Hacker News: satyanash

New comment by satyanash in "T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types"

satyanash — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 06:57:16 +0000

On Firefox, newlines in code blocks are broken for this website. This causes the page to scroll horizontally to accommodate all the code blocks. The code is all wrapped in a single line.

New comment by satyanash in "Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol"

satyanash — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 08:21:53 +0000

> "Please drink a verification can to continue"

New comment by satyanash in "Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine"

satyanash — Mon, 19 May 2025 19:29:01 +0000

> narrative only got picked up because people needed a reason to demonize evil corps

Either they aren't evil in which case they're being demonized, or they're already evil in which case demonization is redundant.

Keeping aside the motives of people, what is clear is that scale effects of AI cannot be ignored. An AI "learning" millions of pieces of content in a short span is not the same as humans spending time, effort and energy to replicate someone's style. You can argue that its 'neural nets' in both cases, but the massive scale is what separates the two.

A village is not a large family, a city is not a large village, ... and all that.

New comment by satyanash in "Push Ifs Up and Fors Down"

satyanash — Sun, 18 May 2025 09:01:01 +0000

> having positive branching first

This is advice I've never seen or received. It's always been the latter, exit early, etc. Languages like Swift even encode this into a feature, a la if guards.

New comment by satyanash in "One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software"

satyanash — Sun, 11 May 2025 08:54:16 +0000

> MY ONBOARD WIFI STILL DOESN’T WORK, I had to buy an external USB WiFi adapter. Thanks for nothing DriverHub.

All this, for literally nought

New comment by satyanash in "JEP draft: Prepare to make final mean final"

satyanash — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 05:28:53 +0000

> Prepare to make final mean final

missed opportunity to call it "final final"

New comment by satyanash in "New DOGE site update breaks down government jobs by salary/age/headcount"

satyanash — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 11:05:32 +0000

While it has CSV download, the schema is quite unusable. Someone have a cleaner dataset?

New comment by satyanash in "The myth that you can’t build interactive web apps except as single page app"

satyanash — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 14:34:40 +0000

Full title is "You Can't Build Interactive Web Apps Except as Single Page Applications... And Other Myths"

Omission of trailing part changes the meaning and makes it clickbaity.

New comment by satyanash in "Francois Chollet is leaving Google"

satyanash — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 07:59:09 +0000

> "Why did you decide to merge Keras into TensorFlow in 2019": I didn't! The decision was made in 2018 by the TF leads -- I was a L5 IC at the time and that was an L8 decision. The TF team was huge at the time, 50+ people, while Keras was just me and the open-source community. In retrospect I think Keras would have been better off as an independent multi-backend framework -- but that would have required me quitting Google back then.

The fact that an "L8" at Google ranks above an OSS maintainer of a super-popular library "L5" is incredibly interesting. How are these levels determined? Doesn't this represent a conflict of interest between the FOSS library and Google's own motivations? The maintainer having to pick between a great paycheck or control of the library (with the impending possibility of Google forking).

New comment by satyanash in "Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)"

satyanash — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 03:27:47 +0000

> Optimising for the wrong metric, and what do about it, is an important issue.

All metrics are wrong, some metrics are useful. Finding the useful one and then recognising when it ceases to become useful is the hard problem.

New comment by satyanash in "Snowflake removes Spark Pushdown support in favour of Snowpark"

satyanash — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 11:29:09 +0000

Spark's Advanced Query Pushdown feature automatically ensures that all possible filters and aggregations are performed on the underlying warehouse instead of being performed in-memory.

In [PR#572](https://github.com/snowflakedb/spark-snowflake/pull/572), Snowflake has removed this feature in their spark connector without any real explanation.

Snowflake removes Spark Pushdown support in favour of Snowpark

satyanash — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 11:29:09 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/snowflakedb/spark-snowflake/releases/tag/v3.0.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41160188

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by satyanash in "Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder"

satyanash — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 11:04:32 +0000

No talk of the license on the frontpage. Visiting the GitHub repo tells me it is 2-clause BSD license. It's high time we had a GPLv3 web browser, otherwise, this risks the same fate as the rest of the browsers with proprietary forks.

This of course comes at the cost of not being able to support non-free parts of the web standard such as DRM.

New comment by satyanash in "Known Meta Sites"

satyanash — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 07:36:12 +0000

Just because these hostnames point to FB IP addresses does not mean they're owned and operated by FB.

    > 0-1.fb.me
    > 0-7.fb.me
    > ...

This lists a bunch of subdomains, ideally only the second-level domain names that can be owned by FB should be listed. Because anything under that is obviously FB.

New comment by satyanash in "Kramdown-man: A Kramdown convert for converting Markdown files into man pages"

satyanash — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 10:06:48 +0000

You don't have to know Ruby for this to be useful to you. The tool converts markdown to roff files.

New comment by satyanash in "Show HN: Python-Type-Challenges, master Python typing with online exercises"

satyanash — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:19:42 +0000

This is quite useful for training people quickly and understanding how certain parts of the python `typing` module work. Thanks for making this.

New comment by satyanash in "Prophetic Perfect Tense"

satyanash — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 13:47:01 +0000

looks like the bible invented kubernetes/declarative definition before it was a thing

New comment by satyanash in "Reconstructing Obsidian Features in Vim and Bash"

satyanash — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 10:52:26 +0000

for emacs, there is obsidian.el - https://github.com/licht1stein/obsidian.el

New comment by satyanash in "How we deploy faster with warm Docker containers"

satyanash — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 05:56:15 +0000

> Consider git – it only ships the diffs, yet it produces whole and consistent repositories.

IIRC git does _not_ ship diffs. It copies whole files even for the tiniest change. The compression layer handles the de-duping, which is a different layer.

New comment by satyanash in "Golang disables Nagle's Algorithm by default"

satyanash — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 07:55:05 +0000

use git notes for attaching information to important commits, after the fact, without altering their SHA