Hacker News: ramrunner0xff

New comment by ramrunner0xff in "Paradise Lost"

ramrunner0xff — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 04:01:39 +0000

what an amazing article packed with very useful physics insights. Need to follow up more on the last idea of the gaussian random force and the quantization of Newton's equations. Even the opening sentence had me try to remember some of my DE by expressing the rational faction via the technique of the variation of constants :) (have to admit that i felt too rusty...). Thank you for posting this!

New comment by ramrunner0xff in "Updates to H-1B"

ramrunner0xff — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:42:01 +0000

similarly i am in this ridiculous position. I am a security engineer, wanting to work in vulnerability research. Got an EB2-NIW green card due to my skills being valuable for the national interest. Can't even get an interview because all vulnerability researcher positions require TS clearance... I guess i will just have to wait 4 more years for the citizenship, but it's a pity.

New comment by ramrunner0xff in "Jpegli: A new JPEG coding library"

ramrunner0xff — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:57:23 +0000

this is a valid question why is it being downvoted?

New comment by ramrunner0xff in "Willow Protocol"

ramrunner0xff — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 22:19:48 +0000

hmm this is strange, i tried the invite and it worked for me. If you are on fedi, @thegibson@hackers.town is part of the team.

thanks for the links, i will get in touch personally when i try ir0h :)

New comment by ramrunner0xff in "Willow Protocol"

ramrunner0xff — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 19:37:33 +0000

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Kb1lKscAMDQ

this was the presentation at DC'31. i will also check out iroh! thanks for working in building something in this space, it is much much needed!

New comment by ramrunner0xff in "Willow Protocol"

ramrunner0xff — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:52:14 +0000

https://veilid.com/ should also be a great alternative. i haven't had time to use it yet, but it was built to address performance issues with ipfs and allow for both dht style content discovery, but also for direct websocket connections for streaming (and doing that in an anonymous fashion)

New comment by ramrunner0xff in "Fun is Dead"

ramrunner0xff — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 08:12:03 +0000

https://archive.is/xmTWb

New comment by ramrunner0xff in "Simple Networking in Linux"

ramrunner0xff — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 21:42:00 +0000

i would also need wpa_supplicant for the wifi though. i would also need to install ifconfig or iptools and making sure that systemd/network-network manager respects my config. I would also need to figure out the interface's name-du-jour or add udev rules to force a name of my preference. I hope you see my point.

New comment by ramrunner0xff in "Simple Networking in Linux"

ramrunner0xff — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 20:40:39 +0000

I'm sorry but i fail to see how this is _simple_ networking. It shows the state of Linux these days. Compare that with OpenBSD's interface to do the same thing.

wired: ifconfig [if] autoconf up

wireless: ifconfig [if] join [ssid] wpakey [pass] autoconf up

Consistent documentation existing in man ifconfig. The sad thing is that Linux used to be designed not evolved.

New comment by ramrunner0xff in "Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]"

ramrunner0xff — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 17:42:35 +0000

completely agree with you. ken and the not so big group of people who has positively shaped all our technology really need more appreciation from us users, although i'm sure he would be weirded out by it like any proper geek. That been said: thanks ken!

New comment by ramrunner0xff in "Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]"

ramrunner0xff — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 17:34:31 +0000

what about designing the DSP/memory scsi disk that managed to do realtime ripping to PAC, then changing all that to mp3 using LAME, and the most important, creating usable metadata and finding all these CDs, and even finding ways to find a top-N song collection from dates that didn't have any relevant publications. I think you're underselling his achievement a bit ;). I found the talk to be an epic geek journey.

New comment by ramrunner0xff in "On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning"

ramrunner0xff — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 17:55:59 +0000

I came to argue in favor of aj7's argument as a physicist. I think we are all missing the forest for the trees here. what elevates the gravitational law to it's status and differentiates it from a simple model, and what i think the point that aj7 is trying to make, and also the point that norvig is choosing not to focus on here, is not the gravitational constant G. Noone really cares about the value of the constant and how it is approximated in this part of our spacetime etc [edit: of course they do care if it is postive, zero, or negative for reasons consistent to what i am saying later]. The "juice" here is the inverse square relation to length. The form of the equation is what is the deep insight and what also provides for that insight to transfer to other systems. Knowing the nature of the differential equation is of uttermost importance because then we can reason about possible and impossible outcomes of it just from it's mathematical (and only) nature. If these models in the future can be built in ways that they can be reasoned about symbolically like these systems that we strive for in physics, i think they will be elevated to laws (or proper theories as aj7 says) rather than models. and noone will care if they have a billion parameters as long as they have a certain structure that we can work with. I hope this makes some sense to support the counter-norvig argument in this (and i personally respect both chomsky and norvig infinitely of course. i just think norvig's wording in this specific part of the article is indeed crude and shallow, maybe just to make his counterargument)

New comment by ramrunner0xff in "Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?"

ramrunner0xff — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 06:52:26 +0000

many great suggestions but i can't believe no one has mentioned the original SICP lectures yet :)! (and a thing i always enjoy in it is the transformation to the expressions of the students as more magic is revealed)

New comment by ramrunner0xff in "Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?"

ramrunner0xff — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 06:49:05 +0000

the autograding is super well designed indeed. shooting for > 95% on the hw was great fun!

New comment by ramrunner0xff in "Show HN: Shite – little hot-reloadin' static site maker from shell"

ramrunner0xff — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:39:38 +0000

I haven't really, because the only place where i needed valid html generated mostly by the program is on the navbar , the taglist etc. the main docu is kinda plaintext on a div when rendering html. But i will go back and investigate your idea since it would be elegant and rc supports normal here documents. for example

  ed $3 <


changes all occurrences of $1 to $2 in file $3. 
:)



New comment by ramrunner0xff in "Show HN: Shite – little hot-reloadin' static site maker from shell"
ramrunner0xff — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 04:46:35 +0000

amazing mind-link. i have also built a similar program (also called shite) only centered around plan9's rc shell and ndb, to manage my shite ;) (my use case is building a gemini+html output page with date/tag navigation from mostly plain text + minimal markdown in the form of tags and links).
https://git.2f30.org/shite/files.html



New comment by ramrunner0xff in "Do not Draw a Penis"
ramrunner0xff — Fri, 15 May 2020 03:41:43 +0000

i also wrote "penis" and it didn't get it either.



New comment by ramrunner0xff in "2M chickens to be killed in US processing plants due to lack of employees"
ramrunner0xff — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 10:02:53 +0000

so by extension everything is just great, right? What if a person perishes from torture and war crimes? it at least lived part of its life happily before that. Who knows what would happen if the person was born in the sucks-to-be-there (TM) "dimension" (!?). what is consciousness? is the person who is reading this now conscious? who knows. let's all eat each other while we ponder these great questions. could be totally worse, yeah. ;)



New comment by ramrunner0xff in "Trump to temporarily suspend all immigration into the US"
ramrunner0xff — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 06:24:48 +0000

same here. 6 years in the us. j1/h1 working on netsec research. i really want to quit and go back home to europe just to look at the sky or the walls a bit in order to relax. all this stress isn't worth it.