HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

oreoftw

44 karma · joined September 30, 2013

submissionscomments
oreoftw··on Jev Can't Be Calibrated
Jev’s context should have signals/features to operate on. Same way LLMs can use CV & code to analyze an image.
oreoftw··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
Yes but the product is different. One is a shovel for you to dig, another one is an artificial intelligence that competes with or replaces the digger.
oreoftw··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
Huge difference between building AI and a search index.
oreoftw··on “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers
> That part was never the hard as it was mostly about learning the syntax/conventions etc of that stack and then doing the translation.

Everything is hard until you’ve done it at least once. Making shit work is hard (excluding cases when your particular task has been solved and shared with you)

If it was that easy I would never miss my ETAs.

oreoftw··on Productive Procrastination
Maybe it’s feels important/necessary as it can give a feeling of control.

Things are uncertain(were they ever certain?), every day there is another armageddon prophecy screaming at you from social media and newspapers.

So one can try to hedge, squeeze more out of oneself to make sure he did all he could.

oreoftw··on Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews
Snitch is a firewall, not sure about Lulu.
oreoftw··on Why DeepSeek is cheap at scale but expensive to run locally
most likely he was referring the fact that you need plenty of GPU-fast memory to keep the model, and GPU cards have it.
oreoftw··on Netflix's Distributed Counter Abstraction
How would you design it to support mentioned use cases?
oreoftw··on Google banned me from Google Voice
Not an Irish citizen or a resident. Everyone residing in the EU(including EEA) enjoys GDPR protection.

I don't know how stringent the geo check for claims is, but as soon as you become an EEA resident you can invoke GDPR.

I would recommend to ask Google’s DPO anyway.

oreoftw··on Google banned me from Google Voice
Invoking the right to retrieve and correct information helped me to get Google’s attention to my case and unban me.
oreoftw··on Google banned me from Google Voice
Find google data protection officer email. State your request to get the data with a mention of escalation to the Irish Data Protection Officer if no action is taken within a reasonable timeframe.

This has magically unbanned me in less than two days. In contrast to two months of tweeting, emailing support, nagging my google eng friends and even support folks via linkedin.

oreoftw··on Google banned me from Google Voice
The author should consider himself lucky. Just one google service has been suspended. I got my account banned for no reason and lost access to more than 10 years worth of emails, documents, single sign ons to different apps, etc.

Only invoking GDPR and the ownership of a domain name allowed me to regain access and restore email service. Without GDPR I would've got nothing at all.

oreoftw··on After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL
Exposing bare GraphQL the right way can be challenging, totally agree with author on that. Using it on a small project also can be an overkill.

But at the same time it doesn’t have to be that bad. I don’t have this array of issues because I do: - query whitelisting for performance and security, - data loading to avoid n+1, authentication with whatever works(session cookies, tokens), - permission check based on the auth context in a resolver.

It works decently for us, allowing to stay away from getting into ESB. Yet have some shared domain, type safety, and easy integration of legacy and new systems/services.

I would say a bigger issue for us was to keep it all nicely organized / designed in terms of types and api contracts. But that’s manageable.

oreoftw··on Facebook is going after LLaMA repos with DMCA's
Because it’s good? I wouldn’t mind paying for a commercial license to self host it.
oreoftw··on Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow
What’s wrong with the alternative of sane zoning instead of “just buy the plot”?

All people want is to live in a quiet and a nice place after all.

Why someone who doesn’t even live there but has a bigger buck should decide?

oreoftw··on The Mac Malware of 2021
Little snitch like firewalls are nice yet I think they can give a false sense of false security since it takes too much mental effort, discipline and is simply annoying to approve each rule.
oreoftw··on Ruling party figures say Poland has Pegasus spyware
That’s no big news. Largest newspapers have covered procurement and the fact that Pegasus has been bought several years ago.
oreoftw··on A tale of webpage speed, or throwing away React
Check out

https://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html#us...

There's no standard way for handling hot reloading, but there's a bunch of recipes on stackoverflow.

oreoftw··on A tale of webpage speed, or throwing away React
Yes.
oreoftw··on We Can Do Better Than SQL
Agree. Building elastic query AST is a PITA. Check out https://www.elastic.co/what-is/elasticsearch-sql
oreoftw··on Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily lay off 90% of staff
IMO it was good for its price. Who else would sell you USA <> EU for $300 for a two way ticket?
oreoftw··on Clickhouse Local
Could you name those good analytical databases? I'd love to learn more.
oreoftw··on Clickhouse Local
For analytics - sure. Clickhouse was not designed to handle OLTP workload, there's no transaction support.
oreoftw··on Ask HN: How could non US based developer guesstimate his market value in US?
Well, that seemed to me that they're rather looking for senior engineer :) who is a senior engineer after all? They want to have a new team player.
oreoftw··on Ask HN Go or Rust for concurrent web development
For sure Rust has better design than Go, but I don't know any actively developed web framework in Rust. Go may be a better choice because of ecosystem.
oreoftw··on Poll: Freelancers/Consultants – What's your yearly income?
It shouldnt be a violation if I'll visit UK only to get new contracts and work on them remotely. I also have my own LLC in EU, so I can act on its behalf making taxation for customer easier.

The question is how to reach the market?

oreoftw··on Poll: Freelancers/Consultants – What's your yearly income?
Is it possible to find a contract for a dev that has no permit to work in UK? For instance, I'm skilled in Scala&Python and can easily visit UK as a tourist/businessman. What's the way to this market?(Scala User Group meetups, anything other)?