HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

_curious_

72 karma · joined February 25, 2020

self-titled
submissionscomments
_curious_··on SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites
I can't believe it's been 10 years since the first flight of Falcon 9.
_curious_··on I'm resigning from my job at Facebook
The "logic" behind this concept of privilege as often applied within HN does not add up.

For who has the privilege of judging others privilege and where does it end?

_curious_··on DEA authorized to conduct surveillance on protestors
Interesting notion...further reading/sources?
_curious_··on Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the George Floyd protests
Right on thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions...love the history, glad to hear it's "wildly successful" and godspeed to you and everyone else going forward.
_curious_··on Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the George Floyd protests
Interesting product/service! I've been familiar with it in the past but really used it a lot over this last week - thank you for offering a free n accessible tool.

When, Why and how did you get into it?

Does it generate meaningful/worthwhile revenue or is to more to cover overhead? (I only noticed the occasional 30 second commercial intro) Maybe you have a lot of premium subs?

Why sometimes do certain cities/counties change their feed? For example one night the Minneapolis police were on a completely different county that was hours away.

Majority of the time, these feeds are relatively low key right...with actual concerning/escalated incidents few and far between. Wondering: is there someway to us ML to identify specific things and provide push notifications to people in a given geography around that? For example it could listen for "shots fired" in a specific area and notify me via sms or whatnot when that occurs.

And AI could be used to show more of an abstract map view if and when "violence" is rising based on action on the scanner, right?

_curious_··on Show HN: 8bars – Make Music in the Browser
Thanks for making and sharing, fun!
_curious_··on Reddit's top user leaves platform after harassment
Prettysure there is some functionality benefits tied to karma here on HN...
_curious_··on Introducing Facebook Shops
What about calling them?
_curious_··on How venture capital follows the economy down and curtails innovation
Skills and expertise can always be learned and acquired.
_curious_··on How Palantir embedded itself in the NHS
I thought HN frowned upon paywalled content?
_curious_··on Ask HN: What is your learning strategy?
22 days ago you asked HN how to learn Japanese.
_curious_··on Ask HN: What is your learning strategy?
So true...there's a ton of 'tribal knowledge' locked up in all our heads ready to be released at any time...
_curious_··on Ask HN: What is your learning strategy?
You say "at one point" - why no more?
_curious_··on It’s Time to Get Back to RSS
I agree with this OP/authors thesis...long live RSS!

But don't tell me the answer to anything is found in signing up for / purchasing a specific product, then it becomes a commercial :/

"It’s unclear what exactly destroyed RSS"

The driving force (well before Google decided to close reader) is that many professional publishers (those who made a living/ran a pubco, notsomuch indie bloggers) stopped supporting RSS because it was harder to monetize RSS content consumers for obvious reasons.

Even mid-late 2000s, I remember literally hacking constantly breaking RSS feeds from major sites or going back n forth with pubco support/webmaster requesting (at times even paying) for a custom feed because the format was so efficient.

_curious_··on A 125-year-old delivery network that feeds Mumbai
Fascinating topic and read.

You can see it in their smile and hear it in their tone...these people take a rare sense of pride in their work. Dabbawalas appear to be a happy, grateful, and fulfilled workforce that do a sufficient job. Add in the cultural prestige and this model strikes me as very tough to compete with. So why?

What aspect of this current approach is broken or inefficient like to the point of justifying the time, money and effort to compete with as a startup? (I didn't gather that part from the article). Is it marginal food cost?

Is it merely because it's a big market operating the old-school way and therefore easy money is being thrown at trying to capture share or supplant using apps? No wonder these ventures are having a tough go at things...seems to me as a solution seeking a problem.

_curious_··on A 125-year-old delivery network that feeds Mumbai
"The dabbawalas have deeper reasons for doing it. Serving their customers is like serving their god.”

It could be because they see their purpose as delivering food to people on time and it doesn't seem like the nascent services have figured out how to do that well at scale - thus they may make more over there but are less fulfilled in their life mission?

