Hacker News: raister

New comment by raister in "France's most powerful nuclear reactor connected to grid after 17-year build"

raister — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 04:13:30 +0000

I bet French people can't wait for their electric bills to halve overnight! (/sarcasm).

On a more serious note, EDF, France's suppliers sells their provision as 99.99% clean, which is not wrong, I guess, but a good selling point to their business.

New comment by raister in "Markov Keyboard: keyboard layout that changes by Markov frequency"

raister — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 07:08:07 +0000

Too bad this github has latest changes 5 years ago, I wonder what they could update with LLMs, etc.

New comment by raister in "1,600 days of a failed hobby data science project"

raister — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 04:43:47 +0000

I feel this whilst learning (trying to) German: when I think "how I would say this in German?" I got nothing less than a blank on my mind. But I'm a good "speaker" though, and sadly, I feel I'm not going anywhere as well...

New comment by raister in "My second year without a job"

raister — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 03:41:01 +0000

The way I see it, it's not CS per se, it's about solving problems.

You hone that skill, and it will shape your future, whatever field.

You'll never be jobless having that particular skill.

Don't give up.

New comment by raister in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"

raister — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:33:16 +0000

Great story, especially for a 9y! I love to know that one can rise to occasions given time and persistence and willingness to learn, at any age.

Thanks for sharing.

New comment by raister in "Algorithms We Develop Software By"

raister — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 05:37:32 +0000

I once thought I lost a paper I'd written a while back (before OverLeaf and Cloud), and I've rewritten it only to find it back again: when I compared the versions, the second one had better sentences altogether. The core framing was there, but the quality was higher.

New comment by raister in "A change of heart regarding employee metrics"

raister — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 06:43:00 +0000

"Tell me how you measure me, I will tell you how I behave." Eli Goldratt

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." Goodhart's Law

New comment by raister in "Fuzzing 101"

raister — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 06:57:53 +0000

Thank you for sharing this - very useful!!!

New comment by raister in "Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)"

raister — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 03:14:25 +0000

This reminds me of Eli Goldratt's quote: "Tell me how you measure me, I will tell you how I behave."

New comment by raister in "Teacher caught students using ChatGPT on their first assignment. Debate ensues"

raister — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 05:13:42 +0000

If you have the time and the attention span: "ChatGPT is bullshit"

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5

(although they concluded it's "soft" bullshit, as it doesn't aim to 'harm')

New comment by raister in "The war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity"

raister — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:31:03 +0000

TL;DR: "It’s about real estate."

Real.

New comment by raister in "Retiring from the idea of retirement"

raister — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 03:40:05 +0000

I resonate with this, unfortunately. I wish things in our field were better.

New comment by raister in "Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech"

raister — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:28:05 +0000

It's so disheartening that a lot of effort is put towards presenting ads to people in all spectrum of tech.

New comment by raister in "Simplifying programming with AI-tutors"

raister — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 06:23:10 +0000

Sorry for the very basic question, but, is DSA, in this context, Disabled Students' Allowance?

New comment by raister in "Author-paid publication fees corrupt science and should be abandoned"

raister — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 15:14:38 +0000

I agree that being the first is important. I have had a paper reviewed, then rejected, only to see the same idea elsewhere a while after. I cannot say the reviewer "had the same idea" nor prove, but it is known to happen. Putting into arXiv remediates that. However, my personal issue with that is that the journal might not be that keen to want to publish your paper after knowing it was publicly available elsewhere, as they thrive "innovation" and "being the first" as well. It's a very difficult problem, indeed.

New comment by raister in "Markov chains are funnier than LLMs"

raister — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 07:42:52 +0000

For anyone interested, I've wrote a while ago this book: "Markov Chains for programmers". Link: https://czekster.github.io/markov/

New comment by raister in "Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable"

raister — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 05:25:55 +0000

Roblox is a huge problem for me, as a parent of a 8y kid. Let me explain: I try to block violent apps in his tablet using Google's Family app, however, Roblox internally keeps 'offering' my kid almost any game, whatever if there's violence, drugs, killing others, and so forth.

It's a headache and a source of fights, so, I thank the responsible (/sarcasm).

New comment by raister in "Ask HN: What would be the single piece of advice you'd give a non-programmer?"

raister — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 07:03:56 +0000

The problem with Excel, in my view, is that people start using it as a database, and things get convoluted from there on very fast.

New comment by raister in "'I Am So Tired': YouTuber Tom Scott Ends Things You Might Not Know"

raister — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 05:01:56 +0000

He surely has a point stating that creators will compete with AI generated content in the years to come. Virtual stars are already plaguing the platform and companies are seeing those as costing less to produce content (and they don't have to handle PR campaigns whenever the 'physical' stars do something controversial).

Well, welcome to the future, I guess.

New comment by raister in "Thoughts on Testing"

raister — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 10:12:01 +0000

Please, elaborate.