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emceestorkon Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

I don't know if you're trying to dunk on me. I didn't intend to imply they are synonyms.

I think AI is clearly both revolutionary and useful. Revolutionary insofar as the job I do has changed almost completely in a year or so span.

emceestorkon Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

They aren't claiming that science doesn't progress by moving goal posts. They're talking about how critics of AI have claimed it isn't revolutionary/useful, then progressively changed what would it mean for AI to be actually revolutionary/useful.

Not long ago many folks were saying AI was the same as the crypto bubble. No real useful technology and only hype.

emceestorkon The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia

https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000214782

edit: Sorry this is the follow up study but the 40% study is linked within

emceestorkon Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union

It's definitely not because of this. They are not stupid.

emceestorkon Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

Account created 6 minutes ago...

emceestorkon CEO of largest public hospital says he's ready to replace radiologists with AI

Hospitals already usually pay for malpractice insurance on behalf of the physicians.

emceestorkon Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically

Andrej Karpathy has done so much to help people learn and understand LLMs. Not sure why you're calling him a bro.

emceestorkon The Peter Principle still resonates

The Peter Principle is an idea manufactured to suppress wages. The idea the you have to work at a level above your current level for a while until you are promoted only benefits employers.

I have only spent approximately 30 seconds thinking about this idea.

emceestorkon Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

I'm working on a tool that easily allows you to theme your UI using CSS variables called Blueberry. https://www.getblueberry.io/

The idea is that each CSS variable becomes a widget and then the Blueberry endpoint will serve those variables so you can let your users customize profile pages/portals and other places they integrate with you UI.

emceestorkon Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters

Yeah, maybe we just have different politics and I'm too dismissive of alternative worldviews.

Still though, I get like Matt Gaetz' tweets recommended to me. Does anyone like that dude? How is this happening? Why on earth would I want that? I feel like all this conservative stuff is surfaced by the application to me.

[Proof](https://ibb.co/ypHS8fN)

I got notifications, on my dang phone, for the dumbest fucking takes. I don't get them for liberal people. Possible I am just in the demographic of people they think would swing conservative so they target me.

emceestorkon Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters

Ah yeah, I get that. I don't mean to be cynical on the day you complete that mission.

Congrats on launching! Excited to see what y'all do next.

emceestorkon Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters

I switched to Bluesky but then moved back to twitter. I'm glad that they are trying to compete with Twitter (Twitter is a conservative cesspool), but all of my non-technical friends have stayed on Twitter. So, I end up going where they are.

I think the reason my friends did not join Bluesky despite me inviting them is that it just isn't as good of a product as Twitter. You can't post videos or DM.

I am not a tech executive and have no idea about corporate strategy, but it seems like Bluesky should focus less on technical differentiators and more on building killer features that have mass appeal and a community that people want to join.

IMHO this milestone, while cool, means absolutely nothing to people outside of the hacker news crowd.

I'm rooting for Bluesky, but it seems to me it will die without a critical mass of users.

Again, I'm kinda dumb, so this may all be wrong.

emceestorkon Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling

Not sure I understand the objection. The research this article is about compared Wind vs Oil/Coal effects on birds. The title seems in line with the findings of the research.

> I find the question "what is a reliable, clean and affordable energy source?" much more relevant and productive.

Seems to me like examining externalities of different energy sources is a part of the nuance of this question. Feels like you're being a bit of a hater.

emceestorkon NY Times Rides in Waymo Robotaxis in SF

I don't agree with your characterization of what's happening as "YOLO" and "half-baked". It's taken many many people many years to get to where we are now. It's pretty easy to do a miles driven and accidents caused comparison. Self driving cars appear to be wildly safer thus far.

What would make you happy with a self-driving safety record? Why not be excited about the future?

I understand when some folks think that the focus would be better spent on public transportation, but you just seem like a hater.

emceestorkon The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated

I imagine a world in which I can take a road trip while asleep in my car (or reading or working). That would be pretty wonderful.

emceestorkon Spinning the Decks and Startup Success: A Lesson from My DJ Days

And... I found this https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/17/delphia-co-founder-placed-...

Putting pressure on his employees to party after work. Seems like he may have taken the metaphor too far.

emceestorkon Spinning the Decks and Startup Success: A Lesson from My DJ Days

This is an extremely cringey blog post.

emceestorkon Security alerts on GitHub

This is great! Looking for to using it.

emceestorkon Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

This is fantastic, excited to try it out.