Hacker News: jscott0918

New comment by jscott0918 in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

jscott0918 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:02:24 +0000

*parent post edited and elaborated while I was writing my reply

Can you elaborate? I do have children, and I don't view it as any platforms job to police their Internet usage. I appreciate parental controls, but if they have Internet access it's my job to teach them to use services safely and keep an eye on their activities

New comment by jscott0918 in "America Is Suddenly Getting Healthier. No One Knows Why."

jscott0918 — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:01:07 +0000

If the 20-somethings today are substantially healthier than the 20-somethings 10 years ago, then quality statistics _should_ capture the effect.

New comment by jscott0918 in "America Is Suddenly Getting Healthier. No One Knows Why."

jscott0918 — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 14:07:42 +0000

As I start to work with more genz folks, it is extremely pervasive that gym culture and health consciousness are much more core to their common zeitgeist than millennials. I imagine the same conditions core to their childhood and adolescence is also driving change in their parents and the rest of society.

Growing up natively with social media seems like a very reasonable correlation for me. Your life and habits are always under a lens, self consciousness or conscientiousness make sense.

New comment by jscott0918 in "Two-minute battery changes push India’s delivery riders to switch to e-scooters"

jscott0918 — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 20:27:24 +0000

I tried to reply to another comment that was since deleted. It said something along the lines of: >I don't get why Tesla would kill their battery-swapping while they are tackling other Hard Problems.

The practicality of battery swapping decreases exponentially as size and weight scale. The cost of building a battery swapping network for western-car-sized battery systems, even once solving the engineering elements (which are manageable), are likely a non-starter. Especially if the other principle technology rival is fast-charging stations.

How much added convenience is required to justify huge mechanical systems with many wear components and large maintenance costs over replacing a few charging cables every X months? Lots.

New comment by jscott0918 in "Intel Announces 8 Core I9-9900KS: Every Core at 5Ghz, All the Time"

jscott0918 — Sun, 26 May 2019 17:31:58 +0000

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New comment by jscott0918 in "UK police secretly downloading content from suspects’ phones (2018)"

jscott0918 — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 13:40:55 +0000

That doesn't mean its worth it. There is always a tradeoff and I would rather live in a world where I know I am free from surveillance than a world where I am .000001% safer or criminals are caught 10% faster.

New comment by jscott0918 in "Four steps we’re taking today to fight online terror"

jscott0918 — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 22:41:26 +0000

This is a terrifying step for the internet. These kinds of step lay the groundwork for censorship but fail to consider the impact of these changes in the event that the bad guys come into power or gain influence of these management systems.

New comment by jscott0918 in "Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com"

jscott0918 — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 21:50:40 +0000

A bit confused why you are trying to roll your own storage solution. Ceph is great for a lot of applications, but I am not sure it really fits the bill for what you describe. Especially when you indicate you are going to use spinning disk behind it. Have you looked at any of the storage arrays on the market? Your TCO is likely to be much lower and your performance/resiliency much higher if you buy something with $100's of millions of R&D behind it rather than all the hours and costs of rolling your own. Not saying its impossible to make it work, but it just sounds like something that will be a PITA going forward.

New comment by jscott0918 in "Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming"

jscott0918 — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 17:42:19 +0000

This is interesting to me. The lack of diversity in the tech industry is definitely something that will be harmful in the long run. Diversity is necessary to improve the relevance of new ideas in tech and to promote them to broader audiences from different cultures.

The trend towards making a pariah out of anyone with opposing points of view can be equally harmful to promoting diversity of thought. Making people afraid of speaking their minds can hardly help the flow of new ideas or positively impact the industry. While I likely don't agree with the political ideology of a speaker at the RNC, I definitely agree with the right of anyone to do so without being held captive by the threat of activism at home. Boycotting and protesting people with different political views may feel good in the short run, but it is unhelpful to promoting freedom and equality in the long run.

If they can't say what I find reprehensible today, how do I know that views I hold dear will be "allowed" in the future?

New comment by jscott0918 in "I went to the hospital to give birth and tested positive for meth"

jscott0918 — Wed, 18 May 2016 14:52:08 +0000

How is this "Speaking for others"? OP provided their perspective in comments. You having a different perspective is valid and is not threatened by the point of view of OP.

New comment by jscott0918 in "Stripe Atlas"

jscott0918 — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:22:58 +0000

This is really cool. Basically "Startup as a Service"

New comment by jscott0918 in "Introducing Lemur"

jscott0918 — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 22:11:35 +0000

I don't know xca and I hope that it is a good project. Seeing a sourceforge link after the flack from the last few months makes me somewhat skeptical of the content on the other end though.

New comment by jscott0918 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)"

jscott0918 — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 18:41:45 +0000

Is this team out of Clemson?

New comment by jscott0918 in "SpaceX Slapped With Wage Class Action Over Mass Layoff"

jscott0918 — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 21:42:20 +0000

I don't think the problem is with laying off unnecessary staff. I think this is a notification and backwage issue. If someone works for you for two weeks, then gets fired, you can't just not pay them for the time worked. Also, in most states, you cannot lay off employees without cause (meaning without a specific issue with a single employees behavior or performance) without sufficient notice.

New comment by jscott0918 in "Terraform"

jscott0918 — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:08:50 +0000

What is the licensing on the source code?

New comment by jscott0918 in "A Coder, a Programmer, a Hacker, a Developer, and a Computer Scientist"

jscott0918 — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 06:16:08 +0000

I understand what the overall article is trying to present, and I agree that there are differences between each of the labels presented.

I think that understanding each label means more about understanding the person using the label than understanding some absolute definition of each term. My understanding of a self-assessed hacker or coder is going to be far different from my understanding of a person that is labelled by others as a hacker or a coder. I think most of these labels are really interchangeable in most circumstances and it comes down to understanding how each is being applied rather than each having their own definition.