<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: genewitch</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=genewitch</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:11:36 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=genewitch" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by genewitch in "UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i used to have a great way to sum this all up but i stopped arguing with people <i>via that medium</i> so i have since forgotten my spiel. It's not that the media will lie, necessarily - although let's not pretend they're above lying - it's the editorial staff get to choose what runs and what doesn't. If there's a new study saying acetaminophen or whatever is actually more dangerous than we thought, it won't get air on normal media for a <i>long</i> time. Hard to get earnest reporting on wars when defense contractors are a major underwriter, hard to report on businesses when most of them are at least partially owned by the same companies that own the media outlets and/or are major advertisers.<p>I really need to sit down and think for a while to remember how i used to explain this, because it nearly always got a "oh... that kinda makes sense... dang"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:50:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48397945</link><dc:creator>genewitch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48397945</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48397945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by genewitch in "UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>how can anyone trust any media report? Even if it is reported from multiple outlets? In the US the sum is around 39 billion dollars for pharma advertising, nevermind our military-industrial complex, as well.<p>How can any media that has underwriting or advertisers actually do genuine reporting? Ask yourself this!<p>The only way to really report on the "news" is to not be supported by advertisers or underwriting.<p>I've known this since Dr. Naji Dahi's class in 2002, with upkeep by Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak, as well as having worked for ABC and a KKR Joint that's all up in "media".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:02:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48397453</link><dc:creator>genewitch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48397453</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48397453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by genewitch in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>my EXPLICIT SOURCE was 10.14309/ajg.0000000000003429
do you require other ones, or do you wanna keep harping on the fact i used LLM as a fucking search engine?<p><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2779987" rel="nofollow">https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2779987</a> 3.5 per 10,000<p>take it up with JAMA and the AJG.<p>do you do SCREENING or DIAGNOSTIC/POLYP REMOVAL?<p>because there's a difference. And it has nothing to do whether i use google.com or chat.whatever.com to find that out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 17:30:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312444</link><dc:creator>genewitch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312444</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by genewitch in "C array types are weird"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i learned FORTRAN in an accelerated tech program in 1996-ish in high school.<p>i used fortran recently to see how "slow" python is, i did matrix multiplies by hand in .c, and .py. Now i didn't write the fortran, the AI did, but i remember enough that i verified what it did was sane, also the other two i wrote did agree with results.<p><pre><code>  fortran 1   unit of time
  C       1.7 unit of time
  python  2.2 unit of time
</code></pre>
for the same matmuls.<p>anyhow, 1996-ish. crazy.</p>
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<p><a href="https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-step-by-step#rough" rel="nofollow">https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-ste...</a><p>as linked in the article, looks like a nightmare. i was hyped that i could recommend something to author friends, but, i can hear it now, "Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!"<p>oh well, they'll have to pay someone that understands all of that, because i don't.</p>
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<p>we've corrected, conservative 40 years but probably 20 years (2046) there will be a plurality of agreement that fully autonomous driving has arrived, and in the general sense, not just "certain parts of Frisco and the Valley."<p>my friend may just be hoping he gets to see it, 40 years is a long time for him. me too, but i might see it.</p>
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<p>they give citations which i was going through and literally copied and pasted the CITE to you, not the AI.<p>i only answered the specific question of where the number "48" or the range 40-80 came from.<p>my cite even shows perforations are 3-5 per 10000 so i don't know what you're on me about</p>
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<p>Dale Carnegie floating around this thread a lot.<p>Remembering (and using!) someone's name is a magic spell, too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 02:43:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48288887</link><dc:creator>genewitch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48288887</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48288887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by genewitch in "The worst job interview I ever had"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My best friend is someone i worked with, and we hit it off immediately. He also was one of the people who interviewed me before hire, too. I left the company because of medication induced issues with co-workers (long boring story... careful with SSRIs kids!)<p>and we still ... actually he just called so i gotta cut this short
