Hacker News: Replies to YOUR_HN_NAMEhttps://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=YOUR_HN_NAMEHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:10:37 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by gilbetron in "School absences have ‘exploded’ almost everywhere"]]>I think we do have too little leeway for illnesses for school, but I don't think that's what is going on, at least anecdotally around me. Many parents take their kids out of school for week long vacations, for instance. Also, my son informed me that the day before a big break only half the kids will show up. Plus kids will often just leave because they feel like going home that day. I thought he was exaggerating, but when I drive by the high school he's in, I'll often see a few kids just walking home (or wherever).

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:08:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863653gilbetronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863653https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863653
<![CDATA[New comment by trelane in "SSPL Is Bad"]]>Being able to build a competitor is always an option, no matter the license. It's a question of what they use as the starting point.

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:08:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863652trelanehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863652https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863652
<![CDATA[New comment by lxgr in "Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy"]]>That's arguably still a backdoor, no?

At least I'd call an instant messenger that which claims to provide end-to-end encryption between conversation participants and then surreptitiously inserts itself as another participant.

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:08:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863651lxgrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863651https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863651
<![CDATA[New comment by whywhywhywhy in "School absences have ‘exploded’ almost everywhere"]]>By compartmentalizing school to a square on a zoom call for 2+ years why are they surprised when the students treat it like a square on a zoom call.

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:08:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863650whywhywhywhyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863650https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863650
<![CDATA[New comment by chownie in "ADHD Stimulants May Increase Risk of Heart Damage in Young Adults"]]>> So I am very curious as to what you tried and why it didn't work. And of course, I hope there is something you didn't try that will work for me.

You have an extremely single-minded response to this subject, as evidenced by your posting history. I don't expect this will budge -- but someone ought to outright say it: the painful truth may be that medication is what would help you.

The testimony of people with your same condition is overwhelmingly "this medication helps me", if you refuse outright to ever try it then you are wilfully opting into struggling and suffering.

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:08:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863649chowniehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863649https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863649
<![CDATA[New comment by vlunkr in "School absences have ‘exploded’ almost everywhere"]]>Also, lots of travel is based around life events. I can’t control the fact that funerals and weddings can happen at any time of year.

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:08:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863648vlunkrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863648https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863648
<![CDATA[New comment by queuebert in "Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison"]]>Except if you're an active person. Blazers don't give you full range of arm motion unless they are laughable baggy or made of some weird stretch material that looks cheap. Loafers are sub-optimal for running up stairs, catching the train/bus that's about to leave, or moving heavy things.

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:08:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863647queueberthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863647https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863647
<![CDATA[New comment by lesserknowndan in "Why are so many people being hit with £5 fines for 'counterfeit' stamps?"]]>Where do these people go to pay these fines?

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:07:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863646lesserknowndanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863646https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863646
<![CDATA[New comment by ufocia in "The race to replace Redis"]]>It's only broken when they go out of business. Just because you don't like the business model, doesn't mean it's broken.

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:07:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863644ufociahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863644https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863644
<![CDATA[New comment by endisneigh in "Simon Riggs has died"]]>lol. If it helps you cope, imagine the company died, another company forked it with a new license.

Same thing, same result. We are literally discussing this in a thread where a prominent maintainer died. Nothing is forever.

There is no way to guarantee something will be the same forever.

Again, fork and move on if things change to your dissatisfaction.

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:07:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863643endisneighhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863643https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863643
<![CDATA[New comment by whelp_24 in "Daniel Kahneman has died"]]>This is like "Seinfeld isn't funny" in that once enough shows copy it, it looks cliche.

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:07:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863642whelp_24https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863642https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863642
<![CDATA[New comment by tedivm in "Software vendors dump open source, go for the cash grab"]]>You're the one trying to redefine open source to something it never meant.

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:07:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863641tedivmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863641https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863641
<![CDATA[New comment by card_zero in "The Proceedings of the Friesian School, Fourth Series"]]>> Same goes for rejecting Nietzsche, famous anti-nihilist, and then a few paragraphs later rejecting nihilism.

I don't see anything wrong with that. For instance, Timothy Dexter was a wingnut who rejected prescriptivism in linguistics. Prescriptivism is generally unpopular today. That doesn't mean we have to praise Timothy Dexter for being right about anything else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pickle_for_the_Knowing_Ones

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:07:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863640card_zerohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863640https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863640
<![CDATA[New comment by sublinear in "Doom Captcha (2021)"]]>100% this. Buttons need verbs.

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:07:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863639sublinearhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863639https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863639
<![CDATA[New comment by maximus-decimus in "What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane"]]>People in my family have chronic anxiety across generation and I haven't heard of any of them killing themselves.

Nobody's saying it's an "aesthetic personality trait", just that it doesn't make you suicidal.

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:07:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863638maximus-decimushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863638https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863638
<![CDATA[New comment by ryukoposting in "Why are so many people being hit with £5 fines for 'counterfeit' stamps?"]]>I'll defer to Occam's Razor and say that the Mail probably has a machine that's a bit buggy or imperfect.

The US Postal Service processed 116 billion parcels in 2023[1]. If they had counterfeit stamp detectors that gave false positives 0.0001% of the time, that's still 116,000 bogus fines per year. And the engineers might have no way to reproduce the glitch, because it's so improbable.

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/320234/mail-volume-of-th...

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:07:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863637ryukopostinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863637https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863637
<![CDATA[New comment by alephnerd in "School absences have ‘exploded’ almost everywhere"]]>Fair enough! Sorry for the standoffish tone! HN has been getting to me lately

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:07:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863636alephnerdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863636https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863636
<![CDATA[New comment by berniedurfee in "Simon Riggs has died"]]>I wouldn’t, only because the big O is behind MySQL.

Otherwise, why not? It’s basically a Chevy vs Ford decision.

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:07:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863635berniedurfeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863635https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863635
<![CDATA[New comment by bryanlarsen in "School absences have ‘exploded’ almost everywhere"]]>It's not the methods. If you and all the rest of your class would have been motivated the methods would have worked fine.

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:07:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863634bryanlarsenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863634https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863634
<![CDATA[New comment by skhunted in "Math writing is dull when it neglects the human dimension"]]>For the vast majority of the students the curiosity, as you put it, isn’t really there. Understanding is very hard work and most people don’t want to put in the work to acquire understanding.

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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:06:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863633skhuntedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863633https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863633