Hacker News: salicideblock

New comment by salicideblock in "Introducing System One Models and Jev"

salicideblock — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:33:47 +0000

> What even is "system one"

I definitely agree it's underexplained in type safe.ai's materials.

I have to assume it's a reference to the fast, heuristic, intuitive "system 1" process in humans, as opposed to the slow, procedural, reasoning "system 2".

This theory is recognized, among others, in Daniel Kahneman 2002 Nobel prize on Economics.

New comment by salicideblock in "‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut"

salicideblock — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:28:11 +0000

The post you replied to is a reference to Bandit saying "it's just monkeys singing songs, mate", when he goes to the movies with Bluey.

New comment by salicideblock in "The PayPal Mafia is taking over America's government"

salicideblock — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:41:49 +0000

It looks like the reporter did as much reporting as they could do before being thrown out.

New comment by salicideblock in "Imhex: A hex editor for reverse engineers"

salicideblock — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 12:32:52 +0000

FYI, from the project's Readme:

> In case you don't have a GPU available, there are software rendered releases available for Windows and macOS

New comment by salicideblock in "Logistics challenges of saving Air India’s diverted 777 in Russia"

salicideblock — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 21:33:02 +0000

Thanks!

Adding source, on Flightradar24 itself (same as the article): https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/vt-alh

New comment by salicideblock in "Rust, RR, Neovim: A perfect debug combination"

salicideblock — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 11:05:40 +0000

termdebug (used by the tool linked in the topic) basically does this for anything you can debug in GDB. It's the tightest integration of debuggers and (neo)vim I have used.

There are also DAP-based integrations, which I have put the effort into using.

New comment by salicideblock in "There’s no such thing as a tree phylogenetically (2021)"

salicideblock — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 15:51:40 +0000

From 2021.

Previous discussions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27094382

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29621646

Cool article either way.

New comment by salicideblock in "Galois field instructions on 2021 CPUs"

salicideblock — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 18:05:10 +0000

Expanding on this,a very nice property of Galois Counter Mode (GCM) for AES is that encrypting one block does not require the previous block to be encrypted, like in AES-CBC.

This means that AES-GCM can take advantage of data parallelism and there are big speedups in threaded and pipelined CPUs.

In short, you can get big latency and throughout gains by using AES-GCM over AES-CBC.

New comment by salicideblock in "Microbes that cause cavities can form superorganisms able to ‘crawl’"

salicideblock — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 08:54:14 +0000

Teeth will be replaced one by one, and their mouth microbiome and habits will not be replaced wholesale.

Yeah, adult teeth erase some of the damage but it's not a fresh start.

New comment by salicideblock in "The IT Crowd US Pilot (2007) [video]"

salicideblock — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 12:51:54 +0000

Maybe that's why it did not make it past pilot. Why reshoot if it's going to be so similar?

New comment by salicideblock in "The Dynamics of Music Exploration on Spotify"

salicideblock — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 07:23:47 +0000

> Exploration spikes around Christmas, for example, during which people may be influenced to seek out season-specific music.

For my case, exploration does spike around Christmas, but this is due to all the "best albums of the year" lists coming out.

I get more than my fill of Christmas music involuntarily, no need to "discover" more.

New comment by salicideblock in "Spotify to acquire Heardle"

salicideblock — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 18:56:07 +0000

The transition is rocky. I seem to have lost my stats - more than 100 days of results...

Good for the devs, but sucks for me and the group of friends who were informally competing

New comment by salicideblock in "Should GitHub be sued for training Copilot on GPL code?"

salicideblock — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:30:08 +0000

Should be tagged (2021)

ToF-AR: Sony Toolkit for AR with Time-of-Flight Cameras

salicideblock — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 07:41:00 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.sony.com/develop/tof-ar

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31833087

Points: 1

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New comment by salicideblock in "My 40-liter backpack travel guide"

salicideblock — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 19:56:07 +0000

I had the exact same immediate reaction. If you're out of sync with the times, that makes two of us...

New comment by salicideblock in "‘This game is so realistic it feels just like working overtime’"

salicideblock — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 16:47:13 +0000

I've never been in a war zone. I could not play more than 10 minutes of that game, as I was becoming so stressed.

Having a quit button is the best part of these video game experiences.

New comment by salicideblock in "Launch HN: Litebulb (YC W22) – Automating the coding interview"

salicideblock — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 13:18:24 +0000

Is that list of tech stacks complete?

Personally I am looking for such a tool but have a hard requirement for native compiled languages (C/C++/Rust).

I know that there is some transfer - a good developer that does a decent Python/Go exercise likely could also be good in other languages. But candidates might not want to do that transition.

New comment by salicideblock in "Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard"

salicideblock — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:01:24 +0000

I've noticed :/

I'm hoping the Steam Deck will provide a more open portable console.

New comment by salicideblock in "The enigmatic Portuguese R (2013)"

salicideblock — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 19:57:26 +0000

Portuguese (at least the one from Portugal) has 9 vowel phonemes, compared to 5 for spanish. If you count the nasals it's 14. And you can add some additional vowel richness in diphthongs.

It's very very varied phonetically when compared to the neighboring Spanish, which IIRC underwent considerable simplification at in the 16th century with unification of Spain.

I've heard many French and Spanish native speakers expressing the difficulty to understand it.

Source: Portuguese native speaker with decades-long immersion in Spanish and French-speaking communities.

New comment by salicideblock in "The enigmatic Portuguese R (2013)"

salicideblock — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 15:30:03 +0000

Actually, I am familiar with a rolling r such as in English 'rat', used in place of the the initial R or double RR, in rural central and northern Portugal.

The linked article acknowledges this at the end