Hacker News: dev1n

New comment by dev1n in "'It's too late': David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost"

dev1n — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 01:10:44 +0000

It's unfortunate we didn't get more facts from the interviewee on how exactly it's too late. The interview felt more like a complaint about politics and less about the dire situation of humanity.

New comment by dev1n in "the US should place a value of $1.17M per additional birth"

dev1n — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 12:21:47 +0000

Malthusian takes like this are incorrect. I'd like to see where you were informed how "more births are decidedly unhelpful."

New comment by dev1n in "Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air"

dev1n — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 01:19:16 +0000

Most car - pedestrian crashes in the USA never end up with the driver at fault. Not sure this will change when cars are autonomous.

New comment by dev1n in "How to quit cars"

dev1n — Thu, 18 May 2023 23:57:21 +0000

The reason these people are homeless a lot of the times is because they lack housing. Drug usage and crime are a side-effect of this [1].

Denser housing -> Better (frequent, reliable) public transport -> more people use it -> More people want to live in denser housing -> More denser housing is developed -> less homeless.

This is the formula for how Manhattan, brooklyn, and queens were developed by real estate companies. Builders wanted to be near public transport because they knew they could build large apartment buildings and get a bunch of money in rent because a bunch of people wanted to live near public transport so they could get places quickly and reliably.

[1]: Also if we legalized all drugs people wouldn't be forced to turn to criminal organizations. We already do this with alcohol.

New comment by dev1n in "How to quit cars"

dev1n — Thu, 18 May 2023 23:51:16 +0000

Unfortunately, in the U.S. this is not true.

New comment by dev1n in "U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fleet, buying 9,250 EVs"

dev1n — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 14:18:55 +0000

The ebikes aren't dangerous, the cars that hit them are. I think that's an important distinction.

New comment by dev1n in "Some ways to get better at debugging"

dev1n — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:25:51 +0000

Or as written by George Pólya in How To Solve It

  1. See
  2. Plan
  3. Do
  4. Check

New comment by dev1n in "Ask HN: Solving problems by mapping to other problems that we know how to solve"

dev1n — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:43:03 +0000

Category Theory really helped me in building a framework for finding similarities in problems. Which, after all, is the basis for creativity in general. Can’t solve a problem if you don’t know what questions to ask in the first place.

New comment by dev1n in "Covid vaccination linked to 'substantial reduction' in hospital admissions"

dev1n — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 04:00:54 +0000

And the same can’t be true for making percentages seem small and insignificant? What exactly are you trying to prove?

New comment by dev1n in "Covid vaccination linked to 'substantial reduction' in hospital admissions"

dev1n — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 00:14:25 +0000

This is not a 1 in a million event. There are studies like my comment above that back this statement whole heartedly. This is a virus with proven neuroinvasive potential that affects large swaths of otherwise incredibly healthy people.

You can't compare these supposed 1 in a million events to something like doing perf testing on a 64 node raspberry pi kubernetes cluster.

New comment by dev1n in "Covid vaccination linked to 'substantial reduction' in hospital admissions"

dev1n — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 23:26:07 +0000

Do you only care about people if an event is statistically significant?

New comment by dev1n in "Covid vaccination linked to 'substantial reduction' in hospital admissions"

dev1n — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 23:24:58 +0000

This isn't some small percentage of people this is 3 - 8% [1] of people hospitalized! Despite not finding data for people not hospitalized many report suffering from and being hospitalized for failures of the pulmonary, endocrine, and digestive system.

Sometimes people have strokes from sneezing.

See I can make generalizing statements about bullshit too.

[1]: https://annalsofintensivecare.springeropen.com/articles/10.1...

New comment by dev1n in "Covid vaccination linked to 'substantial reduction' in hospital admissions"

dev1n — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 20:04:05 +0000

No. People (extraordinarily healthy people) are suffering pulmonary embolisms (and thus hospitalized) weeks after they have been cleared from the virus. There is a very, very, very long tail to this disease outside of the initial 2 - 4 weeks of being sick.

New comment by dev1n in "Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?"

dev1n — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 03:01:25 +0000

I totally forgot polls existed on HN. Wow.

Edit: It’s amazing what you forget after 10 years on a website.

New comment by dev1n in "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone"

dev1n — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 13:53:35 +0000

Raz isn't a reason why the police exist. Raz is a product of a system where the police exist too much, which if given the proper social and educational services earlier in his life, his character and personality disorder exemplified here would have been nullified.

New comment by dev1n in "Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospitals in NY"

dev1n — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 21:54:15 +0000

My understanding of containment is that it is only effective when testing and tracing are radically pursued. There just are not enough resources at the state level (at this point) to do this with the effectiveness China has managed to do it. So we are left with one tool to fix this which is flatten the curve to not overwhelm the healthcare system and lead to further deaths. South Korea has been doing a lot of tracing and they are starting to see this as a great success, but mostly due to south korea's ability to track phones of people diagnosed positive.

New comment by dev1n in "Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospitals in NY"

dev1n — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 21:48:12 +0000

I agree. I don't like having underlying health conditions listed as a statistic. I think it leads to people thinking "oh it only really affects people who are sick" and then those people go about their day as usual and spread the disease further. I didn't want to skip over it though out of fear of someone saying I tried to frame the stats to fit a narrative or something.

New comment by dev1n in "Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospitals in NY"

dev1n — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 21:27:13 +0000

We have a well-funded state university system paid for by tax dollars which provides these labs with competent, well-educated employees. But yes, these labs are not directly funded by state dollars.

New comment by dev1n in "Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospitals in NY"

dev1n — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 21:23:36 +0000

No - sorry for the confusion.

18-49 year olds represent 53% of all confirmed COVID-19 cases in the state of New York.

New comment by dev1n in "Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospitals in NY"

dev1n — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 21:22:52 +0000

Nope most are private labs! But what do you think drew these labs to New York? Possibly a well-educated populace driven by a successful state university system funded by tax dollars? You better believe it!