Hacker News: Shoreleave

New comment by Shoreleave in "Tracking users via CSS"

Shoreleave — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 13:51:06 +0000

So what is the preferred way to at least estimate real traffic without js? I have a static site that gets some traffic, but I have no idea how much of it is real. I'd just like to know if I'm reaching closer to 5 or 500 people a day.

New comment by Shoreleave in "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper (1807)"

Shoreleave — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 18:36:23 +0000

The closest thing might be the bloomberg terminal. It costs 2k a month, but you can get a news feed of the topics you care about and it will be accurate and factual. And then people instantly make bets based on that news.

New comment by Shoreleave in "Ham radio is not dying, it's evolving"

Shoreleave — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 14:03:47 +0000

Regarding attracting a newer generation: appearances are important! The first image on the page should not have people sitting on a toilet in what is obviously a bathroom. It's kind of crazy someone thought that was a good idea. Fear of being a loner who eats lunch in a school bathroom stall keeps kids away from electronics and hobbies like these.

New comment by Shoreleave in "Draft of OCaml Scientific Computing book"

Shoreleave — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 14:45:04 +0000

Jane Street only gets mentioned so often because it is one of the highest paying and selective companies in the world. They are not in control of the ecosystem. And they have nothing to do with banks.

New comment by Shoreleave in "Foiling Electric Boat"

Shoreleave — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 18:55:22 +0000

I thought the same until I started sailing a UFO. You are going way faster than any cat or dinghies. Everything happens substantially faster and the water feels like pavement when you hit.

New comment by Shoreleave in "Accused spy Alexander Yuk Ching Ma evidently beat the polygraph"

Shoreleave — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:42:46 +0000

I thought this was quite well accepted. I can't speak to the FBI, but for CSIS, the Canadian Equivalent, the "polygraph tech" who pretends to just be working the machine, is actually a psychologist watching your responses.

New comment by Shoreleave in "Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0"

Shoreleave — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 02:53:26 +0000

I can absolutely see how it would enable a certain type of very creative, very hard working person to peruse something they couldn't originally due to hard circumstances. But that seems like a minority case.

I'm curious what the other 95% are going to do.

New comment by Shoreleave in "Ask HN: Is it just me? why is “news” so addictive?"

Shoreleave — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 17:30:56 +0000

Better-informed implies useful knowledge. Stop with the news for a month and you'll realize that 98% of it doesn't provide you with any information that stays with you for more than a day or so. It doesn't matter that you read it. It only has negative effects on you.

This opens up a lot more time and effort to explore the 2% that does matter.

New comment by Shoreleave in "How you 'attach' to people may explain a lot about your inner life"

Shoreleave — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:53:45 +0000

This is a great summary and the first part nicely describes what is, somewhat jokingly, referred to as the Dodo Bird Verdict: All therapies are equally effective and it is instead the relationship with a trusted therapist that is important.

I guess it depends on your definitions, but I think your 20-30% numbers are still way to high.

New comment by Shoreleave in "'Doomscrolling' breeds anxiety – how to stop the cycle"

Shoreleave — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 14:45:44 +0000

Of course I'm keeping up with it. It takes about 15 minutes a week to do so.

New comment by Shoreleave in "Ask HN: If WinServer2019 was made free to use tomorrow,would you start using it"

Shoreleave — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 16:51:41 +0000

It might cause me to upgrade current windows servers instead of migrating them to Linux. But I doubt I'd start new projects with it.

If mssqlserver also became open source then that might change my mind.

New comment by Shoreleave in "Foreign data wrappers: PostgreSQL's secret weapon?"

Shoreleave — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 16:55:53 +0000

I'm struggling with this at the moment. Any tips to make JOINs faster?

And a question for any postgres people: say I have two distinct databases, but now need to join across them. What's best practice here?

New comment by Shoreleave in "Ask HN: Are YouTube ads getting worse?"

Shoreleave — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 13:11:44 +0000

I've also notice a huge push for youtube premium on mobile. It used to be a once a week thing. Now almost every time I open the app I'm greeted by the popup asking me to upgrade.

New comment by Shoreleave in "Robin Williams, an acid trip, and moral panic: “Blame Canada” at the Oscars"

Shoreleave — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 00:04:29 +0000

They do not poke fun at everyone who tries to do anything. They poke fun at self-important people who have latched onto progressive ideologies once they can gain something from it. They poke fun at crowd madness. They poke fun at hypocrites. The comment was a response to the perfect case in point: Caitlyn Jenner. The public face of trans women and 'Woman of the year', who didn't even believe in gay marriage.

The average South Park episode has Cartman representing the extreme of some issue, and the issue is mocked. But there will also be a foil, possibly Butters or Stan, who represents the core of the issue, ignoring the hyperbole surrounding it. This character is the one who succeeds.

New comment by Shoreleave in "Robin Williams, an acid trip, and moral panic: “Blame Canada” at the Oscars"

Shoreleave — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 20:39:45 +0000

I also think the analysis is completely off. South Park has always spent much more time making fun of the status quo than of those pushing for change.

South Park is reactionary when rich white people have decided to take up a cause that they previously ignored. It makes fun of the self-serving, hypocritical actions of those in charge, not of the change itself.

New comment by Shoreleave in "Most employees of NYT won’t be required back in physical offices until 2021"

Shoreleave — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 18:46:00 +0000

Seconding. Other than 10 minutes surrounding 9:30 and 4, the trading floors I've worked on have been quieter than any tech company I've worked for.

New comment by Shoreleave in "The Problem with America’s Lab Mice [video]"

Shoreleave — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 14:51:20 +0000

> Carol Greider’s 2009 Nobel Prize was based on work inspired by informal phone calls and emails from Bret

Bret is quick to point out that Dr. Greider's Nobel prize is well deserved and for related, but earlier work. The contention is over later work.

Their conversation did inspire these findings about lab mice telomeres. But Dr. Greider's lab decided to keep the information "in house". This means that instead of publishing the source of the information, they can use their knowledge to start predicting other results, and publish a full stream of paper first. This is at 1:23:50.

New comment by Shoreleave in "Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing people"

Shoreleave — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 21:05:09 +0000

'Fired' doesn't make much sense for stand up. Most comedians won't play (or aren't invited to) college campuses anymore. Two decades ago every comedian would tour campuses. Something has changed drastically.

New comment by Shoreleave in "Ask HN: I implemented the life I designed: perfect but I feel lost. What now?"

Shoreleave — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 20:42:20 +0000

Dostoevsky, Steinbeck, Shakespeare, and The Bible all have very thoughtful takes on these kind of questions. And that's just a start.

I've been in your situation before, and immersing myself in great works of art was probably the most useful thing I did.