Hacker News: izend

New comment by izend in "TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin"

izend — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:29:01 +0000

"I'm speaking from personal experience, having spent about 12-14 hours a day on TikTok for probably 360 days during 2024"

My jaw is on the floor... Can you provide details of your usage, were you just going through video after video for 12-14 hours or were you involved in content production or something?

New comment by izend in "I rebooted my social life"

izend — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:16:15 +0000

I have had this discussion with my wife, men need activities more than women to bond. My wife can make friends just by randomly running into other women at events or my daughter's activities.

New comment by izend in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

izend — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:26:25 +0000

Just speculation but maybe the fact the world is in an oil glut right now and with the prospect that Russian oil could re-enter global market causing even more glut caused Ford to believe that gasoline will remain fairly cheap compared to 2008 era for the next decade.

New comment by izend in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

izend — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:00:34 +0000

I am actually surprised they cancelled the F150 Lightning, I see a lot of them the Metro Vancouver area where a lot of contractors, (gardeners, pool maintenance, labourers, etc...) are driving them as electricity is super cheap here and gasoline is quite expensive.

New comment by izend in "Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest thermostats"

izend — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:20:57 +0000

What a waste... I like the style of it, still works fine after 10 years and it works with old furnaces. The environmentalists should be all over Google for this debacle.

New comment by izend in "A million ways to die from a data race in Go"

izend — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:15:37 +0000

Meaning similar to Erlang style message passing?

New comment by izend in "Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest thermostats"

izend — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:45:34 +0000

As soon as Cody Kociemba open sources his firmware I'm going to apply it to my Nest 1st gen. It is ridiculous Google is turning off the support, it is probably because they don't want to support the old API or something...

New comment by izend in "The US Is Tracking 14 Potential Rabies Outbreaks in 20 States"

izend — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:26:54 +0000

No sorry, I just missed it...

New comment by izend in "The US Is Tracking 14 Potential Rabies Outbreaks in 20 States"

izend — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 04:49:19 +0000

I'm surprised they don't mention bats, every summer night they fly within a foot of my head and some poor guy died on Vancouver Island,

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rabies-death...

New comment by izend in "There was a time when the US government built homes for working-class Americans"

izend — Sun, 25 May 2025 14:09:23 +0000

Canada use to build social housing but stopped around 1995[1] and the housing affordability situation deteriorated over the next 30 years[2].

[1] https://x.com/g_meslin/status/1373689001866067969 [2] https://external-preview.redd.it/UGgkJlBT0dV7DwLgbEnJpgQzj4i...

New comment by izend in "Meta tightens privacy policy around Ray-Ban glasses to boost AI training"

izend — Thu, 01 May 2025 17:30:08 +0000

I have a neighbor who is functionally blind and he considering getting a pair to help him identify objects he picks up.

New comment by izend in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

izend — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:56:40 +0000

In CBO’s projections, the federal budget deficit in fiscal year 2025 is $1.9 trillion. Adjusted to exclude the effects of shifts in the timing of certain payments, the deficit grows to $2.7 trillion by 2035. It amounts to 6.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2025 and drops to 5.2 percent by 2027 as revenues increase faster than outlays

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60870

IMO, 5%+ percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in a country with massive trade deficits is not sustainable.

Building an idempotent email API with River unique jobs

izend — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Article URL: https://riverqueue.com/blog/idempotent-email-api-with-river

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43464299

Points: 33

# Comments: 11

New comment by izend in "Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation"

izend — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:16:58 +0000

I have found ChatGPT is pretty good at explaining topics when the source documentation is poorly written or lacks examples. Obviously it does make mistakes so skepticism in the output is a good idea.

New comment by izend in "The Origins of Wokeness"

izend — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:13:18 +0000

Then explicitly say "PG should stick to topics in his domain", don't use a generic term that indicates low IQ...

New comment by izend in "The Origins of Wokeness"

izend — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:00:11 +0000

"He then received a Master of Science in 1988, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1990, both in computer science from Harvard University."

Anyone with a PhD Comp Sci from Harvard is automatically very smart in my mind, unless by "smart" you mean something else...

New comment by izend in "Vivek Ramaswamy on X: "Will entire agencies be deleted? Answer: yes"

izend — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:10:14 +0000

I am skeptical that Elon/Vivek will actually cut any Federal spending as the only administration to actually reduce the number of Federal gov jobs was President Clinton from 1992 to 1997.

What I find very interesting is that in the early 1990s when the deficit hit 4.5% of GDP (1992) Congress actually viewed it as a major issue and decided to cut spending but now the deficit is above 6%+ of GDP and reducing spending is an extremely controversial topic.

New comment by izend in "BYD quarterly sales beat Tesla for first time"

izend — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:16:56 +0000

Including Canada (100%) affects the Tesla built in Shanghai that were being imported into Canada.

New comment by izend in "A solar gravitational lens will be humanity's most powerful telescope (2022)"

izend — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 17:04:25 +0000

NASA and SpaceX should start architecting a Deep Space Network 2.0 relying on more space based relays so that we do need to rely on giant ground based antennae.

Put a relay at the Lagrange point.

New comment by izend in "Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove"

izend — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 04:01:13 +0000

We do know MMRV causes more seizures in kids than MMR and countries (like Canada) still choose to administer the vaccine with riskier outcomes due to costs and the fact parents don’t like to come back for more shots.