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New comment by jorgen123 in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

jorgen123 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:02:23 +0000

For those not reading the linked article, it was not about tech (although valid discussions here). I had not expected this (this is about rural Alaska):

> “In some rural districts, visa teachers make up 50% to nearly 80% of the teaching staff. School districts already invest $6,000 to $12,000 per teacher to recruit and sponsor educators through the H-1B visa process. Adding a $100,000 federal visa fee has made it financially impossible for many districts to continue hiring the teachers their students depend on.

New comment by jorgen123 in "I'm So Tired of Ads"

jorgen123 — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:35:36 +0000

That is literally the entire short story. The second last from "Fifty-One Tales". See here at Gutenberg: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/7838

New comment by jorgen123 in "Seed Oils as a Hypothesized Contributor to Heart Disease: A Narrative Synthesis"

jorgen123 — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:23:52 +0000

This one caught my eye because yesterday there was a contribution directly opposite to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257532

I looked up the author and he seems to be peddling alternative medicine theories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mercola that are not supported by proper science. The entire article smells like a pre-defined conclusion looking for an argument.

New comment by jorgen123 in "Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep"

jorgen123 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:01:35 +0000

There are probably high risks of damaging the retina, and there is an increased risk of cataracts, if I remember correctly. Both my eyes had a vitrectomy during retinal surgery and it is really great to live without floaters. But I can imagine doctors will not want to do it just by itself.

New comment by jorgen123 in "In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad"

jorgen123 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:49:41 +0000

Interesting to see this statement at the top of the article. Long live the web fighting back. Not sure I have seen many (any?) sites with this. Calls for some sort of acronym or logo that others can adopt without having a long sentence at the beginning of many pages:

"This newsletter does not contain ads, sponsored posts, or affiliate links. Open and click tracking are disabled. And there is no paid upgrade or AI generated content. Enjoy!"

New comment by jorgen123 in "Show HN: A map of historical movies by narrative location and time period"

jorgen123 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 19:50:42 +0000

It is an interesting idea.

For me, somewhat older with iffy eyesight it is hard to use. The fonts are really small. The map could use more real estate on the screen. Right now it sits inside a container that only uses a portion of the screen.

What is confusing is why I see science fiction movies depicting recent history periods but not movies made in the period this SF movies claim to show. E.g. why include Resident Evil on Alcatraz island, but not Dirty Harry (the 2nd)? Time period movies such as Dirty Harry are precious time capsules of what San Francisco and Marin looked like at the time.

New comment by jorgen123 in "How a Colorado psychologist proved being gay isn't a mental illness"

jorgen123 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 16:15:59 +0000

Title should mention this was in 1950. We are not talking about new work. Like others have mentioned, you don't need to prove this today. But back then was different. It still took till 1973 to get the diagnosis removed from the official psychology handbook, per the article.

New comment by jorgen123 in "[dead]"

jorgen123 — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 16:24:47 +0000

If I understand the example correctly, it seems a misinterpretation of the Golden Rule?

The rule says to treat others the way you wish to be treated by them. It does not say do onto others as they did to you or to others. I.e. if verbing is wrong, you should not verb A or suggest to verb A.

New comment by jorgen123 in "14 Killed in anti-government protests in Nepal"

jorgen123 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:27:53 +0000

I think you are downvoted because your first sentence is misinterpreted, or the rest of your argument is not being read?

You are giving an example of a position and later on discussing the people who have this position as their first and main principle. Seems like a valid example to me, but perhaps people can explain why not.

New comment by jorgen123 in "For all that's holy, can you just leverage the web, please?"

jorgen123 — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:31:04 +0000

No need to go anonymous. I fondly remember my achievement of taking apart my washing machine to replace the drum bearing. Thanks to the interweb gods for making blogs and videos that helped me.

New comment by jorgen123 in "US attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices"

jorgen123 — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 16:32:40 +0000

And remember that you all are part of the market. In my area you can choose what power generation your electricity comes from. Most customers do not bother, unfortunately (less than 10% of Marin Clean Energy customers).

I know, not real-time. Renewable energy credit trading, and such. But you become the demand for clean generation if you choose to do so. It is easy. If you are in Marin, Contra Costa, Napa, or Solano go to https://mcecleanenergy.org/opt-up/

Similar CCA's are all over California and probably beyond.

New comment by jorgen123 in "Coffee-shop pitch change helped founder unlock traction for laptop campers"

jorgen123 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:31:54 +0000

My (American) brother in law calls me cheap. Which is what frugal sounds like to me. As a native Dutch I call myself cheaper than the Scottish. When I go out shopping, I will spend hours looking and not buying anything.

I don't think stingy fits the bill per se since that would be saving money at the expense of others. Almost like the coffee shop customers who are not buying anything?

New comment by jorgen123 in "Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks"

jorgen123 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 02:30:29 +0000

According to [1], the cost of one train from this manufacturer is over 10 Million Euros. Why would they play these shenanigans in a competitive market at the risk of pissing off their customers? Are other train vendors doing the same?

Or is this a local lock-in where it is hard as a Polish railway not to buy from the one Polish manufacturer?

[1] https://rollingstockworld.com/passenger-cars/latest-procurem...

Data centers could bring alternative battery types into the mainstream

jorgen123 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:54:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/data-center-flow-zinc-battery-xl-eos-prometheus/751144/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44405115

Points: 2

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New comment by jorgen123 in "Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”"

jorgen123 — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 15:45:15 +0000

> Semi-related anecdote: The first time I went to the Rodin museum I was struck by how badly one of the busts had been lighted. Whilst the guards were not looking, I moved it to a more agreeable position. I came back one year later to find it was still in that position.

That made me think of the old German sketch "das Bild haengt shief" (the picture is askew): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6WQaIIZ248

I hope you left the rest of the exposition standing.

New comment by jorgen123 in "Medieval Africans had a unique process for purifying gold with glass (2019)"

jorgen123 — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 16:16:28 +0000

The wikipedia page about the Mali Empire [1] has a few books in the Further Reading section. This one looks promising: African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_Empire

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34928286-african-dominio...

New comment by jorgen123 in "Chaos on German autobahns as Google Maps wrongly says they are closed"

jorgen123 — Fri, 30 May 2025 16:23:10 +0000

Missed that "traffic was mostly flowing freely". Thanks.

New comment by jorgen123 in "Chaos on German autobahns as Google Maps wrongly says they are closed"

jorgen123 — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:02:09 +0000

Was the chaos on the Autobahn? The article say it was on alternate routes. Was the Autobahn blessed with light traffic as a result?

New comment by jorgen123 in "Authors are accidentally leaving AI prompts in their novels"

jorgen123 — Sun, 25 May 2025 18:59:51 +0000

Or MS-Word autocorrect. I recently read a self-published book where the daughter of the author was the editor. While the book was nicely done and well written, what to me seemed obvious auto-corrects were painful for being the wrong word in the context of the sentence.

Editors needs to check the auto-corrections AND have language skills AND attention to detail. It is easy to ruin the reading experience.

New comment by jorgen123 in "The "AI 2027" Scenario: How realistic is it?"

jorgen123 — Thu, 22 May 2025 21:37:35 +0000

If you were a rogue AI you would start with having developers invite you into their code base by promising to lower their AWS bills in some magic (rogue) way.