Hacker News: NorthOf33rd

New comment by NorthOf33rd in "How Texas Made the Old West Even Wilder and Bloodier"

NorthOf33rd — Tue, 06 May 2025 12:50:12 +0000

Texas is good at mythologizing its patently terrible origin stories. See the Alamo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forget_the_Alamo:_The_Rise_and...

New comment by NorthOf33rd in "How to avoid losing items? Holding pens"

NorthOf33rd — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 12:13:25 +0000

This is just good marriage (and general relationship) advice.

New comment by NorthOf33rd in "Hacked Tesla FSD computers disclose alarming raw data on deadly accidents"

NorthOf33rd — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 12:08:12 +0000

Cars aren’t the only option in the solution space.

New comment by NorthOf33rd in "AML works, even if it intercepts less than 1% of criminal proceeds"

NorthOf33rd — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 13:31:01 +0000

That’s a problem with your bank, not with the regulation. They decided how to implement aml, and it sounds like they’ve done a bad job and can’t deal with internal organizational barriers.

New comment by NorthOf33rd in "Regent – Electric coastal travel"

NorthOf33rd — Wed, 24 May 2023 01:33:26 +0000

Milwaukee to Chicago please!

New comment by NorthOf33rd in "The Industrial Hammer Complex"

NorthOf33rd — Tue, 23 May 2023 12:49:01 +0000

I was hoping this was going to be about this kind of industrial hammer.

https://www.tmj4.com/news/milwaukee-tonight/exploring-one-of...

New comment by NorthOf33rd in "Ask HN: How to move from dev role to management/team lead role?"

NorthOf33rd — Mon, 22 May 2023 13:39:05 +0000

“I’m sorry” - Most managers I know when finding out I was promoted from IC to manager

Obviously delivered tongue in cheek, but it’s a hard job and it’s not for everyone. I second everything the parent says and also add that your timescales are different. If you think waiting for a build is long, try waiting for your efforts to improve a directs’ communication skills to take hold. generally the most important, and the most fun, work of being manager takes years for feedback instead of hours.

New comment by NorthOf33rd in "GPT4All Chat – Locally-running AI chat application powered by the GPT4All-J"

NorthOf33rd — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 12:41:20 +0000

The entire list of contributors look like bots to me. The commit history is sketchy. This seems like a giant leap beyond nomic’s main project which itself seems… thin.

The entire thing is fishy.

New comment by NorthOf33rd in "Costs of the U.S.-Led War in Iraq Since 2003"

NorthOf33rd — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 14:32:03 +0000

The data other posters have responded to your post with show exactly the opposite. Policing in America and its potential negative outcomes are skewed toward black men. It’s undeniable. Traffic stop, arrest, incarceration, and shooting data all show the same story.

But I guess that’s not really what you’re arguing here, you’re saying “black men being killed by police at a rate 2.5 times higher than white men, but people think it’s worse than that,” and “people are making too much noise about black men being killed by police at a rate 2.5 times higher than white men, and they really ought to cut it out.”

I disagree with this viewpoint completely.

New comment by NorthOf33rd in "Costs of the U.S.-Led War in Iraq Since 2003"

NorthOf33rd — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 04:25:47 +0000

Are you responding to a different message entirely?

New comment by NorthOf33rd in "Are you ok?"

NorthOf33rd — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 04:23:12 +0000

Going out into the desert and looking up to the stars and seeing satellites everywhere is a big change.

As Are drones at every non-national monument Awe Inspiring Place.

New comment by NorthOf33rd in "Are you ok?"

NorthOf33rd — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 04:17:04 +0000

Is it a problem that when the author writes “and there’s the war” I have no clue what they are talking about?

New comment by NorthOf33rd in "Ok, it’s time to freak out about AI"

NorthOf33rd — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 01:33:08 +0000

I wish it was this simple, but looking through the last month of “show hn” posts makes it clear that the tech community can’t be trusted either. There are countless examples of authors promoting their latest toy (startup idea) to shoehorn chatgpt into a high stakes environment.

New comment by NorthOf33rd in "Show HN: Using GPT-3 and Whisper to save doctors’ time"

NorthOf33rd — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:08:53 +0000

This is the scariest real life attempt to use the bullshit machine I’ve seen so far.

Nothing like “subtly wrong” clinical notes to affect positive medical outcomes. And time pressed medical professionals are certainly well suited to vigilance tasks like correcting machine generated errors. /s.

I sincerely hope this never sees the light of day.

New comment by NorthOf33rd in "ChatGPT's API is so good and cheap, it makes most text generating AI obsolete"

NorthOf33rd — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 03:25:27 +0000

The FFIEC would almost certainly stop such stupidity, though they’ll have to catch it on an audit first.

New comment by NorthOf33rd in "Genes reveal striking diversity within similar ice age cultures"

NorthOf33rd — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 17:27:52 +0000

So first, you didn't call the comments "objectively wrong" you called them deranged.

Deranged: 1) Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. 2) disturbed or upset, especially mentally 3) insane

It's not "my assumption," that it's a personal attack, it's the english language. An idea can't be disordered in mind, disturbed mentally, or insane. Only a person can be.

Second, go back and reread your comments and omit the derision. It adds nothing at all to your argument, in fact, it's much more compelling without it.

I just don't care enough to argue with you about the meaning of "communal" to try and change your mind. Your language choices clearly signal me that you're not open to changing your mind. Instead it signals that you're more interested in dunking than engaging. The Coddling of the American Mind is not about hacker news or my personal choice to ignore you for being rude. It's about institutions. If you want a more relevant book to this conversation, I'd suggest How To Win Friends and Influence People or The Elements of Rhetoric -- How to Write and Speak Clearly and Persuasively.

New comment by NorthOf33rd in "Genes reveal striking diversity within similar ice age cultures"

NorthOf33rd — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 21:03:07 +0000

In the course of these comments you've referred to me as deranged and laughable. I'm going to bow out and let you hold onto your opinions, it's clear you're not interested in a conversation.

New comment by NorthOf33rd in "Genes reveal striking diversity within similar ice age cultures"

NorthOf33rd — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 18:59:50 +0000

Communal societal or economic structures don't preclude "highly stratified civilizations featuring warfare, state religion, slavery, and pyramid building." Centralized control is a common theme.

Read the Egalitarian Continent chapter in Pekka Hamalainen's Indigenous Content. Cahokia is specifically covered including how the communal nature of the civilization shifted over time to something more autocratic and materialistic, and how the shift contributed to the collapse of that society.

New comment by NorthOf33rd in "Genes reveal striking diversity within similar ice age cultures"

NorthOf33rd — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 14:50:01 +0000

Most of the population of North and Central America remained communal until colonial contact. there were plenty of examples of agricultural societies within that group, and they were farming because it was easier than than other food supplies.

New comment by NorthOf33rd in "Is the Entire Economy Gentrifying?"

NorthOf33rd — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 15:25:41 +0000

That may have been true 20 or 25 years ago but the technology gap technologically between a “cheap” bike and the highest end bike you could buy was much much smaller than it is today. Same with tires. You can still buy a 200 euro bike. It’ll be better than the 200 euro bike from before. You just don’t want it.