Hacker News: vinaigrette

New comment by vinaigrette in "Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions"

vinaigrette — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:08:39 +0000

Great memory, great reference!

New comment by vinaigrette in "Glaciers on the Climate Dashboard"

vinaigrette — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:48:09 +0000

I don't know you but I doubt you're largely responsible for the climate crisis. What I mean is that the "we" is a unsteerable concept. As such, I don't consider myself responsible. I do as much as my limited power lets me (also i guess I could resort myself to more potent ways of political expression). People that have power are responsible.

New comment by vinaigrette in "People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more"

vinaigrette — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:40:22 +0000

What do you mean by "go" ? Talk ?

New comment by vinaigrette in "Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs"

vinaigrette — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:53:00 +0000

I must say right of the bat this is the best research paper/working paper in regards to its styling. Beautiful

New comment by vinaigrette in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

vinaigrette — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:53:42 +0000

I wonder if submerged system with coolant could mitigate this ?

New comment by vinaigrette in "RamenHaus"

vinaigrette — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:35:52 +0000

What's crazy is that there is a shot in the car where a guy is reading to the driver ! Never have I seen that elsewhere, but what a brilliant idea !

New comment by vinaigrette in "The great wealth transfer reality check"

vinaigrette — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:58:08 +0000

I was equally stunt, but get this : Visa wants to know how much people are going to spend using their services. This is not a sound socio-economic analysis of the wealth transfer. I think overall few people read this type of report.

Instead, it gives insight on a phenomenon that is expected to be an "event". They show that it's going to be gradual, that it already started. Maybe it is a way to inform potential investors in Visa ? Maybe it is a report intended for the business side customers (i.e. commerces) ? I don't know.

Plus, it gives an interesting insight on how the "_real_" economy is still a topic of research where every discourse seem to be on financial performances. I found it interesting after having a repulsed reaction to what I considered a grossly irrelevant account of socio-economic dynamics of the so called "great wealth transfer" (horrible name), like you.

New comment by vinaigrette in "Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong?"

vinaigrette — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:05:46 +0000

This is great. I suck, considering how much I like anthropology and history ... Would be nice to have access to other museum collections, considering the Met has a bias in collecting from such and such nation (at least i'm pretty sure, maybe less than the british museum ?). Anyway, I had a blast :).

New comment by vinaigrette in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

vinaigrette — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:30:43 +0000

I generated a very stylish Pelican using the webapp. Hard to put a judgement on it relative to yours https://share.gemini.google/XSfmve2mEGDV

New comment by vinaigrette in "The kids with phones are alright"

vinaigrette — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:41:12 +0000

Maybe the problem is power

New comment by vinaigrette in "GPT‑Live"

vinaigrette — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:50:25 +0000

Fair question, although I think he really has a hard time living with it ...

New comment by vinaigrette in "Launch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) – Reason Across Documents with an API"

vinaigrette — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:45:50 +0000

I'm surprised at the low rate every model manages considering the (apparent) ease of the benchmarked document. Can your pipeline produce ground truth as a byproduct ? How do you think open-weight ocr models compare to the one showcased ? I've had good results with glm-ocr on complex documents (complex by their handwriting, pretty easy layouts).

What I like about your solution is the traceability of the information. A scruffy pipeline I used was gemini-flash 3.0 to pdf to notebook-lm (really amateurish work i know), but it yielded tremendeous time gains to extract info from documents (that could be borderline impossible to read for me). However, to trace back the info was obviously very tedious. But from my experience, notebooklm can now manage ocr/htr without a third party. I wonder how competitive your solution might be compared to messy workflows that work -- albeit with efforts -- but let's the researcher be "in contact" with the material.

What I really want is obviously an easy to setup local rag system, with the (very) light model that goes with it ... sweet dream.

New comment by vinaigrette in "Launch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) – Reason Across Documents with an API"

vinaigrette — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:21:27 +0000

This looks great for digital humanities, specifically archival work. Would love to try it.

New comment by vinaigrette in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

vinaigrette — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:18:02 +0000

Some of the points you are making are great. I would however argue that a small group of people trading is still an economy albeit a shrunk one. But what I believe the point the author is making is the following : consumption based economy isn't required to an economy. In some aspect, I believe that it is false : we are *required* to have a bunch of strictly unnecessary stuff to survival (cellphones and data plans being one example) to be considered as a functionnal human being (pretty much everywhere in the planet at that). I also believe that he points out something that is true however : most people have been unable to partake in consumption society (see Lewis' 1954 article on unlimited supply of labor) for a long time. This, and chronic unemployement that appeared in the 70's, showed that a 2 speed economy is possible, even preferable for the capitalists ; and what was limited to the global south at Lewis' time (though some more recent historical work tend to disagree) is happening in the North. My conclusion would be that the acceleration of inequalities to the point of "uneconomicness" of a large part of the population is what the author points out to be a "peopleless economy". I personnaly found the article to be stimulating, even with its many shortcuts. What I make of your points are less a contradiction but a optimistic point of view of the situation : secession of the capitalists mean freedom for the rest. But empirical observation show that ressources being limited (although standalone freedom being unacceptable as well for them), auto-organization is confronted with the armed forces mentionned in the article.

Also, enterprises trading capital endlessly isn't exactly what is happening with the ai (alledged) bubble ?

New comment by vinaigrette in "The Importance of Being Idle"

vinaigrette — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:45:25 +0000

Poverty levels are roughly the same between Vietnam and the US from a quick search. Mean standard of living is a poor way to calculate inequality. If you have a link to a median one it would help to compare.

New comment by vinaigrette in "Your File System Is Already A Graph Database"

vinaigrette — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:14:51 +0000

Isn't text a basic linear structure that can cover sufficiently complex topics ?