rohansingh
Re:Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant for Essay...
on Monday June 16, 2025 @03:33AM (#44287375)
> bicycles ... has made us increasingly weak
This is pretty difficult for me to buy. Cycling has been shown time & again to be a great way to increase fitness.
Re:GitHub Is Down
on Thursday January 30, 2025 @09:51AM (#42878272)
GitHub's reliability has gotten pretty terrible since the Microsoft acquisition, well before ZIRP ended.
Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals
on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @08:30PM (#42323903)
Generally agree with your point, but not sure I'd call 312 EV and a 1.6% margin a "landslide".
Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals
on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @08:28PM (#42323893)
The point is that the Fed isn't classifying those things. "Ordinary" includes all primary mortgages, whether for a modest home or a luxury pad. It includes all personal car payments, whether for a shared Honda or a Maserati.
Re:Sticker on caption phone says that using the captions can be illega...
on Sunday August 25, 2024 @11:22AM (#41347921)
The phone tree stuff on Pixel is decent but nowhere near 100% reliable or robust.
If it hears and understands an automated system speaking out a phone tree, it will start to list the options and you can tap on them. Usually works but often doesn't recognize that a phone tree is happening. Other times it recognizes the phone tree, but mistranscribes the options.
As a non-deaf person, it's a handy UX improvement. But I wouldn't recommend that anyone rely on it.
Re:What is ZIRP, and how did it impact the startup world?
on Thursday June 20, 2024 @09:23PM (#40745257)
You captured some of the ideas that have been swimming around in my brain for a little while and really crystallized them. Couldn't agree more.
Re:Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity
on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @07:30AM (#40656855)
I think for a lot of founders, there is significant financial cost or opportunity cost upfront. Especially if you are bootstrapping.
Re:Don't DRY Your Code Prematurely
on Thursday May 30, 2024 @03:35PM (#40527751)
Maybe but hallucinations become a real problem here. Even with publicly available API's that are just slightly off the beaten path, I've gotten full-on hallucinations that have derailed me and wasted time.
Re:Sharing details on a recent incident impacting one of our customers
on Saturday May 25, 2024 @01:44AM (#40472878)
That's great internally, but serious external communication with customers should have a name attached and responsibility accepted (i.e., "the buck stops here").
Re:Gio UI – Cross-Platform GUI for Go
on Saturday May 18, 2024 @11:27AM (#40399796)
Isn't the whole "Flutter team layoffs" narrative somewhat debunked at this point? My understanding is that some positions were cut and some were moved, but no more than any other engineering area at Google.
Re:We gotta stop ignoring AI's hallucination problem
on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @12:42PM (#40369251)
Just to be really clear since I had to call the IRS tax hotline the other day... they are real experts over there.
And generally, people will tell me, "I'm not sure" or "I don't know". They won't just start wildly making things up but stating them in a way that sounds plausible.
Re:Australian man says border force made him hand over phone passcode
on Monday May 13, 2024 @08:31PM (#40350250)
How do you login to iCloud without any second factor available?
Re:Answering Every Question You Have About IMEI Numbers
on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @10:52PM (#40219011)
Probably not a lot. It needs to have a fixed length on the wire, and having 100 updates to the radio firmware for any given model of handset... not likely?
Re:The Tiny Ultrabright Laser That Can Melt Steel
on Monday April 15, 2024 @07:56PM (#40046985)
Wouldn't you still need to provide an amount of power to the laser that's not currently feasible for a watch?
Re:Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams
on Monday April 08, 2024 @10:44AM (#39970279)
Yeah, good point. This would probably be better received overall if it were a per-artist minimum rather than a per-track.
On the other hand, that would make it pretty trivial for garbage/AI content distributors to circumvent.
Re:Paying Off People's Medical Debt Has Little Impact on Their Lives, ...
on Monday April 08, 2024 @10:42AM (#39970247)
First off, it's not strictly true that medical debt won't show up on a consumer credit report. Medical debts that are in collections will eventually show up, if they are large enough.
