Hacker News: hawthornio

New comment by hawthornio in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

hawthornio — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:39:32 +0000

Yea same here, it’s great

New comment by hawthornio in "Sony Playstation Network down at 4pm on a Friday"

hawthornio — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 06:15:35 +0000

Still down 10pm

New comment by hawthornio in "About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in the United States"

hawthornio — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 06:35:41 +0000

Hey I'm curious about this point of view—would you mind elaborating on what specifically justifies it in your mind? Is it because it's akin to a trade war and we're responding to their 'import restriction' with our own? Something else...? Thanks!

New comment by hawthornio in "Cloudflare took down our website"

hawthornio — Sun, 26 May 2024 14:27:16 +0000

> a web forum that facilitates the discussion and harassment of online figures and communities. Their targets are often subject to organized group trolling and stalking, as well as doxxing and real-life harassment.These actions have tied Kiwi Farms to the suicides of three people targeted by members of the forum.

Sounds like a pretty abhorrent website

New comment by hawthornio in "House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app"

hawthornio — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:48:32 +0000

Yes, this is a bullshit distraction issue. Our congresspeople should be focused on other things, e.g., stopping the genocide of Palestinians, protecting LGBTQ/trans rights, reducing the cost of living for average americans.

New comment by hawthornio in "House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app"

hawthornio — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:37:15 +0000

Has there been any evidence of disinformation campaigns on TikTok?

New comment by hawthornio in "House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app"

hawthornio — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:32:31 +0000

Yeah it’s sickening how the CCP is able to push their hoof cleaning agenda on americans /s

New comment by hawthornio in "Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution"

hawthornio — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 04:47:23 +0000

These examples are based around the idea of profit motive and these examples show a profit motive is rarely able to achieve the desired effect—these examples in no way speak to government agencies.

New comment by hawthornio in "It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing"

hawthornio — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 20:14:53 +0000

Coincidentally, the state of France holds around a tenth of Airbus stock

New comment by hawthornio in "It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing"

hawthornio — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 20:12:20 +0000

Nazi germany privatized vast swaths of their economy (steel, rail, etc.) [1]. So you want america to look like Nazi Germany? /s

This is not a serious analysis of history. Besides, a large number of countries (e.g., Sweden, Norway, France) have more public ownership of corporations than Argentina.

1. http://www.ub.edu/graap/nazi.pdf

New comment by hawthornio in "It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing"

hawthornio — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 20:00:24 +0000

Private vs public rail might be a good proxy—e.g., britain’s privatization under thatcher, NYC acquiring various independent subway operators

New comment by hawthornio in "Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions"

hawthornio — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:15:36 +0000

Form/join a union

New comment by hawthornio in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2023)"

hawthornio — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 18:12:32 +0000

Back-end/platform developer experienced in machine learning, python, and data processing, but most excited about compilers, type systems, and functional programming.

Currently working in Scala (with typelevel libraries) at Disney Streaming on the Streaming Data Platform team providing schema registries and code generation for Kinesis.

  Location: Portland, OR
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Python, Scala, Haskell, Terraform
  Résumé/CV: https://julianfortune.com/resume/resume.pdf
  Email: juliandfortune at gmail

New comment by hawthornio in "Open Source provided the path to achieve our publishing goals"

hawthornio — Mon, 29 May 2023 18:55:53 +0000

This is not a great take IMO - The journals choose to use publishers not the authors - Publishers do not provide enough value to justify their price gouging

New comment by hawthornio in "A song that uses AI to clone the voices of Drake and The Weeknd has gone viral"

hawthornio — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 14:23:32 +0000

I would consider myself a longtime listener of Drake and The Weeknd and IMO Drake sounds pretty spot on but The Weeknd sounds off

New comment by hawthornio in "Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor"

hawthornio — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:09:50 +0000

I think you are confusing apathy about attribution with quality/originality. Sorry was produced by Skrillex who is unquestionably a musical genius. Even though most people aren’t interested in the producer credits Sorry is only as good as it is because of Skrillex’ work

New comment by hawthornio in "UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years"

hawthornio — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 16:22:01 +0000

P R I C E C O N T R O L S

New comment by hawthornio in "Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowledge?"

hawthornio — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 07:08:52 +0000

At my school (OSU) in the undergraduate CS program databases and networks were required but parallel was optional

New comment by hawthornio in "Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?"

hawthornio — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 18:48:30 +0000

Real estate.

New comment by hawthornio in "ChatGPT is a bullshit generator but it can still be amazingly useful"

hawthornio — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 01:34:00 +0000

ChatGPT suggests factually correct or popular policies… The death penalty is objectively more expensive than life in prison, and the right to abortion is supported by a majority (in the US at least). You’re basically doing [a steven colbert bit](https://youtu.be/UwLjK9LFpeo), but unironically.