Hacker News: sseveran

New comment by sseveran in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

sseveran — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:28:24 +0000

Its cool. I will buy. And you will buy in 12 months.

New comment by sseveran in "Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts"

sseveran — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 22:06:00 +0000

This is going to cause some disruptions. What are the alternatives out there to bitnami charts?

New comment by sseveran in "Alaska CEO: We found many loose bolts on our Max planes"

sseveran — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 12:53:04 +0000

They had an engineer as CEO. That one did not work out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Muilenburg

New comment by sseveran in "Nothing Has Made Me Feel More American Than Going to Jail"

sseveran — Mon, 10 May 2021 18:48:44 +0000

Some context can be found here: https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/ccsu-professor-sus...

New comment by sseveran in "How far does sound travel in the ocean?"

sseveran — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:13:58 +0000

And the US built a global network of microphones to track them called SOSUS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOSUS

New comment by sseveran in "Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees to pay over $2.5B"

sseveran — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 23:46:37 +0000

Oh, I don't blame him at all. A commercial airliner is a decade long project to undertake. However its clear he was not the leader to lead a company through a crisis.

New comment by sseveran in "Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees to pay over $2.5B"

sseveran — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 22:00:02 +0000

The CEO that Boeing fired at the end of 2019 was an aerospace engineer who had been with the company since 1985.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Muilenburg

New comment by sseveran in "Tesla Mania vs. Economic Reality"

sseveran — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 13:08:54 +0000

A quick look at their 10Q does not show that their Energy generation and storage business is extremely profitable. It eeks out a small profit before operating expenses. That may change in the future. It is also a small business relative to their car business.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000156459020...

New comment by sseveran in "EU countries team up for semiconductor push"

sseveran — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 14:29:52 +0000

There is at least one YC company that would beg to differ with respect to airlines. Boom Technology.

https://boomsupersonic.com

New comment by sseveran in "Ask HN: How is your PPP loan application coming along?"

sseveran — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 10:12:10 +0000

If those kind of risks were imposed on banks they would only work with businesses they knew very well or not at all. As it is there were significant questions from the banks side on what they would be liable for if the loan was ultimately found to be invalid, or fraud.

New comment by sseveran in "Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs"

sseveran — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 12:35:19 +0000

There is nothing as permanent as a temporary solution.

New comment by sseveran in "FCC forced by court to ask the public again for feedback on net neutrality"

sseveran — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 23:47:01 +0000

1mbps is 324 GB in a month.

New comment by sseveran in "Morgan Stanley to Buy E-Trade for $13B"

sseveran — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 15:49:51 +0000

Stepping in between buyers and sellers is called market making. They smooth supply and demand across time.

Also I don't define front running that way, FINRA does.

https://www.finra.org/rules-guidance/rulebooks/finra-rules/5...

New comment by sseveran in "Morgan Stanley to Buy E-Trade for $13B"

sseveran — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:06:16 +0000

It's not basically front running. Front running is specifically when a broker gets your order and sits on it until either they or another client can trade in front of it before the market moves. Market makers want to interact with retail orders since they typically don't have size and in aggregate are either non-directional or predictably directional. This reduces the market makers risk of adverse selection.

New comment by sseveran in "Google/Trax – Understand and explore advanced deep learning"

sseveran — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 15:25:30 +0000

I agree with this, although I think it was a conscious and deliberate choice with TF 2.0. We have given up on TF for all future work which is sad since I really appreciate a number of the pieces that surround the core. I think they made a choice to emphasize the support of already developed models and make the experience great for novices will be a decision that they will come to regret. We found so many issues when we tried to port some of our existing models to TF 2.0. The sad part was that there were GitHub issues for all of them.

Personally I think Tensorflow has already lost and we just need to let it play out over the next few years. One interesting wrinkle is that since Trax, Jax and Flax utilize pieces of Tensorflow the TF team can probably claim good internal adoption numbers depending on how they count.

Boeing fired midlevel executive following embarrassing emails

sseveran — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 17:44:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-fired-midlevel-executive-following-embarrassing-emails-11581521922

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22310872

Points: 176

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New comment by sseveran in "Bruce Schneier: Banning Facial Recognition Isn’t Enough"

sseveran — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:53:03 +0000

I agree it will probably be use case based, but maybe not. It could be that at least one state bans using software to recognize faces. I believe San Francisco had to amend its facial recognition ban to allow the use of iPhones.

I also think a lot of people calling for a ban have not really thought through what would be banned. Do we ban models trained with triplet loss over any biometric data? Is it just specific entities that are banned from using it? Is it ok for Apple to build me an album of pictures of my wife and I? How do we define face recognition?

This is an incredibly complex and nuanced topic and it seems like many people discussing it just wave their hands without considering what the ramifications of any overly broad definition might lead to.

https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-amended-its-fa...

New comment by sseveran in "FDA and NIH let clinical trial sponsors keep results secret and break the law"

sseveran — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:53:26 +0000

The Tuskegee syphilis experiment was run by US Public Health Service which is currently part of the HHS. The FDA was founded in 1906, although it has earlier origins, which is well before the study was begun.

New comment by sseveran in "Boeing Fought Lion Air on Proposed Max Simulator Training Requirement"

sseveran — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 16:00:01 +0000

I mean that is a pretty strong statement. It's not like it was really possible to criminally charge Tony Hayward with being at fault for a faulty blow out preventer design, even though a number of people died. In some ways we were probably less safe with him fired, given that one of his objectives was to develop a much stronger engineering centric culture at BP.

In Brazil Vale and a number of its executives (along with the European dam inspector) are expected to be indicted. It will like be about falsifying documents related to dam safety.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vale-sa-disaster-exclusiv...

Proving that the CEO is the one that should go to jail, while satisfying, is actually quite difficult. While I would probably agree with one piece of your sentiment, senior executives are often able to escape prosecution for things that are clearly illegal (looking at you HSBC), simply trying to lockup CEOs I don't think is the right way to go.

New comment by sseveran in "Boeing Fought Lion Air on Proposed Max Simulator Training Requirement"

sseveran — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 12:37:50 +0000

VW's former CEO isn't being charged with killing anyone one. He has been charged with committing fraud by knowingly lying to regulators.