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alistproducer2

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Javascript ninja transitioning to machine learning.
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alistproducer2··on Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
Reddit and discord are afraid they'll be implicated in what is a classic pump and dump. Robinhood only exists because the SEC has chosen to look the other way concerning the pattern day trading rule which clearly is in jeopardy if big money starts complaining.
alistproducer2··on DoorDash from Application to IPO
Why does anyone want cold food delivered by a rando? I never understood to value proposition because I never got the value proposition of delivered food, outside of coldcut sandwiches and pizzas, especially once you stop being 18 living in a dorm. To each his own, I guess.
alistproducer2··on Facebook’s Project Aria Is Google Maps – For Your Entire Life
This is a hard pass for me. I deleted my Facebook 5 years ago and will never come back. They're a trash company with a trash product.
alistproducer2··on Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked
The moral of the story is there's no such thing as plug and play opsec. It requires thought, patience and domain knowledge. You can't outsource it because that contractor becomes your immediate and obvious weak link and will be compromised. Whether it's El Chapo's IT guys or fools who thought a cell phone company would keep them out of prison, this story just repeats itself.
alistproducer2··on DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
The reviews are in for this response and they are bad. It's concerning that given the react it got, there's no edit addressing the concerns. The HN audience has to be the power user, bread and butter of a product like this and when you see a company ignore the concerns of a key constituency like this, their future almost never looks bright.
alistproducer2··on Losing the war against surveillance capitalism letting Big Tech frame the debate
Letting the enemy set the terms of and frame the debate so we're starting on the low ground seems to be par for the course for folks on the left end of the spectrum. Pick your issue: climate change, policing, war on terror, lgbt rights, socialized medicine, on and on. You start to wonder if "our side" is throwing the game.
alistproducer2··on The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes
Interesting. Ill have to update pihole to put a stop to that
alistproducer2··on The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes
Same here but edge is offering the same on desktop so im switching. For mobile, brave is my daily driver.
alistproducer2··on The Atlantic lays off almost 20% of staff
Interesting, thanks. I guess that explains David Frum being a contributor.
alistproducer2··on The Atlantic lays off almost 20% of staff
This sucks. The Atlantic was doing great reporting in the beginning of corona, pointing out how few tests were.being done. It was necessary work that reminded me how important real journalism is.
alistproducer2··on FDA halts coronavirus testing program backed by Bill Gates
Updated to add sources
alistproducer2··on FDA halts coronavirus testing program backed by Bill Gates
Ding, ding, ding we have a winner. This is the same FDA that stopped ethanol producers from making hand sanitizer, at the behest of the purell of course[0]. The feds have done practically nothing for the States making them compete each other for ppe and also confiscated shipments [1] while saying the national stock pile isn't for the States [2]. At this point I hope they just ignore the feds. We might be better off revisiting the articles of confederation at this point.

Edit: adding sources 0: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ethano...

1: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-admin-seizing-ppe/

2: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/03/strategic-national-...

alistproducer2··on How Long Was Venus Habitable?
I enjoy Isaac Arthur's YouTube channel where he explores topics like colonizing Venus. Here's the video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BI-old7YI4I
alistproducer2··on Lost sense of smell may be peculiar clue to coronavirus infection
CDC says they found live virus on Grand Princess surfaces 17 days after passengers left

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/23/cdc-coronavirus-survived-in-...

alistproducer2··on Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017)
CS grad here. It was a difficult major and I used very little at work. It did, however, change the way I think about everything and im glad I did it.
alistproducer2··on Effect of economic crisis on America’s small businesses [slides]
The 1-3% is an average among all age groups. You clearly have not looked at the data. For example, in Italy the CFR is somewhere around 14% for elderly. Everyone else is lower such that the nominal death rate, being an average among all groups,.has been consistently running around 8%.

Obviously when this matures that rate will go lower because the denominator will grow but the denominator that people care about is the one we have now: who is sick enough to need a test because if I get sick, and thus become part of that denominator, the current rate gives me a good picture of my chances. Was the parent comment slightly hyperbolic, maybe. But you are way underselling the seriousness of this disease and the rationality of being scared of it.

alistproducer2··on Ask HN: What are some example of low tech improving your life?
I did the same thing and I enjoy Netflix much more. My maim gripe was that it always treated the ending music and credits as disposable. However, sitting and listening to the music and reading the credits helps me reflect on what I just watched and get the full experience the artist intended.
alistproducer2··on Ask HN: What are some example of low tech improving your life?
French press coffee maker, silicone dish sponge, manual food processor machine, sliding glass shower doors, and an old radio/tape player.

