Hacker News: thedaly

New comment by thedaly in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

thedaly — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 02:16:49 +0000

Foreign propaganda is much easier to spot. It is the domestic propaganda that was legalized in the 2012 Smith-Mundt Modernization act that concerns me.

New comment by thedaly in "Advantages of incompetent management"

thedaly — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 01:16:52 +0000

The entire premise is based around the idea that one still has to appear busy or has a desire to demonstrate something that will justify a raise.

New comment by thedaly in "Dali back in Baltimore port, freed 55 days after striking and collapsing Bridge"

thedaly — Mon, 20 May 2024 21:41:34 +0000

What region?

https://archive.is/C9oKk

Edit: Better link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240520212841/https://www.balti...

New comment by thedaly in "GPT-4o"

thedaly — Mon, 13 May 2024 23:49:00 +0000

> Something I’ve noticed people do more of recently for whatever reason is talking over others.

I've noticed this as well and I posit this is a result of increased use of remote communication and meetings platforms such as zoom since 2020.

My inclination is that the behavior will not correlate with interrupting chatgpt or siri. Seems totally separate to me.

New comment by thedaly in "We have 4 days to contest KYC being required by internet services"

thedaly — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:22:45 +0000

And all networking configuration and everything else is transferred with close to zero effort?

New comment by thedaly in "Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users"

thedaly — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 00:02:52 +0000

I suspect that when AT&T built all the COs (1950-70s) they were constrained by both max number of lines and physical distance.

You’ll see numerous COs in a big city, but they are also pretty widely dispersed throughout the suburbs and rural areas.

New comment by thedaly in "Plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals"

thedaly — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 22:44:51 +0000

Anecdotally, this seems to be much less prevalent in the US due to cultural differences. I live in Chicago and their is a 7 cent surcharge for bags. I'd say 1/3 of people actually bring their own even after this has been in place for years.

New comment by thedaly in "Toyota to invest $1.3B in Kentucky factory to build battery packs and new EV"

thedaly — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 19:32:00 +0000

> The other is that Chinese workers are 30% (or 2X?) more efficient than American workers.

What metrics is this based on?

New comment by thedaly in "Instagram Threads triples downloads in December, reaching top; X falls to #36"

thedaly — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 02:32:31 +0000

Yeah, now that I think about it, I never see any screenshots on reddit either. I see tons from twitter.

New comment by thedaly in "Instagram Threads triples downloads in December, reaching top; X falls to #36"

thedaly — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 02:31:21 +0000

This may be a dumb question, but wouldn't one only see that content if they engage with it or follow people who engage with it?

New comment by thedaly in "Instagram Threads triples downloads in December, reaching top; X falls to #36"

thedaly — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 02:16:28 +0000

Who is downloading threads? Haven't read or heard any talk on it in months. To be fair, I am far removed from the meta ecosystem.

New comment by thedaly in "GitHub Spam"

thedaly — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 23:27:06 +0000

Space, CPU cycles, attention. So much waste

New comment by thedaly in "Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)"

thedaly — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 01:11:24 +0000

This is one of those posts that reminds me why I love this site so much.

New comment by thedaly in "2023 was the year that GPUs stood still"

thedaly — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 14:46:52 +0000

Prices haven't come down though.

New comment by thedaly in "California Pizza Hut Lays Off Delivery Drivers Amid New Wage Law"

thedaly — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 03:41:57 +0000

I don't understand why this law wouldn't apply to doordash and uber eats as well.

New comment by thedaly in "Google is apparently struggling to contain an ongoing spam attack"

thedaly — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 21:30:37 +0000

> Try googling "What is the fifth book in the wheel of time series" and see what you get? All spam.

Google gave the correct answer. Didn't see any spam.

New comment by thedaly in "Ask HN: Best modern file transfer/synchronization protocol?"

thedaly — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 17:58:34 +0000

I've starting using rclone over rsync for this application. Rclone can do segmented transfers and handles large numbers of files better, at least in my experience.

New comment by thedaly in "Police get medical records without a warrant"

thedaly — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:05:42 +0000

> Same problem we've had with antibiotics.

I suspect the much more impactful driver of antibiotic resistance would be the antibiotics feed to live stock in mass.

New comment by thedaly in "Waymo outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7M+ miles"

thedaly — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:18:56 +0000

I agree that the fixation on cars in urban/population dense areas is a problem and the overall use of cars in these areas should be offset by public transportation.

I feel like the one in five Americans that live in rural areas is left out of the conversation though. You can't eliminate cars for those 60 million or so people.

New comment by thedaly in "The Private Equity Firm Tapping America's Spring Water"

thedaly — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 04:02:25 +0000

If there is one national resource that should be publicly owned in the United States it is water. There is a place for distributers, but water should be controlled by the public and used in its best interest.