Hacker News: iinnPP

New comment by iinnPP in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

iinnPP — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:06:07 +0000

I tend to agree with you on this. I wanted to add however that Meta itself lets so many TOS violating ads in, that it seems like special treatment for ads that are much less undesirable than the ads normally pushed.

It's not just a Meta issue either.

New comment by iinnPP in "The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)"

iinnPP — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:11:48 +0000

The popup also scrolled down for me and I had to scroll back up to hit the X.

New comment by iinnPP in "HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)"

iinnPP — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:33:49 +0000

The AHT value indeed went down 3 minutes below the average, which is generally a good thing so long as you are doing everything well still. All outliers get checked and mine was the lowest. I was honest about the tool, including that it was offline. Their supposed policy was no personal tools and as it was during "probation" (first 90 days in Ontario), they could fire without cause, and did, immediately.

New comment by iinnPP in "HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)"

iinnPP — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:06:43 +0000

It was offline.

New comment by iinnPP in "HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)"

iinnPP — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:06:24 +0000

Average Handle Time

New comment by iinnPP in "HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)"

iinnPP — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:50:05 +0000

I worked HP CS in Highschool and during my time there I created a HTML/JS replacement for a unbearably slow tree system that made a 10+ second network call every single question(often 20+ questions and a tree copy was required for notes). Mine was instant.

They fired me for it because my AHT flagged me and it made someone look bad.

At that point (this is at Windows Vista launch) the minimum hold was 25 minutes all day.

New comment by iinnPP in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

iinnPP — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:22:49 +0000

I avoided needing medicine by altering my diet to tone down salt, unhealthy fat, and sugar intake. My doctor was surprised as "everyone just takes the meds."

New comment by iinnPP in "Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill"

iinnPP — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:16:54 +0000

It's been a while but as a 12 year old I completely broke the library system, installed cracked Starcraft, and refroze DeepFreeze afterwards.

Not to counteract your point, just as an anecdote I like remembering.

New comment by iinnPP in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

iinnPP — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:55:39 +0000

Salt, among the ingredients in the average burger is the most likely to cause you problems. Calling it bikeshedding is a massive stretch. In a talk of the importance of the contents of your diet related only to burgers, salt is the exact opposite of bikeshedding.

Nothing whatsoever is stopping Beyond from removing salt and allowing people to salt their own burgers, as they already do.

New comment by iinnPP in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

iinnPP — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:29:12 +0000

The sodium content is about 3x higher. It doesn't taste 3x higher.

If you're salting your recipe with traditional ground beef, you're doing the same with Beyond. If not, same.

I do not expect or even encourage the content of any alternative to match the nutritional value of the real deal.

A typical pinch of salt is 300mg. Not 2300mg.

When the base product has 3x as much sodium, that is a problem. It doesn't need that much because as you stated, you can add salt during cooking. As a great example, let's take a use case for Beyond which is taco meat. I add taco seasoning (my own which is about 30% sodium compared to a traditional) and now the Beyond version is still roughly 250% the sodium content.

I can't remove the sodium they add. It's not a product I like or desire. It's more expensive. It's less healthy (note how often I mention reduced salt) for myself.

Also, I have been a strict vegan in life for about 5 years. I still didn't eat Beyond (aside from tasting it) during that period (it was available).

I'm not really trying to attack Beyond here, it's all personal preference at the end of the day. I make 95% of my food, from bread to tomato sauce to pickled peppers and hot sauce. When I am reaching for a vegan protein, I reach for lentils.

New comment by iinnPP in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

iinnPP — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:31:46 +0000

Beyond sells a ground beef substitute which has about 3x as much sodium as lean ground beef.

New comment by iinnPP in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

iinnPP — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:27:21 +0000

I was going to edit the comment with this but in Canada we have a company called Metro(grocer) and they often sell 4x fresh beef patties for ~$4 which is 1lb(454g) of ground beef and exactly nothing else.

It's good to eat sans salt on bbq with your desired (typically salty) toppings.

I know people salt the patty while cooking, but the topic at hand is Beyond and their patties.

New comment by iinnPP in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

iinnPP — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:02:47 +0000

You don't need salt and spices to make a burger, it can be 100% beef with no additives. A pinch of salt can be like 0.3g/burger and you're fine as well.

I don't eat that these days, my burgers are actually 25% beef and 75% lentil/seasoning. Still under 0.5g/100g

New comment by iinnPP in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

iinnPP — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:56:09 +0000

A burger can be made from that solitary ingredient though.

New comment by iinnPP in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

iinnPP — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:49:33 +0000

It's not just these articles. Having any differing opinions on basically anything now.

It's as far from hacking interest as it gets for me.

New comment by iinnPP in "MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security"

iinnPP — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:20:53 +0000

Part of the core offering is data washing.

New comment by iinnPP in "Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance"

iinnPP — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:26:33 +0000

I imagine you met the people who got tired of all the slobs.

Look at the recent report on CRA service inquiries and their accuracy. An amazing 17%. It's not hard work that got us there.

edit: Just one of many examples. People rarely even hold doors anymore, we're a far way from our prime.

New comment by iinnPP in "Harold and George Destroy the World"

iinnPP — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:20:46 +0000

Education is still very much present in Idiocracy (Brawndo blah blah). It's the lack of value in logic and thought process that causes the problem. When people value winning an argument on a logical fallacy, there's a severe issue. Education is oft used as the fallacy itself.

Much like today on all sides of every significant debate. Where the loudest most emotional rise on feelings over logic.

If a person doesn't immensely value learning they're wrong, they exist as part of the problem.

New comment by iinnPP in "The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory"

iinnPP — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:40:53 +0000

Don't forget buying mountains worth of crap that gets used for a month or less and trashed.

New comment by iinnPP in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

iinnPP — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:43:35 +0000

It is and so is the sum of nonsensical replies to the entire thread.

It makes sense though, with the experience of the average app/website these days. Those devs come here and you can pick them out with ease.

I called this event years ago, it has been obvious in foresight.