Hacker News: echlebek

New comment by echlebek in "Would you trust AI to scan your genitals for STIs?"

echlebek — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 18:47:51 +0000

Hahahahaha. No.

New comment by echlebek in "The Irrevocable SSL Certificates of Cloudflare"

echlebek — Wed, 22 May 2024 20:27:22 +0000

> In fact, the official stance of the SSL team at CloudFlare is that they won’t revoke unless the team has “determined the private key was compromised.”

Sounds like you should email the private key to the Cloudflare security team as plain text

New comment by echlebek in "Walking just 15,000 steps a week could add three years to your life claims study"

echlebek — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 21:36:47 +0000

Look at it this way: if you don't walk at least 15,000 steps a week, you can expect your lifespan to shorten by 3 years on average. 15,000 steps is in the realm of bare minimums.

New comment by echlebek in "In the Asian Flu of 1957-58, they rejected lockdowns (2021)"

echlebek — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 18:27:02 +0000

So what are you arguing here, that there's a generation of children that can't recognize facial expressions? Seems unlikely to me.

New comment by echlebek in "No A/C? No problem, if buildings copy networked tunnels of termite mounds"

echlebek — Mon, 29 May 2023 18:59:09 +0000

It was substantially cooler on average in 1870.

New comment by echlebek in "Filial Piety in Chinese Culture (2016)"

echlebek — Mon, 29 May 2023 18:53:30 +0000

This site got flagged by noscript for a possible XSS attack, seems like it might just be sloppily embedded tumblr content though

New comment by echlebek in "Tesla CEO 'The laptop class is living in la-la land'"

echlebek — Wed, 17 May 2023 20:29:56 +0000

Big words for a guy who just wasted 40 billion dollars. Anyone want to exchange a Tesla Model 3 for an Ioniq?

New comment by echlebek in "Psychoactive substance use by professional programmers"

echlebek — Thu, 11 May 2023 01:20:12 +0000

I was also under the impression that PIP was a way to slow-roast firing someone, not something that would be temporary.

New comment by echlebek in "GPT-3 is much better at math than it should be"

echlebek — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 22:36:39 +0000

Given that ChatGPT can't correctly answer questions like "What weighs more, a pound of bricks or two pounds of feathers", I can't say I agree.

New comment by echlebek in "Ask HN: Does anyone else have anxiety during standup?"

echlebek — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 20:47:33 +0000

I have to say, the only feeling I experience during standups like these is an incredible sense of boredom.

New comment by echlebek in "Running everyday to escape stresses may lead to dependence not mental wellbeing"

echlebek — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 07:31:49 +0000

I don't understand the point of this study. Someone might become dependent on exercise to escape things in their life they don't want to or can't deal with. So then what? Are you going to tell someone to stop exercising? Maybe take some SSRIs? Doesn't seem likely to lead to a better outcome to me.

New comment by echlebek in "Antidepressants are over-prescribed, but genuinely help some patients"

echlebek — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 18:16:11 +0000

What if they weren't sad? What if they were depressed, but the cause of their depression was situational rather than a chemical imbalance? Isn't that possible?

New comment by echlebek in "NYC officials say they can't find EV garbage trucks powerful enough to plow snow"

echlebek — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 20:15:15 +0000

The reality is that most other major cities have garbage collection figured out in a better way. For instance in my city, garbage is kept in a dedicated garage area in each apartment building, and on a scheduled day, it's picked up either right in the building or in the alley after the caretaker moves the dumpsters there. The fact that this is considered politically untenable in New York is frankly insane, glad I don't live there.

New comment by echlebek in "Tobacco companies to be billed for cleaning up cigarette butts in Spain"

echlebek — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 19:24:26 +0000

It might incentivize cigarette companies to make biodegradeable butts, something they should have been forced to do decades ago.

New comment by echlebek in "Tobacco companies to be billed for cleaning up cigarette butts in Spain"

echlebek — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 19:07:23 +0000

Were you doing satire? Let me know and I'll un-downvote you.

New comment by echlebek in "US Scientists Achieve Net Gain Fusion Reaction"

echlebek — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 19:58:39 +0000

This isn't an optimistic article, it's a landmark scientific result that people all over the world have been trying to achieve for 70 years.

New comment by echlebek in "What to Do When a Direct Report Is Bullying You"

echlebek — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 19:02:26 +0000

Let me just make something up and claim it's interesting, I have no ulterior motives for doing this

New comment by echlebek in "Why do new cars look like wet putty?"

echlebek — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 17:03:03 +0000

Every visible angle of a car has multiple lights on it so I don't think that's actually a double edged sword???

New comment by echlebek in "Speed far above the limit and we'll take your car, Austria says"

echlebek — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 23:08:58 +0000

Seems odd that this obvious and uncontroversial consequence would be news, tbh.

New comment by echlebek in "KFC 'sorry' for Germany's Reichspogromnacht promotion"

echlebek — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 22:44:46 +0000

I don't believe it. It seems much more likely to me that this was the intent of some individual at KFC and they are blaming it on the automation. I'm sure they have automation, but this reeks of intentional sabotage to me.