Hacker News: kirkbackus

New comment by kirkbackus in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

kirkbackus — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:11:01 +0000

In this case, the necessity of this law is proof that American companies are incapable of producing an app that can compete with Tiktok.

New comment by kirkbackus in "Italy approves 40% windfall tax on banks for 2023 as profits soar"

kirkbackus — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 16:08:05 +0000

The "your parents" are only harmed if the public benefit from taxes don't offset the benefit that is received directly in the funding of the 401k or other relevant investment accounts.

In America anyway, the wealthiest 1% own 53% of the stock market. I highly doubt that the "your parents" would benefit more from funding of their investment accounts than they would benefit from the tax revenue generated. Of course my assumption is highly dependent on public policy.

New comment by kirkbackus in "Goldman is looking for a way out of its partnership with Apple"

kirkbackus — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 21:01:08 +0000

In the attached article

> After hovering around record lows for much of the pandemic, consumer delinquencies are rising across the industry.

> It lost slightly more than $1 billion in 2021 and $783 million in 2020, after accounting for operating expenses and money set aside to cover possible losses on loans

That seems like an enormous amount of money to support buy now and pay later

New comment by kirkbackus in "The NIH has poured $1B into long Covid research, with little to show for it"

kirkbackus — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 20:58:21 +0000

Before I got hit with long covid, I was in the best shape of my life, and was doing all of those things on that list. I was running 1.5 miles and exercising several days a week.

It absolutely didn't prevent me from experiencing long covid.

New comment by kirkbackus in "Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio"

kirkbackus — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 18:44:35 +0000

Not for everybody, also it would be great to consume textual content in a variety of voices, or even my own.

New comment by kirkbackus in "ElonJet Is Now Suspended"

kirkbackus — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 15:31:05 +0000

Flight information provided to the FAA is considered public information. This is funded with taxpayer money, and is not privy to privacy.

The number of people dying is not the same as in any other year

kirkbackus — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 18:47:58 +0000

Article URL: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-figures-talk-radio/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25152893

Points: 74

# Comments: 104

New comment by kirkbackus in "Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019"

kirkbackus — Fri, 10 May 2019 14:11:42 +0000

I've got a few smart switches that adjust the lights at a specific time in the evening. It really helps my children transition into the evening routine. It also helps me not lose track of time so I can keep that evening routine.

Whitespace killed an enterprise app

kirkbackus — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:08:33 +0000

Article URL: https://uxdesign.cc/how-white-space-killed-an-enterprise-app-and-why-data-density-matters-b3afad6a5f2a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19153616

Points: 708

# Comments: 435

New comment by kirkbackus in "Scientists discover new type of magnet"

kirkbackus — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 15:16:40 +0000

Referenced article https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-08497-3

A RocksDB storage engine with MySQL

kirkbackus — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 01:42:11 +0000

Article URL: http://myrocks.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13076415

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kirkbackus in "Browserball"

kirkbackus — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:01:49 +0000

I made a project in college like this that utilized the Windows API to enumerate the rectangles of the windows and you could create shapes and other things that you can throw around your desktop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38qWXZ0hDv4

New comment by kirkbackus in "Avoid NULL"

kirkbackus — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 02:50:51 +0000

In the last example, wouldn't a Singleton to represent a null student be more effective since you could do a check for the null student by reference?

New comment by kirkbackus in "Traffic Jam, a program that helps track prostitution rings by using public data"

kirkbackus — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 21:31:56 +0000

Why are you saying this? There is literally no mention of social media in this article. The data (at least from the original project) is mined from publicly available data, which could be social media data, but that data has to be made public in the first place.

It is possible that the "Research Grade" version of the program does use that data, but there is no evidence of that here.

New comment by kirkbackus in "Bootstrap 4 alpha"

kirkbackus — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:01:51 +0000

They only provide one type of license: http://themes.getbootstrap.com/pages/our-license

It is comparable to the "Multiple Applications License" provided by WrapBootstrap. Still relatively expensive since most Multiple Applications Licenses are under $99.

New comment by kirkbackus in "Apple Removes American Civil War Games from the App Store"

kirkbackus — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 14:21:56 +0000

It's quite ironic that Apple is setting a precedent for the intolerance of any symbol of slavery while they are knowingly supporting manufacturing which utilizes child labor, which is often forced labor. The epitome of hypocrisy which hopefully leads Apple to change.