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New comment by paulproteus in "What's happening inside the NIH and NSF"

paulproteus — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 13:26:30 +0000

https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-legal-challenges...

Seven restraining orders. Seems like lots is not legal.

New comment by paulproteus in "What's happening inside the NIH and NSF"

paulproteus — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 06:37:31 +0000

8 trillion is the amount the debt rose while Trump was in office last time: https://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/us-debt-by-president...

How much do you think he will raise it by during this term?

New comment by paulproteus in "Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore"

paulproteus — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:59:54 +0000

I don't see how that relates to my comment. Can you elaborate?

New comment by paulproteus in "The Constitutional Crisis Is Here"

paulproteus — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:26:50 +0000

I found this helpful to keep me up to date on the legal situation of various executive orders: https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-legal-challenges... . Overall for me, 8 executive orders subject to restraining orders sounds like the executive branch vastly exceeding its authority, which for three weeks of government, sounds like a constitutional crisis.

New comment by paulproteus in "America desperately needs more air traffic controllers"

paulproteus — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 21:55:34 +0000

Sounds good! Maybe you can start a business and have a low-stakes regional airport work with you. I think the main way to do it is as an add-on/assistant for the existing toolset.

New comment by paulproteus in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

paulproteus — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:47:13 +0000

Gotcha. The reason I was mystified is that the budget is written by Congress, so I would guess a phone call to a leader in Congress with a desired budget number would do the job. Given that this doesn't seem to be the plan, I couldn't tell if maybe they had some other goal. I hope that explains how someone could be mystified.

New comment by paulproteus in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

paulproteus — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:45:13 +0000

Since you know the people in question, do you have any ideas? I am honestly mystified myself and hopeful someone who knows the people in question can shed some light.

New comment by paulproteus in "Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to Federal Payment System"

paulproteus — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:22:52 +0000

Trillions of debt is a congress issue. Maybe this congress can pass some bills to resolve it. Not sure how that's relevant to 25 year olds since there are no current 25 year old congress members.

New comment by paulproteus in "Medical billing firm Medusind discloses breach affecting 360k people"

paulproteus — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 02:17:45 +0000

One good option is FTC action. They have worked on this in the past, e.g. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2018/10/... https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2018/01/...

New comment by paulproteus in "Wall Street banks prepare to sell up to $3B in X loans next week"

paulproteus — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 19:57:50 +0000

I wonder if Musk will buy the loans.

New comment by paulproteus in "Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff"

paulproteus — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 02:38:10 +0000

Makes sense. Their software product isn't very good. They should take the profits they have and diversify into other businesses.

New comment by paulproteus in "Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denials on the rise"

paulproteus — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 15:28:43 +0000

Confusing statement when Republicans are the reason Obamacare shipped without a public option

New comment by paulproteus in "Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties"

paulproteus — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 21:51:17 +0000

OP lives in Austin. If you have $1M net worth, you can probably buy a house there and live there. If you don't go do that, I think you're just punishing yourself.

New comment by paulproteus in "Tariffs Won't Work, Just as McKinley's Didn't"

paulproteus — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 17:09:25 +0000

I think the most likely option is that their support for Trump is not economically motivated.

New comment by paulproteus in "Ambulance hits cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill"

paulproteus — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:24:54 +0000

I am honestly not so sure. What's the evidence for this claim?

New comment by paulproteus in "Make It Ephemeral: Software Should Decay and Lose Data"

paulproteus — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 22:22:36 +0000

For this reason, my browser's Downloads folder is /tmp.

New comment by paulproteus in "Ask HN: Why is .NET never talked about as an option for solo/small team dev?"

paulproteus — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 03:25:40 +0000

In a recent analysis of venture capital returns for companies based on programming language, for the top 50 Y Combinator companies at least as of 2019, Ruby is #1, and C# is just not in the list.

https://charliereese.ca/y-combinator-top-50-software-startup...

I have no affiliation with Y Combinator itself or the author of the post.

The particular analysis is pretty skewed in its own way, so you can take it with a pinch of salt.

As a general rule, programming languages have ecosystems and communities, and if you pick a language where quickly delivering high-value features to users/customers is part of the community, it helps your startup; you'll probably meet founders and get business advice if you go to a Ruby meetup, but less so at a C# one.

It's not the whole picture, since it doesn't speak to the technical part of your question.

New comment by paulproteus in "CA Governor seeks to harness the power of GenAI to address homelessness"

paulproteus — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 14:36:07 +0000

I hope the CA Governor can use GenAI to auto-respond to NIMBYs who block housing development in CA. It would be a time-saving measure for state housing departments who are already very busy.

New comment by paulproteus in "Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw"

paulproteus — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 05:22:46 +0000

What if the design flaw makes AIs unsafe? This would be a fun sci-fi piece.

New comment by paulproteus in "Safe Superintelligence Inc."

paulproteus — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:09:37 +0000

When people operate a safe AI company, the company will make money. That money will be likely be used by employees or their respective national revenue agencies to fund unsafe things. I'd like to see this safe AI company binding its employees and owners from doing unsafe things with their hard-earned cash.