Hacker News: daedrdev

New comment by daedrdev in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

daedrdev — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:21:36 +0000

The current situation, where students succeed regardless if they completely failed to learn and do zero work is also pretty bad

New comment by daedrdev in "That Methyl Methacrylate Tank"

daedrdev — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:26:10 +0000

In California, this is absolutely not the case. Regulations are strict, chemical emissions are heavily restricted and proper disposal of chemicals via specialized companies at great expense. Chemical companies have no need of formulating new versions because everything causes cancer under prop 65. They absolutely have numerous permits for chemicals, your claim that they don't denies reality.

This case probably fell through the cracks, was grandfathered in due to military importance, or is a symptom of the utter lack of industrial knowhow plaguing modern US manufacturing because much US manufacturing is legacy work from decades ago with little ability to modernize, at a plant that likely existing long before the nearby housing.

New comment by daedrdev in "What Is Happening to Publishing?"

daedrdev — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:35:11 +0000

Publishers loose money on most books and most advances they pay authors, and are simply gambling for the big hits.

New comment by daedrdev in "Dumb ways for an open source project to die"

daedrdev — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:41:06 +0000

Or in the past code just sat unpatched via obscurity because fewer people were looking. After all there are plenty of exploits from injection to CSS that we have fixed or migrated away from for code from the far past

New comment by daedrdev in "Tool mapping 90 companies in the photonics and CPO supply chain"

daedrdev — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:43:34 +0000

The UI covers itself on a large screen with no way of viewing what's underneath, not great

New comment by daedrdev in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

daedrdev — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:42:59 +0000

Once you look, you see this all the time when new CEOs join large companies, they feel the need to mark their territory by taking a dump on it.

New comment by daedrdev in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

daedrdev — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:06:59 +0000

Horse labor went away is a objectively decent argument

New comment by daedrdev in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

daedrdev — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:04:29 +0000

Made harder by the fact that we make it illegal and hostile to build housing

New comment by daedrdev in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

daedrdev — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:12:21 +0000

FDR created the US welfare system which destroyed socialism in the US. I'm not predicting the future but it has basically happened before.

New comment by daedrdev in "US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI"

daedrdev — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:50:51 +0000

I think people are blaming AI for a recession caused by trump’s tarrifs and the oil crisis. Businesses fear that oil prices may explode until enough of the economy enters a recession that oil demand decreases, and are already feeling the supply crunch

New comment by daedrdev in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

daedrdev — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:47:39 +0000

Until last year, the share of wealth by the 1% had been basically flat at 31% for a decade

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBST01134

Your expectations aren't matching reality

New comment by daedrdev in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

daedrdev — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:45:13 +0000

There is plenty of research, it is all kept as trade secrets because they are in a competitive business environment

New comment by daedrdev in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"

daedrdev — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:42:43 +0000

I made sure to mention that several times while complaining about the cuban government overall.

New comment by daedrdev in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"

daedrdev — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:41:25 +0000

I can't find the article but I did read a few years ago most had left to either Mexico or the US. The US had a very favorable program for cubans to enter, work and stay in the country under the Biden admin.

The cuban government via National Office of Statistics and Information admitted it fell by at least 10%, but have not done a census in 15 years. Independent estimates range form 18-24%.

New comment by daedrdev in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"

daedrdev — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:24:08 +0000

Cuba let 20% of the population leave in 2020-24 so that they would have fewer dissenters in the country who might overthrow the government. Thats a higher rate of population per year than the peak of the great Irish famine

New comment by daedrdev in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"

daedrdev — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:22:41 +0000

This was the situation in the past, but the US has now forced Mexico and Vueneusalia to not ship Cuba gas. Of course the cuban economy is so weak it can't afford solar which could solved this, largely due to their own failures

New comment by daedrdev in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"

daedrdev — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:16:42 +0000

The US has had an embargo on Cuba for a long time that exempted Food and Medicine, while other countries freely traded with Cuba.

However, under the Trump admin it has turned into a de-facto blockade of all fuel, which really isn't the embargo, it's a new blockade by the US against Cuba. So I don't get why we blame it on the embargo when the current problems are clearly caused by the blockade.

Cuba's previous economic problems are driven by a complete lack of economic reforms, as unnamed Chinese officials said in this FT article two years ago:

https://www.ft.com/content/9ca0a495-d5d9-4cc5-acf5-43f42a912...

  "China publicly supports Cuba’s right to choose its own path to economic development “in line with its national conditions”, but privately Chinese officials have long urged the Cuban leadership to shift from its vertically planned economy to something closer to the Chinese model, according to economists and diplomats briefed on the situation.

  Chinese officials have been perplexed and frustrated at the Cuban leadership’s unwillingness to decisively implement a market-oriented reform programme despite the glaring dysfunction of the status quo, the people said."

I agree what the US is doing is horrible, but Cuba is not blameless on their overall situation

New comment by daedrdev in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

daedrdev — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:29:04 +0000

The thing is grocery stores make very little money, usually low single digit percentage profits, that surprisingly low rates of shoplifting can sink a store and force it to close. Shoplifting, especially the trend of rich people performatively shoplifting, dramatically harms the local community

New comment by daedrdev in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

daedrdev — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:56:59 +0000

I think its a good fear to have, I feel like many sites dies when the main path of discovering them broke for one reason or another, who knows what the path to discovery of this site is would be for a student today.

New comment by daedrdev in "I want to live like Costco people"

daedrdev — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:47:24 +0000

This is Costco literally suffering from success, they have had an enormous growth in subscriptions yet opening stores takes time, faces regulations, has limited availability