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New comment by hindsightbias in "Floating nuclear power plants to be mass produced for US coastline"

hindsightbias — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:39:40 +0000

Consider a Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs applied to an AGI.

I predict weird nuclear and space proposals in the next few years.

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy

hindsightbias — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 01:43:03 +0000

Article URL: https://paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43155057

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by hindsightbias in "Trump will kill CHIPS Act by gutting NIST employees"

hindsightbias — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 23:14:17 +0000

Why are we subsizing Apple when they have $200B in cash laying around?

Repatriate and give them sme tax credit.

New comment by hindsightbias in "US Space Force reveals first look at secretive X-37B space plane in orbit"

hindsightbias — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 20:22:52 +0000

When even your secret programs have to do marketing. Don’t cancel me bro!

New comment by hindsightbias in "Did DOGE Take Credit for Spending Cuts Related to President Carter's Death?"

hindsightbias — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:34:09 +0000

> That item says DOGE canceled a contract of almost $8 billion with D&G Support Services for services provided to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Investigative reporting from the New York Times revealed that the contract was valued at only $8 million.

I guess it's better these geniuses aren't working on FSD.

New comment by hindsightbias in "[dead]"

hindsightbias — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:33:40 +0000

The first rule of opposition should be to not embrace the conspiracy memes of your opponents.

New comment by hindsightbias in "Ukraine not invited to US-Russia peace talks, source tells BBC"

hindsightbias — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:24:34 +0000

Sykes-Picot agreements weren't just for your great grandparents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes–Picot_Agreement

New comment by hindsightbias in "Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport"

hindsightbias — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:19:08 +0000

People are finally getting acclimated to the crash rates we were used to back in the old days.

New comment by hindsightbias in "You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)"

hindsightbias — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:40:55 +0000

https://www.baen.com/rip_moc

1990: https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Documents/MCC%20Development%2...

Pirates: https://www.wbs.ac.uk/news/the-nasa-pirates-that-transformed...

Head Pirate: https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/hist...

WEX/Display builder/etc: Even when I was there my young peers weren't too keen on legacy/back-end understanding. GUIs were the cool thing. I worked on something that touched many legacy subsystems so got to work with a lot of "dinosaurs" (what the Pirates called them).

MCC testing was all AM shift, pirates/youts up front, retired controllers in the back. Test MOC took 30 minutes to recycle. I always sat in back if they'd let me.

New comment by hindsightbias in "'Honestly terrifying': Yosemite National Park is in chaos"

hindsightbias — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 01:44:28 +0000

I’ll bet DOGE could code up an auction system in no time. Or turn it over to Ticketmaster. Think of the profits.

New comment by hindsightbias in "You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)"

hindsightbias — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:19:21 +0000

This is usually doable until it's DEWS/SAGE radar code from the 50's. That's what NASA started with and the last guy died in the 90s. We got every other subsystem off the mainframe, but had to keep it around for the radar stuff until 2004 or so.

New comment by hindsightbias in "Bezos' Blue Origin to layoff about 10% across its space, launch business"

hindsightbias — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:16:30 +0000

They have to orbit ~1600 Kupiers by summer 2026 per their FCC license.

I’m sure President Musks FCC director will be ameanable.

New comment by hindsightbias in "New SF public health chief was part of McKinsey opioid-marketing operation"

hindsightbias — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:03:07 +0000

This guy would never have an agenda

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

New comment by hindsightbias in "New SF public health chief was part of McKinsey opioid-marketing operation"

hindsightbias — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:57:25 +0000

You can always go to Cerner and buy Larry a new yacht.

New comment by hindsightbias in "The Loneliness Epidemic Is a Security Crisis"

hindsightbias — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:05:57 +0000

paypal brought us freedom.

New comment by hindsightbias in "The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia"

hindsightbias — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 06:24:54 +0000

That’s by congressional design. Don’t blame the mainframe.

DOGE just shut down the auto prepare because gov’t is bad and wasteful.

New comment by hindsightbias in "The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia"

hindsightbias — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 06:18:23 +0000

The IMF and BMF aren’t just software. They’re the code in tax code. It’s the law, not the printed thing in a binder.

If you have the gall to question IMF behavior vs printed tax code and write it up internally, you will get a reply from an tax code analyst in a couple of months from WV explaining why you’re wrong, selections from code, selections from IRS legal interpretations, applicable court cases past, present and pending.

It’s all very polite, but you quickly realize they’re lawyers and you aren’t.

New comment by hindsightbias in "The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia"

hindsightbias — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 05:56:07 +0000

The 1040EZ was being OCR’d forty years ago.

It doesn’t scale to 1040s and schedules because today’s biologics don’t know how to write anymore.

New comment by hindsightbias in "The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia"

hindsightbias — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 05:41:00 +0000

Why update what isn’t broken?

New comment by hindsightbias in "Zoning Ruined the Housing Market in Blue-State America"

hindsightbias — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:39:49 +0000

If only the techies would listen to reason and move to Houston. They would be so much happier. Why live somewhere that you hate so much?