These are all things I've purchased recently to replace the standard way of doing things that are outperforming the alternatives.

For example, I wanted some coffee one day. I had coffee and a coffee machine (a kcup machine) but no pods. I couldn't make coffee. I realized that while the kcup machine has it's use cases, as a home coffee machine it was way over engineered for the problem.

alistproducer2··on Firefox 72.0
I switched to ff a couples years ago and up until the last few months everything has been great. Now a lot of important sites don't work because the content security policy is completely inflexible. It should allow me to make exceptions on sites I chose. I've had to install chrome just for a couple sites and now its just easier to make chrome my daily driver again. The ff team should consider making the CSP flexible.
alistproducer2··on Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition
I use Pihole and block all my appliances and other traffic I deem unusual or unnecessary. Its also very useful forensically if I suspect shenanigans on my network. I recommend it to everyone.
alistproducer2··on Show HN: Local Node.js app to save everything you browse and serve it offline
Run your phone traffic through a proxy and have the proxy cache stuff.
alistproducer2··on Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse?
Because people died and will continue to die unless the airframe/engine configuration , which they knew was faulty, is changed to not be garbage.

It is crazy to accept a flawed design when people's lives are at stake. A plane isnt a movie or a song. You cant just fix stuff in post. Do it right the first time.

alistproducer2··on Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse?
>either in a new airplane name by branding

That's some magical thinking right there. Very few people are going to get on one of these planes as long as the bad design is papered over with a software fix.

alistproducer2··on Teen Marijuana Vaping Soars, Displacing Other Habits
>Vaping of marijuana was at the root of a public health crisis that unfolded this summer

The fact that it takes the author two more paragraphs to elucidate that the illness was in fact linked to bootleg, vitamin E-containing cartridges is disappointing, but not surprisingly. That fact seems really material to the argument.

alistproducer2··on Travis Kalanick Is Exiting His Uber Holdings Uber Quickly
While there may be more upside to this market, the probability of his fortune being halved are much higher than them being doubled in the next 12-24 months. He could always buy back in now that he's liquid, but when the bottom drops out of the market and there aren't any bids (especially for unprofitable monopoly plays like Uber) he could find himself a lot poorer really fast.
alistproducer2··on The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming
This is been around in various forms for quite a few years. But it's never really caught on because the basic fact is it turns everyone into leeches. Also doesn't really make any sense because when you stream something you're downloading and anyways so you might as well be a good citizen download it, and then seed it, and keep the community decentralized and healthy.
alistproducer2··on Ask HN: What tech choices make “new” Reddit so unbearably slow?
According to this[0] its react and redux

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/9e77jz/whats_every...

alistproducer2··on Reflecting on 8 months of full-time self-study
Email me. Its on my profile.
alistproducer2··on Reflecting on 8 months of full-time self-study
I'm doing something similar. I got undergraduate degrees in CS and business and worked 5 years for a large corp right out of school. I saved my money and, using a rollover for business startup, I funded my business. I'm lucky enough to have a 2-earner household and a partner that is giving me time to figure out where I want to go next. I've been on "sabbatical" for a little over a year. I've had a couple false starts with respect to the business.

In the last couple weeks I've decided that I too wanted to level-up on my hard skills but away from CS. I've never been too enamored with trying to sell a product or service that had a lower barrier to entry for competitors. Too much convincing and pitching and , uggh, selling for my tastes.

I've always been interested in Chemistry so I decided to teach myself using textbooks. I realized a while ago that if you have an interests in a subject strong enough to keep you reading and working through a textbook, you can learn anything to a high level because hiding in the pages of a college textbook is the knowledge of many decades of human discovery, engineering, and passion as well hundreds of hours of hours of lecturing, teaching, and even tests (assuming you buy the answer manual). Almost any college course you'll ever take will be a watered-down, rushed meander through a couple chapters in a textbook. If you are willing to go through those chapters, in full, and do most or all of the exercises, you can learn basically anything on your own to a undergrad or graduate (MS) level.

And if you're fortunate enough, as I have been, to be able to fund your own company, your lack of degree doesn't matter because you don't need to signal to anyone that you know what your doing because you are doing the hiring. Granted for what I'm trying to do, I will hire a person with a degree to "head up" my labs for outside credibility's sake.

alistproducer2··on New membrane unlocks energy from chemical difference between fresh and saltwater
Can anyone provide a link to the paper? I've googled and haven't been able to find anything.
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