we talk 5 hours a week on the phone plus we run a PBX and chat server and stuff so we're constantly in contact.</p>
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<p>i agree with you, i've interviewed at a lot of companies, too, and seen only 1 red flag in retrospect. the flag was "we need to hire for budgetary reasons"</p>
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<p>you think that's what it was? The people with 100% of the power in this situation did everything 100% correct and you're not victim-blaming at all?</p>
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<p>not who you asked but the perforation is 3-5 per 10,000; cardiovascular issues is 52 per 10,000, polyp removal carries risks of bleeding or perforation, and underlying patient physiology.<p>RESULTS Among the 30,818 records identified, 82 population-based studies from 24 countries were included, involving a total of 38.5 million colonoscopies. The estimated incidence per 10,000 colonoscopies was as follows: gastrointestinal AEs, including perforation (5.15; 95% confidence interval [CI] 4.19-6.34, I2 = 99%), bleeding (18.39; 95% CI 13.53-24.99, I2 = 100%), and splenic injury (0.61; 95% CI 0.43-0.85, I2 = 93%); nongastrointestinal AEs, including cardiovascular events (52.11; 95% CI 18.67-144.59, I2 = 100%), respiratory events (4.26; 95% CI 0.73-24.99, I2 = 100%), and deaths related to colonoscopy (0.18; 95% CI 0.10-0.34, I2 = 74%). Subgroup analyses yielded partially divergent findings. The majority of the included studies exhibited a low to moderate risk of bias.<p>just ask any AI, i don't got time to play tic-tac-toe with the NIH.gov website gating me behind click bus images for 10 minutes</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 23:02:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287215</link><dc:creator>genewitch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287215</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by genewitch in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>my PCP thinks i am over 50 twice a year and mentions i should get one, and he knows i won't pay for anything, so that means my insurance covers it.<p>This is anecdote by induction.</p>
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<p>the native ad is in the NYT, not HN.<p>It is a Native Ad. i don't have the clip where the CEO of NPR discusses "underwriting" via ad inserts that "go with the flow."<p>What bothers me is someone who is correct getting downvoted, merely because it's sarcastic.</p>
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<p>nevermind all this. i agree with it, but it's irrelevant.<p>this is like discussing what will happen when we have UBI or teleporters or mars habitation. It's so far in the future it's funny.<p>As mentioned elsewhere, there is no such thing as a self-driving car. Waymo just removed the ability for their cars to go on freeways recently. There's no Teslas for rent within 50 miles of my house.<p>My friend just got a 2026 tesla and he has to take over to stop it from using the wrong lanes on freeways, or going straight in a turn lane.<p>My wife's driver assist in the subaru tries to kill me every time i use it, me and everyone in the car with me. so i shut it off. maybe there's been an OTA update that fixed it, who knows. All i know is there's a massive class action just waiting against subaru, once their eyesore system kills enough people.<p>There is no self-driving car, such that, right now, i could order one, and it would show up at my house.<p>we are 40 years from a fully autonomous, self-driving and self navigating car. and that's being conservative. We'll probably get some intermediate "partial self driving" like we have now with addons like "pre-planned routes" like I-10 or whatever.<p>My friend drives in Los Angeles with his tesla. I live in Louisiana.<p>There's no self driving.</p>
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<p>well, hold on. Progress Quest is a zero player game. Paperclips is an incremental; e.g. <a href="https://www.incrementaldb.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.incrementaldb.com/</a><p>this game has been added to incrementaldb!</p>
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<p>take 1 billion and improve everything but your flagship product. Then take that other billion, and improve your flagship product.<p>Mention on twitter you spent 2 billion on scientists instead of marketing, so hey try our new <i>chocolate</i>.</p>
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<p>it's on your end, works fine here and i go out of my way to piss google off.<p>with that being said, both my extremely liberal doctor of political science friend and myself (i lean authoritarian and center) find it to be ... underwhelming.</p>
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<p>the General Wesley Clark 7: <a href="https://youtu.be/Eo6u9DpASp8?t=69" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/Eo6u9DpASp8?t=69</a><p>"7 countries in 5 years; Iraq Syria Lebanon Libya Somalia Sudan and finishing off with Iran"<p>well here we are 25 years later finally getting around to that last one...</p>
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<p>they do not. Even hair dryer coils don't generally glow, and the <i>old</i> vapes used the same wires, at sub-1% of the wattage. 5-8W instead of 800-1500W. That wire was called "Kanthal", and for a while vapes went to nichrome and titanium and various other things. I am unsure what the "gold standard" is now, but i doubt it's still kanthal unless it's a cheap chinese vape "bar".<p>anyhow, as other people and myself said already, the metal never gets hot enough to incandesce, not even remotely close!</p>
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