<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: elevatedastalt</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=elevatedastalt</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:38:57 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=elevatedastalt" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elevatedastalt in "Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And it should be. Vandalism doesn't become OK just because it's being done to drones.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 23:22:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44164409</link><dc:creator>elevatedastalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44164409</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44164409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elevatedastalt in "Microservices are a tax your startup probably can't afford"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you are building the same binary for all microservices you lose the dependency-reduction benefit microservices provide, since your build will still break because of some completely unrelated team's code.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 16:17:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927696</link><dc:creator>elevatedastalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927696</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elevatedastalt in "Lichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I read that as Lichess and was equally inclined to agree :-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 21:12:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43756541</link><dc:creator>elevatedastalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43756541</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43756541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elevatedastalt in "Everything is Ghibli"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because it's your own? And previously that creativity of yours was hamstrung by your lack of ability in another domain (drawing), that the AI can help you with.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 21:53:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43551722</link><dc:creator>elevatedastalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43551722</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43551722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elevatedastalt in "Canada investigates whether Tesla helped itself to a subsidy-fueled sales boom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Doesn't Tesla let you order a car online? Does it need people to physically visit a store and spend an hour doing paperwork?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 23:13:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43541009</link><dc:creator>elevatedastalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43541009</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43541009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elevatedastalt in "Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it's fine. For things that aren't too expensive where I am fortunate enough to not have to be price-sensitive, I don't bother with coupons beyond a cursory Google search.<p>But not everyone is equally fortunate, and for some people the time investment to find the right coupon might be what makes them able to afford a necessity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:58:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43540426</link><dc:creator>elevatedastalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43540426</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43540426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elevatedastalt in "The Worst Programmer I Know (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks to Goodhart's law, it's true for any measure that becomes a target.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2025 17:07:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43454211</link><dc:creator>elevatedastalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43454211</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43454211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elevatedastalt in "Apple shuffles AI executive ranks in bid to turn around Siri"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> But people in the real world have priorities more in line with Ive.<p>Funny how the latest Macbook brought back the Magsafe connector, HDMI port, and SD card port. Apparently the people in the real world have rediscovered priorities that Ive's design had made them forget</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:59:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440761</link><dc:creator>elevatedastalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440761</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elevatedastalt in "Apple shuffles AI executive ranks in bid to turn around Siri"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, it's utility that turned computing from a niche activity to what it's now. Apple is a fashion statement and it's okay for them to market to that effect, but don't credit the growth of computing to Apple's aesthetic but oft-ill-designed stuff.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:57:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440745</link><dc:creator>elevatedastalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440745</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elevatedastalt in "New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Should it be put on the Blockchain too?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:32:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440496</link><dc:creator>elevatedastalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440496</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elevatedastalt in "New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Doesn't it cost a lot in legal fee to the troll too? How are they able to finance it given that they are basically a sham company?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:31:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440481</link><dc:creator>elevatedastalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440481</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elevatedastalt in "Apple ordered by EU antitrust regulators to open up to rivals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To be frank I think Apple should be able to provide a superior experience on the stack they directly control, but given that Google has been raked through the coals for much less, it's only fair to be consistent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 22:06:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43417780</link><dc:creator>elevatedastalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43417780</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43417780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elevatedastalt in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Only about 7500 or so Green Cards are issued every year to Indians in each employment based category (capped due to the per-country cap that's applied to India, China, Mexico) in each of the few employment based categories. The number of people who have applied for these categories in the last 10-15 years is much more than 7500 a year, typically almost 10x, so the line moves at a glacial pace, usually moving a month every year.<p>The line for EB-2 and EB-3 (where most Indians are) is currently servicing those who applied in Summer 2012. So if your colleague got in the line in say Summer 2015, that's 36 months away. At the current pace it could easily be 20-40 years before their turn comes.<p>Also remember that there was a massive tech boom in the 2014 to 2019 period, so a LOT more people applied during that time so the movement of the line will slow down even beyond the current 1 month per year rate. If your colleagues applied in 2016 or beyond they are unlikely to get it in their lifetime unless the per-country caps are removed.<p>Finally, you'll sometimes hear the word "retrogression". That refers to the line actually moving "back". This happens because the date that the USCIS announces as the "pointer" to who is being issued cards is an estimate based on the recent green card issue rate.<p>Sometimes it can move back if they had to issue more green cards than they expected to (since people can apply for spouse and kids together when their turn comes).<p>Sometimes it moves forward faster if the number of people they expected to apply for the final processing stage turns out lower than their estimation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:38:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43367586</link><dc:creator>elevatedastalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43367586</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43367586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elevatedastalt in "'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Annual reminder that the P in HIPAA stands for Portability, not Privacy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 02:51:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43349956</link><dc:creator>elevatedastalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43349956</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43349956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elevatedastalt in "Volkswagen seeks to counter rivals with budget EV model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good that Volkswagen would finally have a car where they don't need to cheat to make emissions benchmarks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 05:48:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43276817</link><dc:creator>elevatedastalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43276817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43276817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elevatedastalt in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>3 eggs have nearly 5gms of saturated fat. For most people their total sat fat intake should be within 20gms everyday. And most people don't have just boiled eggs, there is plenty of butter involved.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:45:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43124715</link><dc:creator>elevatedastalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43124715</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43124715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elevatedastalt in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wasn't implying high trigs. I don't think anyone today associates eggs with high trigs.<p>However eggs are high in a) Sat Fat b) Cholesterol.<p>Sat Fats cause increased LDL, and while dietary Cholesterol for many folks doesn't cause a rise in LDL, for some people who tend to be hyperabsorbers, it does.<p>So the knee-jerk comment that gets added anytime someone cautions about a high-egg diet isn't very accurate. I very politely suggested testing, and also said that if everything turns out OK then it's fine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:15:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43120303</link><dc:creator>elevatedastalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43120303</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43120303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elevatedastalt in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd keep an eye on your lipids if you are consuming 3 eggs every day for months on end. If all turns out great, perfect.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:01:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43118674</link><dc:creator>elevatedastalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43118674</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43118674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elevatedastalt in "Softmax forever, or why I like softmax"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, things like these make me glad that humans don't live forever. By the time you are 30 you already hate the way so many things work around you. If you argue about it you are called a philistine luddite who can't stomach change. There's no right or wrong, but it's good you don't have to deal with stuff you find annoying indefinitely. You just... die eventually.<p>It's a better equilibrium this way and one of the main reasons I don't care much for transhumanism.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:56:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43118611</link><dc:creator>elevatedastalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43118611</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43118611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elevatedastalt in "Reddit Will Introduce Paywalls in 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ironically the only thing for which Reddit is still a useful website is NSFW User Generated content on subreddits that focus on the NSFW bit and forbid any political or relevant discussion.<p>Any typical sub today regardless of what the official topic of the sub is taken over by overly political content just barely reworded to fit the sub's topic.</p>
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