Hacker News: segfaltnh

New comment by segfaltnh in "Gig workers worked more but earned less in 2024: study"

segfaltnh — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:43:23 +0000

Thing is, the model could have been built with employees, even lowly paid ones, but then it would have been pretty transparent that they were subsidizing the rates to take market share from licensed taxis. The indirection is a feature, not a bug. Have we learned anything? Probably not.

New comment by segfaltnh in "Gig workers worked more but earned less in 2024: study"

segfaltnh — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:38:08 +0000

Not if the investors can get an IPO done because of their great "innovation", then the bag holders are 401ks, mostly.

New comment by segfaltnh in "More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals"

segfaltnh — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 13:02:27 +0000

No one ever thinks of the poor owners.

New comment by segfaltnh in "Context should go away for Go 2 (2017)"

segfaltnh — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:43:02 +0000

Scala has everything, and therefore nothing.

New comment by segfaltnh in "Context should go away for Go 2 (2017)"

segfaltnh — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:38:11 +0000

Thread local storage means all async tasks (goroutines) must run in the same thread. This isn't how tasks are actually scheduled. A request can fan out, or contention can move parts of the computation between threads, which is why context exists.

Furthermore in Go threads are spun up at process start, not at request time, so thread-local has a leak risk or cleanup cost. Contexts are all releasable after their processing ends.

I've grown to be a huge fan of Go for servers and context is one reason. That said, I agree with a lot of the critique and would love to see an in-language solution, but thread-local ain't it.

New comment by segfaltnh in "Docker Desktop Broken on Mac OS Update for over a Week"

segfaltnh — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 03:35:27 +0000

Docker has jumped the shark as a company, good thing the alternatives are maturing quickly. We've had pretty good (not perfect) success with the Colima project.

New comment by segfaltnh in "UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%"

segfaltnh — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:03:34 +0000

Honest question as someone who prefers single payer but acknowledged it's not a silver bullet: how much of the costs are nurses and doctors vs. admin? It seems to me there's a lot of overhead in passing the bills around to get paid. I just had my appendix out last year and got billed 8 times by 8 different firms, each with payment portals, call centers, billing providers, etc. I assume there's a lot of inefficiency internally too.

New comment by segfaltnh in "UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%"

segfaltnh — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:00:48 +0000

I feel people defend them by opposing any other approach to solving this. Politicians in particular say things like "preserving customer choice", which I think just means having the ability to select among all the terrible insurance companies who will treat you poorly.

New comment by segfaltnh in "Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS"

segfaltnh — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:43:11 +0000

Did they reinvent or did they learn stuff? Maybe both.

New comment by segfaltnh in "Ruby 3.4 Highlights"

segfaltnh — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 20:39:56 +0000

We use it for microservices that only deal with Json and avro. Of course, we do that on Rails for some reason I'll never understand.

New comment by segfaltnh in "App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too)"

segfaltnh — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 22:20:51 +0000

I think the part where he calls out airline apps is spot on though. They don't need any of that tech.

New comment by segfaltnh in "Black Hat Rust"

segfaltnh — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 11:29:58 +0000

Agreed. I feel gaslit by the gap here. I too find the hypesters annoying, but it's fun to hack on Rust code usually. Usually...

New comment by segfaltnh in "Black Hat Rust"

segfaltnh — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 11:27:36 +0000

Wild claims. So many huge projects have been successfully written in C by humans. There are patterns to solve all the built in solutions provided by Rust, how do you imagine Rust got them in the first place?

One tiny example of many here is the Linux kernel.

New comment by segfaltnh in "The Smallest Thing in Go"

segfaltnh — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 11:18:05 +0000

For a lot of newer compiled languages this comes down to static compilation. These aren't linking to any system libraries beyond the OS fundamentals.

That and they have way more debug symbols than Comander Keen, probably.

New comment by segfaltnh in "Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022)"

segfaltnh — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:33:34 +0000

I've spent most of my career in the infrastructure space and I agree with this so much. These days prevailing wisdom is just to use 20 off the shelf open source components and spend your entire day debugging YAML integrations. I think we've lost our minds a bit because of this prevailing wisdom that building a simple wheel that does the 10% of this you actually need is somehow self-indulgence or negligent or both.

New comment by segfaltnh in "Homeless people to be given cash in first major UK trial to reduce poverty"

segfaltnh — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:26:11 +0000

We certainly see this in the US as well, employed homelessness.

New comment by segfaltnh in "Homeless people to be given cash in first major UK trial to reduce poverty"

segfaltnh — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:23:59 +0000

I've never understood how a homeless person with no resources would move across the country for better handouts. Like I'd buy some anecdotal cases but most homeless I see aren't saving enough for a bus ticket.

New comment by segfaltnh in "The tragedy of running an old Node project"

segfaltnh — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:01:48 +0000

This shocks me, what sort of issues do you hit?

New comment by segfaltnh in "Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties"

segfaltnh — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 12:25:14 +0000

Increases to income tax generally won't lower a wealthy persons wealth, just the rate at which they can increase their wealth. They already have the money, and it will keep paying dividends and interest.

Unless you're talking about a new kind of wealth tax, but those aren't particularly popular...

New comment by segfaltnh in "The Most Dangerous Email (to my career) I've Sent"

segfaltnh — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 23:58:02 +0000

Yeah the NoSQL tide seems to have been stemmed by people actually trying to use them.