Hacker News: retbull

New comment by retbull in "Graph Neural Networks use graphs when they shouldn't"

retbull — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 16:30:40 +0000

Well the whole point of this paper is NOT everything is a graph.

New comment by retbull in "What's wrong with enterprise Linux"

retbull — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 18:46:02 +0000

Every 6 months? That seems like a pretty long window for tribal knowledge to get lost. Is 6 months arbitrary or is there some reasoning behind that cadence?

New comment by retbull in "A Sun-like star orbiting a boson star"

retbull — Tue, 30 May 2023 20:51:40 +0000

The original paper that is referred to in this is https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06833

New comment by retbull in "Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions"

retbull — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 00:51:02 +0000

They saw raid shadow legends was making more money than them and thought they'd take a page out of their book on micro transactions.

New comment by retbull in "An unwinnable seed of Slay the Spire"

retbull — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 18:34:43 +0000

I feel like it is pretty indistinguishable in STS if you lost because you made an incorrect decision somewhere or the run is unwinnable. Something like Zelda or Metroid you can reach a point and the game has some kind of obvious solution or key you need. STS has too many solutions to the problems of what you face and no way to go back and recheck things. The fact that it is almost impossible to find an unsolvable STS seed seems to indicate that their approach is pretty good. Player frustration in STS except for the tiny number of runs indicated in this post is entirely skill based.

New comment by retbull in "Fork() is evil; vfork() is goodness; afork() would be better; clone() is stupid"

retbull — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 19:46:00 +0000

Builder patterns for primitives? I think that seems super cool but then aren't you just building a new language?

New comment by retbull in "A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life"

retbull — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 16:22:37 +0000

As long as I can install DOOM on it IDK about the platform.

New comment by retbull in "Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?"

retbull — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 21:52:56 +0000

New comment by retbull in "Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?"

retbull — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 19:44:08 +0000

Reading this is making me sick. I am working on leaving my large company for a start up for this exact reason. Something as simple as changing a tag on a server requires submitting a request -> waiting for the reply that they are working on it -> getting someone contacting you 1-3 days later -> Confirming the changes you want -> finding the changes in place the next day -> telling them the ticket is closed.

New comment by retbull in "AWS us-east-1 outage"

retbull — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 19:48:20 +0000

"Only direction is up"

New comment by retbull in "Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop"

retbull — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 17:14:03 +0000

From an entirely tongue in cheek perspective isn't all ruby idiomatic.

New comment by retbull in "Maine voters reject Quebec hydropower transmission line"

retbull — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 23:08:14 +0000

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Power_lines_through_... They cut down all the trees nearby so its basically a clear cut strip thats as wide as the poles are tall.

New comment by retbull in "Trying to get a job in a labor shortage is harder than you think"

retbull — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 16:22:34 +0000

Did you read the article at all? They aren't talking about the pay as it is a separate issue. There literally isn't time for the managers to train and onboard people resulting in a bad experience for the new employee, the customers, and sometimes even resulting in termination for violation of policies the employee never learned about. You can't put knowledge in someones head with just money.

New comment by retbull in "California ports among world’s least efficient, ranking shows"

retbull — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 21:29:26 +0000

That story is so incredibly narrow and misleading its absurd.

New comment by retbull in "Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked"

retbull — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 18:49:34 +0000

Yeah volume is a terrible metric to go by. I work as a data engineer and a lot of the time if I am working between environments or when migrating between data centers will have a copy of the data locally that I can write tests against or move to somewhere I can compare it to a running output. This would be possible to do entirely remotely I guess but not nearly as easy. (note I never do this with anything that contains PII)

New comment by retbull in "‘Impossible’ particle discovery adds key piece to the strong force puzzle"

retbull — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 19:10:58 +0000

Statistics like the op said. If you are expecting your decay products from an interaction to be 20% X and 80% Y but after 100 billion attempts which should have averaged out to the expected outcome you instead get 21% X and 79% Y something in your calculation is wrong.

New comment by retbull in "New details on silicon, subatomic particles and possible ‘fifth force’"

retbull — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 21:06:25 +0000

From what I read in this article they didn't prove that the force exists at all they actually showed that it wasn't present in several areas. This helps other people who are doing experiments in the area by cutting down on the range of sizes they need to look in for it but it doesn't provide evidence for its existence.

New comment by retbull in "An error message if you put more than 2^24 items in a JS Map object"

retbull — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 22:20:37 +0000

I feel like if you are working with genome levels of data maybe you shouldn't be using JS to do the work. JS is a great tool in some cases but not really a scientific one. I guess you use whatever you know.

New comment by retbull in "Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel"

retbull — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 21:00:46 +0000

I don't really agree with much of google any more but I was at one point fairly involved in a project there. They do have some more secure systems for government use that isn't the crazy leaky ad cesspool gmail and docs is.

New comment by retbull in "18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated"

retbull — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 14:15:26 +0000

Ah papyrus oh how I missed you from high school.