Hacker News: s0sa

New comment by s0sa in "Solution to US debt crisis is severe austerity triggered by a fiscal calamity"

s0sa — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:54:46 +0000

I’d love to see a breakdown of where the tax revenue is coming from (e.g. demographics) over the same period of time.

New comment by s0sa in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

s0sa — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 18:25:24 +0000

Don’t confuse things we can change with things we can’t.

New comment by s0sa in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

s0sa — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:22:12 +0000

“Ma’am we’re not going to do anything about that flasher. No one can force you to look at him, they're your eyeballs.”

New comment by s0sa in "Doge Isn't Dead. Here's What Its Operatives Are Doing Now"

s0sa — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:00:29 +0000

Sometimes justice takes time.

New comment by s0sa in "The lost cause of the Lisp machines"

s0sa — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 11:03:05 +0000

Oh yeah? Well the jerk store called, and they’re running out of you!

New comment by s0sa in "An official atlas of North Korea"

s0sa — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:56:55 +0000

And can in fact be a useful test of loyalty.

New comment by s0sa in "Enjoy CarPlay While You Still Can"

s0sa — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:53:56 +0000

As if there weren’t already enough reasons to not buy a GM.

New comment by s0sa in "The MacBook Air 2025 Is Now Cheaper Than a Random Mid-Range Windows Laptop"

s0sa — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:17:35 +0000

For what use case? I doubt the target user for the air would need anything more than what USB 4 + external SSD can make up for.

New comment by s0sa in "Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler"

s0sa — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:04:26 +0000

I think that viewpoint says more about you than it does the Ruby community.

New comment by s0sa in "Facebook removes ICE-tracking page after US Government 'outreach'"

s0sa — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 22:02:49 +0000

Holy historical revisionism Batman!

One was banning deadly misinformation (e.g. injecting bleach) about a deadly global pandemic, as well as stopping the “doxing, threatening, harassment and obstruction of” public health workers.

This is preventing citizens from monitoring taxpayer-funded police activity - not all that dissimilar from listening to a police scanner.

New comment by s0sa in "How Europe crushes innovation"

s0sa — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:30:09 +0000

Well yeah, copying is not real innovation.

New comment by s0sa in "How Europe crushes innovation"

s0sa — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:25:39 +0000

As I suspected, there isn’t much there. What about individual member state expenditures (perhaps even limited to spending on things required by EU law)? OP’s point may have been silly, but this really isn’t any better.

New comment by s0sa in "How Europe crushes innovation"

s0sa — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:24:19 +0000

How are you arriving at these percentages? Show your work.

New comment by s0sa in "White House posts "enemies list" of Democrats critical of ICE"

s0sa — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:13:37 +0000

große Lüge

New comment by s0sa in "AI will happily design the wrong thing for you"

s0sa — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:20:59 +0000

I know it’s just a figure of speech in this case, but personifying AI as “happily” doing something feels wrong.

New comment by s0sa in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

s0sa — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 02:53:12 +0000

So instead of doing one thing well, it does a bunch of things poorly?

New comment by s0sa in "H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House"

s0sa — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:02:30 +0000

Only color that matters here is green

New comment by s0sa in "Show HN: Apple Health MCP Server"

s0sa — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 15:03:31 +0000

This isn’t some bespoke API/format that they made up to make it harder for you to get your data. Apple did the right thing here and implemented HL7 standards like CDA and FHIR. This is a win for interoperability. There are already a wealth of tools available for dealing with these standards.

New comment by s0sa in "Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'"

s0sa — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 19:34:53 +0000

I know what you mean. I recently did the same thing for the little bit from Gunsmoke at the beginning of “Is There Anybody Out There?”, e.g. “Is it unsafe to travel at night?” - incidentally spoken by actress Diana Muldaur, who later played Dr. Pulaski in Star Trek TNG.

New comment by s0sa in "Drone Incursions over USAF Bases in UK Enter Second Week"

s0sa — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 12:41:49 +0000

They clearly aren’t attacking anything (with explosives or otherwise); there is clearly no immediate danger to personnel or equipment. Rather than irrationally panicking, the wise move is to seize the opportunity to observe, collect data, and learn. There are far more ways to do so than using conventional radar or other drones. If the intent of the operator(s) is actually malicious, it was pretty unwise to essentially show your cards like this.