Hacker News: samsonradu

New comment by samsonradu in "France's homegrown open source online office suite"

samsonradu — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:22:19 +0000

Wondering what software are China/Russia using in their public administration?

New comment by samsonradu in "Why do browsers throttle JavaScript timers?"

samsonradu — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:27:39 +0000

You might be referring to the Spectre mitigation changes:

Timer precision from performance.now and other sources is reduced to 1ms (r226495)

https://webkit.org/blog/8048/what-spectre-and-meltdown-mean-...

https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/226495/webkit

New comment by samsonradu in "Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year"

samsonradu — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 06:11:06 +0000

Isn't it already prospering?

New comment by samsonradu in "Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?"

samsonradu — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 06:57:03 +0000

How does it manage to hide the requests to 127.0.0.1 from the network tab?

New comment by samsonradu in "Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI?"

samsonradu — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 12:40:15 +0000

But will they be good enough? That’s a question that can only be answered after many years in a project’s lifecycle.

Not sure about allowing for more control, what happens when a complex/exotic issue that an AI is not able to solve arises? The bosses will have to pay a premium to whatever expert is left to address the problem.

New comment by samsonradu in "The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting"

samsonradu — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 21:53:14 +0000

Right, this reminds me of the threads around here on teleworking vs working in-office.

Once someone points out that they like going to the office because they get to socialize with co-workers, the replies typically sound like ‘don’t care, I’m not paid to socialize but to do my job’

While I understand the context can vary, it always struck me as an anti-social behavior.

New comment by samsonradu in "South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it"

samsonradu — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:34:21 +0000

The enemy within?

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-enemies-from-within-...

New comment by samsonradu in "Show HN: FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRank"

samsonradu — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:20:09 +0000

Isn't this inference an LLM's job? The RAG component just needs to find the Sharon article among a large dataset and pass it (entirely) to the LLM as context.

New comment by samsonradu in "Hacking the largest airline and hotel rewards platform (2023)"

samsonradu — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 13:48:56 +0000

Of course it's better to have a db doh... I'm replying to your

> By default flask doesnt have a db.

New comment by samsonradu in "Hacking the largest airline and hotel rewards platform (2023)"

samsonradu — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 12:50:16 +0000

There are solutions for that: Shared NAS, sticky sessions etc.

New comment by samsonradu in "Hacking the largest airline and hotel rewards platform (2023)"

samsonradu — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 12:09:31 +0000

Can't session data be stored on disk? that's the default PHP behavior.

New comment by samsonradu in "Hacking the largest airline and hotel rewards platform (2023)"

samsonradu — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 08:10:54 +0000

Also why would anyone store and read data like { 'groups': [...] } on the client-side? Session cookies are supposed to be identifiers only, with the data stored server-side.

Ending the Consultancy Cult

samsonradu — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 11:01:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/08/ending-the-consultancy-cult

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41152680

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by samsonradu in "What it was like working for Gitlab"

samsonradu — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 08:57:06 +0000

It s based on suply and demand indeed. The legal requirements might affect minimum pay.

New comment by samsonradu in "Payroll employment rises by 353K in January; unemployment rate remains at 3.7%"

samsonradu — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:24:03 +0000

Does the deficit increase[1] play a role in the very good economic numbers seen lately?

[1]https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-did-the-budget-defici...

New comment by samsonradu in "Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from searches in Safari"

samsonradu — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 19:45:08 +0000

To get Apple's users to switch to Android probably.

New comment by samsonradu in "Becoming a contractor"

samsonradu — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 12:39:18 +0000

1:10 is a little harsh, quite far from the norm. From my experience body shops subcontracting freelancers pay 80-90% of the daily rate (BENELUX area)

New comment by samsonradu in "Becoming a contractor"

samsonradu — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 09:38:29 +0000

One thing worth mentioning for EU’s IT industry is that there are large sectors like government which need IT services but can only work with contractors as hiring is not legally possible or extremely tedious. This means contractors get access to a larger market.

New comment by samsonradu in "Helping mentally ill people in the Philippines (2022)"

samsonradu — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 15:42:41 +0000

Indeed mental illness is higher than basic needs on the Maslow pyramid but some people overlook that.

Obviously people would care if they didn’t have more important/pressing needs to care about.

New comment by samsonradu in "GPT3 Get answers to technical questions from your documentation site"

samsonradu — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 11:56:27 +0000

Indeed I believe this is the blocking problem. I've been asking questions about EU legislation and it keeps answering BS and then apologizing:

Me: When was the last consolidation of Directive 2013/34/EU?

GPT: Directive 2013/34/EU, also known as the Annual Accounts Directive, was last consolidated on November 19, 2019. The consolidation process involves collecting all the amendments and updates to the directive and incorporating them into a single, updated version of the directive. ...

Me: Are you sure about the date of November 19, 2019? I could not find the consolidation on the EU official journal.

GPT: I apologize for the error. Upon further research, it appears that Directive 2013/34/EU has not been consolidated since it was originally adopted in 2013. Directive 2013/34/EU, also known as the Annual Accounts Directive,...

Me: Can you give me a list of the dates it was amended?

GPT:

- April 15, 2014: Directive 2014/56/EU amended Directive 2013/34/EU to clarify and supplement certain provisions regarding the preparation and publication of annual accounts and consolidated accounts.

- June 17, 2014: Directive 2014/65/EU amended Directive 2013/34/EU to introduce new rules on the provision of investment services and the performance of investment activities...

Me: I think you're wrong. Delegated Directive 2014/71/EU amends Directive 2011/65/EU.

GPT: I apologize for the error in my previous response. You are correct that Delegated Directive 2014/71/EU amends Directive 2011/65/EU, which is also known as the RoHS Directive.

It never gets it right. See https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32... for the correct data.