Hacker News: songshuu

New comment by songshuu in "Building a weather station"

songshuu — Sat, 20 May 2023 00:27:09 +0000

Looks like aside from fartscroll they also tried to add a konami code. I couldn't trigger it though.

New comment by songshuu in "Roko's Basilisk"

songshuu — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 06:47:05 +0000

You're thinking of the Coatul. It will reward everyone who knew of Roko's Basilisk but choose not to raise it. So the more people who know of the Coatul the less likely Roko's Basilisk will come to pass.

h/t benjhandy

New comment by songshuu in "Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll"

songshuu — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 23:42:49 +0000

Folks should vote no just to let him crater it and we can all move on.

New comment by songshuu in "OpenSea admits insider trading of NFTs it promoted"

songshuu — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:19:36 +0000

Yes, but Twitter is free and everyone who cares to know will find out there relatively quickly.

If you're really serious about the game, you're in the Discord (which theirs was on fire the whole time and had to go read-only).

New comment by songshuu in "Ask HN: Where can you apply for a programming job when you are a Class A asshole"

songshuu — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 22:19:25 +0000

You can only get away with being a Class A asshole if you are at least a Class A programmer.

Even then, there aren't many shops anymore which afford the closet & bucket o' fish heads approach. Maybe government contractors or smaller crypto projects.

Everywhere else, you need to at least get along with other people. Most shops have realized the 'rockstars' only look good on paper. https://www.inc.com/scott-mautz/a-biologists-study-of-superc...

New comment by songshuu in "New Boss of U.S. Digital Service: Mina Hsiang"

songshuu — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 20:34:22 +0000

The single greatest thing government affiliated groups like USDS, 18f, etc could do to boost hiring is to stop requiring employees to move to DC.

Matt Cutts did a pretty decent job given the circumstances. I'm looking forward to Mina Hsiang bringing in a new wave of changes.

New comment by songshuu in "Why the Internet Needs IPFS Before It's Too Late (2015)"

songshuu — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 17:36:08 +0000

IPFS attempts to solve one set of problems and is pretty good at it. There has certainly been more adoption as NFTs have used them as a storage layer. Also it's not entirely strange to see people start to use Github Actions to publish straight to IPFS as part of their webdev flow.

However, there are other good projects in a similar space. Hypercore protocol being one of them.

While IPFS has pushed ahead in field, I suspect they'll end up being the Netscape of decentralized tech. It's still early days.

New comment by songshuu in "Show HN: Get paid to have engaging conversations with old people"

songshuu — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 05:17:15 +0000

Exactly my first concern.

New comment by songshuu in "Brave, the false sensation of privacy"

songshuu — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 16:02:50 +0000

The surest sign that Brave has made it is that 3 hours in, we aren't seeing a rush of rebuttals from Sampson, Clifton, or Eich in the comments.

The article rehashes some FUDy and misleading comments which have been knocked down years ago.

Brave's not perfect, but for different reasons than this author raises.

New comment by songshuu in "Work from home and productivity: evidence from personnel and analytics data [pdf]"

songshuu — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 21:29:22 +0000

While it is given a brief nod in the paper, it is worth reiterating:

WFH during a global pandemic is not the same as WFH generally.

I say this as someone who has been remote for years.

Run this same study starting in September (barring huge Delta variant outbreak in the US) and you'll see a totally different set of numbers.

New comment by songshuu in "PA is Full of Bologna... Lebanon Bologna (2010)"

songshuu — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 16:52:10 +0000

That's because YCombinator is full of bologna ;)

New comment by songshuu in "We're Finally Starting to Revolt Against the Cult of Ambition"

songshuu — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 21:19:27 +0000

In the words of our elders, 'Give us Slack'

New comment by songshuu in "Firesign Theatre’s ‘Dope Humor of the Seventies’"

songshuu — Sun, 30 May 2021 02:47:48 +0000

"I think we're all bozos on this bus" is the first recorded hack iirc.

New comment by songshuu in "Reopening Texas Had No Discernible Impact on Covid-19 Cases or Deaths"

songshuu — Mon, 24 May 2021 03:26:56 +0000

Misleading title. FTA "We find that the Texas reopening had little impact on stay- at-home behavior or on foot traffic at numerous business locations, including restaurants, bars, entertainment venues, retail establishments, business services, personal care services, and grocery stores," Dave et al. write.

So despite 'reopening' people stayed home. That is why it had no discernible impact.

New comment by songshuu in "Volkswagen launches its first all-electric SUV, the ID.4"

songshuu — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 04:45:33 +0000

Let's hope that this means VW will actually deliver on the ID Buzz in 2023.

New comment by songshuu in "Ask HN: How to get a Logo/ Corporate Designs in 2021?"

songshuu — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 15:18:56 +0000

You could use fiverr and a generational model.

generation 1 : write a brief 5 designers @ $5 select your favorite design (be sure to get some outside human perspectives)

generation 2 : modify brief based on what you learned in generation 1. what you liked and didn't like. include the winning design from generation 1 as an inspiration and say you'd like to improve it 5 designers @ $5

for $50 you get 10 designs and have iterated twice

you can repeat this process until you're satisfied.

New comment by songshuu in "Plex Arcade"

songshuu — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 19:19:22 +0000

Plex seems to be winning in terms of ease-of-use, but aside from out of the box operation, what are the key differences between this and a kodi/retropie combo?

New comment by songshuu in "Chamath for California Governor"

songshuu — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:17:59 +0000

I would imagine like Bloomberg and Perot, Palihapitiya has made some unfortunate correlations between their wealth and their acumen.

I haven't seen him present any better sensemaking structure, so he's banking on his brand. It's a bad habit we need to remove from politics entirely.

New comment by songshuu in "Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?"

songshuu — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:53:25 +0000

Work-from-home didn't make things worse. Constant threat of severe illness and avoiding social contact for a year did.

I've been remote for 5 years, this last year alone was the hard one.

I'm holding out hope that things will turn around soon with fixes to the vaccine rollout, but literally everyone has been on survival mode for way too long.

New comment by songshuu in "Getting Started with Brave"

songshuu — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 22:01:20 +0000

Maybe add the payout total to your transparency page if people have doubts?