<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: UseofWeapons1</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=UseofWeapons1</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 11:35:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=UseofWeapons1" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UseofWeapons1 in "Show HN: Does Information Density Cause Time Dilation?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It would be nice to see an estimate for the order of magnitude of the effect.<p>As is, I’m skeptical the clocks would be able to measure it. Just a bachelors degree in physics though, so I’m not an expert.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:34:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46375891</link><dc:creator>UseofWeapons1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46375891</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46375891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UseofWeapons1 in "We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, that was my thought as well. Breakeven might be like 1 (give or take 2x)?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 01:51:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45716596</link><dc:creator>UseofWeapons1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45716596</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45716596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UseofWeapons1 in "Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The post is quite clear? They call on the sponsors to stop funding ruby central, and the employment status bit is a clear concern extending from ruby central’s supposed takeover.<p>Read the post more clearly before accusing someone of LLM usage. And even if it is, they are still valid points to be discussed, as opposed to trying to bury it with an LLM accusation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:37:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45302162</link><dc:creator>UseofWeapons1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45302162</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45302162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UseofWeapons1 in "Making an Intersection Unsafe for Pedestrians to Save Seconds for Drivers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had to look this up. In California in particular, this is true, which surprised me.<p>Per a random law firm:
California’s yellow light law permits drivers to enter an intersection during a yellow light. No violation exists unless any part of the car is over the stopping line when the light turns red. However, the law encourages drivers to slow down before reaching the intersection.<p>Whereas in, for example, Massachusetts, this would be considered running a red light.<p><a href="https://www.wccbc.com/red-and-yellow-light-accidents/#:~:text=California's%20yellow%20light%20law%20permits,down%20before%20reaching%20the%20intersection" rel="nofollow">https://www.wccbc.com/red-and-yellow-light-accidents/#:~:tex...</a>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:13:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42699080</link><dc:creator>UseofWeapons1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42699080</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42699080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UseofWeapons1 in "The Rise of the French Fry Cartel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s unlikely they are able to gouge McDonald’s and the large companies. Even the article mentioned that the big competition is for those massive contracts. It’s much more likely that McDonald’s and co can shop around, negotiate a great price, and maintain margins.<p>It’s the mom and pops, the regional suppliers that can’t do anything, and likely pay much higher prices than the megacorps.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:13:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42623180</link><dc:creator>UseofWeapons1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42623180</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42623180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UseofWeapons1 in "Shoe prints lead FBI to suspect couple involved in multiple New Mexico wildfires"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Important to note that despite being started by humans, those fires are still made larger and exacerbated by climate change.<p>Not to say you’re implying against that, just clarifying.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2024 18:05:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41080804</link><dc:creator>UseofWeapons1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41080804</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41080804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UseofWeapons1 in "Ask HN: How to handle a senior hire turning out to be junior?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As you consider the decision to let them go, consider the impact on other people in your work place too. Other developers notice someone like that underperforming and getting overpaid, and it can hurt the good climate you aim for. It may feel bad to fire them, but it may be worse to keep them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2024 15:10:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40618032</link><dc:creator>UseofWeapons1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40618032</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40618032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UseofWeapons1 in "Developing Palo Alto is worth $1T"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This article is just an exercise in back of the envelope math. There’s no coherent point to it. “If we just assume that Pablo Alto was as desirable as Manhattan and could justify building the same infrastructure…”<p>It’s not. You can’t.</p>
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<p>Great summary. Always hard to tell whether proposed experiments are doable within a reasonable timeframe. Sounds like this one is not, but perhaps by defining a new category it may lead to one that is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 21:36:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40279779</link><dc:creator>UseofWeapons1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40279779</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40279779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UseofWeapons1 in "Show HN: Functional UI Kit – twin Figma and React component libraries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cool project - I’ve had this problem. I’d like the GitHub reader to also lay out how to set up figma. E.g. import figma library. Anything else needed?