Hacker News: gradyfps

New comment by gradyfps in "Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft"

gradyfps — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:16:13 +0000

Different deployments of Palantir Foundry exist in the US gov't/military and do provide real data science/analytics value.

> After reading the article, are they looking for cheap tech labor. Is that because no one in tech wants to join the military due to pay ?

Cyber in the military has abysmal retention because of the pay. You can get an immediate ~$50k pay raise doing the same work as soon as you leave the military.

New comment by gradyfps in "North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim"

gradyfps — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:02:33 +0000

To be fair, "illegal" here doesn't matter. North Korea doesn't follow American law.

New comment by gradyfps in "Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new Magic Keyboard"

gradyfps — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:35:33 +0000

What you're referencing is usually called the decoy effect, which isn't the same as decision paralysis.

New comment by gradyfps in "Kim Dotcom Suffers Stroke"

gradyfps — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 01:37:24 +0000

From his Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom#Promotion_of_conspi...

"During the Russo-Ukrainian War, Dotcom has repeatedly spread anti-Ukrainian falsehoods, and Russian government propaganda. Critics accuse him of spreading Russian Federation propaganda such as: claims of Nazism in Ukraine, Ukrainian attacks on Russian-speaking minority, claims of American "biolaboratories" in Ukraine, and accusing the US of causing the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine."

As with all Wikipedia refs, review their sources yourself.

New comment by gradyfps in "DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says"

gradyfps — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:40:58 +0000

Fair points. I hadn't considered that a trial subscription is still a subscriber.

New comment by gradyfps in "DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says"

gradyfps — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:49:50 +0000

To be fair if legal paperwork follows a standard process with standard information, a "robot" can complete many orders of magnitude more than any human lawyer. (I'm also not a lawyer and have no idea if this line of thinking is applicable.)

New comment by gradyfps in "DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says"

gradyfps — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:45:55 +0000

"In 2021, Browder reported that DoNotPay had 250K subscribers; in May 2023, Browder said that DoNotPay had “well over 200,000 subscribers”.

To date, DoNotPay has resolved over 2 million cases and offers over 200 use cases on its website. Though DoNotPay has not disclosed its revenue, it charges $36 every two months. Given this, it can be estimated that DoNotPay is generating $54 million in annual revenue, assuming that all 250K users subscribe for 1 year."[1]

$193K seems like a pittance compared to the money they're making off of this.

[1]: https://research.contrary.com/company/donotpay

New comment by gradyfps in "2M users but no money in the bank"

gradyfps — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 18:37:53 +0000

Some payment processors have "micropayment" fee structures, where they take a higher % (5% in PayPal's case) for a lower fixed fee per transaction.

PayPal's traditional fee (for USD)[1] = 3.49% + $.3, for $1 = $0.3349

PayPal's micropayment fee (for USD)[2] = 4.99% + $.09, for $1 = $0.1349

Using that model would make sense in OP's case.

[1]: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees#statemen...

[2]: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees#micropay...

New comment by gradyfps in "Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable"

gradyfps — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 13:57:05 +0000

Pedophilia & child-predation have been an open secret to anyone socially involved in ROBLOX for the longest time. The amount of random 18+ people interacting often and without guardrails with 13/14/15 year-olds is "normalized" to those in the communities.

New comment by gradyfps in "Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable"

gradyfps — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 13:54:20 +0000

It takes a huge amount of effort to overwrite & re-animate the default ROBLOX characters and their animations.

New comment by gradyfps in "The irrational hungry judge effect revisited (2023)"

gradyfps — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 19:22:00 +0000

"High-risk/high-reward" basically translates 1:1 with increased variance. Seeing it framed that way was a helpful mental model for me.

New comment by gradyfps in "Mapping Hacker News to find who knows what in the HN community"

gradyfps — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 22:13:41 +0000

In my limited experience, people tend to gamify any numeric metric readily apparent to them.

Anecdotally, total game time (in hours, usually) is used to convey experience in video games (WoW, CS:GO, PUBG). I've seen people create & run 3rd-party software to artificially inflate these types of metrics.

New comment by gradyfps in "CrowdStrike fixes start at "reboot up to 15 times", gets more complex from there"

gradyfps — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:32:57 +0000

The boot loop / BSOD issues are Windows specific.

New comment by gradyfps in "Ant Design – the second most popular React UI framework"

gradyfps — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 16:06:08 +0000

I ended up moving away from Ant on a project a few years back. It frustrated me that troubleshooting with specific code snippets would often bring me to Chinese-only Github issues / etc.

New comment by gradyfps in "An unexpected journey into Microsoft Defender's signature World"

gradyfps — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 15:41:22 +0000

McAfee ePO is the product that became Trellix ePO after McAfee Enterprise was sold off.