Hacker News Reader

cheezon Testing Database Transactions in Go

Most people use queues to do this. At least I do.

cheezon Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK government

Yep.

If the people who run wild wonderful off grid (great channel) have taught me anything, it's that battery backup is essential.

cheezon Gallup: 81% of Black Americans Want Police to Retain Local Presence

Protests are a temporary thing. Our area has none.

cheezon Gallup: 81% of Black Americans Want Police to Retain Local Presence

I walk with the dog and sometimes the kids every day, so I see police patrolling around. Had an interesting conversation the other day with the police officer:

  - So officer, how have things changed since covid?
  - Sir, you won't believe the stuff I get called for. Getting teenagers off their cell phones, wife angry that husband didn't do his share of the chores
  - What about what people associate with "crime"?
  - Down.

As crime declines overall (it has been for many years now), I believe we really need to rethink the jobs we ask police officers to do. They are hammers and they go into situations that don't require hammering and bad things happen.

cheezon Palantir S-1

Palantir is basically a private arm of multiple levels of governments.

cheezon Show HN: HyScale – An abstraction framework over Kubernetes

Not an expert. Comparison to terraform?

cheezon Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return

I'm sure if you break it out by whether they have any responsibilities or not, it would be different. Not generational. My generation was the same.

cheezon Emacs xwidget-webkit enhancement suite

can you elaborate? My understanding is this is a separate process.

cheezon Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return

No they wouldn't.

Every single plebeian on earth wants the polar bears to survive. But their own economic, day-to-day survival is first. These thoughts you have are only for those with the luxury of time.

Edit: so if you TRULY want to help the earth, help your own kind first.

cheezon Congratulations for reaching a million, Gordon Linoff

http://blog.data-miners.com/2014/08/an-achievement-on-stack-...

remove https

cheezon Show HN: Using Rust to write shell-script like tasks

Oh this plumbum is nice.

cheezon Jeff Bezos convinced 22 investors to back his new company Amazon in 1994 (2018)

Yeah im not referring to that. Every year there is at least one million dollar idea in stocks that doesn't involve penny stocks.

cheezon Jeff Bezos convinced 22 investors to back his new company Amazon in 1994 (2018)

In the last 10 years (well... even the last year) I have passed up many multi million dollar ideas. All that means is there will be another.

cheezon Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools

You said it better than I ever could have!

cheezon Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools

What I do is decide that I am in charge of defining the machine, and the tools implement the machine. The tools are a means to an end. If the tools don't exist to implement the machine, I write them. If they do exist, great.

cheezon Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools

I'm not sure if I'm misreading you, you're misreading me, or we're on the same page :-)

Ideally, I map out workflow and find tools that fit the workflow in the Unix philosophy. Well-defined, do one thing well. As opposed to monoliths that purport to do everything.

My experience has been that doing things in this way builds a system that is extremely robust to significant changes.

cheezon Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools

That's funny. I was the opposite. When I was younger, I would just say "lets default to other people's solution to similar problems and move on" but as time went by, I've become more "let's define our problems well and find surgical solutions by others". It's a slight difference but makes a huge difference in productivity.

Another way to say it is instead of taking someone else's blueprint, we build our own blueprint and use pre-fabricated parts to realize the blueprint.

In the end, sometimes solutions look very similar but there is that one little bit that gives you a competitive advantage that no one else has.

cheezon Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing

My opinion is that it's like tcp/ip, new plumbing (ethereum). So expect protocols and apps to be built on top of it, similar to HTTP and browsers. You just need one killer app to make all the hype worth it.

That killer app might be elections or possibly decentralized trading of electronic assets like stock ownership.

cheezon Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing

Responding to title only: of course, but the things it _is_ a solution for will be world changing.

cheezon The universe has made almost all the stars it will ever make

Nope, I thought the same thing and said it in my comment. But you are smarter than me, clearly :-)

cheezon The universe has made almost all the stars it will ever make

The data points to this but "Einsteins greatest blunder" and earth-centric universe come to mind.

Simply (and I'm sure many have thought of alternatives), it is based on what we see. If, as is commonly thought, the universe will expand till we are alone, then there is no guarantee that this hasn't happened already which means we may have no idea what lies outside the cosmological horizon.

cheezon Former Zoox employees sue, alleging rival offer was better than Amazon's

Wei and Zhang are asking the court to order Zoox to open its books “in order to determine whether it is appropriate to pursue litigation against all or some members of the Board and/or Company management or others based on the apparent wrongdoing in connection with the Acquisition.”

cheezon S&P 500 Return Attribution: Its 1% economy

There is no country on earth that is immune from willy nilly central bank printing right now. So everyone is in the same boat.

Now... If someone figures out how to stop the central bank printing and keep things going, that will be a problem for USD.

cheezon S&P 500 Return Attribution: Its 1% economy

If only more people understood this. That being said, if your biggest and best stocks aren't going up, neither will your index. The question is whether inflated PEs are here to stay.

cheezon RetinaFace: Single-stage Dense Face Localisation, implemented in TensorFlow 2.0

Awesome, thanks for the explanation!

cheezon RetinaFace: Single-stage Dense Face Localisation, implemented in TensorFlow 2.0

Got it. I understand now. Don't be offended at my use of "acceptable", it was used in ignorance.

cheezon RetinaFace: Single-stage Dense Face Localisation, implemented in TensorFlow 2.0

Thanks! What makes it state of the art and why is lower accuracy acceptable?

cheezon RetinaFace: Single-stage Dense Face Localisation, implemented in TensorFlow 2.0

Not an expert, why is it called state of the art if its accuracy is worse than mxnet, whatever that is

cheezon Modeling a Wealth Tax

Once you work hard and get into aristocracy, it's hard to give that up for your legacy.

cheezon Modeling a Wealth Tax

No other way to read it, unfortunately.