<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: isitmadeofglass</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=isitmadeofglass</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:12:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=isitmadeofglass" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isitmadeofglass in "OpenAI Is a Strange Nonprofit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s great to see Matt Levine chime in, he often has an incredible well thought out and informed view that is also just incredibly funny to read. That said I am disappointed that he latched on the the entirely imagined idea that this was “profit va safety” which isn’t in any way supported by anything and is just baseless speculation cooked up by spectators.<p>It’s even directly contrary to the statements from the board and the new CEO, and there is no reason to believe they would lie and keep it hidden if this was in fact their reasoning.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:43:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38375637</link><dc:creator>isitmadeofglass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38375637</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38375637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isitmadeofglass in "Python Requests 3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> it became apparent that the dependencies I was relying on—or considering for use—simply didn't meet the necessary standards<p>Basically didn’t he just raise money with promises of features, then go to the underlying libs authors with a “you should do all these features for free, so I can argue why all the money I got for them was with it” while doing shit-all himself?<p>So, basically he’s rounding off his attempt at fundraising on trying to get someone else to do the actual work for free with a “I’m sorry, but I’m keeping the money and not delivering anything”?<p>> What was left to do?<p>> Integration with a low-level HTTP library ready for the task.<p>You mean literally all the actual work to make the product do anything useful…<p>No one took issue with requests, just being a thin usability interface on top of other peoples work, because it was free and open source and didn’t raise funds to provide the claimed functionality. But the second you start raising funds and don’t want to spend a single dollar on the people who do all of the real work, your a pos, and deserve all the criticism. The second you take the money but bail on the project because others won’t do the work for free for you, you become a con-man.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2023 20:55:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38234414</link><dc:creator>isitmadeofglass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38234414</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38234414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isitmadeofglass in "Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Probably not going to generate more ethanol than you already get in your morning cup of orange juice</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2023 17:03:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37634905</link><dc:creator>isitmadeofglass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37634905</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37634905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isitmadeofglass in "Biodistribution of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in human breast milk"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> These mRNA fragments are also heavily engineered in a way sashimi mRNA isn’t.<p>Could you point to the difference you believe is important? What on earth is “heavily engineered” supposed to mean in the context of mRNA?</p>
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<p>> In my template for radical reform of those laws I would like it if any IP is owned by its original creator for up to twenty years from the point of first publication<p>I’ve always said that I find it wrong that someone who dedicated their life to finding a cure for a life threatening desease is told: “You get 20 years to turn a profit, then it’s a free for all” yet if someone draws a cute mouse we say: “You get your lifetime, plus 75 years of exclusivity then it’s a gray zone case of which derivatives you own and what you can sue for” (looking at Winnie the Pooh’s red shirt).<p>You’d think that drawings and written content would be ranked lower than literally curing life threatening deseases and saving lives, when it comes to how long we give the inventors and creators to monetize their creations.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 09:03:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37520305</link><dc:creator>isitmadeofglass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37520305</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37520305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isitmadeofglass in "Game tutorials should be easily skipped. Why is that so hard?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They can’t be skipped because the players who will skip them are the ones who need them and will then complain about the game as a result bringing down the average score and hurting the games financials.</p>
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<p>> The guy is on video eating skin off his goddam toes while lecturing CS. If that dude or any of his followers are antidiversity, they need to look themself in the mirror.<p>He is a white male who’s in power despite eating toe gunk, while also supporting an environment hostile to woman. He’s in no way a good representation of diversity simply because he’s odd.</p>
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<p>It’s not a negotiation if the law dictates that you have to sign and that you are forced to accept a significant discount, which seems to be the core of the case:<p>> once HHS unilaterally selects a drug for inclusion in the program, its manufacturer is compelled to sign an ‘agreement’ promising to sell the drug to Medicare beneficiaries at whatever ‘fair’ price the agency dictates, which must represent at least a 25% to 60% discount,” the complaint says, calling it “tantamount to extortion.”</p>
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<p>>  “We are just normal people,” Mr. Coutts told the Sun, “so we’d like to sell it and make something back on it.”<p>The normal people approach to vandalism is to just paint it over and continue your life. These people are gamblers who are spending 250k on a lottery ticket that might not pay out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2023 09:34:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36102503</link><dc:creator>isitmadeofglass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36102503</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36102503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isitmadeofglass in "Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If I say someone had many of something, then I know for certain that they must have either an even amount or an odd amount. Same goes for few.</p>
