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New comment by herlitzj in "An ideological divide is emerging between young men and women around the world"

herlitzj — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:53:08 +0000

You also don't need to go back very far in history to see how white patriarchal empires dominated/shaped most (all?) of these regions and countries for centuries.

Project Green Light's work to reduce urban emissions using AI

herlitzj — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 14:40:27 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-ai-reduce-greenhouse-emissions-project-greenlight/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37832709

Points: 2

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New comment by herlitzj in "Developers are building communities that act as their own miniature power grids"

herlitzj — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 20:00:32 +0000

No idea. But interestingly enough, it looks like someone built a grid scale version in PA with funds from the 2008 Recovery Act. There's a final tech report here https://www.smartgrid.gov/project/hazle_spindle_20mws_flywhe... in the Related Docs

New comment by herlitzj in "Developers are building communities that act as their own miniature power grids"

herlitzj — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 19:10:06 +0000

https://www.torus.co/torus-flywheel

NASA picks Lockheed Martin to build the nuclear rocket that’ll take us to Mars

herlitzj — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 20:54:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/nasa-picks-lockheed-martin-to-build-the-nuclear-rocket-thatll-take-us-to-mars-170035659.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36884886

Points: 5

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New comment by herlitzj in "Wind and solar are now beating coal in the US"

herlitzj — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:02:10 +0000

No one has to take anything down. Babcock Ranch weathered Hurricane Ian (cat5) just fine. Didn’t even lose power. Unlike their neighbors.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/02/us/solar-babcock-ranch-florid...

New comment by herlitzj in "Bloomberg Launches FOSS Fund to Support Free and Open Source Projects"

herlitzj — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:47:00 +0000

That's the source of this donation to curl https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35371296

New comment by herlitzj in "First UK child to receive gene therapy for fatal genetic disorder is now healthy"

herlitzj — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 21:44:06 +0000

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

This paper seems to have more details on the actual procedure

Patients were treated and monitored according to the schedule described in the appendix (p 17) and as previously reported.16, 17 HSPCs harvested from bone marrow or mobilised peripheral blood (MPB) were transduced with clinical-grade lentiviral vector encoding human ARSA cDNA under the control of the human phosphoglycerate kinase gene promoter.

Neal Ford's Architectural Katas

herlitzj — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 19:44:00 +0000

Article URL: https://nealford.com/katas/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34616443

Points: 1

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New comment by herlitzj in "This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine (2019)"

herlitzj — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 11:43:48 +0000

Definitely agree. I keep seeing sites like this called Brutalist, but they’re more akin to high tech postmodernism. With the closest architectural equivalent probably being the Centre Pompidou. Which is all about exposure of underlying structural and functional elements for purely aesthetic purposes.

New comment by herlitzj in "The walk signs in Crystal City, VA are just repeating “Change Password”"

herlitzj — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 20:09:13 +0000

Love this one. There is a similar one in Charlottesville, Va to cross Water Street, which has a delightful southern accent. Pronounces it Wooter and everything :)

New comment by herlitzj in "Eviction notice downloads soar after federal moratorium ends"

herlitzj — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:33:19 +0000

Well, that's just the time necessary to action the accounts. You'd still need to hire all of those people, get them equipment and software, pay them, etc. IT, HR, management, payroll. Probably double or triple your man-hours. But on top of that, I specifically chose what are probably unrealistically low numbers. It would maybe be closer to 20-30% utilization and 8-20 hours to close a case (totally guessing here :shrug:). So maybe 730 - 2700 man-years, roughly. Plus above-mentioned overhead.

Spinning up a 500 person accounting firm wouldn't be snappy.

New comment by herlitzj in "Eviction notice downloads soar after federal moratorium ends"

herlitzj — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:30:56 +0000

> assess this on a case-by-case basis and pay the rent for people in genuine need

I'm not sure you've fully thought through how complex this would be. There are 40 million rental households in the US. Even if only 1% (400,000) decided to be a part of this program and you could close every case in 1 hour (which is probably wildly low) that's 45 man-years of effort.

Establishing a long-term alliance with J.B. Hunt for autonomous trucking

herlitzj — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 22:01:40 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.waymo.com/2022/01/establishing-long-term-alliance-with-jb.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29941053

Points: 4

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New comment by herlitzj in "Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 1"

herlitzj — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:47:27 +0000

Precisely. Or what if you're some random grandma that has a wallet (since we're living in a make believe world where this is easy to create). Imagine you've forgotten which blockchain your wallet is on. Will there be a search box to find my wallet in this mess of combinatorics that is a login page?

New comment by herlitzj in "Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 1"

herlitzj — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:31:02 +0000

I honestly thought this was going to be a joke post because that top image is ridiculous. Maybe I'm just old, but it reads to me as

Web 1.0: Great

Web 2.0: Ugh, ok

Web 3.0: You're serious with this?

New comment by herlitzj in "Ask HN: How do I manage the profit of a successful website?"

herlitzj — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 14:40:29 +0000

This. But I'd say don't just donate the whole sum. Talk to whatever accountant you find about creating a foundation and building an endowment. At $20k+ per month in seed you'll quickly ramp up to millions of dollars in the endowment and can build a foundaton that runs in perpetuity to enrich the lives of a lot of people less fortunate than you.

New comment by herlitzj in "Low interest rates in advanced countries have pushed money into real estate"

herlitzj — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 20:23:14 +0000

You say this as if it's fast or easy. All of these can easily take 10s of years build from conception to completion due to a myriad of reasons. Land acquisition, federal state and local funding, environmental review, court cases, zoning changes, public review proceses, etc. It's not like someone decrees that a school should be built and 6 months later it's up and running. And the school is the easy one on that list :)

New comment by herlitzj in "Futurists have their heads in the clouds"

herlitzj — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 23:40:31 +0000

Is it just me or does the future he paints sound absolutely abysmal? It's effectively a dictorship where your entire life is bouncing from one tulip mania to another holed up in your apartment talking to an AI and lost in a world of garbage content from Neflix 2.0 while you await your burrito delivery and dream of hitting it big on Coin so you can move to Mars and watch the dust blow around.

Kill me now :(

New comment by herlitzj in "An ultra-precise clock shows how to link the quantum world with gravity"

herlitzj — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:32:17 +0000

Yep. Predicted by Einstein in 1912 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_ring