<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: saint_abroad</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=saint_abroad</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:14:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=saint_abroad" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saint_abroad in "Mathematicians Have Found a Shape with a Pattern That Never Repeats"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>2 months later we have the "Spectre" - an aperiodic monotile (without reflections): <a href="https://aperiodical.com/2023/05/now-thats-what-i-call-an-aperiodic-monotile/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://aperiodical.com/2023/05/now-thats-what-i-call-an-ape...</a><p>Edit - a visual explanation of this journey: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfVwelta1fE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfVwelta1fE</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2023 13:52:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446818</link><dc:creator>saint_abroad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446818</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saint_abroad in "A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Americans waste almost 40% of all the food that is produced in America, and for all sorts of reasons.<p>Put another way, free markets produce 67% more than required. When it comes to food, most populations that eat prefer a market that favors the buyer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2022 09:06:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33065067</link><dc:creator>saint_abroad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33065067</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33065067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saint_abroad in "Ask HN: Do you use foreign keys in relational databases?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> There are any number of tools that will generate me a pretty and useful database schema diagram if I point them at a relational database.<p>I'd even go so far as to design database schema with these ER diagram tools in mind: if the automatic diagram is messy then that's more-often-than-not a code-smell in need of refactoring (before being hit with production data).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2022 15:46:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32738729</link><dc:creator>saint_abroad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32738729</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32738729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saint_abroad in "Alex Jones must pay $4M in damages for Sandy Hook hoax claims"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> his companies were earning about $800,000 a day selling diet supplements, gun paraphernalia and survivalist equipment.<p>It's almost as if Jones' show is a binary classification filter for chumps <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-nigerian-scammers-say-they-are-from-nigeria/" rel="nofollow">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2022 14:17:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32356413</link><dc:creator>saint_abroad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32356413</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32356413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saint_abroad in "A 165-Mile Drone Superhighway Will Soon Be Built in the UK"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sound decreases by 6dB for every doubling of distance: <a href="https://www.airbornedrones.co/drone-noise-levels/" rel="nofollow">https://www.airbornedrones.co/drone-noise-levels/</a><p>So a typical 80db commercial drone flying at 300m (CAA minimum) would be 50db at ground level (closest point), or about a loud conversation (but less than quiet road traffic).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2022 08:40:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32177060</link><dc:creator>saint_abroad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32177060</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32177060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saint_abroad in "Show HN: PubKey – Communicate Privately in Anonymous Public Spaces"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why is the pubkey "hash" sent to the server as a query, rather than staying client-side as a fragment?<p>Why does "Regenerate Private Key" not actually regenerate private key?<p>Why is the pubkey obfuscated by encrypting with "123NSA"?<p>How do I know the 624-byte pubkey "hash" doesn't contain the 32-byte private key?<p>How do I know the server isn't secretly harvesting IP addresses, associating them with pubkeys, and crawling referrer URLs for messages?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:09:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32139917</link><dc:creator>saint_abroad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32139917</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32139917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saint_abroad in "Human attention has become a commodity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd corrupt the quote slightly to factor informational effects of propaganda:
"a wealth of [conflicting] information creates [an apathy] of attention and a need to [withdraw] that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it."<p>In this way, information sources can destroy attention rather than foster efficient allocation (which is hard work).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2022 09:00:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31736372</link><dc:creator>saint_abroad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31736372</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31736372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saint_abroad in "Celsius Appears insolvent, and it's taking the whole crypto market with it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So the only hangover from bad parties is that the party ends?<p>The biggest, baddest parties will always draw the popular crowd, and the same DJs will know better when to quietly slip out the back door with bags full.<p>How does a well-regulated party compete against that without calling for more regulation?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2022 08:41:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31736256</link><dc:creator>saint_abroad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31736256</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31736256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saint_abroad in "Ride a Bird scooter. Have an accident. Pay a mighty price"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Life is filled with risk. Accept them or don't.<p>Life is also filled with negligence. Companies (and people) have a duty of care to minimise risk or damage to others.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:53:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30909786</link><dc:creator>saint_abroad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30909786</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30909786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saint_abroad in "Why enterprise software is bloated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Hardware is quite cheap.<p>Enterprise has embraced a cloud-first stragegy.<p>Suddenly, throwing hardware at a problem becomes throwing cash at the cloud.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2022 14:52:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30541752</link><dc:creator>saint_abroad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30541752</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30541752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saint_abroad in "Uniting the Linux random-number devices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Linux keeps track of "credit" for entrophy pool sources.