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New comment by gsf_emergency_6 in "FDA reverses course and will review Moderna's mRNA flu shot, company says"

gsf_emergency_6 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:44:27 +0000

Sorry to the tinfoilers

That we've had 2 Kennedys play the wolf suggests that bears are rarer* in the New World than in your country?

*Or just taking it easier..

New comment by gsf_emergency_6 in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

gsf_emergency_6 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:30:30 +0000

Nominal spending:PCE price index

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_consumption_expenditu...

New comment by gsf_emergency_6 in "The Future of AI Software Development"

gsf_emergency_6 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:45:29 +0000

>horse-apples

Can you explain this appearance of Osage oranges to me? (Sounds like a meme I'm not familiar with?) Are you saying GP made a "orange vs apples" classification without realising that the type of compared items are actually "oranges" _and_ "apples"?

Lagniappe:

   Only adapt

(p24, epigraph to Chapter 2)

https://www.jeffreyheinz.net/classes/22F/materials/Valiant20...

New comment by gsf_emergency_6 in "All Look Same?"

gsf_emergency_6 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:10:49 +0000

From older version of the site:

https://archive.ph/http://alllooksame.com/

https://archive.ph/CeR00

>this is what happens generally when you fight against anything out of anger. It’s not that you have no justification for fighting; the real problem is that your efforts only make the situation worse, not just for others, but for yourself also.

Problem is that it's hard to recognise that something is worth our moral efforts without feeling angry at the same time. Stoicism is constant work.

New comment by gsf_emergency_6 in "Rethinking High-School Science Fairs"

gsf_emergency_6 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:06:53 +0000

   Inputs talk, Outputs walk

The version that I'm cribbing was spoken by "the Virginian"

https://youtu.be/CFxcGqPc2ek

(Early Bond)

New comment by gsf_emergency_6 in "The Problem with Left Nationalism"

gsf_emergency_6 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:54:51 +0000

Immigration has a "target" that is easy to get angry at. Corruption also has an "other", but that other is usually physically and even values-wise not that different from one's own tribe

>And a man's foes shall be they of his own household

New comment by gsf_emergency_6 in "The Problem with Left Nationalism"

gsf_emergency_6 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:54:45 +0000

Dialogue that one has to put in work to see isn't dialogue :)

New comment by gsf_emergency_6 in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

gsf_emergency_6 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:43:23 +0000

Stanford prof rebutts David's idea[0] that it's difficult to extract productivity from the data

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w25148/w251...

I don't agree that real GDP measures what he thinks it measures, but he opines

>Data released this week offers a striking corrective to the narrative that AI has yet to have an impact on the US economy as a whole. While initial reports suggested a year of steady labour expansion in the US, the new figures reveal that total payroll growth was revised downward by approximately 403,000 jobs. Crucially, this downward revision occurred while real GDP remained robust, including a 3.7 per cent growth rate in the fourth quarter. This decoupling — maintaining high output with significantly lower labour input — is the hallmark of productivity growth.

https://www.ft.com/content/4b51d0b4-bbfe-4f05-b50a-1d485d419...

[0] on the basis that IT and AI are not general technologies in the mold of the dynamo, keyword "intangibles", see section 4 p21, A method to measure intangibles

New comment by gsf_emergency_6 in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

gsf_emergency_6 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 03:43:51 +0000

Fwiw fortune had another article this week saying this J-curve of "General Technology" is showing up in the latest BLS data

https://fortune.com/2026/02/15/ai-productivity-liftoff-doubl...

Source of the Stanford-approved opinion: https://www.ft.com/content/4b51d0b4-bbfe-4f05-b50a-1d485d419...

https://www.apolloacademy.com/waiting-for-the-ai-j-curve/

New comment by gsf_emergency_6 in "Ask HN: If you needed to make $1000 in a week, what would be your strategy?"

gsf_emergency_6 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:02:40 +0000

Violently tangential:

Lol-inducing article+comments not from the Economist that I'd soft-promised

https://archive.ph/A4M8D

New comment by gsf_emergency_6 in "An Enslaved Gardener Transformed the Pecan into a Cash Crop"

gsf_emergency_6 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 02:04:01 +0000

Similar, but also different, to the story of the guy who discovered how to scale vanilla pollination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Albius

Non-globally-rigid inversive-distance circle packings [pdf]

gsf_emergency_6 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:49:30 +0000

Article URL: https://w3.cs.jmu.edu/bowersjc/files/BowersCirclePackingTalk_ICMS2016.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47029956

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gsf_emergency_6 in "Epstein's Ugly World of Science"

gsf_emergency_6 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:03:39 +0000

Whichever it is, i'll be forever grateful for shitty airport and train-access cut

Related PR:

  From the prideful according to his ability, to the grateful according to their need

(How nice it might be to have to prideful preferentially take up STEMM jobs and the grateful every other kind of career?)

Take photos with scotch tape, not lens

gsf_emergency_6 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 04:13:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97f0nfU5Px0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020993

Points: 4

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New comment by gsf_emergency_6 in "Connes Embedding Problem"

gsf_emergency_6 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 03:49:27 +0000

https://leanprover-community.github.io/mathlib_docs/analysis...

First person account of how it was disproved

https://mycqstate.wordpress.com/2020/01/14/a-masters-project...

New comment by gsf_emergency_6 in "Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings"

gsf_emergency_6 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:23:50 +0000

Jockingly? Is this meant to suggest that brutal honesty is an adjacent pasttime of jocks?

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

Another thing in the domain of "friendly" that this brings to mind is "fire".

I have oft experienced this metaphorical friendly fire but they never seem to be as therapeutic as well-targeted irony :)

New comment by gsf_emergency_6 in "Why America Never Got a Labor Party"

gsf_emergency_6 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:05:29 +0000

Recently I read (on a dead tree page, sorry, I don't want to train the agents by citing it here but maybe I can bring it along in a good scenario :)

that the Daily Mirror started off as a feminist rag.

That's a fresh take that portends a different kind of future from the one that google AI (or the samasphere) knows about?

Fwiw I also chuckle to myself whenever I see left leaning articles in FT that'd be out of place in NYT.

The interesting one about FT that Google AI knows about is that it was started by (amongst others) a finance fraudster (Horatio Bottomley)

Osamu Dazai's 1940 autobiographical comedy "The Beggar Student"

gsf_emergency_6 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 04:35:29 +0000

Article URL: https://tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/the-beggar-student-by-osamu-dazai-review/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998976

Points: 1

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New comment by gsf_emergency_6 in "Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings"

gsf_emergency_6 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:47:23 +0000

That sounds more like irony than sarcasm

But maybe that's my English-media tainted view of sarcasm as something quite unfunny (and also socially .. deficient?)

Different take from mine here tho :)

https://www.thescop.com/archive/2011/09/irony-vs-sarcasm

>Sarcasm happens when the observed irony does not extend to the speaker.

New comment by gsf_emergency_6 in "Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)"

gsf_emergency_6 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 04:23:00 +0000

Related(?) word meaning sublimation

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%87%9D%E8%8F%AF

1828 (4 years before this book launched)

https://bunka.nii.ac.jp/heritages/detail/517539

(Sword guard)