment by ndarray in "Astronomers may have found the first exomoon"

ndarray — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:45:14 +0000

No, but let's keep pouring billions into confirming that the laws of physics apply outside of our solar system - smaller objects orbiting larger ones? Who could have guessed?

I'm sympathetic to space colonization, which seems like the most optimistic long term future for humanity, but the focus on exoplanets, -moons, even signs of exo-civilizations feels like making up theories about the bottom of the ocean centuries before the invention of submarines.

New comment by ndarray in "Judge a book by its first pages"

ndarray — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:40:00 +0000

If that is true, it's bad design. The site definitely needs a dislike button too, while we're at it...

New comment by ndarray in "Judge a book by its first pages"

ndarray — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:38:08 +0000

This is basically an ad for recent books the maker likes or gets paid to promote and the selection is hot garbage

New comment by ndarray in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

ndarray — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:16:49 +0000

Let's just as enthusiastically revote on the chat control law right now then! Oh, wait... revotes only happen when the bureaucrats/lobbyists want them

New comment by ndarray in "I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care"

ndarray — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:24:58 +0000

Great, and I do agree, we know who to pay more (and who less), but how do we get there democratically? Should we vote for the party that says "we support LGBT and an infinite influx of cheap labor" or the "we support the military and the free market" party?

New comment by ndarray in "I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care"

ndarray — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:11:39 +0000

I'm sure there are many systemic issues but the primary victims are the elders. For starters, they don't have a choice but to be there.

New comment by ndarray in "I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care"

ndarray — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:54:43 +0000

There's a long period between beginning and full, diagnosed dementia. You won't be able to tell what you're signing but you won't be protected by a dementia diagnosis either.

New comment by ndarray in "I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care"

ndarray — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:51:55 +0000

Shoulder pain? Sorry, but your insurance only covers suicide. Dementia? Every day you don't agree to end your life, your caretakers will take it personally.

New comment by ndarray in "I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care"

ndarray — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:42:25 +0000

This framing is ridiculous. Elder abuse and neglect is rampant. Nursing homes are run like prisons and you're empathizing with the guards.

New comment by ndarray in "Every GPU That Mattered"

ndarray — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:25:38 +0000

Not only that but a lot of the "defining games" are just games that appeared at about the same time but can be handled by much older GPUs without issues. For me graphics haven't made a real difference since Unreal Engine 4 anyway. It's all about the content these days, not the skin.

New comment by ndarray in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

ndarray — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:47:00 +0000

At least Germany isn't looking at entering any wars at the moment...

New comment by ndarray in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

ndarray — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:36:33 +0000

Ten years of "refugees welcome" to fighting age men who we don't trust won't run amok when we go to war with a third party. Very cool.