scarejunba

HN is not a healthy community for me to participate in, but it's got high variance output to a greater degree than anything except my Twitter follow group and my Slack private groups - i.e. it's the highest quality uncurated source I have.

The reason I say that it is not healthy is that it is full of misinformation and sensationalism. I get upset at reading things I know are lies or errors perpetuated through confident ignorance and end up attempting to even it out by sensationalizing the other side (and perhaps in my anger doing some of the things that annoy me). I've noticed this weird behaviour in my parents arguing with their friends about politics and for the most part I'd removed myself from that but HN brings it forth.

What is valuable about HN is that you get some real experts talking about stuff they know well and startup entrepreneurs engage here in a way that's often closer than just posting on ProductHunt, and I like talking to other people like that.

Actually, thank you for asking this question, I think it's pretty obvious at this point that I should just stop using this website. But I needed the question to be asked. Should just use that time building and spend it on my private groups.

Situation is fictional to illustrate utility of device.

Exactly, a SaaS product is the ultimate DRM and it's socially acceptable. Make this a native app that needs always-on internet and customers who care about it being native will flip and eat your margins like a giant Pareto Pacman.

Does not feel like a high-coefficient source.

Drug is 8 cents a pill produced generic in India. They aren’t going to export it any more but you had your chance. You wanted to protect local pharma against generics. They’re protected.

Healthcare is full of artificially induced shortages in America, and Americans pay for that every day with their lives. Now, that’s just slightly more obvious.

It's a classic idea generation exercise. It isn't a prediction even if worded as such. I found it interesting.

They actually did what the other guy is saying, though.

Ah, I was curious if there are any interesting properties.

We ran a 100-petabyte cluster with all Meltdown/Spectre mitigation turned off because there was no foreign code running on it that didn't have access to the data itself.

It's all about the threat model. Engineers at the company were considered trusted actors and they were the only ones permitted to connect. If that layer failed, there is no way cache invalidation errors would be the fastest way in.

That sounds like just a group permissions issue in their model, and a shared mount model in the VM guy's model.

These are pretty creative approaches using the built-in access control Unix has. I like it.

Does this field behave differently from Q in some 'useful' way?

Haha, brilliant. If I may write the first paragraph:

> Facebook has quietly marked Considered Harmful articles problematic, and that's a good thing.

> When I was a child, my father often took me fishing as a way for us to get out of the house. I remember the dappled early Sunday sunlight playing across the dashboard as we drove up to the lake in our 1998 Subaru Forester, a car whose longevity is likely to be greater than mine. Subaru, as it turns out, tapped into a fundamental part of the American psyche that had, at the time, been left completely untouched out of sheer unawareness.