<p>Anyone can write to /dev/random - this mixes data into the entrophy pool but it won't be "credited" as securely increasing /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail . <a href="https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Dev/Entropy" rel="nofollow">https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Dev/Entropy</a><p>Similarly, systemd-boot can seed from disk but will not "credit" entrophy. <a href="https://systemd.io/RANDOM_SEEDS/" rel="nofollow">https://systemd.io/RANDOM_SEEDS/</a><p>If the point of /dev/random is to provide crytographically secure random numbers, then some level of paranoia is needed for determining which sources are "credited" for initializing the pool. <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/760121/" rel="nofollow">https://lwn.net/Articles/760121/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2022 16:59:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30375447</link><dc:creator>saint_abroad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30375447</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30375447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saint_abroad in "The Milken Way - “The scarce resource in our society is not money but people.”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Creating more money steals value from everyone who has traded their work for money, and creating less of it adds value.<p>Conversely, creating more debt (as is with QE) adds value to everyone who has borrowed to invest. At some point though (usually through bankrupcy) this becomes inflationary.<p>It is inflation that steals value from producers who trade work for money: remedied only by demanding more money this is a vicious cycle.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2021 10:26:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28704794</link><dc:creator>saint_abroad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28704794</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28704794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saint_abroad in "The Milken Way - “The scarce resource in our society is not money but people.”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Persistent inflation generally happens when an economy runs out of people.<p>While there is a short run tradeoff between unemployment and inflation, it has not been observed in the long run. The Phillips curve was contradicted the 1970's and flatlined in the 2010's.<p>Persistent inflation happens when central banks are no longer trusted to manage M2.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2021 10:10:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28704719</link><dc:creator>saint_abroad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28704719</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28704719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saint_abroad in "Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> But they'll probably check some box for some security audit so they're used.<p>A WAF is useful for when a zero-day is found for that legacy application you just can't get patches for anymore because the team has "moved on".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2021 14:38:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28539665</link><dc:creator>saint_abroad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28539665</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28539665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saint_abroad in "The “bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production” study might not exist"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The "Y2K bug" cost an estimated US$300 billion in remedial work, having been in production for ~40 years.<p>Corollary: The most expensive bugs to fix are the oldest bugs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:15:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27917953</link><dc:creator>saint_abroad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27917953</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27917953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saint_abroad in "A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Deep Neural Indifference - DNNs without emotional weights to guide behaviour and interactions. Leads to impaired empathy and lack of remorse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2021 11:27:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27917637</link><dc:creator>saint_abroad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27917637</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27917637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saint_abroad in "Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers are panicking"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Indeed, maybe it's about time advertisers got back to sponsoring quality content their target audience enjoys, rather than direct marketing through the back door on the lowest common denominator.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:29:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27845862</link><dc:creator>saint_abroad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27845862</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27845862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saint_abroad in "Man Wrongfully Arrested by Facial Recognition Tells Congress His Story"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Drug tests generally produce false-positive results in 5% to 10% of cases and false negatives in 10% to 15% of cases, new research shows.<p>Most often, some tests have high sensitivity (no false negatives) whilst others have high specificity (no false positives). (Rarely both.)<p>So, for example, this is the reason why a positive RT-PCR test has more weight than a negative test because of the test’s high specificity but moderate sensitivity.<p>Lumping together false positive stats (for low-specificity tests) with false negative stats (for low-sensitivity tests) is misleading at best.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 12:44:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27832406</link><dc:creator>saint_abroad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27832406</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27832406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saint_abroad in "Man Wrongfully Arrested by Facial Recognition Tells Congress His Story"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> deploying a technology with obvious potential false positives<p>"Okay, let's run this through the system."<p>"What, no match? This system sucks."<p>"Let's try the competitor's system."<p>"56% match! We're in business."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 11:28:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27831886</link><dc:creator>saint_abroad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27831886</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27831886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saint_abroad in "All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Perhaps I wasn't clear enough on this point: copyright of a derivative work is distinct (but not inseparable) to the copyright of the original work.<p>So portions of a derivative work are covered by the original copyright, and other portions may be under a distinct copyright as a derivative work, and several copyrights may apply to a work as a whole.<p>In the case of a Huffman transform, the transformed work does not meet the "creativity" requirements to be eligible for copyright, over that of the original works.</p>
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