Hacker News: rafale

New comment by rafale in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

rafale — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:57:40 +0000

"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection"

New comment by rafale in "UN declares that the world has entered an era of 'global water bankruptcy'"

rafale — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:45:41 +0000

Salt is engineers' kryotonite.

New comment by rafale in "Crypto got everything it wanted. Now it's sinking"

rafale — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 02:50:07 +0000

Most crime is conducted in fiat money.

New comment by rafale in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

rafale — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:41:05 +0000

Maybe they were on a slight up slope. If the headlights were auto leveling it will fix many of the issues people complain about.

New comment by rafale in "Peter Thiel sells off all Nvidia stock, stirring bubble fears"

rafale — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 22:30:10 +0000

Did he close his position or just shutdown the fund?

New comment by rafale in "James Watson has died"

rafale — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 22:20:30 +0000

If you say person X thought Y was true, ask yourself if Y was true would you accept it? If the answer is no you are not ready for this kind of discussion.

As for whether it's true or not, let's just say we don't know for sure because scientists either are not allowed or don't want to research this question.

New comment by rafale in "Addiction Markets"

rafale — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 15:45:53 +0000

Ferrari cars hold their value pretty well if you buy them slightly used.

Either way, Ferrari is selling cars. Not dreams of riches.

New comment by rafale in "Addiction Markets"

rafale — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:21:29 +0000

Gamblers know the odds are stacked against them yet they end up stuck in a psychological prison within their own brain that they can't escape from even if they realize what they do is harmful.

Maybe a better law: check id, you are not allowed to take from any gambler more than 10 bets a year and no bet can be over 1k.

For big gamblers, we can have "qualified gamblers" rules like we do for qualified investors.

Funny how we don't let average people invest in some stuff but we let them gamble.

For offshore gambling pursue them aggressively if they serve US clients.

New comment by rafale in "A $6B Nuclear U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier 'Sunk' by $100M Diesel 'AIP' Sub"

rafale — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:57:08 +0000

That's one way to nerf them, force them to fight in situations they would never find themselves in.

In real life, if they can't neutralize the threat in BVR they just turn around and run before getting in range.

Their stealth allows them to get the enemy in range before the enemy has them in range. It's like a boxer with a long reach: jab and move.

New comment by rafale in "IP over Lasers"

rafale — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:46:35 +0000

Every year new engineers and enthusiasts need to be exposed to cutting edge technologies through hands-on introductions like these.

New comment by rafale in "Unlocking a Million Times More Data for AI"

rafale — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 20:29:05 +0000

Didn't a hedge fund publish data encrypted with homomorphic encryption to run an open competition to see how can build the best trading AI. The encryption allow them to keep the sensitive data private.

New comment by rafale in "Crypto founder Do Kwon pleads guilty to US fraud charges"

rafale — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:56:16 +0000

How much money he had when he was caught? How much you profited usually makes a difference in sentencing.

New comment by rafale in "High-Fidelity Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation"

rafale — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 22:25:53 +0000

What about brain development and general intelligence. Knowledge will always have a value, or else we become slaves to the machine.

New comment by rafale in "Jury orders NSO to pay $167M for hacking WhatsApp users"

rafale — Wed, 07 May 2025 07:01:46 +0000

They knowingly attacked and destroyed USS Liberty in 1967 and didn't face any consequences.

Sometimes I wonder what's so special about Israel that they keep getting away with everything.

New comment by rafale in "California overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth largest economy"

rafale — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 06:34:30 +0000

Ask Nevada.

New comment by rafale in "Bybit loses $1.5B in hack but can cover loss, CEO confirms"

rafale — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:43:36 +0000

They are very capital inefficient and still can fail during black swan events.

New comment by rafale in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

rafale — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:49:08 +0000

It's unreasonable to expect a small companies to have rogue nation states in their threat model. Apple, Microsoft, ... yeah but not a smaller business.

New comment by rafale in "Streaming every NFL game this season requires 7 different services, costs $2,500"

rafale — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 13:25:36 +0000

Or you can vote with your wallet and boycott the games. They will eventually offer a solution when nobody is watching the games.

New comment by rafale in "A tiny ultrabright laser that can melt steel"

rafale — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:56:45 +0000

Efficient market hypothesis proven.

New comment by rafale in "Boeing missing key elements of safety culture: FAA report"

rafale — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:33:59 +0000

The barrier of entry is much higher with commercial aviation. You can get started with a lousy car but a lousy plane will never be acceptable. The MAX fiasco could have killed Boeing. Maybe Boom will succeed by getting its feet wet in the supersonic flight niche. Time will tell.