Hacker News: siliconwrath

New comment by siliconwrath in "Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning"

siliconwrath — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 05:05:55 +0000

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti "We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the 'hero' term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank You.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alex-pretti-fatally-sho...

New comment by siliconwrath in "You want microservices, but do you need them?"

siliconwrath — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:36:44 +0000

Another case I’ve seen is to separate a specific part of the system which has regulatory or compliance requirements that might be challenging to support for the rest of the larger system, eg HIPAA compliance, PCI compliance, etc.

(To clarify, I’m not disagreeing with you!)

New comment by siliconwrath in "Oracle hit hard in Wall Street's tech sell-off over its AI bet"

siliconwrath — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 15:05:40 +0000

Maybe Costco?

New comment by siliconwrath in "Nobody knows how to build with AI yet"

siliconwrath — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:41:17 +0000

I’ve had to report AI summaries to Google several times for telling me restaurant items don’t contain ingredients I'm allergic to, when the cited “source” allergen menu says otherwise. They’re gonna kill someone.

New comment by siliconwrath in "'Click-to-cancel' rule is blocked"

siliconwrath — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:33:57 +0000

I hear this a lot about gym memberships

https://www.wcvb.com/article/mass-woman-struggles-to-cancel-...

New comment by siliconwrath in "Tesla Robotaxi Videos Show Speeding, Driving into Wrong Lane"

siliconwrath — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 20:56:58 +0000

I’m no Tesla fanboy, but franchise models exist now, why couldn’t it work for cars?

Leasing cars to Uber drivers has taken off in the last decade. No reason for Tesla to sit on a quickly depreciating asset like a car if they can double dip (initial purchase and Taxi profit share) without having to pay for electricity, depreciation, or maintenance.

New comment by siliconwrath in "Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success"

siliconwrath — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:15:47 +0000

NYC generally doesn’t have this stigma as bad as the rest of the USA. Wealthy people and celebrities ride the MTA.

https://www.eonline.com/photos/6722/stars-on-the-subway

New comment by siliconwrath in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

siliconwrath — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 03:03:49 +0000

This article gives a lot of context for why Jan 6 is a big deal, especially in light of the pardons handed out afterward. It's a long read, but it's enlightening: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/evenhanded-injustice--j...

New comment by siliconwrath in "Operator research preview"

siliconwrath — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:05:22 +0000

If the guy taking orders doesn’t have to take orders in addition to his other work anymore, they can hire less staff overall.

New comment by siliconwrath in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)"

siliconwrath — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:03:02 +0000

Same!! I’m glad people are excited to make the MTA better. One of the best parts about NYC!

New comment by siliconwrath in "Operator research preview"

siliconwrath — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 04:42:26 +0000

With a true GPT ordering experience, you would just say “a Big Mac and a diet coke please” to a speaker just like you would in a drive thru and it would ring you up. It would replace the cashier

New comment by siliconwrath in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)"

siliconwrath — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 03:55:08 +0000

Gifthealth | https://gifthealth.com | Senior Software Engineers | Remote US (Full-time)

We're looking for experienced, product-minded software engineers with experience working with Ruby on Rails or similar tools (e.g. Django).

Gifthealth is on a mission to bring an easier, more affordable pharmacy experience to patients and providers around the country. Since our founding in 2020, we've served hundreds of thousands of patients and are growing quickly.

Listed as Hybrid but we are also hiring remotely: https://gifthealthoh.bamboohr.com/careers/122

Feel free to email me at mike (at) gifthealth.com for any questions.

New comment by siliconwrath in "'I Don't Want to Die.' He needed mental health care. He found a ghost network"

siliconwrath — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:25:15 +0000

If he had a lot of money he could have just paid out of pocket for care. It sounds like he couldn’t afford it.

New comment by siliconwrath in "'I Don't Want to Die.' He needed mental health care. He found a ghost network"

siliconwrath — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:18:43 +0000

I obviously don’t know the specifics, but US healthcare plans only let you change during specific enrollment periods or qualifying life events. It’s possible he wasn’t able to.

Additionally, it sounds like he picked what appeared to be the best rated plan available to him on the market. Others may have been even worse or prohibitively expensive.

New comment by siliconwrath in "The end of Airplane.dev"

siliconwrath — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 19:51:33 +0000

I always think of this article in these situations: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/shields-down/

It's an apt metaphor.

New comment by siliconwrath in "ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire"

siliconwrath — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 23:41:35 +0000

Germany and Japan were occupied after WWII. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/united-states...

New comment by siliconwrath in "Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger"

siliconwrath — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 16:35:33 +0000

Adobe XD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_XD

New comment by siliconwrath in "Cats kill a staggering number of species across the world"

siliconwrath — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 20:33:59 +0000

Even for indoor cats? Responsible indoor-only cat owners cause none of these problems

New comment by siliconwrath in "Jets: Ruby Serverless Framework"

siliconwrath — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 23:39:36 +0000

The rails community is working on building out a job listing site, worth checking out: https://jobs.rubyonrails.org/

New comment by siliconwrath in "Fulfilling the Promise of CI/CD"

siliconwrath — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 18:39:14 +0000

With document DBs you still have "schemas", they just won't be explicit at the database layer. If you rename a field your app uses, you will end up having to either rename that field in every document, or punt on migrating and instead ensure that your app can handle either field name when reading.

While the latter may sound easier (and often is easier when you're starting out and iterating quickly), you will soon start to feel the pain of managing dozens of different versions of your "schema" at the app layer. I've always found it easier to only have to deal with a single schema at a time in any situation where you can't just regenerate all records on the fly, like a cache, and for which you don't care about what the specific schema was at a point in time.

If you actually do care about what the schema was at any point in time at the app layer, your app WILL need to account for any version of the data—but if you need this you're accepting the tradeoffs of the additional complexity.

Definitely more nuanced than "no migrations = easier" though.