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New comment by kzs0 in "When did AI take over Hacker News?"

kzs0 — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:57:15 +0000

I’m relatively young and I noticed this trend in myself and my peers. I wonder if it has to do with the increasingly true fact that if you’re not one of the “best” you’ll be lucky to have some amount of financial stability. The stakes for kids have never been higher, and the pressure for perfection from their parents has similarly never been higher.

New comment by kzs0 in "A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees"

kzs0 — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:16:37 +0000

Wasn’t that in conjunction with the us govt essentially taking over gm though?

New comment by kzs0 in "Bond rout starting to sound market alarm bells"

kzs0 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 15:18:31 +0000

I think that has to do with the rate at which it moved no?

New comment by kzs0 in "Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town"

kzs0 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 01:16:47 +0000

Ngl that kind of pulls the fun out of it

New comment by kzs0 in "Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid research cuts"

kzs0 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:28:56 +0000

His/her first statement was directly answered in the original comment. When that was noted, they swapped to undermining the basis for the comment. It’s pretty typical for techies to provide an opinion without basis and desire for it to be treated on the same level as those “in the know”

So everyone should always be included in conversations if desired, but coming in with an uninformed opinion spoken loudly, desiring more to be “right” than to come to an understanding, won’t typically be appreciated.

New comment by kzs0 in "X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links"

kzs0 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 11:11:27 +0000

But how does any of that relate to banning signal links regardless? This is an effort to reduce self-organization and solidarity between affected normal people. It isn’t just USAID, 100,000+ people are being illegally terminated across the government (probationary employees who are only allowed to be fired for “performance,” but many/most have fine reviews and/or just started).

If a bunch of new people are being fired after having just moved or started new positions, why wouldn’t people try self organizing to support their coworkers who just had their lives upended?

New comment by kzs0 in "Small Businesses vs. Corporations: What Tech Tools Are We Missing?"

kzs0 — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:30:46 +0000

That’s true relative to a VC backed startup, but not necessarily true for bootstrapped or startups looking to create sustainable companies. Look at base camp for instance

New comment by kzs0 in "Tesla excluded from EV buyer credits in California proposal"

kzs0 — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 17:22:14 +0000

Why? It fosters competition and considering Tesla was heavily subsidized during its early years, it makes sense its competitors should have similar shots

New comment by kzs0 in "How Japanese black companies oppress workers (2014)"

kzs0 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 21:34:48 +0000

1. Wasn’t the sitting leader 2. Assassination is predicated on politics/religion/“impetus greater than oneself.” The murder in this case was personal

New comment by kzs0 in "USFS decision to halt prescribed burns in California is history repeating"

kzs0 — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 05:45:18 +0000

Disagreed, the smoke impact alone affects huge swaths of high density (and deep blue) regions like the Bay Area. Additionally, controlled burns are most necessary in areas near density like the counties ringing the bay (that are still quite blue).

New comment by kzs0 in "USFS decision to halt prescribed burns in California is history repeating"

kzs0 — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 05:42:02 +0000

Depending on the severity of the fire (and wind conditions), defensible space will increase the chance your house survives but won’t save it. In Sonoma county, fires hopped over vineyards due to the high winds carrying embers and stuff actively burning hundreds of feet

New comment by kzs0 in "An unordered list of things I miss in Go"

kzs0 — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 07:33:17 +0000

In the cases where this is important, you can use pointers. Go allows you to make pointers to primitives as well (making the zero value nil) so you can explicitly define those edge cases.

You’d be surprised how infrequently that’s actually a concern though.

New comment by kzs0 in "Launch HN: SSOReady (YC W24) – Making SAML SSO painless and open source"

kzs0 — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:30:17 +0000

You’re responding to a comment not the op? The commenter isn’t trying to make money just sharing an experience