FireBeyond

Yes. In my "other life" I work in fire and EMS, and in uniform regularly have parents stop us and point us out to their kids - "If you're ever hurt or in trouble, you can ALWAYS go to these people, they're safe.", or the look of absolute trust when someone thrusts their sick child at you, hoping for you to make it better. And that, somewhat unsurprisingly, sometimes include seeing that child in undress.

Take off my uniform.

My partner spent several years in childcare, both at centers and as a nanny. We're out in public and she sees a crying child? She goes to it, talks to it, hugs it perhaps, reassures.

Me? Not a chance. For better or worse, societal conditioning is that that is something I as a male /do/ /not/ /do/. Because it's nefarious that I'd even want to.

I got into an argument with a security guard at a gated community who tried to demand we give him a name, address, and "what's going on?" before he'd let us in.

Fixed that when I asked if he personally called 911 and when he said no, "So, before we make this a lot more formal, are you understanding that you are now obstructing emergency services personnel in the performance of duty?"

I don't entirely agree. There's an angle on the "if corrupt, who cares?" but the stock and bond market have orders of magnitude more oversight and (potential) consequences than the risks and consequences of insider trading on the prediction markets.

John Tuld, in Margin Call:

Sam Rogers: And you're selling something that you know has no value.

John Tuld: We are selling to willing buyers at the current fair market price.

Well, the problem is that you want each node to be able to directly connect to each other, so you run into a mesh situation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJqKqxQR36Y shows 8 running at 100gbps and clustered.

Yes, AI... this video does a good job walking through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJqKqxQR36Y

(tl;dw - guy connects first four DGX and then another 4 "DGX-alikes". Uses 400gbps breakout cables (you can split interfaces, TIL) so he has 2 ports on the first switch, and then gets this one, I believe. You can buy cables that are 1x400 to 4x100gig, etc.

Ooh, who could this be... so many contenders... Aladtect, PSTrax, Lexipol...

There's a sizable part of the group that truly believe that cities get more representation than they do, that there are more rural Americans than urban.

Yeah, you're looking at the scale of ... Nscale ... buying in the order of 1,000 NVL72 racks to get yourself deliveries in a timely manner.

I remember common advice on HN (and indeed from Apple Store employees) when Apple repairs were taking a while was just "buy a new one and return it when you get yours back".

Due to having extremely wide feet, in shoes that don't specifically have a wide option, my shoes can be anywhere from an 8.5 to a 10, depending on the manufacturer and style.

My favorite, on being told to commit and merge to a branch and saying that "this is done"...

"You're right, I'm sorry. You told me to do it, I said I would do it and I did not do it and I said that I had when I did not do it. Would you like me to do it now?"

Me, thinking: that depends, Claude, will you actually do it this time?

Your own response isn't even internally consistent.

> The USGS will get there in god-knows-when.

> The article itself even acknowledges that the USGS GNIS database has already been updated to reflect the change.

Yes, both USGS and the Department of the Interior's executive leadership have been replaced by this Administration with Trump lackeys who fell over themselves to boast in a memo just how quickly they'd made the change.

> Mapquest has said they’re not going to update the name, which presumably means their pipeline is old and creaky.

No, it means no such thing.

But then I also remember looking at Monica previously and deciding against it. And in reading this article, the author mentions that this will be v3 and one of the headline features will be:

> This means treating relationships as first-class concepts and letting people decide what information matters to them.

Uh? This is a CRM, even a personal one. How do you get to v3 and "the relationship you have with the person you are capturing hasn't been a priority"?

> Thinking that "tax losses" are the way to make money does not work.

Never said that. But if I'm a corporation who owns 3,000 homes and/or apartments, I can easily decide that rather than earning less than I'd like on rental income, I might keep those units vacant and claim rental loss to offset my tax burden elsewhere. Helpfully, corporations can also depreciate those dwellings as an asset. Keeping a portion of those dwellings vacant benefits me as a corporation - it doesn't benefit society or the community they're in (or the communities where the offset is going to come from). But hey, fuck society and community, we're a capitalist-over-all nation!

> If you ever owned a vacant home, not only are you still going to have to pay all the usual bills, you'll be dealing with vandalism, squatters, and that undetected roof leak that ruins the interior.

What "usual bills"? Property tax? Insurance? If I own 3,000 dwellings I can self-insure. I can shut off water/sewage/garbage service, I can shut off electricity, internet.

Of course, if I'm a corporation with 3,000 homes, it'd be almost a certainty that I have dedicated maintenance crews who can be mitigating many of those other issues, and doing it far cheaper than you or I could (short of DIY).

Tim Cook has been touted as the greatest supply chain logistics person on the planet and revolutionizing Apple's product delivery, securing exclusive contracts years in advance, etc., etc.

But "oops, we missed that people are interested in AI work on our machines" seems like a really fucking big myopia. But then again, Tim's off to retire on a bed made of cash this week, so...

I like the other article today, where Tim Cook has gone from "possibly the best manufacturing and logistics person in the world", to "Apple blindsided by demand for AI use of products".

