<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: wodenokoto</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wodenokoto</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:24:39 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=wodenokoto" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wodenokoto in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Barefoot is the Heineken or Budweiser of wine.<p>So that sorta explains everything- price, taste, reach.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:06:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912321</link><dc:creator>wodenokoto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912321</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wodenokoto in "Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tesla has managed to alienate the entire left wing while not enticing the right wing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:23:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908605</link><dc:creator>wodenokoto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908605</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wodenokoto in "Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m having a really hard time understanding this. I don’t work on Postgres so cut me some slack.<p>Apparently both timestamp and timestamptz saves 8 bit integer that represents a datetime in a similar fashion as Unix epoch.<p>Neither of them stores a timezone or an offset.<p>So what are they?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:43:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49887902</link><dc:creator>wodenokoto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49887902</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49887902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wodenokoto in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I travel with my dual esim iPhone and the dual esim doesn't disappear.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:16:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876284</link><dc:creator>wodenokoto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876284</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wodenokoto in "Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So how are you solving the example in the article where they join on timestamps? Read both tables from the DB into the application?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:07:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876191</link><dc:creator>wodenokoto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876191</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wodenokoto in "Jev in 25 Lines of Python"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Off the top of my head it's 3 things it advertises:<p>- By not being a optimised for chat, it can deliver confidence for answer and not for how an answer should be phrased<p>- Speed. It can take seconds for OpenAI to compile schemas, jev can respond before openAI has even begun thinking<p>- Token efficiency and price. I think its the output token they don't even charge for because they are negligible, and the tokens they do charge for are at a fraction of a comparable model.<p>If you are using structured output, I think those 3 together is a really big deal.<p>>But their example is classification but that would also be possible and faster with a classic BERT model.<p>I believe the things you can classify with ChatGPT without any tuning or training is way beyond what BERT can do.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:36:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815959</link><dc:creator>wodenokoto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815959</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wodenokoto in "What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> a $20 million state grant paid for both the research and the infrastructure.<p>Weimer described the project as a “proof of concept” that generates just 1.7 megawatts of energy, a tiny fraction of the 56 megawatts that they generate with a solar farm in the desert.<p>But the canal site hosts more than just panels. Bales said they “have instruments out there to measure temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, incoming radiation, outgoing radiation, and a prototype instrument to measure evaporation directly.”<p>It’s not that simple. It’s a research projects that does more than just solar.<p>So you need to ask “how much of the grant went into the solar-cover”, and set that up against the value produced (water evaporation, water quality, electricity, etc).<p>What you did is set the price of the entire research project up against one of its output.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:43:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49813264</link><dc:creator>wodenokoto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49813264</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49813264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wodenokoto in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What’s the deal with dual eSIM disappearing in Hong Kong?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:25:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49811628</link><dc:creator>wodenokoto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49811628</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49811628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wodenokoto in "Can gzip be a language model?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just collect common bi- and trigrams and a naive bayesian classifier.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:52:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49807164</link><dc:creator>wodenokoto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49807164</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49807164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wodenokoto in "Spymarks, not Watermarks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Spymarks just seem like another word for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/…" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/…</a><p>Stop using links instead of words. Your comment is literally unreadable without going on to other websites.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:44:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49796868</link><dc:creator>wodenokoto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49796868</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49796868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wodenokoto in "Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a game design document.<p>My guess is it is kinda like a first draft that some higher ups approve and budgets and then dialogue and game development and puzzle testing can begin.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 07:02:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783935</link><dc:creator>wodenokoto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783935</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wodenokoto in "Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m having a very hard time telling the blur of the trees apart between the iPhone 18 picture and the iPhone 17 picture of the same subject also posted in the article available here: <a href="https://www.dxomark.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/PoleHDR_Deep_AppleiPhone17Pro_DxOMark_05-00.jpeg" rel="nofollow">https://www.dxomark.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/PoleHDR_D...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 04:03:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49782925</link><dc:creator>wodenokoto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49782925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49782925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wodenokoto in "ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I know people use chat bots differently and I get that companies see value in personalization, but to me it is extremely valuable that I can start a chat without context.<p>When researching a topic a chatbot can be quite sensitive to certain wording and those can end up steering definitions. Two context free chats on the same topic can go in very different ways depending on how you word things, but when using the notebook feature in Gemini, where every chat becomes part of the context you completely lose the ability to discover if a topic is vaguely defined or have many definitions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 03:53:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49782870</link><dc:creator>wodenokoto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49782870</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49782870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wodenokoto in "LLM Classification Is Feature Engineering"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Shouldn’t we expect the LLM model in this case to already be trained on the test and train dataset?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:16:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752715</link><dc:creator>wodenokoto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752715</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wodenokoto in "Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m more worried that the query planner requires more compute than the query.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:55:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740814</link><dc:creator>wodenokoto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740814</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wodenokoto in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems absolutely crazy to me to expect an LLM to code a solution to a problem while also not expecting it to be able to adhere to a grammar.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:48:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49723270</link><dc:creator>wodenokoto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49723270</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49723270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wodenokoto in "Chopping up books when they're physically too big"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They still do, to the best of my knowledge, although they have started incorporation reddit discussion too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:09:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49722658</link><dc:creator>wodenokoto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49722658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49722658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wodenokoto in "I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>She’ll probably do that on her next 3 week trip.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:10:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711327</link><dc:creator>wodenokoto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711327</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wodenokoto in "I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it is overall a well written and engaging article on a topic I knew nothing about.<p>However, about half way through the author writes<p>> The only place on the whole island where the two worlds nearly collide is the Markham valley […]<p>Author then goes into a bit of detail on that place before giving two reasons why he believes “that”. Two reasons I cannot for the life of me parse<p>> The reason why I believe that, despite the minimal trade that existed, the highlands were functionally cut off, is that when the Europeans occupied New Guinea, they themselves did not ever speak of or show knowledge of the highlanders. Similarly, when the highlanders first encountered Australians, they had no concept of the coastal people, or where the shells came from, or any further concept of the broader world.<p>So the reason the highlanders world nearly collided with the coastal dwellers at Markham Valley is because the Europeans didn’t meet the highlanders when they occupied the island?<p>The other reason is to do with genetics, which I find equally detached from the core subject of those paragraphs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:06:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711297</link><dc:creator>wodenokoto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711297</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wodenokoto in "We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simulation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>An article named “This is how we do modern frequentist statistics” is an excerpt from a book called “Bayesian workflows”<p>Where is the article explaining that?<p>Anyway, great article, thanks for sharing.</p>
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