Hacker News: hdlothia

New comment by hdlothia in "Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database"

hdlothia — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:05:44 +0000

Why are you saying unbounded when the discussion is about court proceedings and convictions? There is a clear and consistent boundary here, no one is asking for search logs and round the clock surveillance.

New comment by hdlothia in "Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet"

hdlothia — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:30:29 +0000

people in palestine have been tweeting, posting to ig and tik tok throughout the entire conflict

New comment by hdlothia in "Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet"

hdlothia — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:26:50 +0000

It says the dataset is 'colleague's households' which might be different from all of gaza.

New comment by hdlothia in "Judge orders administration to distribute SNAP contingency money amid shutdown"

hdlothia — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:43:49 +0000

Biden and Obama appointees ruling against the admin, probably to be overturned by republican nominated judges. Have judges gotten more partisan recently or has it always been like this.

Hopefully some people at least get money for food in the mean time.

New comment by hdlothia in "Instagram removes slain Gaza journalist Saleh al Jafarawi's account"

hdlothia — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:35:32 +0000

The taliban didn't prevent the usa from doing anything we left because we were tired of spending money.

New comment by hdlothia in "Instagram removes slain Gaza journalist Saleh al Jafarawi's account"

hdlothia — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:11:20 +0000

Hamas doesn't have an air force, how could they prevent the idf from doing anything.

New comment by hdlothia in "Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place"

hdlothia — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 17:45:30 +0000

You are right, public health officials instead of cdc would be the better way to phrase it.

New comment by hdlothia in "Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place"

hdlothia — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:32:32 +0000

That does sound super interesting.He probably had a real fun time doing science in the 70s.

New comment by hdlothia in "Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place"

hdlothia — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 15:56:05 +0000

Yeah x is a mess. When scientists say it's nice to just post about science on bluesky without being called slurs or harassed, I believe them.

New comment by hdlothia in "Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place"

hdlothia — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 15:54:44 +0000

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01537-5. One study says the endorsement had little effect on voting intention but damaged credibility and perception of scientists.

New comment by hdlothia in "Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place"

hdlothia — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 15:51:30 +0000

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/04/public-hea... I supported blm and still do. The CDC should have stayed out of it.

New comment by hdlothia in "Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place"

hdlothia — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 15:46:45 +0000

I feel like scientists should be explaining to us how the world is, and then other people should use those explanations to try and improve it.

Right now I feel like there are a scientists who would hide or discard results if they contradicted their advocacy beliefs,which is a dangerous place to be imo.

New comment by hdlothia in "Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place"

hdlothia — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 15:40:05 +0000

I mean things like nature starting to make endorsements for president. Overly political for no reason.

New comment by hdlothia in "Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place"

hdlothia — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 15:37:55 +0000

It is 100% allowed, I just don't think it's really helpful or beneficial for them or society

Especially when they try to lean on their status as scientists in order to try and have their opinions be more influential.

The cdc for example saying it's ok to disregard their previous guidance in order to protest for black lives matter is one of these credibility damaging moments that is hard to undo.

New comment by hdlothia in "Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place"

hdlothia — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 15:31:08 +0000

It would be nice if scientists started being just scientists again instead of activists. Hopefully being cloistered on bluesky will bring the old vibes back

New comment by hdlothia in "An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence"

hdlothia — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:03:19 +0000

Probably since about early 1990s. Maybe I should say civic nationalism instead of multiculturalism but I think most liberals would reject the idea that ethnicity or heritage were important in determining nationality.

New comment by hdlothia in "An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence"

hdlothia — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:36:25 +0000

This is a big conflict in modern liberalism and democracy. If the british people vote for an ethnostate what are we supposed to do. subvert multicultural ideas? or subvert democracy?

New comment by hdlothia in "An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence"

hdlothia — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:33:33 +0000

One of the core tenets of liberalism is that multi cultural societies and nations are just as good as mono cultural ones. what are you trying to imply here with the africa and middle eastern examples

New comment by hdlothia in "Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians"

hdlothia — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:30:00 +0000

Kinda bullish for azure that the idf chose it over aws

New comment by hdlothia in "Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens"

hdlothia — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 23:07:06 +0000

How do the nazis qualify as not prejudiced?