Hacker News: baldeaglehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=baldeagleHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:43:54 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by baldeagle in "Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras"]]>It’s hard to say. As the economic got better, trade policies stabilized and the price of commodities and therefore the metals in a converter dropped in value. As the price of the metals went down, the thefts dropped nationally. Texas thefts seemed to have dropped inline with the national trend. Since the supply side issues are picking up again, the thefts are going up likewise.

]]>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 01:30:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494847baldeaglehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494847https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494847<![CDATA[New comment by baldeagle in "US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers"]]>Just like real war…

]]>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:22:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267148baldeaglehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267148https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267148<![CDATA[New comment by baldeagle in "Humanity renamed genes because of Excel"]]>To be fair, humanity named those genes in the first place. They are now just named more robustly

]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:37:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247009baldeaglehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247009https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247009<![CDATA[New comment by baldeagle in "I also filed the corners off my MacBook"]]>https://a.co/d/0hXtPRfC

Amazon link to a debuting tool. It uses sharp harder metal to cut off sharp metal edges.

]]>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:20:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916276baldeaglehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916276https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916276<![CDATA[New comment by baldeagle in "Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests"]]>Ahh, I was focusing on residential energy (the cost borne by most of the people in Texas), which is up 25% per that source. The bulk and stability of industrial power is keeping prices down in aggregate.

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]]>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:39:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451634baldeaglehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451634https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451634<![CDATA[New comment by baldeagle in "Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests"]]>Let's assume we're talking about core inflation (since headline inflation included changes in energy costs and that would hide the signal). Core inflation was us 23% from '19-24, but the energy costs in Texas were up 37%. Actually, headline inflation was up 25%, which is still below that set of price increases.

Please support your assertion that Texas energy costs decreased in that time period.

]]>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:09:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448042baldeaglehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448042https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448042<![CDATA[New comment by baldeagle in "Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests"]]>I don’t think that is true.

https://www.electricchoice.com/historical-electricity-pricin...

]]>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:33:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441365baldeaglehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441365https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441365<![CDATA[New comment by baldeagle in "Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment"]]>The first voice accessed (in my brain) by this dialog was Harley Quinn, it took a moment for it to fall back to Rosie.

]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 22:11:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981078baldeaglehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981078https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981078<![CDATA[New comment by baldeagle in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"]]>"Current law (cira 2013) requires BLM to sell off the crude helium remaining in the Federal Helium Reserve in order to repay the U.S. Treasury the $1.3 billion debt incurred creating it. This debt will be repaid this fiscal year and that, as a consequence, the helium program will terminate at the end of the current fiscal year (October 1, 2013), absent Congressional action. Currently, the Federal Helium Reserve supplies roughly 40% of domestic and 30% of global helium demand. Loss of access to the Federal Helium Reserve would result in significant disruptions to a large number of critical U.S. industries." https://www.energy.senate.gov/services/files/494b2f9e-c8f5-4...

Sounds like Obama kept the gas taps flowing, instead of locking it up because authorization to sell it had expired. Here is the whole record: https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/527/...

]]>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:41:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365140baldeaglehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365140https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365140<![CDATA[New comment by baldeagle in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"]]>BLM was required (to sell it) by Congress in the Helium Stewardship Act of 2013, as the alternative was to not offer any H to the market due to the authorization to sell expiring. Sponsored by a Republican and passed basically unanimously with the proceeds used to pay of the debt (back when we cared about that)

]]>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:35:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365062baldeaglehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365062https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365062<![CDATA[New comment by baldeagle in "EV-1 for Lease (1996)"]]>I drove a electric Rav4, but couldn't stomach the 40 mile range for the price. But it was a fun car, and it seemed huge (compared to my miata).

]]>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:41:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857229baldeaglehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857229https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857229<![CDATA[New comment by baldeagle in "Indefinite Backpack Travel"]]>My wife dropped a small mint for darn tough socks like three years ago as a father's day gift. It's been delightful.

]]>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:39:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45491917baldeaglehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45491917https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45491917<![CDATA[New comment by baldeagle in "Happy 10k Day"]]>Great product, put it in my RAV4 Prime and it just works. Makes my Bolt EUV super cruise look poor in comparison.

]]>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 02:51:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43339488baldeaglehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43339488https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43339488<![CDATA[New comment by baldeagle in "Murderbot, she wrote"]]>The Texas A&M sci-fi convention mentioned in the article is coming up in early February. You can bounce over to Cushing library to check out the collection, including a copy of Fahrenheit 451 in an asbestos zipper case (obviously, you can't check that one out of it's special container).

https://www.aggiecon.net/

]]>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 18:35:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42298928baldeaglehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42298928https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42298928<![CDATA[New comment by baldeagle in "Show HN: Free mortgage analysis tool to avoid getting screwed by closing costs"]]>At least put a patron link on there or something, so people can have a legitimate way to pay for the cost associated with running the website. Perhaps make a suggested amount of 10% of the savings.

This gives you a obvious profit motive, and makes you seem more sketchy because you now have more skin in the game to keep it operating as a valid and useful business service

]]>Sat, 16 Nov 2024 16:00:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42157019baldeaglehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42157019https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42157019<![CDATA[New comment by baldeagle in "Build systems, not heroes"]]>This comment combined with a recent reflection on the ‘irony of automation’ makes me worried that the product I’m building to make life easier will instead lead to loss of craft, pride, and ingenuity.

Honestly, still processing through it to make sure that all the people in my products and systems are seen.

]]>Sat, 12 Oct 2024 06:11:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41816848baldeaglehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41816848https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41816848<![CDATA[New comment by baldeagle in "Apple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA approval"]]>The 'ramp' setting made me panic and felt like a couldn't breathe. We go from zero to full force now, and it works just fine. I use a nose adapter.

]]>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:33:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41558432baldeaglehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41558432https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41558432<![CDATA[New comment by baldeagle in "Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?"]]>Have you tried TMS (the magnet thing?).

It worked well for my friend that had ideation.

]]>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:52:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41553138baldeaglehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41553138https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41553138<![CDATA[New comment by baldeagle in "DAGitty – draw and analyze causal diagrams"]]>I will give that a try. Thank you very much :)

]]>Fri, 13 Sep 2024 13:32:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41531127baldeaglehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41531127https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41531127<![CDATA[New comment by baldeagle in "DAGitty – draw and analyze causal diagrams"]]>I hate to ask this question.... but I've moved to a python shop after working in the tidyverse for years, and am unimpressed with the DAG visualization capabilities. Does anyone have any recommendations for 1,000 plus node DAGs?

I still miss R and tidy quite a bit, but polars at least gets closer.

]]>Wed, 04 Sep 2024 15:33:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41446975baldeaglehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41446975https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41446975