Hacker News: Georgelemental

New comment by Georgelemental in "Amid nurse shortage, a university rolls out the welcome mat for men"

Georgelemental — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:46:16 +0000

"Patient Care Technician" is already a thing, it's a level under nurse

New comment by Georgelemental in "Israeli spyware vans infiltrate American streets and your phones"

Georgelemental — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:09:29 +0000

You can partially protect yourself from these attacks by disabling 2G on your device. This won't prevent location tracking, but will stop the attacker from intercepting calls or texts.

- Android: https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/cellular-s...

- iOS: you must turn on Lockdown Mode https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120

New comment by Georgelemental in "Israeli spyware vans infiltrate American streets and your phones"

Georgelemental — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:58:42 +0000

You think Israeli companies (or those of any other country, for that matter) can sell spy tech abroad without their government's signoff?

New comment by Georgelemental in "Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?"

Georgelemental — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:54:05 +0000

American social media platforms (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc)

New comment by Georgelemental in "Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?"

Georgelemental — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:53:09 +0000

I've always used a pseudonym. I have never felt free to speak my mind on the internet under my own name, the cancel mobs scared me away long before the state did

New comment by Georgelemental in "Why is it so hard for the U.S. to win wars?"

Georgelemental — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:27:15 +0000

Yeah, that Russian influence is really pernicious. Did you know that the vast majority of Members of Congress receive financial support from the pro-Russia lobby? And that leaders in both parties regularly tout their "devotion" to "our greatest ally" Russia? The Prime Minister of Russia has made 14 trips to the White House. He recently gave a speech to a joint session of Congress, receiving standing ovation after standing ovation from most of the chamber. We are currently fighting a war on his behalf. Many US states have laws restricting their citizens' right to boycott Russia. And so on…

New comment by Georgelemental in "Why is it so hard for the U.S. to win wars?"

Georgelemental — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:13:10 +0000

That wasn't a war, that was a palace coup

New comment by Georgelemental in "Why is it so hard for the U.S. to win wars?"

Georgelemental — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:11:29 +0000

No, they haven't implemented mass conscription, and won't because even autocrats can't ignore public opinion

New comment by Georgelemental in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

Georgelemental — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 11:51:40 +0000

I am very happy with my Triathlon, but I use the 3rd-party Linux software Solaar https://github.com/pwr-Solaar/Solaar

New comment by Georgelemental in "The Zilog Z80 has turned 50"

Georgelemental — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:16:08 +0000

No mention of the TI-84 calculator? Used by millions of American schoolchildren, programmable in BASIC, and runs on Z80 (B/W models)/eZ80 (color display models) to this day

New comment by Georgelemental in "Google Kills Custom Search API on Jan 1, 2027"

Georgelemental — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:22:08 +0000

Isn't that just a redirect to google.com? Shouldn't be affected

New comment by Georgelemental in "Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]"

Georgelemental — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:32:49 +0000

Our healthcare system has its flaws (to put it mildly), but nationalized systems have their own. I know people who don't have primary care because they live in a country with a nationalized healthcare service and their government, in its infinite wisdom, chose not to allocate enough doctors to their town.

New comment by Georgelemental in "Why American ambulance rides are so expensive"

Georgelemental — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:16:44 +0000

The 13k from the article wasn't a 911 call, it was IFT. (Disclosure: I work for a company that competes with AMR)

New comment by Georgelemental in "US House of Representatives takes step to make daylight saving time permanent"

Georgelemental — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:01:36 +0000

Boo, hiss. Permanent Standard Time is better in every way https://savestandardtime.com/

New comment by Georgelemental in "What did SFFA vs. Harvard reveal about admissions?"

Georgelemental — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:01:56 +0000

In my state, the poor Black inner city schools have the highest per-student spending in the state (and some of the highest in the country), as the state government funds them heavily. Performance remains abysmal

Preview of Carbon's memory safety model

Georgelemental — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:10:57 +0000

Article URL: https://hachyderm.io/@chandlerc/116898796409614862

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48909010

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Georgelemental in "Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act for now"

Georgelemental — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:18:06 +0000

No actually, it's not a "win" if everything is formally illegal, and everyone lives in fear that if they don't keep appeasing the faceless unaccountable bureaucrat, they will be prosecuted tomorrow.

"For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law."

New comment by Georgelemental in "Why American ambulance rides are so expensive"

Georgelemental — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:11:04 +0000

There's a distinction between 911 emergency ambulance service (respond to people calling 911) and interfacility transfer service (transfer stable patients between hospitals and medical facilities).

When you are an ordinary person calling 911, you can't meaningfully shop around in that emergency situation. The competition that exists is between the possible organizations you local government could contract to run the system. The safety regulations and medical standards they set are part of them choosing what they feel is the best "deal" for their population. (In some places, all 911 calls are run by public fire departments; in others, the government contracts with private companies.)

At the IFT level, again it's not generally possible for patients to choose their service, because (as explained in the article) ambulance services inherently need extensive infrastructure with large fixed costs at every location they serve. You're not going to fit 20 ambulances from 20 competing companies in one hospital's ambulance bay, and those 20 competitors aren't going to be able to afford to pay employees to sit around for hours at that hospital on the off chance that maybe today patients will pick them and not the other guy. The costs for the ambulance company are not primarily per-call, most of the expense is to stand ready for a call whether it happens or not. Instead, competition generally happens when the hospital chooses which ambulance service(s) to contract with.

CO2: Language backward compatible with C, with access to the Rust ecosystem

Georgelemental — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:39:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/hkalbasi/co2/tree/main

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887200

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Georgelemental in "The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters"

Georgelemental — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 03:47:03 +0000

People are going to use Arabic and Hebrew whether you want them to or not