Hacker News: yid

New comment by yid in "Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases"

yid — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 07:49:31 +0000

I think that's just called "code".

New comment by yid in "Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases"

yid — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 07:28:18 +0000

> Am I naive for thinking that nothing like that should take as long as 6-9 months in the happy case and that it's absurd for it to not succeed at all?

Bluntly, yes. And so is every other reply to you that says "no this isn't naive", or "there's no reason this project shouldn't have finished". All that means is that you've not seen a truly "enterprise" codebase that may be bringing in tons of business value, but whose internals are a true human centipede of bad practices and organic tendrils of doing things the wrong way.

New comment by yid in "End of Life for Twilio Authy Desktop App"

yid — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:52:40 +0000

Twilio owns Authy

New comment by yid in "Bing Chat responses infiltrated by ads pushing malware"

yid — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 15:38:12 +0000

> Did you actually use the command you ended up with?

Yes! Note that I had to use my domain knowledge to sift through the options and eliminate the garbage, but the experience was just _faster_ than repeated searches and digging through ad-laden garbage sites.

New comment by yid in "Bing Chat responses infiltrated by ads pushing malware"

yid — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 20:29:32 +0000

Here's my pet example...feel free to google around yourself on this.

Problem: I want an AWS CLI command line that requests a whole bunch of wildcard certificates from AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for a TLD.

Ostensible solution: the AWS official docs have a small snippet to achieve this, BUT -- the snippet on the official page is inadvisable as it leads to a browser cert warning.

So I (skeptically) asked ChatGPT for a command line to achieve what I was trying to do.

Try 1: got basically the snippet from the AWS official docs (but with the inadvisable flag set to the _Correct_ value, strangely)

Prompt 2: please give me more best practice options

Try 2: get back a bunch of new CLI options and their meanings. 3 are useful. 1 is hallucinated. 1 is deprecated.

Prompt 3: keep going with more options

Try 3: 2 more useful new options, 2 more options I chose not to use

As a skeptic, the overall experience was much more efficient that googling around or even reading a manpage. I put it all on the fact that context is maintained between questions, so you don't have to repeat yourself when asking for clarifications.

New comment by yid in "Bing Chat responses infiltrated by ads pushing malware"

yid — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 19:59:41 +0000

A lot of the value comes from follow-up questions. Imagine being able to interrogate a StackOverflow answer with new constraints and details. Not always correct, but in some cases, faster that typing in a new search term and parsing a screen full of links.

New comment by yid in "Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React"

yid — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 21:38:56 +0000

You know you can use JSX with Vue right?

https://vuejs.org/guide/extras/render-function.html

New comment by yid in "We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x"

yid — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 18:35:31 +0000

> What we're showing is that Rama creates a new era in software engineering where the cost of building applications at scale is radically reduced.

Bold of you to come to HN with the breathless hyperbolic marketing fluff that may work on Twitter...

New comment by yid in "TS to JSDoc Conversion"

yid — Wed, 10 May 2023 18:45:05 +0000

ts-node [1]: am i a joke to you?

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/ts-node

New comment by yid in "Ask HN: Recommendations for Peer to Peer Frameworks?"

yid — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 06:11:55 +0000

> but it WILL surplant IP eventually.

The painful move from IPv4 to IPv6 suggests that this is unlikely. More likely is an overlay over IP, TCP, or even HTTPS.

New comment by yid in "Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo"

yid — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 16:45:15 +0000

There may be a clue in the story we’re commenting on.

New comment by yid in "Intel will add deep-learning instructions to its processors"

yid — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 18:10:02 +0000

Your comment represents some of the best of HN (detailed, illuminating, informative), but is incredibly depressing for someone with an idle curiosity in FPGAs. This is what I've long suspected, and it seems that the barrier to entry is generally a bit too high for "software" people.

New comment by yid in "Intel will add deep-learning instructions to its processors"

yid — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 17:42:31 +0000

> I'm hopeful but there's a lot of proprietary baggage around FPGAs that I think have kept them from truly reaching their potential.

I don't really know much about this aspect, could you elaborate? I'm genuinely curious.

New comment by yid in "Dropbox Owns Cloud Storage on Mobile"

yid — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 17:29:54 +0000

> I don't know why people put up with it?

Lock-in? Once you have a few gigs up on Dropbox, it's a bit of a challenge transferring it elsewhere.

New comment by yid in "Intel will add deep-learning instructions to its processors"

yid — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 17:27:33 +0000

This aspect of their new chips is massively underrated. An FPGA is the future-proof solution here, not chip-level instructions for the soup-du-jour in machine learning.

Edit: which is not to say that I'm not welcoming the new instructions with open arms...

New comment by yid in "Ask HN: Is it still safe to use Firebase?"

yid — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 18:05:48 +0000

Google is putting a lot of arrows behind Firebase (and cloud in general under Diane Greene), so I'd say it's not going anywhere anytime soon.

New comment by yid in "Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store"

yid — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 23:59:09 +0000

> First, a class action suit for 48 hours of downloads on an app is not likely.

You'd be amazed at what a few billion in the bank will attract, especially when it's cheaper to settle than litigate.

New comment by yid in "Ask HN: Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree"

yid — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 21:52:17 +0000

May I ask why this is a "nanodegree"? Is having this qualification likely to improve someone's chances of getting a self-driving engineering position in industry?

New comment by yid in "Not OK, Google"

yid — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 15:51:05 +0000

I think people also forget that the Star Trek AI was in a semi-militarized scenario where efficiency and information greatly outweighed individual privacy needs.

New comment by yid in "Sleepless nights with MongoDB WiredTiger and our return to MMAPv1"

yid — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 15:18:16 +0000

So the root cause is that WiredTiger locks up and SIGTERMs when it fills the cache? If this is indeed the cause, I must say this does shake my faith in WiredTiger. That's a pretty basic scenario that a company like 10gen should be testing for regularly, certainly before releases.

And before the Mongo haters come out, remember that WiredTiger was written by about as stellar a database team as you can have.