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<p>Because it isn’t similar to this case at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2023 07:53:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35578571</link><dc:creator>isitmadeofglass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35578571</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35578571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isitmadeofglass in "Omega-3s: Are “Brain-Boosting” Effects Scientifically Backed?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That’s an odd use of notation. Typically P(A|B) is used to denote probabilities of outcomes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2023 08:48:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34556208</link><dc:creator>isitmadeofglass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34556208</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34556208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isitmadeofglass in "Show HN: PlantUML based collaborative UML editor is now open source"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It's been almost 3 years since I created PlantUML [1] and got a lot of fun<p>I assume you meant to write that you created collabUML 3 years ago, and not accidentally take credit for creating PlantUML itself, which is 14 years old and was created by Arnaud Roques in 2009.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2023 08:05:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34556051</link><dc:creator>isitmadeofglass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34556051</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34556051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isitmadeofglass in "Easy, alternative soft deletion: `deleted_record_insert`"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> In finance or medicine, it's often illegal[0] to delete customer information before the end of an expiration period (minimum several years).<p>There are also laws that require you to delete customer information. For instance patient data in situations where consent is withdrawn. So either way you can’t rely on “it’s often”. And on the flip side of things the legal requirements you are referring to are typically the audit requirements, which are still better served using audit tables, since it’s not enough to have a “current data” and “data that is currently not active”, since you need logs of who changed the data when, and you can easily run into situations where something is soft deleted, then restored, then soft deleted again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2023 09:25:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34216017</link><dc:creator>isitmadeofglass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34216017</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34216017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isitmadeofglass in "Crypto Wash Trading"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You’d think that this was the way to carry out a typical crypto scam yes. But then we have cases where the shell cracks like FTX and we can see inside and it turns out the scams are completely devoid of any sophistication. FTT wasn’t a clever pump’n’dump scheme, it was just straight up not backed because user funds where working to cover Alamedas leveraged positions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2022 09:36:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34171015</link><dc:creator>isitmadeofglass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34171015</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34171015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isitmadeofglass in "No laptops, no phones in class"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Silent phone usage doesn't impact the class, it impacts the individual using the phone.<p>That’s just not true. You decided to attend class, you are taking up a seat. You count toward the outcome for the class and what you do and don’t do affects the class as a total. If you decide to half ass it, that affects the class. At the end of the year if every student fails. A teacher can’t just go: “but that’s not a problem with the class, that’s an individual problem for each student, the class was perfect they all individually just weren’t good enough”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2022 22:31:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34132179</link><dc:creator>isitmadeofglass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34132179</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34132179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isitmadeofglass in "No laptops, no phones in class"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It sounds a bit like you would like to reserve the privilege of parking in disabled parking but don’t want to be identified by the blue badge as someone disabled.<p>Sorry, but that’s just not something that the system should be designed to cater for. You either accept the badge and the privilege or you don’t, demanding that anyone must be able to park in disabled parking without a badge because they might secretly be disabled but not want to signal it seems beyond absurd.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2022 22:27:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34132141</link><dc:creator>isitmadeofglass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34132141</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34132141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isitmadeofglass in "We’re in a golden age of board games"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The golden age of board games seems to have started around 1995 with the release of settlers of Catan, and has only gotten more golden since then. We’re probably in the diamond age of board games by now.</p>
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<p>I really doubt the claim that this is independent of the phrasing of the question.<p>I assume strongly that if you phrase the question as “how might your life be worse or better” people will also thing of negative alternatives.<p>The thing is when you only ask “how might your life be different” people will pull on what they have already thought about and most people have plans and dreams for improvements already in their mind.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2022 20:30:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34130935</link><dc:creator>isitmadeofglass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34130935</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34130935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isitmadeofglass in "The return of lazy imports for Python"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Might not grasp the full context here, but it’s trivial to lazily import modules in your own code. I know every beginners guide will advice you not to do that, but that’s just because it’s an easy footgun for new programmers. If you have some cli tool that only needs scipy for certain sub commands you can just move it to those subcommand calls so it’s loaded when needed instead of up front.</p>
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