Hacker News: cirgue

New comment by cirgue in "Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say"

cirgue — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 02:12:02 +0000

The answer is contractors and consultants. State agencies routinely work with third parties that need to be able to share files. Obviously this isn’t universal but it isn’t uncommon.

New comment by cirgue in "Mysterious Drones Swarmed Langley AFB for Weeks"

cirgue — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:10:43 +0000

It escalates tensions for no readily identifiable reason. Like we’re not looking to pick a fight with China or Russia right now, and saying “hey y’all we captured a Chinese drone” sounds like a great way to push public opinion over a precipice and create a crisis that serves the interests of quite literally no one.

New comment by cirgue in "Mysterious Drones Swarmed Langley AFB for Weeks"

cirgue — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 01:36:06 +0000

Where did it mention that they were unable to get imagery of the drones or recover one? If the thesis is that this may be a foreign incursion, I very much doubt that they’d broadcast that they’d captured one.

New comment by cirgue in "Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence"

cirgue — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 23:15:08 +0000

You are not capable of interacting simultaneously with millions of people who regard you as anything approaching a source of truth.

New comment by cirgue in "Royal Navy forced to recruit for tob job on social media"

cirgue — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 15:15:03 +0000

Anyone who’s old enough to have a 20 year military career is at least a millennial.

New comment by cirgue in "Almost half of British teens feel addicted to social media – study"

cirgue — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:22:54 +0000

Furthermore, most people panicking about dnd and raves have exactly zero experience with either. Almost everyone has experience with social media and a lot of the criticism of it comes from things people directly observe from their own personal experiences. It’s not like this is a completely uninformed mass hallucination like the satanic panic of the 90s.

New comment by cirgue in "I'm skeptical of low-code"

cirgue — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 23:01:08 +0000

Low-code is just good libraries and good frameworks. My hot take is that anything “low code” beyond that is just an aggressively user-hostile config interface.

New comment by cirgue in "Ask HN: What is one thing that has improved your energy the most?"

cirgue — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 19:57:41 +0000

Cardio in the mornings. I used to work out mainly at night, and I still lift in the afternoons, but going on a jog or bike ride right after getting up is amazing. No matter how shitty it is outside or how much I do not want to drag myself out of bed, being outside and active for 30-ish minutes at the start of the day makes a huge difference.

New comment by cirgue in "Microservices aren't the problem. Incompetent people are"

cirgue — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 22:13:21 +0000

There are a lot of things in life that would be trivial if everyone was really good at what they did, had the most perfectly pure of intentions, and were omnisciently aware. Unfortunately that’s not the world we live in, and even farther from the companies most of us work for. Good technology is about figuring out shortcuts around hard problems, and “large groups of people trying to coordinate their activities across space and time” is a hard fucking problem.

New comment by cirgue in "Ask HN: How did you get rid of your performance anxiety?"

cirgue — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 19:35:00 +0000

Try teaching or tutoring for a while, either something academic or not. You get the chance to talk to groups, it’s going to be a topic you know well and are comfortable with, and you’ll get lots of chances to refine your techniques.

New comment by cirgue in "P**fectionism Isn’t Your Problem"

cirgue — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 23:04:34 +0000

I think the author kind of has it backward. Most people I know (specifically younger people that I work with) that struggle with perfectionism are afraid to fail enough to master something. They end up king of the bunny slope because they don’t want to do something imperfectly, so they stick to the easy stuff and eventually give up. Like being really really good at something requires, like the author said, that you continue to do things at the outer limits of your abilities, and if you’re doing that you’re going to spend the majority of your time performing below the standard you set as perfection. If you have a healthy relationship with failure and imperfection, that drives you forward, and if not it stops you from progressing.

New comment by cirgue in "Xi’s Security Obsession Turns Ordinary Citizens into Spy Hunters"

cirgue — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 20:52:36 +0000

The point of the Stasi wasn’t to find/prosecute dissent, it was to create an environment that prevented it from occurring, spreading, or gaining traction. The Stasi existed to sow the fields of popular politics with salt through creating an environment of paranoia.

New comment by cirgue in "Therapy as a way of aligning with your subconscious"

cirgue — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 15:23:14 +0000

I have experienced clinical depression and physical activity was absolutely 100% a critical part of both recovery and maintaining mental health. Most (but not all) people that I know who have experienced clinical depression have had similar experiences.

New comment by cirgue in "Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?"

cirgue — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:21:38 +0000

I’ve always loved technical analysis discourse because it’s the starkest example of how to actually make money in financial markets, and that’s to actively cultivate information asymmetry among other market participants. If technical analysis were a successful strategy, it would, like most other techniques that can actually generate sustainable alpha, be a closely guarded secret. But it’s not. It’s something people shout about from the rooftops trying to get rubes to follow the bait. It’s the same kind of play as wallstreetbets, where you’re tying to increase the amount of stupid, predictable money in your corner of the market.

New comment by cirgue in "Ask HN: What happened to Web3 startups?"

cirgue — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 17:05:02 +0000

Never fear, we’ll get there

New comment by cirgue in "JP Morgan fined by SEC for deleting email records"

cirgue — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 15:26:13 +0000

Seconding this. You can have all the meetings you want, but at the end of the day the core competency of bank management is managing money and not managing IT, and banks suck at managing IT when it isn’t directly in the critical path of cash flow, and even then they get it wrong more often than anyone wants to admit.

New comment by cirgue in "Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout"

cirgue — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:02:15 +0000

It is effectively not possible to be a mod of a subreddit without third party apps. I don’t think people fully understand just how awful the native mod suite is for Reddit, and this is what the blackout is really about: the fact that Reddit seems to want to absolutely refuse to support the unpaid labor that makes the site a source of real human knowledge as opposed to a wasteland of bots and trolls.

New comment by cirgue in "Prison chess clubs helping rehabilitate inmates"

cirgue — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 13:51:54 +0000

At least with chess (and plenty of other games) it’s a structured way of participating in cooperative competition/competitive cooperation. Your peers are your adversaries when you’re actually playing, but they’re also the people helping you get better. Work doesn’t teach that, or at least not explicitly, but the ability to navigate social spaces where you’re both cooperating and competing is critical to getting anything done.

New comment by cirgue in "Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid"

cirgue — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 11:54:47 +0000

The origin 100% does matter. It demonstrates that some kinds of virus research pose an existential threat to humanity if not handled properly. That seems relevant, especially when simultaneously Covid demonstrated that such research is also really important to do. Like the origin actually does pose some serious, non-trivial ethical questions about disease research that the public absolutely has a right and obligation to participate in.

New comment by cirgue in "The $40M bet that made South Korea a food and cultural power"

cirgue — Sun, 21 May 2023 23:39:40 +0000

I live in Atlanta and Korean isn’t quite taco-level ubiquity but it’s darn close. Everyone I know under the age of 40 does an h-mart run somewhat regularly and kbbq is a goto group dinner spot.