Hacker News: perfect_wave

New comment by perfect_wave in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

perfect_wave — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:44:06 +0000

i still probably have my paper print outs of OLL/PLL pdfs somewhere...

New comment by perfect_wave in "Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other"

perfect_wave — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:21:34 +0000

Ryan Saxe did exactly this a number of years ago: https://github.com/RyanSaxe/mtg

New comment by perfect_wave in "Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours"

perfect_wave — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:39:02 +0000

i dont see how that is separated from the underlying infra. If the network/server/some dependency goes down, the blackbox test will fail and you'll get paged.

New comment by perfect_wave in "How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins"

perfect_wave — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 06:48:20 +0000

I use Firefox for iPhone. Sorry At least if probably wastes less energy than messing around with generative AI

New comment by perfect_wave in "Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees"

perfect_wave — Tue, 28 May 2024 15:50:49 +0000

The same AI summaries that told people to put glue on pizza? And got mass coverage for providing all sorts of incorrect info?

New comment by perfect_wave in "Show HN: AI climbing coach – visualize how to climb any route based on your body"

perfect_wave — Thu, 09 May 2024 02:39:35 +0000

Came here hoping to see something like this. Glad to see it’s the top comment. Part of the beauty of climbing is solving a puzzle and figuring things out.

Edit: Unsurprised to see the demo on a gym route instead of actual rock.

New comment by perfect_wave in "Tesla failing to deliver Semi-trucks on time to PepsiCo, Sysco, UPS, and Walmart"

perfect_wave — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:51:52 +0000

Or maybe, just maybe, it’s that the dude spews whatever out of his mouth and the broader public and media take him at his word when time again its been seen that his word doesn’t mean shit.

New comment by perfect_wave in "High-Performance Graph Databases"

perfect_wave — Sun, 21 May 2023 20:59:48 +0000

A few that I’ve encountered:

- Feature generation for machine learning model training (particularly popular with fraud detection at financial institutions) - social networks (think LinkedIn or Facebook) - supply chain analysis and optimization - healthcare patient data analysis (looking at similar patients to recommend treatments or do large scale analysis) - user identification (eg taking lots of data points and tying to a specific user). There’s a more specific name for this I can’t remember off the top of my head.

New comment by perfect_wave in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023)"

perfect_wave — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 21:38:20 +0000

Use Zulip at the company I work and I love this product. I've really enjoyed it as a chat application over the past couple years, as well as developing bots on top of it.

New comment by perfect_wave in "I drink before I interview"

perfect_wave — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 03:35:54 +0000

I relate to this. Turns out it was undiagnosed ADHD for me.

New comment by perfect_wave in "Doing too much work on one's own before looping in others"

perfect_wave — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:15:38 +0000

I'm a 25 year old managing a global team of 8 people. I'm self-conscious about my age both in my 1:1s with my reports and when talking with customers. That being said, it seems like things are going well. My team is doing great metrics and achievements wise and the company we work for tripled in size in under a year.

New comment by perfect_wave in "How A.I. Conquered Poker"

perfect_wave — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 23:33:45 +0000

An MTG limited player named Ryan Saxe created an AI that drafts and builds deck to a highly successfully degree: https://github.com/RyanSaxe/mtg

He was able to reach Mythic, the highest ranking tier on Magic Arena. Of course this is a different problem to actually playing the game (and probably significantly easier). That being said, this is one guy doing it as a side project with restricted resources.

I imagine that MTG could played quite successfully by an AI if someone where to dedicate the resources. Imo much of the difficulty is in laying the groundwork. Large amounts of data don't exist publicly and laying the framework for a bot to play itself would be quite difficult (and then the computation costs would be extremely expensive).

New comment by perfect_wave in "Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom"

perfect_wave — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 12:53:59 +0000

What kind of methods do they use to go about “cancelling the asshole”? What information are they accessing that they shouldn’t be? What kind of tooling are they misusing to do this?

What are the results of their actions?

New comment by perfect_wave in "A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python"

perfect_wave — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 04:16:42 +0000

I think I still have my printouts of the PLL algorithms somewhere…

Cool to learn this is the same guy.

New comment by perfect_wave in "Remembering the time it rained 6k pounds of marijuana on Yosemite (2019)"

perfect_wave — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 20:30:31 +0000

I quite enjoyed this podcast about this time: https://open.spotify.com/episode/69ec4DsblB3utgO1PEkLOh?si=3...

Also can't recommend the documentary Valley Uprising enough.

New comment by perfect_wave in "After working at Google, I’ll never let myself love a job again"

perfect_wave — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 22:58:38 +0000

I think that all it would take for these Googlers is one week as a TVC (temp/vendor/contractor) to get a view as to how Google really looks at things.

New comment by perfect_wave in "BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company balance sheet"

perfect_wave — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:31:25 +0000

Sounds like a fun use case for the Hackernews data set in BigQuery.

New comment by perfect_wave in "On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Years"

perfect_wave — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 21:06:27 +0000

Also a Hearthstone player here- I used to regularly hit top 200 legend on ladder. I think one of the biggest lessons that I got out of starting to get more into the competitive scene is that there's more to games than trying to be the absolute best and that I need to set my limits and figure out where I can have fun without letting something take over my life.

I've since cut back significantly on my Hearthstone playing and been able to apply similar thinking to other games I've picked up (for example Magic The Gathering: Arena). Games are for having fun not for endlessly trying to get better. That was probably a mentality that I picked up from years of MMORPG (Runescape) addiction.

New comment by perfect_wave in "macOS Big Sur"

perfect_wave — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 20:40:03 +0000

Until I can wrong uBlock Origin on Safari I'm entirely unable to switch back.

New comment by perfect_wave in "Introducing the next generation of Mac"

perfect_wave — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 22:59:04 +0000

I agree here. I really don't understand some of the bashing that happens every single time the Macbook Pros come up in HN comments.

I was a longtime happy owner of a 2015 15" MBP until earlier this year when I decided it was time to upgrade to a refurbished 2019 16" MBP. I was a bit nervous at first but I have to say that I have no major complaints, other than the fact that I wish I had F keys instead of the touchbar. Contrary to everyone else, I really like the keyboard.

As for solving the touchpad issue, I use Pock [1] which I read about on HN. It removes the need for using a slider every time I want to adjust the volume or brightness and lets me control Spotify and see what song is currently playing.

I also have a 2018 15" MBP for work. If you believed the comments here you'd think that I am unable to type or use the damn thing. Honestly, after 1 week of use I'm already used to the keyboard. Not having an escape key kind of sucked, but I have rebound caps lock to escape on all of my Macbooks and enjoy that even more than having an escape key.

My other complaint is that the trackpad is a bit too large - I find myself accidentally hitting it sometimes and it just seems excessive. Finally, it's a shame that you can't mess with the battery/RAM/SSD yourself but unfortunately that's more of a trend for the industry than just Apple.

Overall I'm a totally happy user on both the 2018 and 2019 Macbook Pros. I was quite nervous about the possibility of having to use a Windows PC for work when I started my new job. And don't even get me started on having to use a Pixelbook at Google.

[1] https://pock.dev/