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kryogen1c

3,684 karma · joined June 7, 2018

I was in the US nuclear navy, now I work in IT.
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kryogen1c··on The U.S. Navy's $100M checkbox (2019)
> permits up to 250ms latency for touch screen response. That is ridiculously high. It practically guarantees people will think it's not working and tap again

You're saying people evaluate and react to checkbox feedback faster than 4 times/sec? I'm not a UX person so this claim seems laughable. I might believe twice that as beyond reasonable, but there is no way the average person waits less than a quarter of a second before assuming their input failed and duplicate the effort. One can hardly even observe and process that quickly - even when paying attention.

kryogen1c··on Why Do 70% of Families Lose Their Wealth in the 2nd Generation? (2018)
TFA and other commentors have some points, but I believe it's much simpler than all of the above:

Doing a thing is a different skillset than teaching how to do that thing. Nothing more to it.

If there was a self reinforcing loop where greatness begat greatness, it would be everywhere: every sport, every politician, every martial art, every resource, every industry - for centuries, millenia.

Greatness and teaching greatsness are merely correlated in the best case, and are just as often counterfactual.

kryogen1c··on Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
> He got us out of Afghanistan too... this was a huge win and was very risky. Doesn't get enough credit for this one.

Thats because Trump agreed to get us out of afghaniston. Biden oversaw the absolutely disastrous execution, abandoning untold millions of military equipment in the hands of the taliban.

kryogen1c··on What the decentralized nature of Anonymous tells us about its power
First paragraph: clause comma clause comma clause comma clause period. 8 commas to one period.

I mean I just can't read this. I'm far from a literary person, but this is awful.

kryogen1c··on Ask HN: How do you read and follow the discussions on big threads?
As resident layman and LLM/chatgpt hater, I am offended on behalf of dang. He is not replaceable with a real person; an automated replacement is insulting to even consider.
kryogen1c··on This is a teenager
> unfair to say they don’t deserve happiness just because they can’t make themselves seek it.

You and I have very different ideas about what's fair.

kryogen1c··on Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed
> That's because these things are not defined for us and are open to interpretation.

This is actually a deep philosophical and practical issue called the frame problem. It is not tractable to define all the axioms and presuppositions for any given set of rules. That's why the American system has a legislature and separate interpretive body in the judiciary.

kryogen1c··on Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to blame employees as a scapegoat
> WFH and WFO companies are pretty different

I think this is exactly the issue. To rephrase: the biggest difference is management. There are different challenges of course, but the most significant is how to manage. Workers have an easier time shifting location. Furthermore, it's often more difficult to troubleshoot and repair bad management than bad workers, so it's not trivial to discover the source of the corporate problem when you flip your WFH/WFO setting.

kryogen1c··on DARPA Triage Challenge
I'm not sure where you heard this, but triage does not use the prefix tri- meaning three. Triage is a concept that is instantiated differently per locale and is not a universal 3 bucket system.
kryogen1c··on Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36M Xfinity customers
I know you're being sarcastic and that's fine, but the target of your sarcasm is incorrect. ISPs are very far from a "dynamic free market economy". Complex problems don't lend themselves to pithy internet commentary though.
kryogen1c··on Books of 2023, as Chosen by The Economist
Did you read the rest of the link you provided? The committees decision was overturned:

"the Ministry annulled the DCSD decision, citing procedural errors, including lack of documentation of errors in the book, and asked the DCSD to re-examine the case. In March 2004, the DCSD formally decided not to act further"

kryogen1c··on Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas (2009)
> nuanced discussion

> mostly women and children.

Isn't Israel inflicting civilian casualties because Hamas is using human shields? Isn't there a stark moral difference between trying to minimize collateral damage (but still killing civillians) and intentionally fighting out of civilian infrastructure like hospitals?

kryogen1c··on EU-funded report calls for wealth of super-rich to be taxed, not income
> Yeah its insane to me that people are unaware of this or ignore this.

That's because it's not true. That might have been the baseline, but it's not what people were paying due to exemptions and credits, etc.

> I also don't get how the average person can defend the existence of the ultra wealthy.

Average person checking in. Who do you think is shouldering the tax burden? Gen z loudly complaining they don't have enough money for college or a house?

I find the avarice and greed masquerading as morality in the anti-wealthy movement reprehensible. If you're poor in America you have one of the best lives available in human history.

Also, what exactly is the complaint here - specifically? Anyone have a first principles argument for why "the existence of the ultra wealthy" is bad? Everything I've ever seen has been reddit-quality freshmen year drivel.

kryogen1c··on Safety inspector fired for finding 'too many defects'
I'm surprised everyone is jumping on the worker's side and assuming the supervisor is wrong. You folks have never worked with some anal retentive person being as annoying as possible inside the rules? Back in the navy we used to call this malicious compliance.

> Sanders’ supervisor berates him for calling the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA).

> “Why in the world would we ever call the FRA about anything? Unless I’m absolutely blatantly telling you to break the rules,”

This sounds like a reasonable position. You expect anyone you work with to go straight to HR, or your boss, or an auditing agency? Without talking to you first?

> “All I can say is I need your help right now to keep my ass from getting fired,” Sanders’ boss told him on the call.

> “I need to just look the other way?” Sanders asks, referring to the reporting of defects.

> “No. We just need to have a conversation,” his boss said.

So when asked if he's supposed to falsify reports, his boss says no.

> “Why can’t we just fix the (expletive) defects?”

This is a great sound bite, but doesn't have much bearing on reality. Complex systems have complex solutions. There's liability and lifecycle budgeting, impact analysis, ERP, etc etc etc ad nauseum.

