Hacker News: jds375

New comment by jds375 in "US may cut air traffic 10% by Friday without shutdown deal, sources say"

jds375 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:29:11 +0000

Is there any historical basis for how the traffic to cut is selected? Future flights? Existing flights? Short domestic flights vs international flights?

It’s also unclear what the actual definition of ‘cut’ is

New comment by jds375 in "PhD student solves 2,500-year-old Sanskrit problem"

jds375 — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 16:13:16 +0000

Very true - there’s a famous scene from the movie Pi that talks about exactly this (and puts it very eloquently)

https://youtu.be/OGKPmBtBpBo

New comment by jds375 in "Atlassian: We estimate the rebuilding effort to last for up to 2 more weeks"

jds375 — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 02:23:13 +0000

Wow! I didn’t realize the scope and duration of this outage. This must be doing some serious damage to some of their clients (catastrophic if this does impact JIRA, Confluence, and OpsGenie broadly on a company level). Is there any report of approximately how many (or specific) companies have been affected as a result of this?

New comment by jds375 in "Delta CEO wants U.S. to put unruly passengers on 'no-fly' list"

jds375 — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 04:53:49 +0000

What is with some of the responses in this thread! I understand some cases are not so clear, but if you do something as blatant as punch a flight attendant in the face I think that’s grounds to be put on such a list. There should be a policy so that after a period (or going through some program) you could then be removed from the list though..

It actually blew my mind when I heard that you could assault someone on a plane and not be instantly banned

New comment by jds375 in "Red Light Green Light"

jds375 — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:26:48 +0000

I had a very similar experience as a child. I always wondered how other drivers could tell which way we were turning. My parents told me that they can tell from your turn signal. 6-year-old me just thought turn signals entailed the green flashing arrows on the dash (not also on the car’s taillights). I just assumed all drivers were tall enough to see into the other car and tell from their dash (for at least the next year or so)!

New comment by jds375 in "Webb’s Journey to L2 Is Nearly Complete"

jds375 — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:31:43 +0000

It has since been completed it seems: https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/01/24/orbital-insertion-bur...

New comment by jds375 in "Hunter S. Thompson Interview on Gonzo Journalism (1975) [video]"

jds375 — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 18:51:38 +0000

Not sure why the downvotes. Perhaps it’s due to referring to Fear and Loathing as a movie instead of the book it’s based on. The movie is actually a good representation of the book and almost all of the dialog is taken word-for-word

New comment by jds375 in "Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers"

jds375 — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 19:09:36 +0000

This is one of the few genuinely great ideas I’ve heard lately. I’m honestly surprised some of these games have implemented this functionality themselves - it’d probably help reduce player toxicity and frustration amongst other benefits

New comment by jds375 in "It appears that Reddit is forcing me to use their app to see deep linked content"

jds375 — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 02:49:41 +0000

On top of that their deeplinking doesn’t even work. It’s completely broken. It takes me to the App Store when I already have the app installed and it’s literally impossible to go from a google search to a reddit post in the app smoothly. It absolutely blows my mind that an app where deeplinking is particularly important (google search results) is so broken. If you don’t want to build your own deeplink framework, then there’s plenty out there you can get to integrate like branch.io

New comment by jds375 in "There are no results for tank man"

jds375 — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 03:24:34 +0000

About 9 hours ago when I first saw this I noticed the same thing on bing images (no tank man).

Now I see tank man when I search it on bing images....

New comment by jds375 in "Let us now praise tiny ants"

jds375 — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 03:32:44 +0000

I use to have many ant problems - and certainly not due to any lack of cleanliness.

It pretty much all went away once I got a cat. At first I thought it was coincidence, but over the years I noticed if I ever killed a random ant the cat would start rolling around and scenting the very spot the ant was killed.

I don’t have any scientific proof, but I have to think the cat’s scent/pheromones interferes with the ants and prevents more from following/coming.

Curious to hear any similar experiences

New comment by jds375 in "What is an NFT from an artist’s perspective?"

jds375 — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 17:49:01 +0000

I’m extremely skeptical of all cryptocurrencies and most usages of blockchain. However this seems like the first interesting and potentially practical application I’ve heard.

It deals with art - something that’s value is inherently subjective. Plus it gives makers of digital art a better/additional way to fund themselves. Further, transactions would likely be limited reducing environmental impact. Finally, it could provide some competition to company’s like Sotheby’s.

Obviously there a lot of open questions (couldn’t someone else just duplicate a work and make their own coin, why not just pay an artist directly, money laundering, etc). But I think this at least warrants further discussion. It’s an interesting way to make digital art collectible/tradable

What is an NFT from an artist’s perspective?

jds375 — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 03:54:12 +0000

Article URL: https://alex-pardee.medium.com/what-is-an-nft-from-an-artists-perspective-db348bbde0b1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26282433

Points: 76

# Comments: 84

New comment by jds375 in "Ask HN: What was your favorite comment in 2020?"

jds375 — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 18:10:54 +0000

This top level comment chain explaining quantum teleportation was great and insightful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25466836

New comment by jds375 in "Cyberpunk 2077: How 2020’s biggest video game launch turned into a shambles"

jds375 — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 18:36:11 +0000

Every single hacker news thread about the Cyberpunk fiasco has had a ton of top comments about they haven’t had any issues with the game.

Performance/bugs aside, what about the completeness issues? How can the game be acceptable or fun when cars run on tracks and NPC’s don’t have a problem being attacked?

That’s my main concern - I’m sure the performance/bugs will be worked out. But will the game actually be finished?

New comment by jds375 in "Tell HN: Thank You Dang"

jds375 — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 06:01:20 +0000

Thank you, Dang!

The Hacker News community is my favorite thing on the internet - and a good chunk of its success is due to your hard work!

New comment by jds375 in "This Company Wants to Help Your Boss Monitor Your Brainwaves at Work"

jds375 — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 19:29:00 +0000

Sounds like a corporate version of Psycho-Pass (a dystopian society where everyone constantly has their emotional well-being monitored and corrected by the state) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho-Pass

New comment by jds375 in "US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance drone over Minneapolis"

jds375 — Sat, 30 May 2020 00:43:43 +0000

Your words almost exactly echo Marilyn Manson’s commentary on the columbine shootings. Interesting parallel. He was asked what he would say to the shooters and he said “I wouldn’t say a single word to them. I’d listen to what they have to say. And that’s what no one did.”

New comment by jds375 in "Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”"

jds375 — Fri, 29 May 2020 16:20:31 +0000

I think many people aren't taking into account the visibility of Trump's twitter. Trump making violence-glorifying or factually incorrect or medically dangerous tweets is far different from other twitter user's or even other blue-check-mark users because his reach is far wider than the vast majority of those users. Further, Trump has an established track record of doing this repeatedly. Those two facts establish a clear and rational basis for targeting his tweets specifically.

Completely agree with your second point though (not that there is any collusion to silence conservatives - but that this whole situation will be taken that way and used to energize that base).

New comment by jds375 in "Elon Musk launches into expletive-laden rant calling quarantine measures fascist"

jds375 — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:14:22 +0000

Note that this is separate from his tweet that was discussed earlier (and arguably more noteworthy given that it happened during Tesla’s earnings call today)