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2024 01:25:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39506720</link><dc:creator>UseofWeapons1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39506720</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39506720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UseofWeapons1 in "Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This looks pretty compelling! The best of controlling your own data and a global, network-effects-compatible content approach. Seems like a win for users if it gets adopted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:06:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39471539</link><dc:creator>UseofWeapons1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39471539</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39471539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UseofWeapons1 in "USGS estimates at least 45% of U.S. tap water contain forever chemicals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Curious, do you have a source for this?<p>Are PFAS primarily concentrated in the bloodstream?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2023 19:46:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36621747</link><dc:creator>UseofWeapons1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36621747</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36621747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UseofWeapons1 in "Room-temperature superconductor discovery meets with resistance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fascinating. This material alone would be revolutionary if legitimate, although I’m sure there’d be further improvements.<p>Question for any experts - what’s the relative difficulty of keeping something under sustained high pressure in a piece of hardware vs keeping it very cold?<p>Our ultra cold usages work decently well. Would it be any easier to keep a hardware component under pressure like what this new material requires?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:23:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35070933</link><dc:creator>UseofWeapons1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35070933</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35070933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UseofWeapons1 in "Can the double-slit experiment distinguish between quantum interpretations?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fascinating. The summary:<p>“On the one hand, according to the (generalized) standard canonical interpretation, the arrival distribution is considered as a generalized observable, which is described by a positive-operator-valued measure (POVM), satisfying some required symmetries [10, 11, 30, 31]. On the other hand, in the realistic- trajectory-based formulations of quantum theory, such as the Bohmian mechanics [32], Nelson stochastic mechanics [33], and many interacting worlds interpretation [34], the arrival time distribution could be obtained from particles trajectories [7, 18, 35, 36].”<p>I’d be interested to hear a definition of each of those interpretations.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2023 17:57:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34313446</link><dc:creator>UseofWeapons1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34313446</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34313446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UseofWeapons1 in "Reddit's favorite products in one place"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fun product, I can see myself using it.<p>A feature request - I’d like to be able to adjust the time frame. Things like basketball shoes move a lot year to year, and it can be hard to find ones from 18 months ago.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/technology/ant-group-china-regulation.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/technology/ant-group-china-regulation.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25554702">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25554702</a></p>
<p>Points: 5</p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2020 22:09:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/technology/ant-group-china-regulation.html</link><dc:creator>UseofWeapons1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25554702</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25554702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UseofWeapons1 in "The Internet Is Starting to Turn on MLMs - TikTok first major platform to ban"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TikTok seems particularly vulnerable to MLM schemes, given its focus on highlighting content beyond a user's social circle. Combined with their younger user base mentioned in the article, it seems clear that TikTok has a lot of good reasons to tackle MLMs.<p>Claiming that the internet is turning on MLMs seems like hyperbole though - Facebook has been around for a long time and is still a decent platform for MLMs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2020 16:51:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25552269</link><dc:creator>UseofWeapons1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25552269</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25552269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UseofWeapons1 in "Why you can have millions of goroutines but only thousands of Java threads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The article is off by an order of magnitude in one of the more headline grabbing comparisons. It states 2.5 million goroutines in a gigabyte of RAM, when it should be 250k at 4KB per stack. Still impressive on its difference, but less so.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2018 22:14:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18171786</link><dc:creator>UseofWeapons1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18171786</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18171786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UseofWeapons1 in "Ask HN: As an employee of a company, how do you assess its health?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The easist method is by trend in employee count. If headcount is rising, that's a good indicator, if it's falling, that's generally bad. Stable can be perfectly fine, or bad, depending on the company. You may have concerns about the magnitude of growth, or claim lay-offs were justified or turnover is natural, but the trend generally holds.<p>You should also pay attention to other employees; ask yourself why folks who leave are leaving. This seems easy, but I know one start-up well where a small trickle of occasional high-level departures turned into an eventual flood and bankruptcy.<p>Beyond that, it's the usual. Anything you can tell about sales growth, competitive intensity, leadership, etc. are all helpful and good data points.</p>
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<p>Per a Forbes article on the subject [0]<p>"Check Point estimated the firm was making millions from the ad clicks, in the region of $300,000 per month."<p>I imagine your price per click is over-estimated by a couple orders of magnitude, but that's just a guess.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/05/26/google-shuts-down-massive-ad-fraud-on-play-store/#780741487807" rel="nofollow">https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/05/26/googl...</a></p>
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