<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: chickenpotpie</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chickenpotpie</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:04:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=chickenpotpie" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chickenpotpie in "GitHub is down again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So just double your cloud bill for several few weeks, costing site like GitHub millions of dollars?<p>How do you handle duplicate requests to external services? Are you going to run credit cards twice? Send emails twice? If not, how do you know it's working with fidelity?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:51:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46953335</link><dc:creator>chickenpotpie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46953335</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46953335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chickenpotpie in "GitHub is down again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because it's significantly harder to isolate problems and you'll end up in this loop<p>* Deploy everything 
* It explodes
* Rollback everything
* Spend two weeks finding problem in one system and then fix it
* Deploy everything 
* It explodes
* Rollback everything
* Spend two weeks finding a new problem that was created while you were fixing the last problem
* Repeat ad nauseum<p>Migrating iteratively gives you a foundation to build upon with each component</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:08:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947761</link><dc:creator>chickenpotpie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947761</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chickenpotpie in "Shoplifters could soon be chased down by drones"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At least in the short term, I think the economics will prevent stores from using this for marketing data. Operating these drones has to very, very expensive and I don't think knowing about your driving habits for a few miles is worth the cost.<p>The only reason these things could be economical in the short term is because theft costs retail companies an insanely high amount of money.<p>However, this might change if these drones become cheaper to operate and purchase.<p>I would think there's some crime that would prevent people from using these to the extremes. I am almost certain it's illegal to put an air tag on someone to track their whereabouts and I would also think those laws would apply here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:20:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45388206</link><dc:creator>chickenpotpie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45388206</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45388206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chickenpotpie in "Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When the shopping cart was first introduced to grocery stores, nobody wanted to use it. People preferred to continue lugging around heavy baskets rather than push a cart. Actors had to be hired to walk around the stores pushing them around to convince people it normal and valuable to use them.<p>Sometimes people are resistant to use things that improve their life and have to be convinced to work in their own self interest.<p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/14/business/grocery-shopping-carts-history" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/14/business/grocery-shopping-car...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 14:36:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45149647</link><dc:creator>chickenpotpie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45149647</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45149647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chickenpotpie in "Why data on the economy doesn't match our feelings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Forget comparing old builds to new builds<p>Why? It's extremely relevant.<p>> In the 80s you could get a 15-20 year mortgage at 20%<p>20% was the rate for 30 year mortgage in the 1980s. My source is specifically for 30 year mortgages.<p>> If your monthly payment today is less than it would be at 20%, it is only because you are expected to be paying for it at least an extra 10 years compared to the past<p>That's a gross overgeneralization. Interest rates are lower across the board today.<p>> If your monthly payment today is less than it would be at 20%, it is only because you are expected to be paying for it at least an extra 10 years compared to the past<p>I never said they weren't but you also haven't provided any evidence that arent.<p>> And that's before even thinking about how salaries haven't grown anywhere near as quickly as real estate prices<p>You're literally just repeating your original claim with no new evidence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 22:59:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43338032</link><dc:creator>chickenpotpie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43338032</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43338032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chickenpotpie in "Why data on the economy doesn't match our feelings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Only looking at home prices compared to salary is very misleading because it doesn't account for changes in interest rates. Mortgages were  almost 20% interest in the 80s. Cheaper doesn't mean much if you still can't afford the monthly payment.<p>Also looking at average price doesn't account for the rising quality of housing. In the 1980s the average home was around 1,700 square feet. Today, it is nearly 2,700.<p><a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US" rel="nofollow">https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US</a><p><a href="https://www.newser.com/story/225645/average-size-of-us-homes-decade-by-decade.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.newser.com/story/225645/average-size-of-us-homes...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 22:02:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43337545</link><dc:creator>chickenpotpie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43337545</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43337545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chickenpotpie in "Why data on the economy doesn't match our feelings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Correct but theyre saying the headlines are wrong because the statistic that they use is not accounting for people that are reluctantly part time, but they're not mentioning that there is a statistic that does track that and that statistic also reports that unemployment is low.<p>It is a lie by omission.<p>This interview was about how the data and our feelings about the economy don't match.  The crux of their argument is that we're looking at the wrong data and the right data shows the true state of the economy, but the true data exists and doesn't align with our feelings either.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 21:51:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43337441</link><dc:creator>chickenpotpie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43337441</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43337441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chickenpotpie in "Why data on the economy doesn't match our feelings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Honestly, this is a completely bogus interview that is at best, misleading, and at worst, outright lies.<p>> Well, all that is absolutely true, but sadly it’s even worse than that. What it doesn’t account for is people who have a piece of a job — they work an hour or two here and there, but they want a full-time job. It doesn’t account for that.<p>The BLS does track that as part of the U-6 unemployment rate which is near a 20 year low. The U-6 unemployment rate counts people that work less than 35 hours per week, but want to work more hours, as unemployed.<p><a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/U6RATE" rel="nofollow">https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/U6RATE</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 21:09:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43337022</link><dc:creator>chickenpotpie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43337022</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43337022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chickenpotpie in "Critique of Freakonomics interview with psychologist Ellen Langer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is the value in listening to an educational podcast if I cannot be certain that the material is factual?