Hacker News: throwaway8689

New comment by throwaway8689 in "Open source code with profanity in comments is statistically better"

throwaway8689 — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 18:21:05 +0000

So I need to use more profanity at work, then ask for a raise?

(But I concede that effort and productivity are not the same thing.)

New comment by throwaway8689 in "Open source hospital price database"

throwaway8689 — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:33:37 +0000

If you are curious to compare with a foreign single payer system, England's NHS tariff is published at

https://www.england.nhs.uk/pay-syst/national-tariff/national...

New comment by throwaway8689 in "Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm"

throwaway8689 — Mon, 29 May 2023 17:52:36 +0000

Assuming you are not being disingenuous: there is a trade off with a lot of uncertainty - other things are also implicated in stomach cancer, and at the same time untreated dental disease causes other health problems too.

But I prefer to rely on brushing my own teeth and avoiding certain foods to maintain my own health, rather than have a medication added to my water supply because the guy next door does not take care of his health.

New comment by throwaway8689 in "Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm"

throwaway8689 — Mon, 29 May 2023 06:44:52 +0000

This study looked solely at impact on dental health. Other studies tell us it is associated with stomach cancer and infertility.

New comment by throwaway8689 in "Ed Sheeran demonstrates how copyright is destroying musicians"

throwaway8689 — Tue, 09 May 2023 06:43:26 +0000

Axis of Awesome took those lemons and made lemonade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I

New comment by throwaway8689 in "Amazon Tried Not to Pay a Woman After Driver Totaled Her Car"

throwaway8689 — Sun, 07 May 2023 22:18:47 +0000

I've had longer delays in the UK. My car was damaged by another driver. I sent my dash cam recording to my insurer and then both insurers dithered for months until I threatened to get the government ombudsman involved.

New comment by throwaway8689 in "Show HN: I built a database GUI with ChatGPT integration"

throwaway8689 — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 18:59:17 +0000

There have been a few products like this announced recently and they all have intro level examples on the home page. Can yours deal with things like entity-attribute-value model tables?

New comment by throwaway8689 in "Everything Is Interpolated: Music’s Nostalgia-Industrial Complex"

throwaway8689 — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 14:32:44 +0000

For the listener I don't think much would change. There is already more music released than any one person has time to listen to.

Edit: or maybe I would be disappointed if I liked an 'artist' but it was an ai so live events would be weird.

New comment by throwaway8689 in "Most of my skills are now worth nothing, but 10% are worth 1000x"

throwaway8689 — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 16:27:39 +0000

You have no information on how I approached using chat gpt, what prompts I used, how close its replies came to being correct/useful or not, but you decided to regale us with an irrelevant car metaphor anyway.

New comment by throwaway8689 in "Most of my skills are now worth nothing, but 10% are worth 1000x"

throwaway8689 — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 13:54:25 +0000

I tried chat gpt for the first time today. I asked it to write me a script to fetch some data from an API. It didn't succeed, and this kind of common task from a well-documented API should (I thought) be a slam dunk.

New comment by throwaway8689 in "People with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system"

throwaway8689 — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 16:47:02 +0000

Thanks for mentioning this. There are a lot of people who are homeless solely for economic reasons and are mostly unnoticed.

New comment by throwaway8689 in "People with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system"

throwaway8689 — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 16:33:57 +0000

Involuntary admission is not automatically inhumane, but you do need to be admitting people to well-run hospitals and have a system in place to protect everyone from malicious admission. Both of those things cost money.

New comment by throwaway8689 in "The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT"

throwaway8689 — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 15:49:08 +0000

I once hypothetically saved a few dozen colleagues from dying in a fire. All of these people had at least a degree and many were educated to PhD.

The fire alarm sounded and at the bottom of a stairwell the exit door would not release until someone operated the emergency release break-glass panel. But none of these educated people grasped that. Worse still, none of them thought to use a nearby heavy steel trolley as a battering ram. One guy is trying to phone for help, which was pointless as the alarm sound makes conversation impossible.

I'm one of the last down the stairs. I look at the people, the closed door, the steel trolley, and the emergency door release panel. Realising I'm not going to have the fun of trashing the doors, I operate the release panel and we all leave.

New comment by throwaway8689 in "I wish GPT4 had never happened"

throwaway8689 — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 09:16:31 +0000

Other income comes from inheritance, investments, gifts. None of those should be assumed to be incentives to get the recepient to work.

New comment by throwaway8689 in "I wish GPT4 had never happened"

throwaway8689 — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 16:48:58 +0000

A lot of people have to work two jobs just to afford food and shelter. Granted there are also people trying to live a Champaign lifestyle on a lemonade budget, but how do you address the first group?

New comment by throwaway8689 in "Salesforce is shuttering Slack’s remote work research group Future Forum"

throwaway8689 — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 18:20:04 +0000

Only time I'm more miserable is if I'm told to work on something I know is going to get canned.

New comment by throwaway8689 in "Salesforce is shuttering Slack’s remote work research group Future Forum"

throwaway8689 — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 18:18:56 +0000

Imagine the opportunities for 'insider' trading in the painting and decorating business.

New comment by throwaway8689 in "DVDStyler is a cross-platform free DVD authoring application (2021)"

throwaway8689 — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:24:43 +0000

Who report over 10,000 downloads last week. I used this years ago but can't see much use for it now.

New comment by throwaway8689 in "Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowledge?"

throwaway8689 — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 16:03:12 +0000

That's fair enough if your job is in front end or whatever and you just need to use a table or view that someone else built for you.

I comment I read somewhere was that SQL goes from basic to advanced with nothing in between. It's a slippery slope of course: you start writing your own query and then you figure a more sophisticated query would be helpful and pretty soon you're having to care about optimisation and indexes.

New comment by throwaway8689 in "The Undeniable Street View"

throwaway8689 — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 15:46:57 +0000

Can you address the 'unprovoked' part? Reading comprehension here involves reading a whole paragraph.