Hacker News: mikey_p

New comment by mikey_p in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

mikey_p — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:06:24 +0000

> Laws aren’t made that way

That's basically exactly how they get made. You don't know anything about the agriculture checkoff in the US, do you?

Every single pound of pork sold or produced in the US sent a tiny amount of it's sale price to the "Pork. The Other White Meat" campaign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork._The_Other_White_Meat

> laws made that way usually aren’t good.

I don't think anyone said they were good laws.

New comment by mikey_p in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

mikey_p — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:02:45 +0000

Similar example Ohio legislature makes it illegal to drive with any THC of Cannabis products in the passenger compartment to crack down on people driving high, but there is nothing to prevent you driving with an open bottle of prescription opiates or benzos and popping those while you drive.

New comment by mikey_p in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

mikey_p — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:54:26 +0000

All of that because some CSS was wrong?? Jesus what are we even doing as an industry.

New comment by mikey_p in "Cloudflare CEO is lying to you about the bot traffic jump"

mikey_p — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:47:59 +0000

Well the fun things is that no one knows how much traffic of what kind they are getting when they use Cloudflare.

You get the numbers that Cloudflare tells you, but who knows if you can trust their stats after their CEO is apparently cherry-picking data to shape their product narrative?

New comment by mikey_p in "Cloudflare CEO is lying to you about the bot traffic jump"

mikey_p — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:45:48 +0000

Do people really expect CEOs to be knowledgeable about any technically details in 2026? My experience is that CEOs are getting increasingly out of touch with what their employees actually do and what their customers want.

New comment by mikey_p in "pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution"

mikey_p — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:41:44 +0000

Thanks for answering, this makes tons of sense

New comment by mikey_p in "pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution"

mikey_p — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:09:31 +0000

Is this an open sourcing of something they use internally? My first thought on durable jobs was GHA aka Azure Devops.

New comment by mikey_p in "macOS needs its grid back"

mikey_p — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:51:10 +0000

Did you know that Facebook actually has a message styled with color and different font sizes that pops up in the browser console when you open the inspector for Facebook.com with instruction not to paste things you're told to paste there, with a link to https://www.facebook.com/selfxss for more information?

New comment by mikey_p in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

mikey_p — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:17:17 +0000

I know this is Hacker News and supposed to be serious and all, but do you really think the people running Meta are capable of embarrassment at this point?

New comment by mikey_p in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

mikey_p — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:15:41 +0000

Why does X make sense? It makes no sense at all to me. X is the least logical place to put it.

New comment by mikey_p in "USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought"

mikey_p — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:37:00 +0000

Page 8 shows yield of irrigated wheat YIELD TRENDS. I'm not saying it never ever ever happens, but it is far from a common practice. Are you seriously asserting that is more common than not to irrigate wheat in Kansas? Are you asserting that there is a greater than 50% change that any randomly chosen wheat acreage in Kansas is irrigated???

New comment by mikey_p in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

mikey_p — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:33:13 +0000

My name is not even remotely hard to figure out, you should be able to leverage that plus some basic info into my home address via voting records in a matter of minutes. DOB might require some sleuthing, but it's not terrible hard to find for many people (often from socials).

At least in US culture, DOB isn't really considered super secret. (If it is I have an excellent source of secret info called "Wikipedia")

New comment by mikey_p in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

mikey_p — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:11:13 +0000

Oakwood in Montgomery county is addressed as Dayton on all mail until you get to Kettering which has it's own name for addressing.

A quick search shows that Oakwood in Paulding County has it's own PO and zip code 45873 and Oakwood, Cuyahoga County has 44146.

I suspect that the postal service is much more forgiving on duplicate town names since the advent of zip codes.

New comment by mikey_p in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

mikey_p — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:00:30 +0000

This comes up with school districts too. My home county in rural Ohio had a school district administration that oversaw all the schools in the county but there are two 'exempted' school districts. One is a town that is split between two counties, so the school district would fall in two counties. Hence it is "exempted" from both and the official name is " Exempted Village Schools". The other one if the largest town in the county, which due to it's size voted to exempt itself from the services and administration of the county government, presumably since this single school has as many students as the rest of the county combined.

New comment by mikey_p in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

mikey_p — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:56:54 +0000

Sadly Portland OR eliminated one of my favorites by introducing "South Portland" and eliminating significant leading zeros from address numbers.

New comment by mikey_p in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

mikey_p — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:55:13 +0000

No, historically the US postal service would make anyone who couldn't claim they had the name first change it. I grew up in a small town in rural OH that had to do this in it's history since the name they chose was already in use by another village/town in the state.

New comment by mikey_p in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

mikey_p — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:48:41 +0000

My name, and the very fact that I exist are vectors for identity theft. But that doesn't mean I should keep those facts secret either, or that simply attempting to keep them secret will have any effect whatsoever.

New comment by mikey_p in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

mikey_p — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:47:03 +0000

It is not hard to find the average US citizen's birthday if you know their real name. Same things with addresses, can be painfully easy (a few minutes often).

Let's just be honest, it's 2026 and you are advocating for security through obscurity.

New comment by mikey_p in "USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought"

mikey_p — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:49:08 +0000

I'm 45, grew up on a farm and I have childhood memories of my dad looking forward to the crop reports because those would have such an enormous effect on market prices.

If this was meant to manipulate Trump into specific behavior, it is a masterful long play seeing as how this report is published in roughly the same way for over 50 years.

New comment by mikey_p in "USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought"

mikey_p — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:44:13 +0000

Is anyone actually irrigating wheat??

Edit: I'm being downvoted because someone found a source that says 3% of winter wheat in Montana is irrigated.

My point still stands, while yes some percentage of wheat is irrigated it is extremely uncommon.