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New comment by yossi_peti in "Elevators"

yossi_peti — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:06:03 +0000

The alternative being closing the doors on the person's arm and likely injuring them to avoid a minor incovenience?

New comment by yossi_peti in "Herbie: Automatically improve imprecise floating point formulas"

yossi_peti — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:18:23 +0000

The precondition on the link you shared has -1 <= x && x <= 1, so 99 is way outside of that range. But even so, testing for x=1, which is supposed to be inside that range, 0.5 doesn't seem tolerably close to 0.4142.

New comment by yossi_peti in "An FAQ on Reinforcement Learning Environments"

yossi_peti — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 04:35:57 +0000

I'm guessing their issue isn't about the vowel, it's about the number mismatch between the singular article "an" and the plural noun phrase "frequently asked questions".

New comment by yossi_peti in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

yossi_peti — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:16:30 +0000

It can change sometimes, but not very reliably. For example try this:

"I’m not sure our professional values are currently aligned, but I wish you the best in your future endeavors."

It translates to

"I don't like how you work, so get lost."

New comment by yossi_peti in "Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption"

yossi_peti — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:16:11 +0000

Example 1 is a declaration in Go. Example 3 is a declaration in Python.

New comment by yossi_peti in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

yossi_peti — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:22:00 +0000

I guess the reasoning assumes that you have multiple eggs in your basket. A 95% chance of failure is bad if you're pinning the whole business on it, but if you have a variety of 5% chance deals, then it can make sense to pursue them, which is basically what venture capitalists do.

New comment by yossi_peti in "210 IQ Is Not Enough"

yossi_peti — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:57:25 +0000

> Most twelve month olds struggle to support their head

I don't know about the other claims, but this one is false. It would be somewhat concerning if a 6-month-old struggled to support their head.

New comment by yossi_peti in "Successful people set constraints rather than chasing goals"

yossi_peti — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 13:17:46 +0000

Which one do you have in mind? For each of those three constraints mentioned, I can think of a reason why it's not like the other two, but there's not one in particular that seems to stick out especially.

New comment by yossi_peti in "Ollama's new engine for multimodal models"

yossi_peti — Fri, 16 May 2025 16:55:23 +0000

Their example "understanding and translating vertical Chinese spring couplets to English" has a lot of mistakes in it. I'm guessing the person writing the blog post to show off that example doesn't actually know Chinese.

What is actually written: Top: 家和国盛 Left: 和谐生活人人舒畅迎新春 Right: 平安社会家家欢乐辞旧岁

What Ollama saw: Top: 盛和家国 (correct characters but wrong order) Left: It reads "新春" (new spring) as 舒畅 (comfortable) Right: 家家欢欢乐乐辞旧岁 (duplicates characters and omits the first four)

New comment by yossi_peti in "Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify"

yossi_peti — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 15:24:35 +0000

How is the gameplay related to the information? The connection seems pretty contrived to me.

New comment by yossi_peti in "Notes on Buttondown.com"

yossi_peti — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:05:10 +0000

Why isn't SendGrid on the list? It seems to have a similar pricing level

New comment by yossi_peti in "Why are Texas interchanges so tall?"

yossi_peti — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 22:00:07 +0000

If people want to live in rural areas, that's fine by me. They don't particularly contribute to the problems with car-centric infrastructure in the US. The main complaints are how most cities in the US are designed in ways that are hostile to anybody who doesn't have a car, such as:

- making it difficult to get around safely by bike

- zoning restrictions that force development to be clumped in certain areas

- underdeveloped public transport with infrequent stops and limited range

- parking space requirements that limit development

- food deserts where people have to drive long distances to get groceries

There are many places in the world that have solved these problems. I don't get why it's so inconceivable to solve them in the US.

New comment by yossi_peti in "Show HN:I build a website to generate infographics"

yossi_peti — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:30:11 +0000

It looks like all of the templates are basically listing steps or showing a list of facts.

Most of my favorite infographics involve some sort of graph or chart that visualizes data, for example https://xkcd.com/radiation/

New comment by yossi_peti in "WebP is so great except it's not (2021)"

yossi_peti — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 02:20:06 +0000

> As a photographer, I care about robustness of the visual output. Which means, as a designer, designing for the worst possible image and taking numerical metrics with a grain of salt.

I think it's kind of silly how the author pooh-poohs averages and demands that whoever is working compression algorithms should focus on the worst possible image. If you know anything about information theory, you know that is literally mathematically impossible to make a compression algorithm that always performs well in the worst possible case.

New comment by yossi_peti in "GPT-4 is not getting worse"

yossi_peti — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 12:57:08 +0000

Since it's 5 minutes I'm wondering if it's just "that's how the web works by default". I remember a while ago I was doing a long-running calculation on an POST request and was trying to debug why the connection always broke after 5 minutes, and found the hard way that there's a 5 minute timeout.

New comment by yossi_peti in "Fake town built exclusively for filming TV and movies"

yossi_peti — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 00:21:12 +0000

What's wrong with that? If America was for some reason invaded by Chinese infantry, I would certainly prefer that the soldiers were properly trained to avoid civilian casualties.

New comment by yossi_peti in "Software engineering lessons from RCAs of greatest disasters"

yossi_peti — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:52:08 +0000

And Google Cloud Platform

New comment by yossi_peti in "Where in the USA is this?"

yossi_peti — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 19:03:52 +0000

Theoretically, if you choose the first two points at random, then you have a 50-50 chance of guessing right on the third guess (the two circles from the first two guesses have at most two intersecting points) and should always get the correct answer on the 4th guess.

New comment by yossi_peti in "Developer Survey Results 2019"

yossi_peti — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 17:05:41 +0000

It makes sense that more developed countries would have lower optimism. If the previous generation already had a decent quality-of-life, there's less reason to assume that the next generation will have it even better. Developing countries are more likely to have significant recent salient difficulties that the next generation will no longer have.

New comment by yossi_peti in "Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires"

yossi_peti — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 22:06:53 +0000

> You need tens of millions before I could call you huge

That seems like an absurd standard to me. The three largest employers in the world (by number of employees) are 1. The U.S. Department of Defense, 2. The People's Liberation Army (China), and 3. Walmart. Each of these three largest employers in the world has between 2 and 3 million employees, which is much less than your standard of "tens of millions".