<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: ninja3925</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ninja3925</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:51:04 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ninja3925" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ninja3925 in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These are extremely high prices. In Texas, we pay 12-15c.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:04:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689620</link><dc:creator>ninja3925</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689620</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ninja3925 in "Show HN: TurboQuant-WASM – Google's vector quantization in the browser"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So i assumed it would get crushed by OPQ (which requires training)</p>
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<p>The story is actually quite interesting. The Serbs observed that a nighthawk would routinely fly the same route but their radar couldn’t lock on it unless the missile hatch were open, which they managed to elicit.<p>In short, it took 2 rare events to occur for it to happen.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:18:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631700</link><dc:creator>ninja3925</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631700</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ninja3925 in "The road signs that teach travellers about France"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These signs are mostly on the highway</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:27:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568987</link><dc:creator>ninja3925</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568987</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ninja3925 in "Weighting an average to minimize variance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seems to be incorrect. The correct way to combine measurements with various degree of precision is to use the inverse variance weighting law</p>
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<p>Large cloud providers could offer that solution but then, crawlers can also change cycle IPs</p>
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<p>Can you expand? What is “poison” referring to? Surely, burning coal as Germany’s current pace can’t be seen as a success, can it?</p>
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<p>This is not how it works. The interviewer knows 1-2 problems and there is no time for profiling since they are rushing through their day, probably focused on their day to day work. You are the least of their concern, believe me.<p>Source: we am a hiring manager.</p>
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<p>Very likely.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:36:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44605898</link><dc:creator>ninja3925</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44605898</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44605898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ninja3925 in "A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Just look at health insurance companies for a prime example: they make profit by denying claims<p>Despite being from Europe, I find this to be a shocking and erroneous interpretation.<p>Clearly, health insurances have the duty to allocate limited resources (“premiums”) across members. Denying and accepting  claims is the mechanism to that end.  Accepting all claims would increase premiums and reduce membership (by pricing people out). Would that an ideal state? Clearly not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 05:29:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44517576</link><dc:creator>ninja3925</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44517576</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44517576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ninja3925 in "Vision Transformers Need Registers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Note that it's not done for performance reason but rather to generate clear feature maps.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:05:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43824224</link><dc:creator>ninja3925</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43824224</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43824224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ninja3925 in "Ask HN: Will coding bootcamps still be in demand by 2025?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I are</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 14:46:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42077052</link><dc:creator>ninja3925</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42077052</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42077052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ninja3925 in "Quantized Llama models with increased speed and a reduced memory footprint"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interestingly, FAISS does exactly that before doing Product Quantization and it works very well (errors are much lower compared to no rotation). They call it “optimal PQ”. During training time, they iterate to find a good candidate and save the best one.<p>Perhaps not entirely coincidentally, FAISS is also maintained by FB.<p><a href="https://faiss.ai/cpp_api/struct/structfaiss_1_1OPQMatrix.html" rel="nofollow">https://faiss.ai/cpp_api/struct/structfaiss_1_1OPQMatrix.htm...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2024 02:31:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41941741</link><dc:creator>ninja3925</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41941741</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41941741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ninja3925 in "How to Cheat with Math – The Russian Cards Problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The advised reader could devise a solution using public / private key where:
- Alice communicates her public key 
- Bob communicates his
- Alice encoders her cards with Bob’s public key
- Bob does the same<p>Problem solved!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2024 20:19:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41285124</link><dc:creator>ninja3925</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41285124</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41285124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ninja3925 in "Can men live without war? (1956)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I actually think war driving progress is a strong argument. Not to use any obvious examples (e.g. internet), I would argue war has a profound effect on the psyche of nations (whether they lose or win).<p>A few examples:
- Germany rose to power in the 1800s, with a culmination at Sedan in 1870, driven by the humiliation Napoleon inflected on 60 years earlier. In 1870, Germany was a behemoth of technology (especially chemistry) & industry 
-  France won WW1 with such heavy losses that its people said “never again” (they called WW1 the “Great War” or the “last war”). War left an indelible mark (one wished it had left the same mark on the German).<p>Many such examples. Countries compete and war is a great impetus to modernize the Nation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2024 23:58:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40763373</link><dc:creator>ninja3925</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40763373</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40763373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ninja3925 in "Binarize CLIP for Multimodal Applications"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is far fetched. It’s a very thoughtful article.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2024 13:36:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40474997</link><dc:creator>ninja3925</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40474997</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40474997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ninja3925 in "Binarize CLIP for Multimodal Applications"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you save 32x memory with binarization, why not do a projection to a larger dimension? Say 4096 for instance. Could this actually improve performance WHILE reducing memory?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2024 02:51:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40462376</link><dc:creator>ninja3925</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40462376</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40462376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ninja3925 in "Swiss' Entire Boeing 777 Fleet Now Has Shark Skin Technology"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> a month.<p>No, It says a week in the article.<p>“Each aircraft takes about a week to have its AeroSHARK film applied, which requires high-precision workmanship from our personnel.”</p>
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<p>It’s mind boggling how a country can be so rich as to spend millions of manhours on a project and never use it. Maybe we have become too rich as a species.</p>
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<p>Column misnaming/typo is indeed a problem in pandas. I think a powerful IDE could do the trick though.</p>
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