Hacker News: fundingshovel

New comment by fundingshovel in "Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining"

fundingshovel — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 20:04:45 +0000

I use it for this a lot.

New comment by fundingshovel in "'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised"

fundingshovel — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 17:45:01 +0000

Even if you do they might? Good service in app can lead to shorter wait times for people that need to talk to humans

New comment by fundingshovel in "The Onion buys Infowars"

fundingshovel — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 15:11:53 +0000

Anybody else have to triple check it wasn't just The Onion trolling?

New comment by fundingshovel in "How the dream of cheap streaming television became a pricey, complicated mess"

fundingshovel — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 13:21:11 +0000

How is it anglocentric? To me it seems the opposite.

This is be being unable to buy the show in Russian, in the united states. Region locking doesn't just prohibit US content from being played elsewhere, it prevents Americans from seeing a lot of amazing things produced around the world just as readily.

New comment by fundingshovel in "Show HN: I made a platform for journalists to “open source” their fact checking"

fundingshovel — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 00:25:20 +0000

Neither your, nor my politics have absolutely nothing to do with the accuracy of your information, though if anything, we should hold our own side to a higher standard. There are so so many easily verifiable things to write about, that its beyond pointless to trash our credibility over things that are proven inaccurate with a little bit of fact checking. I mean, Phillips being the wrong age to have been in Vietnam, as he claimed to Vox, would have been trivial to detect with any fact checking at all, and should have raised flags about the rest of his narrative.

No one here is even trying to advance narrative high school boys are angels, with a bit a of digging it's pretty easy to find things that Covington Catholic does may well deserve the level of public shaming that this story got.

However in this case, the entire narrative has been pretty widely disputed, Caitlin Flanagan does it much more elegantly than I could.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/media-must...

As for the source, why not go to the original, like any responsible journalist should have, copy of the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwNyOD8FIQk

Feel free to tell me when you hear them chanting "Build a wall", I haven't heard it.

The first widely reported, and easily proven incorrect fact is that Nathan Phillips is a Vietnam Veteran, see fairly through coverage of that here:

https://www.businessinsider.com/native-elder-nathan-phillips...

So really you're asking me to believe the narrative of someone who is proven to be lying about his military service, with no corroborating video of his claims, which just seems a bit ludicrous.

edited: spelling

New comment by fundingshovel in "Show HN: I made a platform for journalists to “open source” their fact checking"

fundingshovel — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 21:44:15 +0000

The article was modified, and the sections in your quote added. I should have used the internet archive originally.

See: https://web.archive.org/web/20190120030012/https://www.vox.c...

New comment by fundingshovel in "Show HN: I made a platform for journalists to “open source” their fact checking"

fundingshovel — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 20:00:00 +0000

https://www.vox.com/2019/1/19/18189668/white-students-maga-g...

https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/maga-hat-wearing-teens-tau...

New comment by fundingshovel in "Why Bother with What Three Words?"

fundingshovel — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 15:50:03 +0000

Why not just build an SMS gateway for emergency services with GPS coordinates and call it a day? It seems like the important bit is the gateway, not the 3 word response

New comment by fundingshovel in "What Happens When You Try to Sue Your Boss"

fundingshovel — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 15:56:47 +0000

20% is far better than 1%

https://www.fastcompany.com/40440310/employees-win-very-few-...

New comment by fundingshovel in "Data Mining Reveals Factors That Lead People To Make Blunders in Chess (2016)"

fundingshovel — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 15:28:05 +0000

It's poorly written press coverage of https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04956

tl;dr We find strong evidence that in our domain, features describing the inherent difficulty of an instance are significantly more powerful than features based on skill or time.

New comment by fundingshovel in "Facing net neutrality critics, Verizon lifts data caps on public safety workers"

fundingshovel — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 07:50:20 +0000

This a fire dept wanting people outside of taxable area to pay for it's data usage and calling it "Net Neutrality" for news coverage.

Sighs. So much fail.

New comment by fundingshovel in "Fakernews: Builds a Markov chain using HN post titles and generates fake posts"

fundingshovel — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:33:45 +0000

I wish someone would write even half of these.

New comment by fundingshovel in "Insurance copays are higher than the cost of the drug about 25% of the time"

fundingshovel — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 05:25:04 +0000

It's easier and more affordable to leave than you'd think.

New comment by fundingshovel in "Insurance copays are higher than the cost of the drug about 25% of the time"

fundingshovel — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 05:22:52 +0000

Aren't most people advocating for the removal of the DEA not the entire FDA?

New comment by fundingshovel in "Study Finds Increased Incarceration Has Marginal-To-Zero Impact on Crime"

fundingshovel — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 03:10:57 +0000

Only if you can afford to pay them. Otherwise they linger for quite some time.

New comment by fundingshovel in "Apple’s $1T Milestone Reflects Rise of Powerful Megacompanies"

fundingshovel — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 16:00:59 +0000

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204055

It's pretty well supported?

New comment by fundingshovel in "Hackers Breached Virginia Bank Twice in Eight Months, Stole $2.4M"

fundingshovel — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 02:18:53 +0000

That's not what this is staying at all though. It's saying "In order to get paid you must show you took reasonable precautions not get hacked AND get hacked." It's pretty hard to argue ignoring a known issue for 9 months is taking reasonable precaution. I don't see how that's any different then not paying when someone falls on because of broken steps you knew about and didn't fix, which would be pretty common.

New comment by fundingshovel in "MSU Scholars Find $21T in Unauthorized Government Spending"

fundingshovel — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 15:49:33 +0000

No, but the report is about journal voucher adjustments which isn't spending exactly spending.

The report says not that they're "spending" $21T, but that they made a cumulative amount of errors and corrections in their vouchers equalling $21T and have really poor audit controls.

While bad audit controls is a legitimate and serious problem, it very much is not the same as what people normally think of as "Spending".

New comment by fundingshovel in "MSU Scholars Find $21T in Unauthorized Government Spending"

fundingshovel — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 14:19:28 +0000

Read more carefully, that's the total of all improperly accounted for transactions, not lost money.

While it's still a complete shit show. There's a huge, almost click bate difference.

New comment by fundingshovel in "MSU Scholars Find $21T in Unauthorized Government Spending"

fundingshovel — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 14:15:56 +0000

Yes... Using that link a source... the US lost more than 4 times what every country in the world INCLUDING the US legitimately spent.

Or approximately 1/3 of the of the entire us GDP, compared to the 3% listed.