Hacker News: vmfunction

New comment by vmfunction in "End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage in the Wild: A Broken Ecosystem"

vmfunction — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 22:48:26 +0000

New comment by vmfunction in "An approach to optimizing TypeScript type checking performance"

vmfunction — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 07:12:46 +0000

> I do wish that Typescript would offer some tools to make it more ergonomic to write performant unifying code (I kind of despise conditional types

Maybe give https://gcanti.github.io/fp-ts/ a go?

New comment by vmfunction in "Using alternative browser engines in the European Union"

vmfunction — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 22:28:59 +0000

Interesting! How are unsigned pages determined this case?

New comment by vmfunction in "Using alternative browser engines in the European Union"

vmfunction — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 08:28:07 +0000

On mobile world, that would be cordova or capcitor or phonegap.

New comment by vmfunction in "Using alternative browser engines in the European Union"

vmfunction — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 08:20:39 +0000

Isn't it possible to used JIT for JSC in WebView?

New comment by vmfunction in "Using alternative browser engines in the European Union"

vmfunction — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 08:17:27 +0000

App store is NOT needed! It is another AOL type of walled garden. There is no reason why PWA can't replace most apps.

New comment by vmfunction in "Study: Consumers Actively Turned Off by AI"

vmfunction — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 08:56:01 +0000

The analogy between AI and Adult Diapers is not too far off.

New comment by vmfunction in "A new path for Privacy Sandbox on the web"

vmfunction — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 21:52:03 +0000

>For years Google lied about consent users supposedly gave for some types of location tracking, but after they got found out (and the authorities got involved) they changed their tune.

And I will never trust google again after that with my person important data! No matter what day do now!

New comment by vmfunction in "Lessons from a Private Equity Earn Out: How I Lost £550K Due to a Lowercase 'C'"

vmfunction — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 21:47:19 +0000

> so even if they nominally represent the founder they’re not going to do anything that would jeopardize their prospects for future business with the private equity firm.

Ouch! Seems like there should be some 'unionised' legal representation for founders. Seems like representation for founder and VC to be a conflict in interests.

This seems to be much heavily emphasised on capital vs talent.

New comment by vmfunction in "Show HN: TinkerBird – A Chrome-native vector database"

vmfunction — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 07:16:29 +0000

How is the state of IndexedDB on Safari IO now days? Last heard that it is pretty bad with unexpected wip if it is not used for a while.

New comment by vmfunction in "Cybersecurity platform Crowdstrike down worldwide, users logged out of systems"

vmfunction — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 07:17:56 +0000

Why do companies use system that rely on other system (like analytics). The platform should just run by it self and gracefully degrade if other external system doesn't work. Like a banner on top "Crowdstrike" out service on top or console log.

New comment by vmfunction in "Zed on Linux Is Here"

vmfunction — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 01:08:58 +0000

> In summary: our modern computer's sheer power are camouflaging poor software performance. The difference between using native and Electron apps, is a huge reduction in the upper limit of how many things you can do at the same time in your machine, or having a lower ceiling on how many heavy-load work tasks your system can be doing before it breaks.

Same can be said about a lightweight web page and 'React' with tons routers all in SPA and vdom. Maybe the page is fine when it is the only page open, but when there are other SPA also open, then even typing becomes sluggish. Please don't use modern computer's sheer power to camouflaging poor software performance. Always make sure the code uses as little resource as possible.

New comment by vmfunction in "Spot the Drowning Child (2015)"

vmfunction — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 09:03:25 +0000

This is one of test for red cross lifeguard training. However in real life it is much better to spot drowning victims than video.

New comment by vmfunction in "Mongo but on Postgres and with strong consistency benefits"

vmfunction — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 07:23:05 +0000

Hmmm how does this compare to https://www.ferretdb.com ?

How does this handle large files? Is it enough to replace GridFS? One of main attraction for MongoDb is it's handling of large files.

New comment by vmfunction in "Chinese AI stirs panic at European geoscience society"

vmfunction — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 10:06:18 +0000

> Some kind of principle of social stability has kicked in.

Same goes in finance. For example, SIFI (Systemically important financial institution) are exempt from regulation and even bankruptcy. It is human nature to mange/avoid risk, and the system will always want to maintain itself. It is kind pointless point finger to say oh this company/nation/regime censor this. Everyone does it in their own ways.

New comment by vmfunction in "Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust"

vmfunction — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 09:02:17 +0000

Or change the specs of ES/JS to introduce types. It will eliminate use of many projects and even typescript.

Seems like something to bring to WinterCG ? [1]

[1]https://wintercg.org/

New comment by vmfunction in "Vigorous Exercise, Cognitive Decline, and High Blood Pressure"

vmfunction — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 08:56:06 +0000

>There is more money to be made by stakeholders treating health problems than there is in preventing them. And so there is a lot more money and effort invested in developing pharmaceutical and treatment solutions than there is in preventing them – even though that would be far, far better for society as a whole.

The health care system in US is very broken. This paper [1] really outlines. It not just more money made in treating health problems than prevention. Due to the health insurance is structured in US, there is also an incentive for doctors to prescribe the more expensive treatment instead of the cheaper more effective treatment.

https://pubmedinfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Is-US-Heal...

New comment by vmfunction in "Locked out of 14 year old YouTube channel because tied to Hotmail.com email"

vmfunction — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:55:44 +0000

And how did email become the defacto verification method. 2FA like TOTP/Security Key should be. It can be used offline and no connections to shady corporations.

New comment by vmfunction in "More Memory Safety for Let's Encrypt: Deploying ntpd-rs"

vmfunction — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 08:56:48 +0000

Lol, shaky indeed. A business person once said, "can you imagine if machine engineer (like auto makers) behave like software engineering?".

Seems no digital system is truly secure. Moving foundational code to memory safe seems like a good first step.

New comment by vmfunction in "Brain circuit scores identify clinically distinct biotypes in depression/anxiety"

vmfunction — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 11:27:34 +0000

This study would make a lot sense, that is why may studies in the area found that talk therapy in conjunction with medication are way more effective and less relapse than just medication along. Dr. Grof has done quite bit of work in that are.

Personalised brain circuit require personalised therapy, and talk therapy with well trained therapist seems to be the key to treat the cause instead of symptom. All the difrerent fancy medications are "throw stuff against the wall and see what works".