Hacker News: pryffwyd

New comment by pryffwyd in "ICE arrests 90 more students at fake university in Michigan"

pryffwyd — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 16:36:33 +0000

If such fake universities exist, why aren't these resources being spent to identity and shutter them instead? If they don't, why manufacture this elaborate heist instead of deporting the students in the first place when their visa ran out? Wouldn't it be more cost effective to just pore through immigration records and do some on-site checks to find a "real fake university" than to create one?

New comment by pryffwyd in "Your throat hurts, your brain hurts: the life of the audiobook star"

pryffwyd — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:03:55 +0000

It costs 100s of millions of dollars to animate and market a feature Pixar film. It would be very penny-wise/pound-foolish to try to skimp on voice-acting. Animated films will be the last place to start using TTS. Honestly they might ADR people in low budget live-action with TTS before it reaches the major animation studios.

New comment by pryffwyd in "Americans lose $50M to phone scams in the last year"

pryffwyd — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:05:26 +0000

Chicago citizens were on average murdered .0002 times in the last year

New comment by pryffwyd in "Kids Who Get Driven Everywhere Don't Know Where They're Going (2012)"

pryffwyd — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 04:54:31 +0000

34 months to pass, jesus. No wonder ridesharing is eating taxis' lunch.

New comment by pryffwyd in "Zuckerberg defends political ads that will be 0.5% of 2020 revenue"

pryffwyd — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 15:08:51 +0000

Agreed. They would only lose a fraction of the 0.5% anyway, since they would just run other ads in their place. This is all about Facebook controlling the political process.

New comment by pryffwyd in "US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits"

pryffwyd — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:53:05 +0000

Definitely. Adding an extra grade I'm sure would require at least a couple hours of technical work and haunt subsystems and stats analysts for decades to come. Not worth it.

New comment by pryffwyd in "Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]"

pryffwyd — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:38:03 +0000

The latest no-OOP imperative language with any kind of market share is C. So everything that's terrible about C: unsafe manual memory, portability issues, tooling, no generics or overloading, horrible ergonomics, 2nd class functions, globals everywhere, etc, are all forever associated with imperative programming. OOP was born at the time of fixing all those problems, so those languages were a big improvement in ways that had nothing to do with OOP. Now that all the top languages are multi-paradigm, only a puritan would avoid OOP, and they'd have a tough time interacting with libraries and frameworks. So every codebase is a little wishy-washy and OOP wins by default. Imperative has no advocates left in industry or academia, so most people don't even think of it as a defensible design decision.

New comment by pryffwyd in "Beneath the Replication Crisis"

pryffwyd — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 22:00:59 +0000

I have read that a study is very unlikely to replicate if p is juuust under 0.05, but very likely to replicate if just over 0.05. The first is a good sign of p hacking, while the second is a good sign of a real effect with a sample size that wasn't quite big enough.

New comment by pryffwyd in "Python is not a great programming language"

pryffwyd — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 21:34:38 +0000

It appears textually first but the evaluation order is the same as the classic ?: ternary. ```[][0] if False else 'foo'``` will not raise an IndexError.