Secondly, it's still a legal debt. That means the billing department will employ escalating collection tactics for large debts where they believe the debtor has sufficient assets.
Re:Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams
on Monday April 08, 2024 @07:29AM (#39968620)
Article states "threshold of 1,000 plays in the preceding 12 months".
Sounds like you're well over that, at around 3-4K plays per year.
Re:Meta takes $40K, holds our business ransom
on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @01:22PM (#39841988)
Yeah... unfortunately it seems like "problem with major company, can't get support" has become an entire genre of HN post.
Re:Meta takes $40K, holds our business ransom
on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @02:56PM (#39831486)
UPDATE (2024-03-26):
A business development manager at Meta saw this post yesterday and escalated the issue internally. They provisionally unsuspended our account this morning.
This afternoon, the collections team confirmed that they received our payment, and applied it to the account.
Thanks to everyone for their advice and input. For what it's worth, we'll definitely maintain a presence on Meta, but our team is taking a second look at TikTok for marketing.
Re:Meta takes $40K, holds our business ransom
on Monday March 25, 2024 @05:17PM (#39821366)
Thanks for the heads-up. Exploring other channels now. We can't risk having the account shutdown for 200 days (or even 30).
Re:Meta takes $40K, holds our business ransom
on Monday March 25, 2024 @04:28PM (#39820931)
Thanks. I'll update here if/when I can.
Re:Meta takes $40K, holds our business ransom
on Monday March 25, 2024 @03:36PM (#39820444)
You're probably right. We can hopefully get back the money, but there's no getting back the lost revenue. Missed the wire cutoff for today but guess I know what I'll be doing tomorrow.
Re:Meta takes $40K, holds our business ransom
on Monday March 25, 2024 @03:27PM (#39820353)
That's a really good point and suggestion. I'll reach out to our attorney. (grimacing at the cost as I write this)
Re:Meta takes $40K, holds our business ransom
on Monday March 25, 2024 @03:19PM (#39820271)
It's not possible to pay by credit card again — just get a generic error when trying to open the payment form. So it would have to be by wire transfer, for which there are no chargeback protections.
Re:Meta takes $40K, holds our business ransom
on Monday March 25, 2024 @03:16PM (#39820242)
Thanks Paul, appreciate it. Still trying to reach out to anyone and everyone.
Re:Meta takes $40K, holds our business ransom
on Monday March 25, 2024 @03:10PM (#39820169)
It's truly a bummer. I posted about this in a Meta alumni group, and here's a couple different responses that I received:
> Same exact situation. Millions in spend. Jumped over to TikTok.
> Nearly every time I interact with the ads products, I hit multiple bugs ...
Re:Meta takes $40K, holds our business ransom
on Monday March 25, 2024 @03:03PM (#39820092)
I'm definitely considering it but trying to make sure we fully, thoroughly exhaust all other channels. Totally agree that it wouldn't be "reasonable" to permanently suspend our account for a chargeback in this scenario, but it's hard to know what's reasonable at this point.
Sucks to say it but having to double-pay this invoice may still be a better scenario than having the business fully banned from Meta Ads.
Re:Fault tolerance and resilience patterns for Go
on Sunday March 24, 2024 @09:48AM (#39807208)
I do, at somewhat medium scale. My experience was similar to other posters here, where we ran into production issues that were incredibly difficult to pin down.
If you'd like, you can attribute that to lack of Erlang experience or skill on my part. But in practice, we instead replaced that system with Go running on a Kube cluster and it's now been rock solid.
Re:Boeing overwrote security camera footage of repair work on Alaska d...
on Thursday March 14, 2024 @02:20PM (#39707266)
It's not at all a technical limitation here. The cockpit voice recorder will record 25 hours in the EU and only 2 hours in the US, and that's been the case for years.