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throwthereon White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note

Hard to discuss this without getting political and violating all sorts of decorum but, I guess, the system worked here?

The original White House tweet:

  > “Seniors are getting the biggest increase in their Social Security checks in 10 years through President Biden’s leadership

The reality: Inflation triggered an automatic increase in social security benefits because of a 1972 law that indexes social security checks to cost of living.

I guess it's odd claiming you did good thing X, when in reality it was bad thing Y that automatically caused good thing X. But even that's not right, because in inflation-adjusted terms, good thing X actually wasn't good at all, it was just neutral.

throwthereon Meta Myths

The $250 billion spend is "projected" over 10 years by the commentator.

Would META spend $25 billion/year indefinitely without earning a profit? I don't know but other scenarios seem plausible too.

throwthereon Meta Myths

"Daily Active Users (DAUs). We define a daily active user as a registered and logged-in Facebook user who visited Facebook through our website or a mobile device, or used our Messenger application (and is also a registered Facebook user), on a given day. We view DAUs, and DAUs as a percentage of MAUs, as measures of user engagement on Facebook."

So, no.

throwthereon Protobuf-ES: Protocol Buffers TypeScript/JavaScript runtime

tRPC is another similar library.

https://trpc.io/docs/v10/quickstart

throwthereon FAA Traffic Flow Management Design Challenge

Expression of interest due in about 2 hours.

throwthereon US Supreme Court poised to ban affirmative action in university admissions

you could be right, but aren’t they looking more towards constitutionality, then their own ideologies?

throwthereon Why I use Jellyfin for my home media library

Thank you!

throwthereon Why I use Jellyfin for my home media library

We're trying to do the same with our kids-- finding kids friendly stations AND appropriate Chinese media. Could you share some of your favorite channels?

throwthereon Cloudflare CDN Partial Outage

Is this related to switching the firmware on the Minitel 2?

throwthereon CSS Dig

I read through this a few times to see what it does. It helps find inconsistencies in your webpage design. It does that by reporting the frequency of properties and the frequency of property values in your CSS. You then evaluate that report for potential problems. For instance, shades of blue that are meant to be the same but slightly off. Or font-sizes that are 14px somewhere and 16px somewhere else.

throwthereon A global house-price slump is coming?

Could be wrong but the Economist doesn't usually make predictions like this? This article doesn't have the same depth they usually write to. The reasoning behind their predicted price slump is that interst rates are going higher, making homes less affordable. But I think they stop there without looking at any other factors. Such as, the tempering effect of rising commodity and labor costs of new builds. The other half of the article is about knock-on effects of higher interest rates and the predicted price slump.

I guess I'm not saying their predictions will or will not come true, just that they don't support them.

throwthereon CloudFront vs. Cloudflare, and how to reduce response times for both (2021)

The conclusion is for an origin server halfway across the world from your users, CloudFront with Origin Shield is basically equivalent to CloudFlare with Argo (latency).

The other takeaway is AWS documentation is kind of dodgy for some services. But basically everyone knows that already.

throwthereon Don’t use Stripe. I am trying to save you from my mistake

I've got a killer startup idea. "Post your problem with <tech company> to HN as a service."

throwthereon How Fly.io and Tailscale Saved Notado

I love Fly.io and use it in production, but unless I'm missing something the author would have been better off just running their kubernetes cluster locally on a $6 VPS on digital ocean. That would also obviate the need for the procfile hack and tailscale.

throwthereon Show HN: Carefulwords.com, a more inspiring thesaurus

  curl https://carefulwords.com/word | sed -rn 's/<li>([^<]*)<.*/\1/p'

throwthereon Finally, a billionaire willing to smack back at capitalism

> And the exception highlights an unhealthy reality of our wealth-obsessed, capitalist system: It often requires more intention and effort to give away money than to passively amass billions.

Lol what?

throwthereon Man plays his saxophone through 9-hour complex brain surgery to remove tumor

Skim through this from UCSF for more info-- https://braintumorcenter.ucsf.edu/treatment/surgery/brain-ma...

throwthereon Magic Leap 2

Haha I thought the same thing with the surgeon picture. Presumably he’s operating. And that surgeon isn’t wearing any eye protection in fact which does happen but isn’t something you’d advertise.

throwthereon Feds seized $311M in Bitcoin, then hacker stole it back

80% of the way through the article you can read what actually happened. It's not that the Feds were incompetent and kept a "seized wallet" thinking only they had the private keys or something like that.

The wallets were simply protected by a passphrase and Larry couldn't be compelled to give the passphrase. The feds even told the judge they didn't have control of the funds and they could be moved to family/friends before it happened.

throwthereon Ask HN: Should CTO own company shares?

I think you already know the answer because of the way you're asking the question. If you think you're underpaid on a salary basis and you don't have any large compensatory benefits like equity it just follows that you're underpaid.

Whether you make the difference up in equity, cash or something else is up to you but generally you could consider equity or some cash performance/bonus option.

throwthereon Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run

Amazing feat. Also makes you wonder what he was thinking for 24 hours through the solitude— the mental toughness and… the boringness.

throwthereon [dead]

Oh the sweet, sweet irony of this author making the frontpage of HN in a post that declares they're trying to disengage from it.

copy/paste this to see the article: macwright.com/2022/09/15/hacker-news.html

throwthereon Flat-to-curved screens have an identity crisis

> couldn't care less is the phrasing that invokes an expression of maximum indifference

Merriam-Webster asserts both phrasings are equivalent since at least the 1800s.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/could-couldnt-...

throwthereon The Changes for the 2nd Edition of “Code”

Is this kind of like a high level overview compared to nand2tetris?

Any idea how they compare?

throwthereon Library of Database Schemas

Looks like this isn't available yet.

Here's a great free resource-- https://web.archive.org/web/20160308080311/http://www.databa...

throwthereon The History of FoxPro: Interview with Wayne Ratliff (1986)

Lol. Microsoft came up with the silliest error messages. Seeing an interruption box "illegal operation detected" after running traceroute as a kid... was a jarring experience.

I think I "yahoo'd" something about how much trouble I was in.

throwthereon My Contribution to Markdown

I think you're meant to read this post as if the entire thing is surrounded by "sarcasm" tags.

throwthereon FAA approves unleaded fuel for piston fleet

Reminds me of the xkcd comic--

https://xkcd.com/641/

throwthereon Lambda the Ultimate is now running in a new, more stable environment

> LtU has experienced a long period of downtime recently. Its software infrastructure was outdated enough that it became difficult to maintain when problems arose. It has now been migrated to a brand new environment. It should be much more stable from now on.

So after 20 years of the old site they ended up with an unmaintainable ball of code. Not too bad in my opinion considering the evolution of the web during that time.

throwthereon Association of body mass index with mortality

Actual link (full text article available for free)-- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-022-01211-2 .

oa.mg appears to be some sort of search aggregator that wants you to buy the article for $17 even though it's open access (freely available).