bigthymer (u/bigthymer)

bigthymer commented on US Tech Force techforce.gov/... · Posted by u/purple_ferret

alexpotato · 5 days ago

Is this just US Digital Service V2?

https://www.usds.gov/

bigthymer · 5 days ago

Ever since USDS got renamed as DOGE, they've had trouble recruiting people. I suspect this move is maybe an effort to shed DOGE's negative image.

bigthymer commented on Django: what’s new in 6.0 adamj.eu/tech/2025/12/03/... · Posted by u/rbanffy

viiralvx · 10 days ago

Template Partials and HTMX seems like the Django equivalent of View Components and Stimulus for Rails, which is nice.

Also, good to see first class support for Tasks, among a lot of other niceties!

bigthymer · 10 days ago

Rails renders partials

https://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html#pa...

bigthymer commented on Evidence from the One Laptop per Child program in rural Peru nber.org/papers/w34495... · Posted by u/danso

aserr · 12 days ago

There’s a book, The Charisma Machine (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262537445/the-charisma-machine/), that examines outcomes from multiple OLPC initiatives and covers many of the failings.

bigthymer · 12 days ago

A youtube talk about the book for the lazy\busy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCeaQUPaze4

bigthymer commented on Show HN: I built a platform where audiences fund debates between public thinkers logosive.com... · Posted by u/mcastle

Aurornis · a month ago

The debates use famous names to get your attention, but when I click on the details of each debate it says "Pending" next to those famous names. Apparently none of these people have agreed to debate or possibly even know tickets are being sold to their debate.

Selling (even pre-selling) tickets to debates between people who haven't agreed to participate in your debate is insanely misleading marketing.

bigthymer · a month ago

> Selling (even pre-selling) tickets to debates between people who haven't agreed to participate in your debate is insanely misleading marketing.

When I initially read your comment, I agreed with it. But, on second thought, if the site is presented as a sort of Kickstarter for debates where people are funding something they hope will happen, I think it might work. It is important that this is clearly communicated though.

bigthymer commented on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why? · Posted by u/ofalkaed

socalgal2 · 2 months ago

Google Maps still tracks my location.

The difference is they no longer store the data on their servers, it's stored on your phone (iPhone/Android)

https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6258979

That way, they can't respond to requests for that data by governments as they don't have it.

I can look on my phone and see all the places I've been today/yesterday, etc

bigthymer · 2 months ago

Is it just me or has the amount of data collected changed? Last I checked, the locally stored data just identifies known business locations that have been visited. In the past, when I clicked a business location in the app, it would show when I last visited. Google maps no longer does this. In the past, I could do a hike and see exactly how long I walked and how fast I went. However, this info is no longer collected to this degree.

bigthymer commented on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why? · Posted by u/ofalkaed

bxparks · 2 months ago

A lot of things on https://killedbygoogle.com/ . I used to use 30-40 Google products and services. I'm down to 3-4.

Google Picasa: Everything local, so fast, so good. I'm never going to give my photos to G Photos.

Google Hangouts: Can't keep track of all the Google chat apps. I use Signal now.

Google G Suite Legacy: It was supposed to be free forever. They killed it, tried to make me pay. I migrated out of Google.

Google Play Music: I had uploaded thousands of MP3 files there. They killed it. I won't waste my time uploading again.

Google Finance: Tracked my stocks and funds there. Then they killed it. Won't trust them with my data again.

Google NFC Wallet: They killed it. Then Apple launched the same thing, and took over.

Google Chromecast Audio: It did one thing, which is all I needed. Sold mine as soon as they announced they were killing it.

Google Chromecast: Wait, they killed Chromecast? I did not know that until I started writing this..

bigthymer · 2 months ago

I'm still upset that Google Maps no longer tracks my location. It was very useful to be able to go back and see how often and where I had gone.

Is there another app where I can store this locally?

bigthymer commented on SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades cbsnews.com/texas/news/se... · Posted by u/pseudolus

immibis · 2 months ago

Surprisingly, no - moving a stock from one exchange to another is a lot harder than selling on one and buying on another (and slower, and more costly for small quantities), so stocks are surprisingly immobile. Only if you really had to, would you move them. And most stocks have one particular home exchange and there's no reason to trade them anywhere else than the one place that has the highest volume and lowest spreads for that stock.

bigthymer · 2 months ago

> there's no reason to trade them anywhere else than the one place that has the highest volume and lowest spreads for that stock.

Norbert's Gambit is a good reason. It is potentially the cheapest way to effectively do a currency exchange.

[1] - https://www.finiki.org/wiki/Norbert%27s_gambit

bigthymer commented on Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20 news.futunn.com/en/post/6... · Posted by u/dworks

mark_l_watson · 3 months ago

Short answers: dollar dominance and market access leverage.

The argument for benefits of US economic power are clear. Less clear is military power:

The Plaza Accord was framed as cooperation among G5 allies. But in practice U.S. security guarantees gave it disproportionate influence. Japan, for example, had little independent military capability, so its security reliance on the U.S. translated into willingness to accept U.S. economic pressure.

bigthymer · 3 months ago

> The Plaza Accord was framed as cooperation among G5 allies. But in practice U.S. security guarantees gave it disproportionate influence. Japan, for example, had little independent military capability, so its security reliance on the U.S. translated into willingness to accept U.S. economic pressure.

Really hit the nail on the head here.

If we extrapolate this way of thinking to Europe, the US keeps pushing Europe to fund more of its own defense. If Europe does so, the US will probably find that a more independent Europe may be less likely to agree with the US on other global issues since Europe will need the US less in Europe.

bigthymer commented on Imperial Tyranny, Korean Humiliation english.hani.co.kr/arti/e... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

roadside_picnic · 3 months ago

I find it odd that people seem to sincerely not understand how much grey area there is regarding some of these issues. I'm pretty sure at least once in our careers most people have traveled internationally for business, but been told to say it's "personal". These cases could all potentially be violating visa laws, but most people don't think of themselves as "illegal immigrants" in these scenarios.

In this case the issue seem to be a debate around specifically what types of work these people were permitted to perform on their visas, with the union arguing, in their self-interest, that the work they were doing did not qualify.

bigthymer · 3 months ago

This is my understanding of the situation too from watching some news shows. During Biden's term, there was a need\interest in getting this factory running quickly. There wasn't a proper visa defined within our legal code. The US gov encouraged them to come with personal or tourist visas in order to expedite the process of getting the factory up and running. It seems like this understanding didn't quite transfer from Biden to Trump's administration and the deportation happened.