Hacker News: dh5

New comment by dh5 in "AI Saved My Company from a 2-Year Litigation Nightmare"

dh5 — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 03:31:05 +0000

It cuts the other way as well. It's incredibly easy to file suit against larger corporations (e.g. your landlord in small claims) and just represent yourself and be confident all you're potentially out is the court filing fee. I've personally done it twice and settled before it went to trial; without the American rule there would be no way I could risk having them take it to trial and pay their fees.

New comment by dh5 in "German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph"

dh5 — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 03:20:16 +0000

I believe there actually often is a calendar association but only because the US fiscal year starts October 1st, and funding legislation needs to be enacted before then.

New comment by dh5 in "Resident physicians' exam scores tied to patient survival"

dh5 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 17:56:45 +0000

This was controlled for as stated in the article:

> The researchers compared outcomes for patients within the same hospitals who were cared for by doctors with different exam scores. This allowed the researchers to eliminate, or at least minimize, the effect of differences in patient populations, hospital resources, and other variations that might influence the odds of patient death or readmission, independent of a doctor’s performance.

New comment by dh5 in "Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo completes first ever sub-57 minute half marathon"

dh5 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:03:51 +0000

If you are running less than 30 miles per week or so and don't have multiple injury risk factors (e.g. prior history of injury, being older, female) you can fairly safely run at whatever pace you'd like and know that running more and running faster will help you become faster.

The idea of "zone 2 training" that is peddled sometimes on social media makes no sense if you're not running consistent mileage and actively looking to run faster. At that point, the idea is that you're minimizing injury risk in between 2+ hard efforts per week, while still getting in the miles.

New comment by dh5 in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

dh5 — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 05:38:02 +0000

I think you deserve your 50 cents for this post.

New comment by dh5 in "Chatham House Rule is suddenly everywhere in the Bay Area"

dh5 — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 02:27:51 +0000

I'm guessing this definition of a safe space (e.g. able to say what you want, with possible racism included) isn't what nonconservatives would label a safe space.

New comment by dh5 in "Analyzing the World Chess Championship 2024: Empirical synthesized approach"

dh5 — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 04:03:50 +0000

No one at this level is playing tournaments without massive preparation. This is especially true at the WCC where both sides have not just one but teams of seconds to help with prep.

Ding has been a shadow of himself ever since he won the world championship and if anything has been seen as the weakest world champion since 2006.

New comment by dh5 in "Is running a more efficient way to travel than walking?"

dh5 — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 07:04:48 +0000

"Zone" training is primarily a way for high mileage runners to get the physical adaptation of running with lower risk of injury on easy days. If you're running < 20 mpw there should be minimal risk of injury and you should focus on increasing mileage and not on heart rate (which is highly variable depending on the person anyway, and should be properly determined with a LT test).

New comment by dh5 in "The rarest move in chess [video]"

dh5 — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 07:00:37 +0000

Notation has changed over the years. Even twenty years ago you could pick up (admittedly dated) books using descriptive notation (e.g. P-K4). It's pretty clear what is the accepted standard for notation today though.

New comment by dh5 in "Half of College Grads Are Working Jobs That Don't Use Their Degrees"

dh5 — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 06:59:20 +0000

The article's headline is a little misleading. It is only referring to college graduates that are "underemployed," i.e. have a job not requiring college-level skills in general, as opposed to a job that is unrelated to their major.

Your case would not count as underemployment (of which examples are office support, retail sales, food service).

New comment by dh5 in "TikTok Gave Me Autism: The Politics of Self Diagnosis (2023) [video]"

dh5 — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 09:06:05 +0000

Simon is Sacha's cousin (according to Wikipedia).

New comment by dh5 in "Trading bot that buys stocks bought by politicians is up 20% since May 2022"

dh5 — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 01:35:32 +0000

Separately, retail investors also outperform the S&P on average: https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/who-you-calling-dumb-mone...

> The average individual-investor stock portfolio has risen about 150% since the beginning of 2014, according to investment research firm Vanda Research, which began tracking the data nine years ago. That beats the S&P 500’s roughly 140% during the same period.

New comment by dh5 in "Costco gold bars are selling out within hours"

dh5 — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 07:06:32 +0000

How are search trends the same as ownership of the currency?

Also in Argentina it's "dólar," not "dollar": https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=AR&q=g...

New comment by dh5 in "West Virginia University to drop 32 majors including all world language programs"

dh5 — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 06:17:32 +0000

I'm guessing it's more about the faculty being hard and/or expensive to retain for those majors.

New comment by dh5 in "FTC takes action to stop Opendoor from cheating potential sellers"

dh5 — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 23:19:15 +0000

That and the ultra-stagnant economy which in turn leads to mortgage rates of around 1%.

New comment by dh5 in "Better.com CEO Vishal Garg says he is personally liable for $750M SoftBank loan"

dh5 — Sat, 14 May 2022 06:28:43 +0000

A quick search shows Garg's net worth is ~4B. Despite previous actions he deserves some amount of respect IMO for putting his own money on the line here.

New comment by dh5 in "Ask HN: Is Bay Area in a tipping point for tech talent?"

dh5 — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 17:46:06 +0000

If you just count Manhattan at ~70,000 / sq mi it's certainly up there in terms of population density. The outer boroughs (and Staten Island specifically) pull down the average quite a bit.

New comment by dh5 in "Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64"

dh5 — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 00:38:23 +0000

I'm not sure that calculation makes sense. If someone has already lived to 77 he probably has a much higher chance of living to 78 than the average person. And if someone has lived past 78 does that mean he's lost negative years of life?

New comment by dh5 in "The leader who's standing up to China"

dh5 — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 19:15:01 +0000

Here comes the 50 cent army

New comment by dh5 in "Tech salaries fall in Bay Area, New York City, rise in Austin, San Diego"

dh5 — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 23:30:26 +0000

Right, it seems London at 101 and Toronto at 92 USD pull down the averages of both those groups significantly.