<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: yuliyp</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yuliyp</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:54:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=yuliyp" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuliyp in "OCR for construction documents does not work, we fixed it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Glyph binning looks for any chunks in the image that are similar to eachother, regardless of what they are. Letters, eyeballs, pennies, triangles, etc without caring <i>what</i> it is. OCR looks specifically to try and identify characters (i.e. it starts with a knowledge of an alphabet, then looks for things in the image that look like those.<p>If the image is actually text, both of them can end up finding things. Binning will identify "these things look almost the same", while OCR will identify "these look like the letter M"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:32:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580996</link><dc:creator>yuliyp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580996</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuliyp in "Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>what at all does this comment have to do with what it's replying to?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:51:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418835</link><dc:creator>yuliyp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418835</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuliyp in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In companies I've been in, insider trading windows close because there's been a certain amount of time since the last report. So less frequent reports = more time for insider to know things that aren't public yet = more time unable to trade, not less.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:42:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47407142</link><dc:creator>yuliyp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47407142</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47407142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuliyp in "$3T flows through U.S. nonprofits every year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"only 8 cents of every dollar shows up as direct aid and grants"<p>That's an extremely misleading statement. For instance, a food bank giving away food to a pantry does not count as "direct aid and grants" (at least, if they're defining that as "Grants and other assistance to domestic individuals." from the I-990" ). The salary for the warehouse worker operating the food bank is also not counted in that 92%.<p>Other cherry-picked statements like "32% of donors trust charities less today than they did five years ago" (not giving the percentage that trust charities more, or any other way to contextualize) make it clear that this is just a hit piece.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:36:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292555</link><dc:creator>yuliyp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292555</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuliyp in "US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>None of what they're pledging is much of a change from how they've already been operating:<p>- They already invest in new power plants and connection infrastructure when they bring in new datacenters
- Electricity for datacenters is based on capacity rather than actual usage
- They already have backup generators at most datacenters that they can run during outages. It wouldn't be much work to allow those to feed power back into the grid in extraordinary circumstances
- They generally use local contractors to build them for practicality purposes anyway.<p>This is just some fancy PR and nothing else.</p>
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<p>That's because they are slowpokes and maniacs: In a decently flowing road, the majority of distinct cars you see are either moving significantly faster or slower than you (and the more extreme the difference the more likely you are to see them). Of cars that go at a similar speed to you, they approach you / you approach them more slowly so you'll see fewer of them.</p>
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<p>Easily. Going from 700 -> 1000 ft spacing adds 150 feet of walking (x2 for both sides of the trip). That's about 1 minute. Over a mile you'd reduce the number of stops by 2.2. So above 2 miles it's faster even for the lower end of that range of savings.<p>And that doesn't even consider that a faster bus route means you need fewer buses to run the same number of trips, so you can either run more trips (and save even more time for riders waiting for their bus) or cut down costs for the transit operator.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:24:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154577</link><dc:creator>yuliyp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154577</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuliyp in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Of the ones that I know something about, almost each one is a stretch to call a lie, or just downright misleading.<p>- 'Internal document stating the goal for Meta to be the most relevant social products for kids worldwide. To do so, Meta will focus on “each youth life stage, ‘Kid’ (6-10), ‘Tween’ (10-13), and ‘Teen’ 13+.’"' for instance is talking about a slide deck for Messenger Kids, which was an explicit focus on building something that was COPPA-compliant and independent of the main Facebook/IG/Messenger products. It's not at all inconsistent with the claim of not allowing people under 13 on the main sites.<p>- In the rebuttal to "We are on the side of parents everywhere working hard to raise their kids” they cherry pick a quote talking about the audience problem: having a social graph full of both peers and family on the same site means that live streaming things for friends will obviously ruin the experience, so figuring out a way around that would indeed be a critical requirement for a live streaming feature. Giving teens a way to interact with friends outside of parental supervision is not inconsistent with wanting to help parents.<p>I don't like Facebook. Heck, I left a job there partially because I disagreed with the product decisions and evolution. But I trust this article way less than I trust Mark Zuckerberg.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:10:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063348</link><dc:creator>yuliyp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063348</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuliyp in "OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The change was when the nonprofit went from being the parent of the company building the thing to just being this separate entity that happens to own a lot of stock of the (now for-profit) OpenAI company that builds. So the nonprofit itself is no longer concerned with the building of AGI, but just supporting society's adoption of AGI.</p>
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<p>... if you're logged out. Log in so they don't have to lump you in with every scraper you're sharing a subnet with.</p>
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<p>The end game of that is no useful content being accessible without login, or needing some sort of other proof-of-legitimacy.</p>
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<p>this is an energy storage ("battery") system, not a generation system.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 06:31:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485531</link><dc:creator>yuliyp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485531</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuliyp in "Toll roads are spreading in America"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's the consequence of 4 freeways all (I-580, I-80, I-880, SH-24) dumping their traffic onto a bridge, and using metering lights to try and keep the bridge itself working.</p>
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<p>Starting at 9:46 is when it goes from wow to WOW. The last 2 minutes in particular are incredible, including the bizarre artifacts in the last 15 seconds before the stream dies.</p>
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<p>I'd presume they have the ability to deploy a previous artifact vs only tip-of-master.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:05:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46164912</link><dc:creator>yuliyp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46164912</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46164912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuliyp in "AI scrapers request commented scripts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Having a front door physically allows anyone on the street to come to knock on it. Having a "no soliciting" sign is an instruction clarifying that not everybody is welcome. Having a web site should operate in a similar fashion. The robots.txt is the equivalent of such a sign.</p>
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<p>Yes, because most of the things that people talk about (ChatGPT, Google SERP AI summaries, etc.) currently use tools in their answers. We're a couple years past the "it just generates output from sampling given a prompt and training" era.</p>
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<p>Perhaps those were different iterations of the technique over time. Start with marking cards to identify face cards, then move on to x-ray table.</p>
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<p>That's not the problem. The problem is that you're adding a data dependency on the CPU loading the first byte. The branch-based one just "predicts" the number of bytes in the codepoint and can keep executing code past that. In data that's ASCII, relying on the branch predictor to just guess "0" repeatedly turns out to be much faster as you can effectively be processing multiple characters simultaneously.</p>
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<p>No, that's not the stance for electrical utilities (at least in most developed countries, including the US): the vast majority of weather events cause localized outages (the grid as a whole has redundancies built in; distribution to (residential and some industrial) does not. It expects failures of some power plants, transmission lines, etc. and can adapt with reserve power, or, in very rare cases by partial degradation (i.e. rolling blackouts). It doesn't go down fully.</p>
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