Hacker News: padthai

New comment by padthai in "Lesser known parts of Python standard library"

padthai — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 03:25:58 +0000

Why do you use OrderedDict for now that regular dicts are ordered by default?

New comment by padthai in "AI Has Created a Battle over Web Crawling"

padthai — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 17:43:28 +0000

Getting Covid paper toilet crisis vibes here

Facebook uses 10k Blu-ray discs to store 'cold' data (2014)

padthai — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 05:34:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcworld.com/article/443619/facebook-puts-10000-bluray-discs-in-lowpower-storage-system.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41387677

Points: 19

# Comments: 9

New comment by padthai in "MIFARE Classic: exposing the static encrypted nonce variant [pdf]"

padthai — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 20:18:16 +0000

Probably fire safety laws

New comment by padthai in "Signal messenger blocked in Russia, says Roskomnadzor"

padthai — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 21:48:40 +0000

So they will not use Smartphones? I am not buying it.

New comment by padthai in "Why Polars rewrote its Arrow string data type"

padthai — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 19:54:27 +0000

I am getting Vietnam flashbacks of all the small incompatibilities between Numpy arrays and Pandas Series

New comment by padthai in "Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay"

padthai — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 18:12:01 +0000

I think Twitter is down 60% in advertisers and 30% in users? Elon personality is part of it, but losing so many people handling community, clients, institutions… I am sure the company has lost most of its institutional knowledge.

New comment by padthai in "Typst: An easy to learn alternative for LaTex"

padthai — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 13:56:50 +0000

Pandoc/Quarto markdown gives you most of these.

In my experience, it rarely really matters fine control. If the effort is too big to tweak the templates/markdown you export it to an intermediate state (LaTeX/Office/whatever) and drop the original markdown source.

There is no lock-in.

New comment by padthai in "Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs"

padthai — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 06:26:39 +0000

They do from time to time: https://wirelesswire.jp/2017/12/62708/

New comment by padthai in "Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes"

padthai — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 16:41:12 +0000

No, I have flight tickets autoupdate when there is a delay.

New comment by padthai in "Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel on Facebook, Millenials, and Predictions for 2030"

padthai — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 18:11:37 +0000

That’s the US perspective. But globally the final of the World Cup (which Messi played) was seen by more than 1.5B people (compared to <200M in the Super Bowl). It is a big name.

New comment by padthai in "Maker of RStudio launches new R and Python IDE"

padthai — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 06:07:52 +0000

> One thing I miss from RStudio is the Rmarkdown documents with inline outputs

This is already in Quarto! https://quarto.org/docs/computations/inline-code.html#:~:tex....

New comment by padthai in "Ask HN: How to pivot to a Machine Learning engineer?"

padthai — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 12:07:13 +0000

He does not want to be a AI/ML researcher, but a ML engineer.

New comment by padthai in "I learned Haskell in just 15 years"

padthai — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:48:20 +0000

I took a look at Yesod and looks more like Haskell’s Sinatra and comes 6 years later than Rails, in 2010. By 2010 a simple web frameworm is table stakes, no huge differentiator.

New comment by padthai in "I learned Haskell in just 15 years"

padthai — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:08:19 +0000

I am not a user of the language (although I learned it like you). I just came to chime in that (a) there is at least one very popular software written in Haskell and (b) Haskell seems to ship a good amount of software for its popularity.

Haskell never got the “killer framework” like Rails or Spark that allowed to become more mainstream, even if it was teached in Universities all over the world.

New comment by padthai in "I learned Haskell in just 15 years"

padthai — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 13:20:40 +0000

> nor have I ever seen a program that I use, written in it

The only mass market Haskell software that I know of is Pandoc. Others like Shellcheck and Postgrest are popular in their niche.

I am not sure that Haskell is faring worse that other programming languages in its level of popularity, like Julia, Clojure or Erlang.

New comment by padthai in "Toyota raided as safety testing scandal grows"

padthai — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 10:47:56 +0000

I have one, everything seems fine but I have not crashed it yet.

New comment by padthai in "Survival of the richest: Inside the short-lived fallout shelter bubble"

padthai — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 06:23:06 +0000

Funny enough, historically anarchists have been called libertarians and were not against institutions and governance per se. Maybe you are caricaturing a bunch of movements that you do not agree with or are not well informed about?

New comment by padthai in "Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K with MIT license"

padthai — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 10:40:31 +0000

I would be surprised if the database is here. Does not it rely on Q?

New comment by padthai in "Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K with MIT license"

padthai — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 10:39:30 +0000

Does writing in this way has any advantage in practical terms (not aesthetically reasons)?