Hacker News: neovialogistics

SCOTUS to rule whether national banks are exempt from state banking regulations

neovialogistics — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 16:32:42 +0000

Article URL: https://portside.org/2024-04-03/supreme-court-may-give-us-another-2008-financial-crisis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39944397

Points: 2

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The First Cat War

neovialogistics — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 07:52:12 +0000

Article URL: https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/the-first-cat-war

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39861589

Points: 40

# Comments: 53

New comment by neovialogistics in "Music Making Apps"

neovialogistics — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 01:44:36 +0000

When I was finishing high school I was introduced to an interest in programming through finding the limits of a composition applet on my Nokia (which was probably a 6300 but I'm away from home and unable to check).

I know this is an unrelated tangent but does anybody have any links that talk about the one or more of the composition apps or applets for smartphones or feature phones from that time period? Symbian, early versions of iOS, J2ME, I'll happily take anything on offer.

New comment by neovialogistics in "Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton"

neovialogistics — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:50:41 +0000

I see where my post above was unclear. For the theorem to apply to a 1+2n dimensional object, the vector field on the 2n dimensional surface of the object must be restricted to the surface - it must be tangent to the object everywhere.

The proton is fully 3-dimensional AFAICT so the vector field on the surface (if it has a surface, I'm not a physicist) can have non-tangent components, pointing inwards or outwards.

New comment by neovialogistics in "Pornhub Blocked in Texas"

neovialogistics — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:33:31 +0000

Looking at the article, the statement they display to blocked users could do with either a change in tone to be more legally formal or a change in tone to be more approachable to less-literate users - bullet points, multiple headings etc. Right now that message is the worst of both worlds and will get a very low conversion rate.

I've been away from this line of work for over a year, though. Does anybody here who has current experience in effective messaging, legal communication or marketing want to read the message Mindgeek put up and give their two cents on it for our entertainment?

New comment by neovialogistics in "Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton"

neovialogistics — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:20:18 +0000

It's not applicable. The theorem applies to the boundary of 1+2n dimensional balls - surface of an ordinary sphere, bulk of a 5-ball, 6-surface of a 7-ball, etc.

US 'Prepper' culture is diversifying

neovialogistics — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 09:57:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/prepping-disaster-diversifies-more-americans-lose-trust-2024-03-09/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39666284

Points: 2

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New comment by neovialogistics in "Canada faces a series of crises that will test it in the coming years, RCMP warn"

neovialogistics — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 18:25:23 +0000

Giving the police expanded powers won't backfire the next time an authoritarian-adjacent party wins an election, will it? After all, look how well the enabling act turned out for the lawmakers who passed it.

New comment by neovialogistics in "How did the viral Willy Wonka experience go so wrong?"

neovialogistics — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 09:13:13 +0000

Few people are asking why such a large proportion of the public are easily scammed, a status which is different to prior eras. The answer isn't education, fyi.

New comment by neovialogistics in "On the Ocean Conditions of Hycean Worlds"

neovialogistics — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 20:04:53 +0000

Unsure why it's capitalized in the article (it shouldn't be, consider terms like ice giant and sub-Jupiter or even the hycean planet Wikipedia page) but I'll point out that there's a pun there you've missed. High seas.

New comment by neovialogistics in "Fractal Scaling and the Aesthetics of Trees"

neovialogistics — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 23:03:15 +0000

Not mentioned: do amateur paintings by others with the same techniques as Pollock produce features with a similar fractal dimension? My question is intended as a proxy for investigating how much of Pollock's quality is integral to the method regardless of artist skill.

New comment by neovialogistics in "Ask HN: Why do recommender systems not seem good?"

neovialogistics — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 22:58:48 +0000

Scale. Providing accurate recommendation algorithms for thousands+++ of people across thousands+++ of data items is surprisingly expensive in compute and electricity. For any one user, sure you can do whatever you like. When you divide your resources across your userbase the prices get larger and larger.

New comment by neovialogistics in "Business Narrative Strategy"

neovialogistics — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:19:47 +0000

The idea that you can substitute a culture of company 'lore' for paying millennial and generation z staff well as a way of engendering employee loyalty has some merit. Human psychology is susceptible to exactly this.

Unfortunately, this guarantees the loyalty of some mediocre employees at the cost of likely alienating the highest performers.

New comment by neovialogistics in "Chinese companies are raising militias like it's the 1970s"

neovialogistics — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:27:35 +0000

This CNN article is just a tweaked copypaste of earlier FT reporting. The FT article has no sources and a credulous comment section, some of whom are alleging that ChatGPT is an equally reliable source: https://www.ft.com/content/d6b2e4d6-2f84-4ef9-bf99-10d76d92d... The FT article says that dozens of state-owned enterprises have set up PAFDs in the last 12 months but fails to mention that China has over a million SOEs.

In the english-language internet there are only two prior articles about PAFDs; an RFA article from the third of October last year,: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/enterprises-militias-... and a VOA article from the 7th on November.: https://www.voanews.com/a/why-is-china-highlighting-militias... Of these two, the RFA article has some sources but they aren't great and both of these news orgs can be alleged to be 100% biased (regardless of what the facts may be) for obvious reasons.

Confusingly, the system for enlisted infantry recruiters also uses the PAFD acronym which means that regardless of search engine, half the results (War on the Rocks, RAND, Asian LII, JSTOR, DoD, DTIC, mod.gov.cn) are useless.

Anyway, let's suppose that it is happening as CNN/FT reports. There is an important context question: Is this an order from the CPC at the top or is this our perspective of an ordinary corporate fad in China, their equivalent to six sigma?

New comment by neovialogistics in "Alexei Navalny has died"

neovialogistics — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 11:55:11 +0000

Military intervention or something else?

New comment by neovialogistics in "Germany's days as an industrial superpower are coming to an end"

neovialogistics — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 12:47:33 +0000

The reliance of the German industry on the prolific use of petroleum and gas products isn't just an energy/heat generation story. Their economy sits on a foundation of cheap downstream intermediate products produced domestically with very few middlemen compared to other national industrial complexes: cheap propylene oxide, cheap monoethylene glycol, cheap acetaldehyde, cheap acrylonitrile, cheap cumene, cheap C4 aromatics, etc, etc,

Each of these chemicals, plus more that I haven't mentioned, sit at the base of their own value chains. All of those have recently lost their comparative savings versus product refined elsewhere which means an end to German manufacturers enjoying cheap rubbers, resins, coatings, greases, fuels, paints, plastics, etc

New comment by neovialogistics in "A predicted quasicrystal is based on the 'einstein' tile known as the hat"

neovialogistics — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 19:30:51 +0000

Crystallography is basically just 3d geometry (with some DE) anyway.

New comment by neovialogistics in "How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013)"

neovialogistics — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 20:39:55 +0000

At what point in history did the FBI first begin to require aptitude tests to become an agent?

SEC blocked Boeing shareholders voting on CV requirements for executives in 2021

neovialogistics — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 23:49:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.levernews.com/profits-and-payouts-over-passenger_safety/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39020885

Points: 14

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New comment by neovialogistics in "The young people sifting through the internet's worst horrors"

neovialogistics — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 15:19:24 +0000

This seems like two different questions being interwoven, asking both why high-turnover business models exist and why the management culture in those business models is the way it is.

I can't answer the first, but AFAICT the latter is just an evolutionary pressure of a sort: as more ruthless cultures are selected for, the successful individuals in those cultures become those who embody ruthlessness all the time instead of people who adjust their level of compassion up or down as the situation dictates.