Hacker News: saym

New comment by saym in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

saym — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:23:18 +0000

I try to "think my own thoughts" but then I see them elsewhere all the time.

My twitter bio has been "Thoughts expressed here are probably those of someone else." for over half a decade.

New comment by saym in "Launch HN: Modern Realty (YC S24) – AI Real Estate Agent for Home Buyers"

saym — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:58:44 +0000

I appreciate this community when I see replies like this. Friendly, humble advice is hard to come by in this world.

New comment by saym in "Dropbox handing over 25% of San Francisco HQ back to landlord"

saym — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 04:48:59 +0000

It's like using "certified pre-owned" instead of "used".

New comment by saym in "Scala 3.0"

saym — Fri, 14 May 2021 20:11:19 +0000

Can you talk a little more about worksheets? I'm not familiar with scala worsheets at all.

Follow-up: How do you transition to productionizing your code after iterating in them?

New comment by saym in "I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service"

saym — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 23:09:45 +0000

I love the idea of a positive (yet critical) feedback loop instead of the tone on display here.

New comment by saym in "Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI bias"

saym — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 05:44:27 +0000

Your comment, among the sea of others, got through and made some sense to me. My follow-up questions are:

Does that negate the truthfulness of LeCun's response? What would Gebru rather he do or say?

I feel like I can't tell what the desired form of action is from the article, and I'm unsure what good it does for removing bias from ML to attack prominent figures (on twitter let alone anywhere public).

New comment by saym in "Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms"

saym — Wed, 27 May 2020 23:09:24 +0000

I was surprised to see Gab as a top reply to one of his tweets. Gab has a verified Twitter account, and it was offering itself as an alternative to the 'censorship'.

I don't find it surprising, but do find it sad. Few people understand how the internet works, and that there's probably an alternative to every platform, utility, or library out there.

New comment by saym in "Show HN: Straight2Spam – Send your email right to someone's spam folder"

saym — Wed, 27 May 2020 23:03:09 +0000

I recently discovered: https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy

It takes a lot of the legwork out. Obviously you're referring to the likelihood of a major email provider marking you as spam, which is pretty likely if you're sending much volume. But if you have all your ducks in a row, you just might be able to make it work with this.

FAQ: https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy/blob/dev/docs/faq.md

New comment by saym in "Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?"

saym — Fri, 15 May 2020 03:22:42 +0000

I forgot how quickly a web page can load with no JS. Kudos!

New comment by saym in "Saving money on international payments as a remote freelancer"

saym — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 22:24:03 +0000

From that page, it looks like odd lots are still transacted damn near the same rate. '1 to 2 basis points' off would be .01-.02% extra

New comment by saym in "Apple acquires Dark Sky"

saym — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 05:03:17 +0000

Especially because it's not the default weather app on any Android device. Users have to seek it out. They're not punishing every android user, just the ones that have already supported the application they've purchased.

It's spiteful.

New comment by saym in "FDA just cleared a $20 Covid-19 antibody test"

saym — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 00:07:50 +0000

Does "N=16" mean they've approved this test after such limited testing?

I think my high school stats class told me not to trust studies where N < 30.

New comment by saym in "“Let’s use Kubernetes.” Now you have eight problems"

saym — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 07:38:03 +0000

As a fan of nginx, I really liked your comment. In sleuthing after reading I came across this:

https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul/integrations/nginx-consul...

It appears that if the consul client has the right permissions it can restart the nginx service after editing the configuration file. It uses the consul templating engine to generate an nginx config file.

I haven't tried it myself but it looks promising.

New comment by saym in "We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billing up to 80%"

saym — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 04:56:39 +0000

.NET core has been a godsend in making .NET an interoperable option for cloud architectures. I'm continually impressed with the open source embrace from Microsoft.

New comment by saym in "Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know"

saym — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 04:43:10 +0000

I assume the answer would be the same times that are solving for delayed sleep phase disorder.

New comment by saym in "Netflix shares decline after reporting disappointing subscriber growth"

saym — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 03:10:51 +0000

I believe their net revenue was still +40%. I think a slowing in subscriber growth could prove to be temporary.

In general, they'd have to lose shareholder/board confidence in company direction, which won't happen anytime soon.

New comment by saym in "Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%"

saym — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 22:49:24 +0000

I'm neither of the previous posters, but I'm quite happy with my recent purchase of Brooklinen sheets. I was referred by a roommate who also is a happy customer. I got my mom some pillows from there for Mother's Day as well. I'll have to check back in to see what her verdict on them is.

shameless plug: https://share.brooklinen.com/x/vtsX0h

New comment by saym in "Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers are pulling out"

saym — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:10:47 +0000

I know this is just anecdotal, but my friends and I do heavily use Hangouts.

It doesn't have enough functionality on its own, but I've augmented our experience with a chatbot powered by https://github.com/hangoutsbot/hangoutsbot.

Obviously I don't think that this experience is typical, not everyone is a programmer or has a server on which to run it.

New comment by saym in "Show HN: #LikeNoise: Make FB more expensive for advertisers targeting you"

saym — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:02:10 +0000

This will end up making facebook a more expensive place to advertise, but I doubt advertisers would stop given how much screen-time facebook gets per user per day. So really this is an overall benefit for FB, because people will spend more for the same amount of sales.

New comment by saym in "Money stolen by Bernie Madoff is still being found"

saym — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 05:34:38 +0000

In addition to film, I highly recommend the book published by the whistleblower Harry Markopolos, "No One Would Listen".[0]

He spent the better part of a decade trying to alert the SEC to what he found. It was certainly a risky endeavour given how much money was at stake.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=harry+markopolos+no+one+would+list...