Hacker News: gatherhunterer

New comment by gatherhunterer in "Can Journalism Be Saved?"

gatherhunterer — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 04:15:36 +0000

Journalistic integrity comes and goes. The Washington Post seemed like a beacon of truthfulness when Trump attacked the free press and they adopted the slogan “Democracy dies in darkness.” Recently they have forgone truthfulness in favor of “truthiness”. Their hypocrisy on fact-checking Sanders and the Times’ calling him “Other” when he was in the lead were very telling.

Journalists with corporate sponsors are just advertisers by another name.

New comment by gatherhunterer in "Japan Turns to Coal After Closing Nuclear Power Plants"

gatherhunterer — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 22:45:46 +0000

This is the perfect example of cutting off one’s nose to spite the face.

New comment by gatherhunterer in "The new Axios website (brief summary of tech stack)"

gatherhunterer — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 04:49:51 +0000

All this bullshit about providing user experience is hilarious. You use the ad stack: Google AMP. This is an engineering cop-out.

New comment by gatherhunterer in "Apple’s independent repair program is invasive to shops and their customers"

gatherhunterer — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:17:20 +0000

There are no “good guy” companies. Stop electing obstructionists who have no interest in governing. Regulation is the only solution.

New comment by gatherhunterer in "Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care"

gatherhunterer — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 15:52:39 +0000

He’s lying. There is only one such comment and it is laughably obtuse. Influencing opinion without addressing the topic is exactly what Reddit is for.

New comment by gatherhunterer in "Sometimes, requiring explanability is counterproductive"

gatherhunterer — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:24:55 +0000

Hopefully a mod can change the link.

> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

New comment by gatherhunterer in "Democrats Declined DHS Offer to Test Caucus App"

gatherhunterer — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:43:28 +0000

Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. The media wanted a live, reality TV-style event and didn’t get it. Last night was supposed to be huge for ad revenue and now they’re out for blood. Imagine waiting patiently for conclusive results in every state. How are they supposed to run ads if people aren’t glued to the screen?

What’s bad for the 24-hour news cycle is good for Democracy.

New comment by gatherhunterer in "Democrats Declined DHS Offer to Test Caucus App"

gatherhunterer — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:37:53 +0000

No one in this thread is thinking. This is a thread for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.

New comment by gatherhunterer in "Some Boeing 737s can't land on some runways with true heading 270 [pdf]"

gatherhunterer — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:40:00 +0000

It does. There are types in the standard library for non-zero numbers[1]. While it would involve writing a wrapper, Rust does provide for customizing the behavior of operators[2]. The example implementation for Div (the "/" operator) even shows how to make a type that panics when trying to divide by zero. One could also return a Result so that trying to divide by zero can fail gracefully.

1. https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/num/struct.NonZeroI32.html

2. https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/trait.Div.html

New comment by gatherhunterer in "Netflix original series no longer get time to breathe"

gatherhunterer — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 17:47:44 +0000

You point out that Netflix has usage data as if you have access to that data. Some people like ten-hour reality TV binges and some people like thoughtful content. Netflix is just mirroring cable TV. Since Netflix uses product placement, especially in its age-targeted content, quantity of viewing time is more profitable than quality.

New comment by gatherhunterer in "Not everyone has an internal monologue"

gatherhunterer — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:52:42 +0000

The topic is fascinating to think about and I was unaware that some people do not "hear" their thoughts or use an internal voice. But I got stuck on this amazing perfect storm of millennial blogger cliches. I thought it was a joke. After this I could not stop reading it as a parody. The word "literally" is used four times.

> I was taking ibuprofen at this point in the day because my brain was literally unable to comprehend this revelation. How have I made it 25 years in life...

New comment by gatherhunterer in "Off-Facebook activity"

gatherhunterer — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 17:38:27 +0000

Nice FUD there.

> icon-less organisation with a cryptic name

Oh my god what if they're foreign? Isn't it terrifying to think about foreigners? Better take that fear into the voting booth with you.

New comment by gatherhunterer in "Show HN: K3sup (0.8.0) – Bootstrapping Kubernetes 1.17"

gatherhunterer — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 16:04:51 +0000

I think that everyone who uses HN is aware of this project by now. You re-post this every day.

New comment by gatherhunterer in "Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your old devices?"

gatherhunterer — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 16:00:19 +0000

What software do you use for the kiosk? I have been thinking of doing this with Ubuntu Core using the Chromium snap and a custom website which it refreshes.

New comment by gatherhunterer in "Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your old devices?"

gatherhunterer — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 15:45:26 +0000

I still use the iPhone SE as a daily driver and there is an active second-hand market for them. I understand that it's spare tech but this could be done by an SoC board that costs less than $50. The iPhone, even a small one, has an expensive touch screen. You could probably sell an iPhone SE for at least $110, enough for a couple of Raspberry Pi 4 4GB systems. That's a cool project but it is a puzzling use of hardware.

New comment by gatherhunterer in "A Sad Day for Rust"

gatherhunterer — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 17:08:54 +0000

People being people. I disagree with both the author’s code choices and his treatment. I imagine most feel the same. Rust will be fine. The lessons learned about choosing dependencies wisely and taking responsibility for those choices will be scarce.

Running software is always more of a performance than an institution.

New comment by gatherhunterer in "Climate Change Is Killing Alpine Skiing as We Know It"

gatherhunterer — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 19:57:38 +0000

That’s only part of it. She is also a woman and a foreigner and she is reasonably well-educated. Americans spend more on the war efforts of other countries than we do to our own public schools. Fear, xenophobia and intellectual insecurity are part of this phenomenon as well. She is also economically privileged and Americans are increasingly divided by income and income-related health factors like physical fitness and addiction. Taking advice from a wealthy, educated European female is simply not an option without opening the door to some uncomfortable observations.

These people make take some unscientific ideas to their graves but they will also take a lot of fear and hatred with them.

New comment by gatherhunterer in "Unofficial Apple Archive"

gatherhunterer — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 18:46:56 +0000

It is surprising to see that Steve Jobs is the most-featured person on a site that says it is dedicated to “unsung heroes”. It looks like it’s just about Apple in general.

Going from “all about Jobs” to “look at our cutting-edge emoji designs” is a nice encapsulation of Apple history. I know that many people hope the period from Jobs’ death to Ives’ departure was just a phase. But it feels like we’re down to the wire product-wise. The new MBP is a nice start but before long the iPhone SE will reach end-of-life and I just don’t want a flat brick with three cameras and no audio port.

New comment by gatherhunterer in "Show HN: I coded the world's most popular meditation program into a web app"

gatherhunterer — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 22:31:08 +0000

> over 4000 mentions on online medical aggregator PubMed

That is a weird statistic to choose for professing a proof of viability. I’m sure cancer has more than 4000 mentions on PubMed, does that mean cancer is good for me?

Why not cite a review of relevant studies instead? Quoting a meaningless piece of information is suspicious and lazy.

New comment by gatherhunterer in "JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised"

gatherhunterer — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 23:52:23 +0000

They are free as in free beer. Your “time and money are direct equivalents” argument is nonsense even to the wealthiest people and sheer lunacy to the people who most need free coding tools.