Hacker News: silverquiet

New comment by silverquiet in "We automated everything except knowing what's going on"

silverquiet — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:54:50 +0000

Anything in production is legacy; I'm pretty sure it happens as soon as the code is shipped regardless of who wrote it.

New comment by silverquiet in "Google Public CA is down"

silverquiet — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:22:34 +0000

If multiple services are affected, it's probably some underlying infrastructure issue.

New comment by silverquiet in "New Athens: The first great American city for families"

silverquiet — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:36:58 +0000

I'm quite capable of snark and I wouldn't say that I was being particularly so, but maybe something adjacent to it. Mostly I think this is amusingly naive. America has a history of attempts to create utopian communities, but I'm unaware of any that have persisted for terribly long. I think the one I'm most fond of are the Shakers, whose biggest legacy is their carpentry skills which is a hobby of mine.

I didn't really get an explicit yes or no out of the above, but I take it to mean no? That's the interesting question to me - who would be allowed to join such a community, and if someone was discovered to be undesirable for one reason or another, what would be done with them?

New comment by silverquiet in "New Athens: The first great American city for families"

silverquiet — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:14:41 +0000

Will you allow illegal aliens in your new city?

New comment by silverquiet in "Unsealed court documents show teen addiction was big tech's "top priority""

silverquiet — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:39:11 +0000

Does it recommend taking a break? Mostly I've seen it ask if I'm still watching. I've always assumed this is not for user benefit, but in order to not spend bandwidth on a screen that is not being looked at.

The only site I'm familiar with that has somewhat decent self-limiting functions built in is HN's no procrastination settings. But that's of course because HN isn't run to make money, but as a hobby.

New comment by silverquiet in "Electric Macan outsold gas in 2025, but Porsche commits to gas for some reason"

silverquiet — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:10:20 +0000

> For the same reason I don't keep a giant gas tank in my garage

Do you keep a car in your garage?

New comment by silverquiet in "What twenty years of DevOps has failed to do"

silverquiet — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 03:15:44 +0000

I think my favorite interaction with a dev around this was when I was explaining how his java program looked like a big juicy target for the OOM killer and it had killed it in order to keep the system working. His response was, "I don't care about the system, I care about my program!" And he understood the irony of that, but it was a good reminder that we have somewhat different views and priorities.

New comment by silverquiet in "The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis"

silverquiet — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:42:08 +0000

> JP Doherty did not want to sign the email. But he knew he didn’t have a choice. His son, Rhys, was scheduled to have strabismus surgery in January, correcting an eye issue that made it difficult for him to walk on his own. The procedure cost $10,000 out of pocket. Doherty discussed the decision with his wife, and while she wanted him to be able to quit, they both knew the kids needed his health insurance. [0]

Regarding Musk's "hardcore" ultimatum at Twitter.

[0]https://www.vanityfair.com/news/elon-musk-twitter-ultimatum

New comment by silverquiet in "Pentagon moves to punish Democratic senator over 'seditious video'"

silverquiet — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:56:47 +0000

Aren't they required to obey chain-of-command? And doesn't their pay and their family's healthcare depend on them remaining employed?

New comment by silverquiet in "A middle-class family's only option: A $43,000 health insurance premium"

silverquiet — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:52:34 +0000

The hip seems like such a bad example to me. First of all, who do you think needs hip replacements? It's not young people; surgeons don't even like to do them on young people (and to a joint replacement surgeon, "young" is under 60) since there's a good chance they'll outlive the joint itself. And it's a one-time cost for a surgery that increases an old person's independence vs an ongoing cost of palliative care (whatever that means) and having to provide more care for someone who has a potentially treatable disability. Hip replacement is considered "the surgery of the century" - the 20th century that is, because it is one of the most successful in terms of function and satisfaction provided to patients.

New comment by silverquiet in "$27,000 a Year for Health Insurance. How Can We Afford That?"

silverquiet — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:24:37 +0000

I gained insurance overnight because of the ACA after not being able to afford it.

New comment by silverquiet in "RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung"

silverquiet — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:38:35 +0000

I got a junk Precision workstation last year as a "polite" home server (it's quiet and doesn't look like industrial equipment, but still has some server-like qualities, particularly the use of ECC RAM). I liked it so much that it ended up becoming my main desktop.

New comment by silverquiet in "The Junior Hiring Crisis"

silverquiet — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:34:00 +0000

> Hence, the "on average". For any 10 couples, they should have 21 children. If some have fewer, the rest have to have more.

This would seem to agree with "not everyone has to have children" - mathematically speaking you can quite simply put a couple zeros into the equation and still arrive at 2.1

> Sounds like a "you" problem.

I have no problem with the situation at all as I have never in my life had an interest in having children. I'm not sure I even see the changes in birthrate as a problem; people can adapt to demographic changes. But if it is a problem, then it must be some sort of systemic one and I doubt the answer is to try and apply pressure to individuals to have children by telling them to think of the economy or that it is some sort of societal obligation.

New comment by silverquiet in "The Junior Hiring Crisis"

silverquiet — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:38:56 +0000

The math has a few problems then, because it seems rather difficult for me to have .1 child. Actually, it's impossible for me to have any children because I am a single man and it is not biologically possible.

New comment by silverquiet in "Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)"

silverquiet — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:15:06 +0000

> They really are just that up their own asses.

I remember perhaps a decade ago, a coworker and I were watching a clip of Zuckerberg walking up to a group of employees and they started clapping for him. I mentioned how odd it was to see, and he thought it was perfectly natural to applaud the CEO of your company. We never applauded when our boss showed up, and I've never really been sure where the line is for which authority I'm supposed to cheer for merely from being in their presence. I haven't thought about it too much since then, but obviously it's stuck with me.

As a society, we've all had our lips pretty firmly pressed onto the asses of the oligarchs for quite awhile, so it seems pretty natural that they think it's the natural order of things.

New comment by silverquiet in "$50 Oil Could Crush American Shale Growth"

silverquiet — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 01:45:20 +0000

Eventually human civilization breaks down to the point where we can no longer sustain the industry to extract the fossil fuels.

New comment by silverquiet in "Moderna has unraveled"

silverquiet — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:51:51 +0000

Given that the plan to accelerate covid vaccine development, "Operation Warp Speed", was a Trump administration program, this seems quite ironic.

New comment by silverquiet in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

silverquiet — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:44:53 +0000

I don't see where the GP changed their mind. They may not be ok with this particular action while still preferring the current administration to any alternative.

New comment by silverquiet in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

silverquiet — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:34:54 +0000

I've got a (probably former at this point) buddy who makes less than $15K/year. He seems to have lots of time to listen to right wing propaganda podcasts and likes telling "jokes" about how minorities are problematic. He was never really interested in politics when we were growing up and I suspect never voted before 2024. Poor people have interests and opinions too.

Meta is cutting around 600 roles in AI unit

silverquiet — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:19:13 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-cutting-around-600-roles-121930203.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45668686

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