_curious_··on Turf war: Detroit Mower Gang competes in 12-hour playground cleanup
My kind of gang
_curious_··on Our restaurants are failing. Why should food delivery apps thrive?
The word "should" is a red flag.
_curious_··on Ask HN: Best resources for non-technical founders to understand hacker mindset?
I would think unless and until you have tested that hypothesis (wearing of the talisman in a tiger rich environment) it's an invalid conclusion.

Now if you have successfully avoided tiger enclosures and subsequently not been attacked by any tigers, (regardless of what you are wearing) that method probably works ;)

_curious_··on Ask HN: Best resources for non-technical founders to understand hacker mindset?
"The broken thought-process there is mostly about when you take a shotgun approach that involves many different things..."

This sounds like quite the qualifier...which is fine, but I think it's important to take your response/reasoning into a much more narrow hypothetical.

_curious_··on Have the record number of investors in the stock market lost their minds?
"I mean are we really going to live in a society where the government pays companies so that their stock price can remain stable, even when demand for their products no longer exists because their customers are all out of work? It seems like a paper economy which essentially only serves to bail out investors."

To the last sentence, yes, a totally blatant wealth transfer scheme. Anecdotally, I think many of those suddenly "engaging" are just playing into the game - getting their dopamine and ego fix by showing dumb gains on nominal investments thinking that they too are wealthy and smarter than the next one :/

Of greater long term concern though is the decreasing transparency into which companies are benefiting disproportionately from government intervention.

These fed manipulations will lead to an even more dysfunctional marketplace down the road because once the water is tainted - we don't know how much, where, or with what exactly. It's impossible to go back to safe and clean drinking water again from this source.

Historically, the real value of the "stock market" has been that of a place for informed decisions based on consistent measurement and analysis of commonly reported variables regarding the well being of corporations. There's a reason a public company must abide by certain rules and regulations to go and remain public...it's so that investors can expect a certain amount of disclosure to actually make decisions on whether or not to invest. While public disclosure requirements have not changed lately (to my knowledge) - there is no way for the feds bailout factors to be decoupled from earnings.

I would argue that aspect, which represents a huge value proposition of the "stock market" to investors of all sizes near and far, is quickly disappearing. I'm not sure what this means for the future.

_curious_··on Have the record number of investors in the stock market lost their minds?
Yes, and there are even commenters in this thread whom openly admit the fed 'backstop' is a factor in their decision to play equities.

This market is highly manipulated and disconnected from reality on many levels - that's overtly obvious and intentional maneuvering via fed and pres. Only this pump and dump scheme isn't perpetuated by some shady OTC penny stock hype stunt.

When the equity bubble does burst (not if, but when) it will be very painful and unfortunately not just for those who are directly exposed but the collateral damage of all the free money will adversely affect those who are not day trading on the golf course, instead sold their clubs just to put food on the plate.

_curious_··on Have the record number of investors in the stock market lost their minds?
"and a government ready to spring into action if the market goes down too much?"

This is an important aspect to the current craze not mentioned in the article.

There are people - retail & institutional players - literally banking large sums of money on this dynamic of socializing losses. So long as this continues, we'll see an artificially inflated market.

_curious_··on Ask HN: Best resources for non-technical founders to understand hacker mindset?
"well I did X and I'm successful so clearly X must work!"

If they did something...and that thing was successful then by definition that thing they did...it works, right?

_curious_··on Reddit rolls out community currencies on Ethereum
Yes and yes
_curious_··on 92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
Agreed. This wouldn't be difficult to implement would it?
_curious_··on America’s meat shortage is more serious than the missing hamburgers
"There’s a version of America and its food consumption habits that existed three months ago that might never exist again. Some might feel entitled to getting that back. Others will find something new to want."

Feeling or acting entitled towards anything (food, money, etc) only leads to disappointment. And I say that as a frequent consumer of all types of meat. Maybe it's time for some forced change, mother nature style?

_curious_··on If Rockets Were Transparent [video]
Great info, thanks for adding, you are helping ;)
_curious_··on 92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
How could the HN mod roles/power/relationship improve in your opinion?
_curious_··on 92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
In your view, should there be more or how could the HN mod system improve?
← PreviousPage 4 of 13Next →