jfengel

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by jfengel 9mo ago
The problem for me is when an icon is repeated many times on a page, such as once per row. The word quickly becomes redundant, and the repetition looks ugly. Tables are supposed to be information-dense and wasting screen real estate interfe
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by jfengel 9mo ago
If that were true, people would be unhappy with their representatives. For the most part they seem pleased with them. They think everyone else's representatives are corrupt, but in fact they are also doing what their constituents have
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by jfengel 9mo ago
The technology is nowhere near ready. Let's see Musk deploy Optimus robots in a Tesla factory, which would be the zeroth step in a billion-item checklist before they're ready to build one of themselves from scratch. Tesla already
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by jfengel 9mo ago
That implies that air resistance is the overwhelming contributor at high speeds. Is that the case?
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by jfengel 9mo ago
Any idea why they'd change their mind about point 4? The regulatory agencies were understaffed for the work load even before recent layoffs. Why focus on this, of all the things they could put their effort into?
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by jfengel 9mo ago
Landing from relativistic speed would be a massive engineering problem, since you won't have a laser de-celerator on the other end. And landing on a planet would seem to require a rocket, which cannot be lightweight. Not necessarily in
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by jfengel 9mo ago
It might be time for HN to shift to a font that distinguishes better between "Al" and "AI".
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by jfengel 9mo ago
Mostly coincidence. There aren't that many data points. There are under a dozen Presidents in the last half century. Too small to attribute significance. I do believe that there could be a small causative effect, but there is usually
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by jfengel 9mo ago
That's true. Though in this case the administration is taking a much more active hand in the economy than any in almost a century. For the most part the correlation between administrations and the economy is arbitrary. But in this case
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by jfengel 9mo ago
You can say "an anonymous source". That's a standard journalistic practice. What shouldn't be standard is "we read this newspaper article and we're going to repeat it as if we originated the story". Which
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by jfengel 9mo ago
We do know why the universe is expanding. That's due to general relativity. That's well attested to high confidence. We don't know why the expansion is accelerating. For that we have only speculation.
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by jfengel 9mo ago
You don't need to break the speed of light to get to the stars. Time dilation and space contraction mean that you can get there in as little time as you desire. Everyone you knew on earth would be dead by the time you got back, but if
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by jfengel 9mo ago
Was it legitimately his instagram account that posted the video? If it was a brand new account, then it seems possible that it's a fake. But if somebody also had to hack his account to make this video... I suppose it's not impossi
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by jfengel 9mo ago
I'm curious how his supporters feel about him putting his name directly on things. To me, it feels like the kind of thing Americans detest in foreign dictators. It's not something American Presidents generally do. (The name "
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by jfengel 9mo ago
What I'd really like to see is a label on original reporting. Even beyond AI, the vast majority of news is re-packaging information you got from somewhere else. AI can replace the re-writers, but not the original journalists, people
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by jfengel 9mo ago
The other key piece is AI, which is where the money is going instead. It is newer, so people can hope they're getting in closer to the ground floor. And unlike Bitcoin, it is producing something . Maybe not what people hope, but it&#x
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by jfengel 9mo ago
Notably, they're allowing it because they think it's based on political bias. If it had been on the basis of racial bias, they'd have forbidden it. Texas and California now both have nakedly and explicitly partisan gerrym
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by jfengel 9mo ago
If Canada has to defend itself from the US, it will be apocalyptic. I don't think it will matter much whose planes they have. So I'd expect that the most important consideration would be joint operations with other NATO countries,
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by jfengel 9mo ago
The ethos assumes a world in which Bitcoin has become widely accepted as a currency and reached a stable exchange rate. That world wasn't necessarily impossible. Imagine that the US reconceived the dollar as a coin, and everybody simpl
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by jfengel 9mo ago
I think they don't want to throw the baby out with the bath water. There is a lot wrong with AI, but it doesn't seem to be completely without value. As is typical of Democrats, they're trying to balance multiple interest gr
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by jfengel 9mo ago
I appreciate that the second paragraph answers the obvious question: excluding the pandemic year, it's the worst since 2009.
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by jfengel 9mo ago
Wikipedia isn't a source. Wikipedia gathers data from elsewhere, including the World Factbook. Wikipedia has other sources for most of that information. It comes from organizations like the UN, which the administration detests, and now
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by jfengel 9mo ago
I suspect that may literally be true. 127% of 0 is 0. You were by accident more factual than the administration can be deliberately.
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by jfengel 9mo ago
What changed is the number of people who decided they were ok with dismantling institutions. That grew by about 7 million, who voted for the opponent in 2020 but stayed home in 2024. So perhaps the number of people who wanted institutions d
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by jfengel 9mo ago
True. But you can't get a prescription for the human version unless you actually have worms. So if you're taking it for some other reason, you're probably getting the version for horses, which you can buy by the bucket.
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by jfengel 9mo ago
I'd be very interested in hearing from anybody who switched position from positive to negative in that group. What did they think they were voting for?
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by jfengel 9mo ago
The large scale something is, the more a political party matters. At a school level you can be closely informed about all of the issues and know all of the players. You can barely do that at the level of city politics. State and federal pol
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by jfengel 9mo ago
It's hard to separate the general malaise of the newspaper industry from the objective damage that Bezos has done to the Post's reputation. A ton of people canceled their subscriptions right after Bezos refused to have an endorsem
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by jfengel 9mo ago
Vacuum does have a temperature; it has a blackbody temperature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation It has nothing to do with the movements of atoms, but just with the spectrum of photons moving through
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by jfengel 9mo ago
Indeed, it's those normal citizens who hold those expectations. Quite a lot of people voted explicitly for this, and are getting what they voted for. This is indeed bonkers, because history is rife with examples of this ending badly. A

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