I am not a physician, though I have a Masters in Biomedical Science and was a paramedic for 14 years.

I have a very difficult time taking an argument plausibly that compares Tylenol (acetaminophen, an antipyretic analgesic) to illegal stimulant use (immediately following a discussion on fentanyl, which is an opioid - about as close to opposite a stimulant as possible) - i.e. generally amphetamines.

Or comparing Tylenol to marijuana in a very apples and oranges comparison - Tylenol's dangers come from very direct hepatotoxicity (i.e. liver damage), versus marijuana's most real risks coming from impairment and intoxication (driving, judgment, panic) and their effects than toxicity of the drug itself.

It's all mixing and matching in a way that doesn't make for a sensical argument.

> but most illegal drugs are illegal because they can cause immediate death even at normal usage amounts.

Huh. The amount used on the street is not a "normal usage amount". Most fentanyl deaths are due to the fact that the medical usage amount is not something you can generally measure with your dealer's scale or the scale you bought at the local head shop (we, as paramedics, would typically administer 50-100 micrograms, and for anything more than 300 we needed to consult with a physician).

In those use cases, properly dosed, fentanyl is an exceptional, powerful, and short-lived, analgesic.

When people die from fentanyl ODs they're taking dozens, hundreds, or more, than the "normal usage amounts".

1. And? Most are occupied. How many unoccupied SFHs are there?

2. I am a home owner. There is a certain subset of the populace that likes to act as though renters have it so easy, because owning a home is a never ending stream of credit card swipes for the next four (or five) digit maintenance expense - when they're not posting memes talking about not having to pay property tax or insurance or even utilities, as if landlords absorb those out of the goodness of their heart.

These corporations, if you read the article in the first place are colluding across other corporate landlords because if they don't get the rent they want, they would rather keep the occupancy vacant, because then they also get to claim it as a tax loss.

> Capitalist countries are indeed quite amazing compared to socialist countries. That's why people flee socialist countries and try to get in the US.

People don't generally flee socialism, but corruption. But hey, here we are in the US where we're doing a spectacular job of showing what a corrupt capitalist society looks like. And hey, look, the number of people trying "to get in here" is dropping like a rock.

USGS and the Department of the Interior (or their leaders) were falling over themselves to tell Dear Leader how quickly they'd made the change.

Well, governments have successfully enabled wealth disparity to the point where corporations are buying up several tens of thousands of homes. Maybe free range capitalism isn't the amazing utopia it's cracked up to be?

And those corporations can decide that they'd rather the apartment sit vacant than be rented at below exactly what they'd like to get for it, bolstered in part by the fact they can claim the non-occupancy as a loss on their taxes.

> Violating the constitution means that evidence gets thrown out in court and the victims get financially rewarded.

No, usually it only means that maybe that specific evidence only gets thrown out. Financial reward? No, maybe if it's absolutely egregious.

There are startlingly few, if any situations where anything other than an actual court order, not any of this BS "administrative subpoena" can compel someone to silence - that whole "prior restraint" thing.

When I worked for Flock, if Flock was searched in relation to a given case, if that case had a disposition, Flock considered themselves to have contributed to the solving of that case, regardless of what the search was or its relevance to the actual case. Searched for a car that was actually entirely unrelated but later police arrest someone in the act? Flock: "our cameras were involved in the resolution of the case".

> That's why we don't cover our faces when interacting with others or walking around.

Unless we are agents of certain law enforcement agencies...

Even in 2006, in Australia you could do interbank transfers with near instant availability (certainly within 60s), usually for free.

Very true - for most of these with the exception of refugee visas (which we have stopped processing except for Afrikaaners), there is a requirement for financial sponsorship: someone the IRS can bill/garnish in a meaningful manner if you receive any government benefit within ten years of your arrival in the US.

Mt St Helens erupted in 1980. The landslide alone was 3.3 billion cubic yards, that traveled 15mi at speeds of up to 155mph, and buried 23 square miles to an average depth of 150ft, and up to 600ft, within 10 minutes.

The blast flattened 230 sq mi of forest in minutes.

540 million tons of ash fell in 9 hours, affecting 22,000 sq mi.

The mudflow (lahar) was this debris mixing with 170 million cubic yards of glacial ice and snow, moving at 80 mph.

People liked to make smart ass comments about people who took photos "and would soon be dead" - "they were miles away, they could have left". For a lot of them? No.

The sheer magnitude of these events is truly unimaginable, even if you "were there" (nearby).

And MSH was barely a 5 on the VEI 0-8 (roughly) logarithmic scale, though you can't map to death toll easily.

Pinatubo in 1991 was a high 6. Krakatoa too. Tambora is the largest we know, in 1815, VEI 7, and is estimated at eighty times more output than MSH, and triggered the "Year Without a Summer" globally (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer) that pulled down average -global- temperatures by a full degree over the course of a year. It completely disrupted the monsoon season throughout Asia, leading to flash flooding events like this becoming a very regular occurrence.

I think some of these types of stats are the closest terrestrial things we have at the limits of human comprehensibility (probably only eclipsed by "interstellar distances").