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New comment by morby in "Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access"

morby — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:00:16 +0000

This isn’t being realistic. The major benefit of these is peer review. You aren’t going to have enough people to peer review the work of a massively open and public publication system.

On top of that the chance of finding something as you suggest becomes that much more difficult. Smaller findings get published now in a more controlled scenario and get lost in the stream.

Major journals are a net positive for surfacing important science.

New comment by morby in "[dead]"

morby — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 04:28:40 +0000

“You could always make an argument” and people did. And I would say this isn’t a surprising finding but it is important. Assessing direct impact almost always is because it makes realities more plain.

New comment by morby in "French lawmakers vote to tax American retirees who benefit from social security"

morby — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 12:20:53 +0000

Healthcare isn’t a sector of the economy? Since when?

If you hate the way they pay immigrants look at the laws of the country don’t hear the immigrants. Doing the latter is the mark of ignorance.

New comment by morby in "Northeastern's redesign of the CS curriculum"

morby — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 12:17:56 +0000

I wouldn’t say linear algebra is a necessity to being a computer scientist. At least, not the full linear algebra content. Knowing matrix math is enough.

New comment by morby in "European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction"

morby — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 12:40:58 +0000

You seem very confused by this in your comments. Did you read the article? The Swiss government was found to be out of line with its own policies and laws.

New comment by morby in "European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction"

morby — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 12:27:55 +0000

Since when is the legal system was outside of democracy?

New comment by morby in "European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction"

morby — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 12:25:00 +0000

It’s a multi generational issue. It’s not a question of fair when the repercussions for not addressing it are massive. Younger generations know this. It’s too bad older generations did nothing to address the issues they saw in front of them. They were too selfish

I also think it’s preposterous to put climate change at their feet

New comment by morby in "Jensen Huang says kids shouldn't learn to code – they should leave it up to AI"

morby — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 04:11:02 +0000

I can see people using AI for setting up simple solutions. But AI, as it currently is, is dependent on human innovation to be able to generate results. Any novel problem will need human minds. On top of this AI is currently horrendous at coding things with complexity. Maybe some higher complexity solutions can get done with high cognitive tax in human prompt input, but there are serious diminishing returns on that. AI still needs major breakthroughs to get to that point. And when it does it might very well have outpaced humans in a multitude of academic fields. Including the ones listed by Jensen Huang (the sciences).

New comment by morby in "New JFK assassination revelation could upend the lone gunman theory"

morby — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:14:43 +0000

That rules quote does not apply in the slightest. Perhaps I was glib about it, but I replied directly to the message at hand. He questioned the validity of studying a (massive) historical event (it “changes nothing”, much like studying a lot of history). You continue the exact same line of reasoning (“isn’t going to change modern sociopolitics very much”, though I find the use of “very much” an interesting use of words in this case). That there is nothing to gain. You make two assumptions a) that if there was a second gunman that they couldn’t possibly be put to justice and b) there is no historical value to knowing the truth or understanding the truth that would come to light had a potential third actor that was tied. For example say the Soviet Union somehow was toed (I’m not saying they are) there is an incredible value to knowing that it is fact. And if the FBI was involved? You thinking the FBI reputation is tarnished now is opinion, the effect could even have legal repercussions to people still alive and to regulating agencies. You don’t know , but if you have some “war game” about the impact I would love to see it. But the biggest of all is understanding the history of our country and world history. Historians don’t pretend that knowing more about the military maneuvers of Alexander will effect us today even though his battles have been studied to death. But when we contradict that denial of understanding some truth of our own history we are told, “doesn’t matter”, there’s no modern sociopolitical gain.

Your opinion on JFK as a president is moot. The fact he could not continue being president is what changed the world. LBJ succeeded him and the rest is “history”. It doesn’t need to play out in todays politics but as I said, why study history at all if the only point is to gain insight into how it effects us directly today??

New comment by morby in "New JFK assassination revelation could upend the lone gunman theory"

morby — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 14:50:31 +0000

Well why study history at all? Nothing in it has any more impact on us, no? Why try to determine who murdered a person even if it was decades later and the killer might be alive? It doesn’t matter anymore right?

I’m not in the conspiracy theorist crowd, but the “doesn’t matter anymore” crowd is disappointing.

New comment by morby in "New JFK assassination revelation could upend the lone gunman theory"

morby — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 12:19:20 +0000

It’s an amazing bit of history. Leaders of major powers have regularly been assassinated in history. Here the leader of a globally hegemonic nation was assassinated on camera.

New comment by morby in "New JFK assassination revelation could upend the lone gunman theory"

morby — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 12:05:24 +0000

To add to that. The author details how this new detail subsequently alters the version of events. Namely it suggests that the bullet that hit JFK in the back and hit Connally were two different bullets and that they could not have been fired at that rate (the rate suggested by the video evidence) with the weapon used by Oswald

New comment by morby in "New JFK assassination revelation could upend the lone gunman theory"

morby — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 12:02:00 +0000

I would probably add some major points to this synopsis. The bullet was believed to have been on Connally’s stretcher. It is the “magic bullet”. The pristine bullet that was supposed to have hit JFK and Connally both. The assumption here is that it did not penetrate through JFK. That it came from the wound in his back. This would upend the investigative findings that the bullet in this back was responsible for the neck wound and the injury to the governor. It’s a rather drastic change to the record.

New JFK assassination revelation could upend the lone gunman theory

morby — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 10:59:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/09/new-jfk-assassination-revelation-upend-lone-gunman

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37454707

Points: 291

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New comment by morby in "DSLs are a waste of time"

morby — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 18:47:51 +0000

Aren’t regular expressions the abstraction to state machines? They all get converted to a DFA or NFA, no?

New comment by morby in "DSLs are a waste of time"

morby — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 18:39:59 +0000

I would be comfortable calling HTML and SQL both DSLs. Given the scope of their use.

New comment by morby in "Analysis: Health care CEOs hauled in $4B last year as inflation pinched workers"

morby — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 01:28:44 +0000

The vast majority of those countries have large inequality gaps. The only ones that don’t are listed under countries that have higher rates of home ownership

I’m not even about to begin to touch the notion that home ownership, which has been a staple of human history since time immemorial, is not important. That strikes me as a comment waayyy to deep in the kool aid

New comment by morby in "Analysis: Health care CEOs hauled in $4B last year as inflation pinched workers"

morby — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 03:25:43 +0000

I’m not entirely sure your point here maybe you can explain

New comment by morby in "Analysis: Health care CEOs hauled in $4B last year as inflation pinched workers"

morby — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 03:08:20 +0000

Market is a term that can be used to describe “an area or arena in which commercial dealings are conducted”

You can absolutely refer to the US economic market or African market and the participants there in. If not I would love a reference to explain otherwise.

Of course different kinds of labor receive varying compensation and these things depend on the level of skill and demand. This isn’t a question of whether everyone should be paid equally. It’s a question of how to resolve growing income disparities between top earners and low earners, specifically asymmetric income growth. Top earner income is rising at amazing rates while low earners are seeing meager increases. This has been ongoing for decades. There is an entire discussion on it here so I don’t think there needs to be any more elaboration.

New comment by morby in "Analysis: Health care CEOs hauled in $4B last year as inflation pinched workers"

morby — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 00:33:03 +0000

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-...

https://archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/1...

https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2019/

Even with more conservative approaches, wage growth of lower earners is far outpaced by top earners.

https://www.aei.org/articles/have-wages-stagnated-for-decade....