Hacker News: CactusOnFire

New comment by CactusOnFire in "Show HN: Trailmarks – Huge, browser-based, Carmen Sandiego-style travel game"

CactusOnFire — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 04:25:58 +0000

This is fun, though I will note that when traveling, my new location didn't factor in, and all my locations were based on my initial locale.

Might be me being a firefox user.

Edit, tried in Chrome - still didn't work.

New comment by CactusOnFire in "I automated my job application process"

CactusOnFire — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 19:03:05 +0000

Just like how many companies have methods available to them to remove bad glassdoor reviews (or make fake 5-star reviews), this system is even more rife for abuse.

New comment by CactusOnFire in "Communal Luxury: The Public Bathhouse"

CactusOnFire — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 20:08:07 +0000

This article seems to exist in a weird middle ground of both going too far, and not going far enough.

Private bathing is a modern luxury few people would be willing to give up, but at the same time, should they realistically advocate for it, they need to go beyond just considering communal bathing as a single concept. They need to instead consider the cultural environment which surrounds it, and consider communal living as a practice.

While there are many arguments to be made against this (some by me, even), it's a lot easier to conceptualize people bathing together when they actually know each-other on a more intimate level, instead of just strangers getting naked and pouring water on one another.

New comment by CactusOnFire in "Diagrams · Diagram as Code"

CactusOnFire — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 01:57:13 +0000

I think the counter-point to that would be that if you're writing infrastructure as code, and your architects are using a specific language anyways (Python in this case), it makes more sense for data governance and editing reasons to just keep things in the existent ecosystem and not worry about having to procure another license.

Vs. Cooking or Writing which aren't coding practices unto themselves.

New comment by CactusOnFire in "Diagram as Code"

CactusOnFire — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:38:51 +0000

My counterpoint would be: If you can write data visualizations with code, why not write diagrams too?

New comment by CactusOnFire in "Boeing 787s must be reset every 51 days or 'misleading data' is shown (2020)"

CactusOnFire — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 21:16:46 +0000

I've flown with airlines before where there was a cascading delay due to a "plane deficit" at the terminal (not the technical term, that's my own). Not to say it's always uptime, but I imagine there are instances of constant uptime.

New comment by CactusOnFire in "Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport"

CactusOnFire — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 21:34:44 +0000

By that logic, any app that provides privacy from governments spying is a criminal enterprise.

New comment by CactusOnFire in "Open Source Python ETL"

CactusOnFire — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:25:58 +0000

I imagine the use-case for low-code tools is when your ratio of "business experts" heavily outweighs programmers, and the cost of inefficient dev processes/tech debt is less than the cost of waiting to onboard people with a coding background.

New comment by CactusOnFire in "Are commercial "third places" a dying breed?"

CactusOnFire — Wed, 22 May 2024 12:55:08 +0000

I don't want to diminish how interesting the path is, but in my experience, it's still too far out of the way and too purpose-driven to have the organic spontaneity of a good third space.

New comment by CactusOnFire in "Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions"

CactusOnFire — Tue, 21 May 2024 22:20:12 +0000

Perhaps not a joke, but in terms of how arbitrary social media banning is, I would consider this site a sign of "the times".

New comment by CactusOnFire in "Sakuga-42M Dataset: Scaling Up Cartoon Research"

CactusOnFire — Fri, 17 May 2024 15:09:56 +0000

This is one job I am actually hopeful will be fully automated. I've heard before that the people doing this 'tween' frames make less than minimum wage on contract.

That being said, I'm sure this is going to take a while to fully replace the manual efforts. There will probably be awkward phase in between the outset and the perfect modelling efforts, and I'm sure lower budget shows (or ones looking to cut corners) will be the early adopters.

New comment by CactusOnFire in "Meta Is Shuttering Workplace, Its Enterprise Version of Facebook"

CactusOnFire — Tue, 14 May 2024 19:35:47 +0000

Speaking what might be obvious, but I would love a social media experience optimized in a similar way to this: Least amount of time & attention spent on the platform while facilitating the most in-human contact.

New comment by CactusOnFire in "Meta does everything OpenAI should be"

CactusOnFire — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 20:12:15 +0000

No, just agitated a genocide campaign against minorities in Myanmar:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...

Morality aside, I do like the open source work coming out of Meta. It's possible for a company to be "bad guys" in one area, and "good guys" in another.

New comment by CactusOnFire in "How the internet became shit"

CactusOnFire — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:22:54 +0000

The politics of who does vs doesn't make the cut sounds difficult to manage.

I think an individualist model makes sense, or barring that, a group Patreon (i.e. a music label instead of an individual band).

New comment by CactusOnFire in "The Intercept Is Running Out of Cash"

CactusOnFire — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:50:46 +0000

Yeah, it's very effective to be altruistic to news agencies for that good PR.

New comment by CactusOnFire in "OpenAI – Application for US trademark “GPT” has failed"

CactusOnFire — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:12:03 +0000

Yeah, just because OpenAI has gotten away with using open source ideology for regulatory capture in the AI space, but that doesn't mean they can get away with it in the intellectual property space.

New comment by CactusOnFire in "Unity is offering a runtime fee waiver if you switch to LevelPlay"

CactusOnFire — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 21:08:05 +0000

I'm not a gamedev, but I am hoping one of the actionable things from this situation is a call to action from the gaming community to put together more open-source game engine platforms, and for them to be more easily sharable.

I am sure there are reasons this is difficult, but with so many industries built on open-source compliant tools, gamedev feels like a no-brainer for it as well.

New comment by CactusOnFire in "Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’"

CactusOnFire — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 22:58:20 +0000

I'm not privy to the news on this particular fact, but the fact is that Ketamine IS used medically as an anti-depressant now, just at far below the dosage range to get "high".

So if he's just endorsing its usage in a clinical context, that is way different than railing lines.

New comment by CactusOnFire in "Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement"

CactusOnFire — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 00:59:53 +0000

...for the global middle class? Maybe.

For the world as a whole? Definite differences.

It just seems like a super jaded "kids these days" thing to hate on them for consuming easily accessed, free content- and acting like the global literacy and intellectual capital would remain unaffected.

New comment by CactusOnFire in "I lived in LA and commuted to Berkeley by plane to save on rent"

CactusOnFire — Fri, 19 May 2023 12:19:00 +0000

Yeah. The title is a misdirect. The unspoken promise of the article that this is about a more cost-effective/practical/efficient process of commuting.