Hacker News: frontman1988

New comment by frontman1988 in "Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?"

frontman1988 — Wed, 29 May 2024 16:55:32 +0000

If you want to be a theist why stop at Christianity? Why prefer one religion over the other? Theism has existed thousands of years before Christ appeared and these theists had wildly different ideas about almost everything than what Christ taught. Makes you think, who is right?

New comment by frontman1988 in "Show HN: Route your prompts to the best LLM"

frontman1988 — Thu, 23 May 2024 14:57:38 +0000

ChatGPT-4 gives the answer pretty easily:

To cross the river with the goat using the boat, you would follow these steps:

1. *Get into the boat with the goat.* 2. *Row to the other side of the river.* 3. *Disembark with the goat.*

Now, both you and the goat are on the other side of the river.

New comment by frontman1988 in "Proteins in blood could provide early cancer warning 'by more than seven years'"

frontman1988 — Wed, 15 May 2024 16:59:16 +0000

Why wouldn't someone not want to know they have AIDS? Given the disease is not a death sentence anymore and the earlier you know better your chances of survival. The warning probably deters a lot of people who could have otherwise been saved by timely treatment.

New comment by frontman1988 in "Korea sees more deaths than births for 52nd consecutive month in February"

frontman1988 — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:35:05 +0000

Gift of life quite often turns out to be the curse of life. If I was given the opportunity to respawn again I would politely decline than risk being born in North Korea or Sudan.

New comment by frontman1988 in "Coding in Vision Pro"

frontman1988 — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 04:38:05 +0000

Who knows what will be the long term consequences of using these devices on the eye. Better to be wary

New comment by frontman1988 in "IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023"

frontman1988 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:50:58 +0000

Elon showed with Twitter how you don't need hordes of engineers to run a company. He laid off 90% of the staff and still the website is doing alright (at least engineering wise). More engineers lead to more useless bullshit being created(like at Google). A lean mean team seems the way to go.

New comment by frontman1988 in "16-year-old Looking For Guidance"

frontman1988 — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 20:19:00 +0000

Just go and intern at any startup that takes you. That's how you will learn the most.

New comment by frontman1988 in "'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture"

frontman1988 — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 20:14:23 +0000

War is hell. Mostly innocents suffering on both sides of the border. And we don't seem to learn, entire human civilization's history is full of war, even peace time is just preparation for the next war.

New comment by frontman1988 in "French authorities label Vitamin D as endocrine disruptor"

frontman1988 — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 17:14:17 +0000

The best thing is to go out in the sun and soak in the required D. Shortcuts like vitamin pills will always have side effects.

New comment by frontman1988 in "Life lessons from the death bed"

frontman1988 — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 20:05:47 +0000

>medical euthanasia isn't an option

Aren't there plenty good open source alternatives to achieve this without aid from the government? Like something as simple as CO poisoning would do the job convincingly and cheaply.

New comment by frontman1988 in "Love after life: Richard Feynman's letter to his departed wife (2017)"

frontman1988 — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 22:47:28 +0000

Even Einstein was flirtatious and a cheater.

New comment by frontman1988 in "You're not lacking creativity, you're overwhelmed"

frontman1988 — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 22:17:46 +0000

Da vinci used to stare at a wall for hours to aid his creative process. Our brains are full of information, but we don't spend enough time processing it.

New comment by frontman1988 in "Extracting Hacker News book recommendations with the ChatGPT API"

frontman1988 — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 16:32:43 +0000

How much money do 50 odd affiliate links to sub 5 dollar books even make? I doubt OP is making some enviable amount of money.

New comment by frontman1988 in "Insider trade on Splunk acquisition?"

frontman1988 — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 18:08:04 +0000

Why will they need a good explanation? Can't they just say I lucked out and the burden of proving insider trading would fall on the SEC? Innocent until proven guilty right?

New comment by frontman1988 in "What the interns have wrought, 2023 edition"

frontman1988 — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 05:00:54 +0000

Nah I just pretend to pity them for working at a soul sucking job when with their 'superior' minds they could have been solving some real problems humanity faces.

New comment by frontman1988 in "Ask HN: Is there a news source you read everyday? If so, what is it?"

frontman1988 — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 03:08:29 +0000

Life is very cheap in India. Things like bus crashes, people falling off trains due to overcrowding don't even make the local news because they is always something worse and 'sensational' that grabs headlines more: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/raped-rajast...

New comment by frontman1988 in "July 2023 was the hottest month on record"

frontman1988 — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 18:31:04 +0000

Per capita emissions of India/China are much lower compared to the US. It's also easier for a developed country to try and lower their emissions than poor/developing countries to do it.

New comment by frontman1988 in "Ask HN: What are some easy ways to earn some side money?"

frontman1988 — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 18:27:54 +0000

There are no easy ways to make money.

New comment by frontman1988 in "She invited four people over for lunch. A week later, three were dead"

frontman1988 — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 14:50:21 +0000

It's amazing how many poisons exist around us which can be easily used to kill anybody without much trace. Given the number of such deadly poisons, bio-attack cases using these are relatively rare.

New comment by frontman1988 in "Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?"

frontman1988 — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 04:40:35 +0000

Try applying with a different name, maybe there's some discrimination factor at play as well