Hacker News: targonca

New comment by targonca in "Tesla Cybertruck"

targonca — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 12:34:22 +0000

>This thing is Pontiac Aztec bad.

Is it just me, or DDG really shows an image of a turd when searching for "Pontiac Aztec"? :D

New comment by targonca in "Colossal Holograms"

targonca — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 12:55:12 +0000

Parent meant that it can't obscure the environment. E.g. you can't put your finger behind the cover of the compass in your image.

New comment by targonca in "Colossal Holograms"

targonca — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 10:05:53 +0000

You would need a beefy machine to render 45 8k images per frame.

New comment by targonca in "Differentiable Programming Manifesto"

targonca — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 09:40:01 +0000

So now everyone's pet project gets a language extension in Swift? Apple extended the language with @_functionBuilder for SwiftUI. Now Google wants to extend it with this differentiable stuff for TensorFlow.

Why won't they implement proper metaprogramming support instead of proliferating the core language?

New comment by targonca in "Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outside of a crosswalk"

targonca — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 15:09:05 +0000

Because you don't want to be the one whose team is lacking in agility on the next company all-hands meeting ;)

New comment by targonca in "What does the Laplace Transform tell us? A visual explanation [video]"

targonca — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 11:29:19 +0000

I prefer this one:

Where the Laplace Transform comes from (Arthur Mattuck, MIT) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqOboV2jgVo

New comment by targonca in "Snap: A Microkernel Approach to Host Networking"

targonca — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 10:40:59 +0000

So, you'd like to expose the whole kernel to Spectre-type attacks. Wonderful!

New comment by targonca in "The Uncertain Fate of Amsterdam’s Red-Light District"

targonca — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:25:10 +0000

Sounds like gentrification to me.

New comment by targonca in "“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”"

targonca — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:23:18 +0000

Why not have carrier executives install 5G base stations on their houses as a publicity stunt?

New comment by targonca in "America’s Pistachio Industry Came from a Single Seed"

targonca — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 10:25:15 +0000

Sanctions aside, Iranian pistachios taste so much better.

New comment by targonca in "Humans have salamander-like ability to regrow cartilage in joints"

targonca — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 16:03:38 +0000

Cauliflower ears are caused by the ear cartilage dying off and being replaced by fibrous scar tissue. That's definitely not cartilage overgrowth.

New comment by targonca in "Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption"

targonca — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 08:41:05 +0000

Yes, Epstein committed suicide, and Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. Every sane person knows that.

New comment by targonca in "People are reporting collisions with Tesla’s Smart Summon feature"

targonca — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 15:11:15 +0000

Are there no dedicated parking spots for the disabled in the US?

New comment by targonca in "Buffon's needle or how ants estimate nest size"

targonca — Sat, 28 Sep 2019 21:15:57 +0000

>although I would dispute the beauty of some of the proofs in it

Agree. In my opinion, the proofs in that book are not so much about beauty, rather how one can prove seemingly complex stuff with surprisingly elementary tools.

New comment by targonca in "It’s not just p=0.048 vs. p=0.052"

targonca — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:58:29 +0000

Yep, it's confirmed with p = 0.049

New comment by targonca in "Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986"

targonca — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 17:37:12 +0000

I personally prefer buying FLAC from Bandcamp. It's the most artist-friendly option I'm aware of (and the most environmentally friendly too!). Some of them even include the same artwork in PDF that would be printed for the CD/vinyl edition.

New comment by targonca in "Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986"

targonca — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 17:32:46 +0000

This. Just give me FLAC with vinyl artwork in PDF.

Vinyl actually has less dynamic range than CD - it's the equivalent of around 12 bit dithered PCM.

New comment by targonca in "Google’s GDPR Workaround"

targonca — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:47:57 +0000

>And then Mr. Tripathi went missing

False. He went missing a month before the bombings:

>Soon after, another redditor named Sunil as a plausible suspect after asserting a resemblance between the suspects in the FBI's pictures and Sunil, who had gone missing a month before the bombings.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunil_Tripathi

New comment by targonca in "Building Interactive SSH Applications"

targonca — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 13:45:39 +0000

    keys = (f"command=\"buildsrht-shell '{b64key}'\",restrict,pty " +
            f"{key_type} {b64key} somebody\n")

Now it depends on how b64key is sanitized.

New comment by targonca in "Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News"

targonca — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 19:48:13 +0000

In Safari: View → Zoom In

It's smart enough to remember the zoom level the next time you open HN too.