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 18:09:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41974204</link><dc:creator>chickenpotpie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41974204</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41974204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chickenpotpie in "Dr Pepper is now as popular as Pepsi. It's still shrouded in mystery"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not, alcohol kills 200,000 Americans every year.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:06:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40578430</link><dc:creator>chickenpotpie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40578430</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40578430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chickenpotpie in "Donating forks to the dining hall"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It sounds like they're taking the door stop because they want the security features of the building to actually function and the other tenants are actively conprimising them</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2024 17:20:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40526272</link><dc:creator>chickenpotpie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40526272</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40526272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chickenpotpie in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think Google search and apples ecosystem are extremely different. Google search is trivial to leave, any one can switch to bing by just typing a different address in the URL bar. Switching off of apple products is painful and difficult and it's by design.  My wife and I switched from iphone to Android over a year ago and we're still fighting with apple to stop routing some text messages to iMessage when it should be going to our phones over sms.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:09:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39779466</link><dc:creator>chickenpotpie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39779466</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39779466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chickenpotpie in "Stable Diffusion 3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think that's a fair comparison because they're fulfilling substantially different niches. Gemini is a conversational model that can generate images, but is mainly designed for text. Stable Diffusion is only for images. If you compare a model that can do many things and a model that can only do images by how well they generate images, of course the image generation model looks better.<p>Stability does have an LLM, but it's not provided in a unified framework like Gemini is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 16:42:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39469620</link><dc:creator>chickenpotpie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39469620</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39469620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chickenpotpie in "Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Don’t be so sure about that… rates will fall sharply in a recession, otherwise inflation will run hot<p>What? Lowering interest rates raises inflation.<p>> See today's print<p>Can you link? Not sure what your talking about</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 20:51:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38958862</link><dc:creator>chickenpotpie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38958862</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38958862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chickenpotpie in "Show HN: Scan QR codes to check in guests registered via Google Forms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>IMO this is paranoid behavior and not healthy. Part of existing in society is having reasonable trust that just because someone can take advantage of you in a moment, doesn't mean they're going to.  You're getting in an argument with a server because of your fear that a local hacker printed out a sticker, walked into your local restaurant, seamlessly put the sticker onto the table, didn't get caught, you just happened to sit at the exact table they picked, and whatever vulnerability they're trying to exploit is compatible with the exact device you have. Thats not going to happen.<p>Scan the QR code, dude.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2023 18:57:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38797103</link><dc:creator>chickenpotpie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38797103</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38797103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chickenpotpie in "The housing shortage is larger than you think"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Original comment is specifically talking about Miami, which is a city where young people are trying to live and work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2023 22:00:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38702297</link><dc:creator>chickenpotpie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38702297</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38702297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chickenpotpie in "Judge: Amazon "cannot claim shock" that bathroom spycams were used as advertised"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Semantics<p>Semantics is half of what the legal system is. People spend years in court for what they meant in contract.<p>> They get rid of the word spy on the camera, amazon gets a fine and this will now this happen hidden under the surface. It's semantics. What's the real solution to hidden cameras that spy on victims undressing?<p>As I and others keep saying, it's much more than that. The issue wasn't that it said "spy" it's that the camera provides specific descriptions of how to use this camera illegally. I don't understand your need for "the real solution." There is no "real solution" to any human problem. We're never going to prevent this from happening at least once, but we can make iterative changes that make it harder and make it happen less frequently.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:50:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38523628</link><dc:creator>chickenpotpie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38523628</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38523628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chickenpotpie in "Judge: Amazon "cannot claim shock" that bathroom spycams were used as advertised"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The issue isn't of potential illegal use, it's an issue of explicit illegal use.<p>The camera description specifically describes how it can be used for illegal purposes.<p>There's a huge difference between selling "stump remover" and "spouse poison" even if they're the same chemical.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:33:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38523435</link><dc:creator>chickenpotpie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38523435</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38523435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chickenpotpie in "Judge: Amazon "cannot claim shock" that bathroom spycams were used as advertised"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, but I would if they sold bathroom cameras.<p>The issue isn't of quality, it's an issue of legality</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:18:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38523227</link><dc:creator>chickenpotpie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38523227</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38523227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chickenpotpie in "Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nothing I said disagrees with your statement. In fact, I specifically said they could do better. My point is that it's wrong to say google drive is easy to build or maintain.</p>
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