Hacker News: wsdookadr

New comment by wsdookadr in "2B people don't have safe drinking water: what does this mean for them?"

wsdookadr — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:46:40 +0000

Just invest more in AI and datacenters. Problem solved.

New comment by wsdookadr in "What if no one misses TikTok?"

wsdookadr — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 18:52:25 +0000

For what reason

New comment by wsdookadr in "Garmin Connect services were down"

wsdookadr — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 12:32:58 +0000

People who rely on maps would have them downloaded onto their navigation devices. Nobody needs Garmin to be up 100% of the time.

New comment by wsdookadr in "Ask HN: Where are the part-time remote coding jobs?"

wsdookadr — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 15:31:10 +0000

There are no roles of that kind. If you want to work in IT, you need to be a recruiter or a manager. While this might seem controversial, it's very accurate.

New comment by wsdookadr in "UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored"

wsdookadr — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 04:47:45 +0000

excellent idea!

New comment by wsdookadr in "UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored"

wsdookadr — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 04:28:28 +0000

it's clear. nobody needs more than 5GB. they won't exist if they need more and this ensures the statement is true.

maybe this is a trend and should be used for all websites.

make small data great again?

New comment by wsdookadr in "Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox"

wsdookadr — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:36:44 +0000

NAS with lots of storage + tubesync + jellyfin. problem solved.

New comment by wsdookadr in "Azure DevOps is down globally"

wsdookadr — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 00:18:49 +0000

99.999999999999999999999999%

high availability

fault tolerant and resilient infrastructure

New comment by wsdookadr in "I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers"

wsdookadr — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 01:09:39 +0000

Possibly the most important tech project of 2024.

New comment by wsdookadr in "EU countries must implement right to repair laws within two years"

wsdookadr — Fri, 31 May 2024 08:08:20 +0000

Does anyone else notice that this comment is offtopic and beside the point?

New comment by wsdookadr in "AutoCodeRover: Autonomous Program Improvement"

wsdookadr — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 12:25:36 +0000

There's actual SWE jobs where humans sift through this kind of noise. Someone told me they worked such a job recently. It's a good tool to add pressure and raise expectations. Maybe this is the future..

New comment by wsdookadr in "AutoCodeRover: Autonomous Program Improvement"

wsdookadr — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 12:23:07 +0000

What makes you say it's not representative?

New comment by wsdookadr in "AutoCodeRover: Autonomous Program Improvement"

wsdookadr — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 12:18:19 +0000

at the time of writing this their repo is 12h old. the training time isn't stated in the paper. i'm thinking maybe one of these robots can replicate this and tell us how it went.

New comment by wsdookadr in "German train company are looking for a Windows 3.11 Administrator"

wsdookadr — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 21:25:49 +0000

boots up real fast https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TEa-M6_qUII

New comment by wsdookadr in "Zuckerberg personally rejected Meta's proposals to improve teen mental health"

wsdookadr — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 01:57:13 +0000

There is no evidence that anyone actually needs FB/IG/Threads.

If tommorow Meta shuts down and the entirety of its assets, all the money, all the infrastructure and the people get repurposed to do science instead of reels, commercials, cat videos, selfies and trending videos, that would be great.

New comment by wsdookadr in "Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force (1963)"

wsdookadr — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 12:19:10 +0000

> In the case of a woman who has a fully developed muscular system and has had ample physical exertion all through the preg nancy, as is common with all more primitive peoples, nature provides all the necessary equipment and power to have a normal and quick delivery. This is not the case, however, with more civilized women who often do not have the opportunity to develop the muscles needed in confinement.

that's an interesting observation. goes to show how office work has altered natural mechanisms and the functions of the human body the way it was designed to work.

also, does the patent mean centripetal force instead of centrifugal? it's centripetal that pulls to the center of the rotating disk.

on the bottom of page 7 it's suggested that the disk be rotated until the force reaches a full 7g, that's almost the same as the acceleration a fighter pilot gets subjected to in tests. it's possible that the mother would be passed out at that point. the effects on the child are probably not the best.

i wonder if the patent office considers the potential harm done to human life when a patent is approved.

New comment by wsdookadr in "Solving a simple puzzle using SymPy"

wsdookadr — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 13:14:41 +0000

reported the bug here https://github.com/sympy/sympy/issues/25507

New comment by wsdookadr in "IRC is the only viable chat protocol (2022)"

wsdookadr — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 12:16:16 +0000

I'd say IRC and Matrix are the only viable protocols.

The rest are just proprietary, centralized, corporate-owned.

Here's a short list of those: Teams, Zoom, Discord, Whatsapp, Telegram, Skype, Ring.

New comment by wsdookadr in "MiniZinc"

wsdookadr — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 20:45:18 +0000

That an algorithm is heuristic does not preclude it from being provably correct. It precludes it from being optimal!

The goal of an heuristic algorithm is to produce a near-optimal or approximate solution in a reasonable amount of time. From here, some heuristics have more or less theory behind them and that theory shows what sort of properties the solution has.

[1] https://optimization.cbe.cornell.edu/index.php?title=Heurist...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic_(computer_science)

New comment by wsdookadr in "Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep RL"

wsdookadr — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 03:54:08 +0000

It's fine if you want to refer to Kahneman's classification [1] of instinctual and thorough thinking. Explainability is a separate topic. Also when the amount of energy and compute used are as high as they are.. the results, the return on investment really isn't that high. Hopefully there are better days ahead.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow