scarejunba

HN is not a healthy community for me to participate in, but it's got high variance output to a greater degree than anything except my Twitter follow group and my Slack private groups - i.e. it's the highest quality uncurated source I have.

The reason I say that it is not healthy is that it is full of misinformation and sensationalism. I get upset at reading things I know are lies or errors perpetuated through confident ignorance and end up attempting to even it out by sensationalizing the other side (and perhaps in my anger doing some of the things that annoy me). I've noticed this weird behaviour in my parents arguing with their friends about politics and for the most part I'd removed myself from that but HN brings it forth.

What is valuable about HN is that you get some real experts talking about stuff they know well and startup entrepreneurs engage here in a way that's often closer than just posting on ProductHunt, and I like talking to other people like that.

Actually, thank you for asking this question, I think it's pretty obvious at this point that I should just stop using this website. But I needed the question to be asked. Should just use that time building and spend it on my private groups.

Situation is fictional to illustrate utility of device.

When deciding 'did something happen?' I need the sources to be generally reliable about fact reporting because they do not rely on pure reason. For fact reporting which is an aggregate, I need to rely upon the track record of the sources. In this case, some of the second-level sources are from the Cato Institute, which I know to be low trust source of truth[0].

This means I have to assign this a low-magnitude coefficient of trust (not a high-magnitude negative coefficient[1]).

That means what you're describing could well be true. I just don't know it based on who's saying it.

0: Compare http://web.archive.org/web/20090402090751/http://www.cato.or... with what I knew at the time

1: The classic "There is no gold buried here" is a high-magnitude negative coefficient

Exactly, a SaaS product is the ultimate DRM and it's socially acceptable. Make this a native app that needs always-on internet and customers who care about it being native will flip and eat your margins like a giant Pareto Pacman.

Does not feel like a high-coefficient source.

Drug is 8 cents a pill produced generic in India. They aren’t going to export it any more but you had your chance. You wanted to protect local pharma against generics. They’re protected.

Healthcare is full of artificially induced shortages in America, and Americans pay for that every day with their lives. Now, that’s just slightly more obvious.

It's a classic idea generation exercise. It isn't a prediction even if worded as such. I found it interesting.

They actually did what the other guy is saying, though.

Ah, I was curious if there are any interesting properties.

We ran a 100-petabyte cluster with all Meltdown/Spectre mitigation turned off because there was no foreign code running on it that didn't have access to the data itself.

It's all about the threat model. Engineers at the company were considered trusted actors and they were the only ones permitted to connect. If that layer failed, there is no way cache invalidation errors would be the fastest way in.

That sounds like just a group permissions issue in their model, and a shared mount model in the VM guy's model.

These are pretty creative approaches using the built-in access control Unix has. I like it.

Does this field behave differently from Q in some 'useful' way?

Haha, brilliant. If I may write the first paragraph:

Facebook has quietly marked Considered Harmful articles problematic, and that's a good thing.

When I was a child, my father often took me fishing as a way for us to get out of the house. I remember the dappled early Sunday sunlight playing across the dashboard as we drove up to the lake in our 1998 Subaru Forester, a car whose longevity is likely to be greater than mine. Subaru, as it turns out, tapped into a fundamental part of the American psyche that had, at the time, been left completely untouched out of sheer unawareness.

Doesn't really apply to the situation being discussed. You can absolutely wear it for two weeks during the fires. It will work just fine even well sealed. Not sufficient particulate matter in the air to be significant blocker.

You're not going to be able to mount a successful challenge against Facebook changing their APIs without sufficient warning.

If you haven't tried it, you don't really know. The advice isn't coming from people unacquainted with your method.

What an absolute legend, that guy, making product decisions on stage hahaha. I absolutely love it.

It's California. We get wildfires. I had medical N95 masks at home as well. Gave them to the hospital when they appealed for them.

It makes sense. If it weren't for Facebook not having this reserve we would just be 720k short. It's not like the companies selling these would just hold inventory, especially since if you store them too long the elastic and the seal becomes weak across a large enough sample.

If DU is a chemical weapon, then TNT is too because it's a chemical.

It isn't singling out, dude. It's just an example. Obviously from the guys avoiding signing anti-cluster-munitions and anti-landmines you can tell that they're all concerned about their military effectiveness.

Fine, go ahead and say that Admiral Donitz only got away because we used Unrestricted Submarine Warfare just as much as he did. Okay. There we go. Now we're all even.

Actually, exactly. I'm in the business of writing software that's useful to people. The way they tell me it's useful to them is by paying me. At any point you may determine it isn't useful to you. Just don't pay me.

That's your personal restriction on MFABT but Facebook MFABT is most definitely "bias towards speed". It has no "don't break other people's things" in it. And they behave like that. Correctly, in my opinion. Even if I've been at the receiving end having to implement against their Marketing API (which once released a 2-week deprecation notice).

Digital Ocean is doing well. They're #4 as far as I remember. Maybe Oracle Cloud is suffering but that's because no one trusts Oracle - custom chipset or otherwise.

Just want to say that I always see you post on ad-tech related stuff and your comments belong to the infinitesimal fraction of ad-tech stuff on this site that is informed and not just the result of pure speculation.

Haha, right. That comment had literally zero information value. Obviously playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 is nothing like ollying your skateboard let alone any of the other tricks.

Thinly veiled attempt to use online comment forum as a personal blog.

Their bread and butter is search ads, my dude. They don't need telemetry for that. They have search keywords. Almost all of their revenue comes from there and the margin there is huge.

Hey I've noticed this too. It's like I'm mentally somewhere else. Very odd. Fortunately, when I drive long distances I have other people in the car. And when I drive short distances, I can just stop wherever and change things.

Honestly, on 101 and 280 I see drivers texting all the time and they're driving right in the lane, no problems at all except being slow to react to what happens in front of them (which makes it obvious they're on the phone). I don't know how they do it. Even glancing down at my phone instead of the center console loses so much state.

Oh there's a subreddit where they met where they'd say that all the time. Don't know if it's still up.

My friends will come over for 4 hours on a Sunday. I will spend no more than 10 minutes when they're here figuring out controllers. I will spend no more than 15 minutes at any point ahead of time to keep things working.

When they come over, the thing we want to spend most of our time doing is 2 v 2 FIFA. If I spend 30 mins doing anything here, we're losing precious time. If I spend 60 mins debugging, I'm just not going to do it. I'll even take a zero probability of fixing if it means a lower probability of failure of any sort (even recoverable).

That's just bureaucracy in the West. I have contacts in the East who got me Lariago-DS. Super cheap to manufacture, super compact, easy to ship. In fact, it's in plentiful supply. Just not in the West because you have a customs wall.

Drop the wall and you'll have your drugs in days. If you have 'backorders' for your Lupus patients, then you've already failed at something trivial to solve.