Hacker News: wbeckler

New comment by wbeckler in ""Disregard That" Attacks"

wbeckler — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:07:47 +0000

The article didn't describe how the second AI is tuned to distrust input and scan it for "disregard that." Instead it showed an architecture where a second AI accepts input from a naively implemented firewall AI that isn't scanning for "disregard that"

New comment by wbeckler in "Programming languages used for music"

wbeckler — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:27:04 +0000

Here's a list of global locations: https://livecode.nyc/network

New comment by wbeckler in "Intel CEO Letter to Employees"

wbeckler — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 22:43:22 +0000

I hope that pun is intentional.

New comment by wbeckler in "We got hit by an alarmingly well-prepared phish spammer"

wbeckler — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 03:58:01 +0000

What's the threat scenario where forcing a password reset increases security? I'm genuinely curious, because I feel it's often the case that password expirations might introduce more threats than they mitigate.

New comment by wbeckler in "Coup Attempt in Bolivia"

wbeckler — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 23:16:52 +0000

It looks like it already failed: https://www.reddit.com/r/BalticSSRs/comments/1dpbto6/bolivia...

https://x.com/upholdreality/status/1806090907084865627

New comment by wbeckler in "D3 in Depth"

wbeckler — Thu, 16 May 2024 17:45:33 +0000

I've heard great things about Vega [1], which sits on top of D3. It's a dependency of OpenSearch Dashboards, allowing users to create custom dashboards on log and observability data [2]. The vega library might alleviate some of the concerns others are expressing about the learnability of D3.

[1] https://vega.github.io/vega/docs/ [2] https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/dashboards/visualize/vega...

New comment by wbeckler in "Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks"

wbeckler — Wed, 01 May 2024 18:43:13 +0000

60 years ago

Green Software Foundation's Software Carbon Intensity Spec Becomes ISO Standard

wbeckler — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 21:20:52 +0000

Article URL: https://greensoftware.foundation/articles/sci-specification-achieves-iso-standard-status/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40204269

Points: 36

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New comment by wbeckler in "Multi-tenant queues in Postgres"

wbeckler — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 02:55:09 +0000

I love your animations! How did you do those?

New comment by wbeckler in "Medellín's Green Corridors"

wbeckler — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 17:45:01 +0000

I hate when writers describe plants as an ongoing carbon sink. They are a one-time carbon sink. So using "cars" as a comparison to carbon volumes is confusing, because cars will keep emitting after a plant is full grown and starts shedding leaves and wood that turn back into methane or carbon dioxide.

The key benefit of the plants is cooling the city without electricity, which is an ongoing effect.

New comment by wbeckler in "Medellín's Green Corridors"

wbeckler — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 17:42:46 +0000

The typical temperature chart is an average across the planet or a region. Definitely not population-weighted.

New comment by wbeckler in "Forecasting with Trees (2021)"

wbeckler — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 16:46:02 +0000

Are you saying that the prevalence of trees among good-performing solutions is not related to superior performance of trees over other architectures, but rather that more people are trying them out and they will show up in the winning solutions more often because of the implementation rate?

New comment by wbeckler in "Testing the F-35C Tailhook"

wbeckler — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:59:15 +0000

It could be related to the fact that they didn't have much space for a normal size tailhook, as stated in the article.

New comment by wbeckler in "New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift"

wbeckler — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 22:05:30 +0000

You're assuming there was no need-based tuition program already running. Average tuition may not be full tuition.

New comment by wbeckler in "What I Learned Joining a Climate Civil Resistance Organization for 18 Months"

wbeckler — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:12:01 +0000

I see lots of criticism of tactics in these comments, but isn't the proof in the pudding? This was a wildly successful campaign that will have a significant positive effect on many people's lives while also reducing emissions. It's a win-win-win. This seems to me proof that blocking traffic, vandalizing museums, and all the other seemingly "nonsensical" tactics are in fact the right move at the moment.

New comment by wbeckler in "Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 review: Business laptop is better with AMD Zen4"

wbeckler — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 12:51:28 +0000

I feel like the MacBook is the elephant in the room here

New comment by wbeckler in "Vendor lock-in in the observability space"

wbeckler — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 16:46:01 +0000

Does Keep have an open core business model, where they host your stuff using a proprietary control plane for a fee and introduce proprietary features around the edges?

New comment by wbeckler in "Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity"

wbeckler — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 04:26:51 +0000

I feel like these concepts don't go well together in a single list. There's a big leap from "using logic" to using repetition, e.g., "of the people, by the people, for the people."

Good example of using flame graphs to speed up Java code (50x improvement)

wbeckler — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 15:22:54 +0000

Article URL: https://opensearch.org/blog/opensource-perf/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36507824

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by wbeckler in "A Retrospective on Paradigms of AI Programming (2002)"

wbeckler — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:57:57 +0000

I think a good question might be, what language is better for gpt to program. If you want to write applications that accomplish intelligent things via symbolic manipulation, is lisp a good language to ask an AIto write it in? Is PAIP in the learning set for GPT4?