All in all, it seems like the boss was somewhat shady, but its hard to tell - Nothing is black and white. I'm just surprised everyone is willing to take this implication and turn it into a witch burning.

kryogen1c··on The richest Americans account for 40 percent of U.S. climate emissions
> rich

> cattle ranchers

The fact that you think these two things go together really highlights how blinded by ideology you are.

kryogen1c··on Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis
> The way I explain this is, "my job is not to protect my kids from harm, it's to protect them from irreparable harm."

Another way to phrase this:

Your job as a parent is to expose your children to the maximum amount of love that is healthy and the maximum amount of pain that is healthy.

Too little or too much of either is possible and damaging.

kryogen1c··on Neil Howe: Trust in US Institutions Continues to Decline
Notable recent institutional events:

- bag of cocaine found in Whitehouse, extensive investigation, no suspects

- two decades of war and occupation in Middle East. After a year of agreeing to leave, US literally runs to planes and abandons millions in military gear in the hands of our enemies

- definitely not CIA kompromat sex trafficker commits suicide in prison during a guard change while the cameras malfunction. definitely not CIA kompromat sex trafficker's aide gets arrested, given deal to absolve all unnamed co-conspirators. No further suspects.

- Government intentionally lies about pandemic policies its putting in place about masks and their effectiveness.

- key members of government intelligence services author open letter about hunter bidens laptop, calling it russian disinformation. This letter is intentionally a lie for the express purpose of influencing the election.

I'm not convinced I won't see civil war in my lifetime.

kryogen1c··on Office real estate crash will be so sharp, values unlikely to recover by 2040
>> Current market prices for a lot of commercial real estate seems to be a ponzi scheme

> Ponzi scheme? Yes.

How in the world are these the top comment and top reply? Commercial real estate isn't a ponzi scheme. Like, at all. In any way, shape, or form.

There are disparate actors making separate, uncoordinated decisions. There are single transactions being made delivering real value. There's no long term holdings falsely being promised under the guise of stealing short term value by adding more customers.

The commercial real estate market changed. Money is going to be lost. There are bad contracts on the books. Correlated markets are going to suffer. Leveraged losses are going to exponentiate. None of this has anything to do with a ponzi scheme.

kryogen1c··on Gov. Greg Abbott signs new law mandating armed security at all Texas schools
> the daily fear of being murdered

> unfathomable to me that a large portion of the populace is okay with [...] direct and terminal negative impact on children's lives.

That's because those two things aren't true. It's a lie told by statistics.

Firearm violence in that demographic is largely from places like LA and Chicago where gangs are the problem and firearms are already illegal.

If you're scared for your child's life every day they go to school, you have been brainwashed by media FUD.

kryogen1c··on Expectation vs. Reality: The Hard Hand Dealt Young People in 2023
because thats not the way debate works. you dont get to make a(n absurd) claim and then demand the other person disprove it with data across 100% of the spectrum.
kryogen1c··on Expectation vs. Reality: The Hard Hand Dealt Young People in 2023
Do you have a single example where it is possible?
kryogen1c··on Expectation vs. Reality: The Hard Hand Dealt Young People in 2023
>> Buying a home? Give me a break

> According to the stats, we make top 5% income of our area

Well one of those two things isnt true. It's not possible to be 95%ile income and not afford a house.

kryogen1c··on Millions of usable hard drives are being destroyed
Don't forget that sensitive data is encrypted. The only thing harder than breaking bitlocker on a hard drive is breaking bitlocker on a random 0.5% chunk of hard drive unaligned with the r/w tracks.

Bullshit is too weak a word.

kryogen1c··on Royal Navy says quantum navigation test a success
> big moving parts (e.g. the rotor)

The shaft and screw are confined to the end of the sub. A navigation instrument like this would not be in the engineroom.

kryogen1c··on Examples using Photoshop’s new “Generative Fill” feature
> If you're a professional artist who's invested years of effort in learning photoshop and it replaces "literal days of work" or you run company and it replaces "literal team members" $40-$100 a month is cheap.

No kidding. I have only negative things to say about Adobe, but that is a terrible argument. $100 a month to replace multiple $100k/year employees? That's basically the definition of technological advancement freeing labor to be more productive elsewhere.

kryogen1c··on China state-sponsored cyber actor living off the land to evade detection [pdf]
> Are LOLBINs still an issue for most companies?

Depends. The TS/SCI enclave at Raytheon R&D is probably locked down. However, most of the (sub)contracting work is done by small-medium business America and they've never even heard of lolbins.

kryogen1c··on Amazon corporate workers plan walkout next week over return-to-office policies
> but I'm still trying to wrap my head around work from home being morally wrong.

Are you? Have you tried seriously considering his position instead of watching 1 second sound bites OBVIOUSLY taken out of context?

> I was on a bicycle ride listening to this interview when he said it and I literally pulled my bike over and sat for a half hour or so thinking about what I think about the idea

Oh? This musk interview was the first time you learned about unfairness in the world? I'm glad he "got you thinking". Heh.

It is not some extreme, radical position that shutting down your company by staging a strike because you _deserve_ to work from the comfort of your own home is morally tenuous. You can disagree, but acting like musk is a raving lunatic for sympathizing with minimum wage workers who bus to work is nothing short of supreme stupidity.

Honestly the anti musk sentiment around here is so braindead and reactionary its beginning to feel like an astroturfed psyop.

kryogen1c··on Delimiters won’t save you from prompt injection
Isn't this security through obfuscation? Doesn't it shift the risk instead of eliminating it? That's fine if that's the intention, but that's a different risk mitigation strategy.

The post you replied to is saying it's categorically impossible to have an injection filter when user input interacts with executable statements.

kryogen1c··on US Presidential Hopefuls Rally Against a Digital Dollar Ahead of 2024 Elections
> I don't understand how we've gotten here, or why people aren't more concerned.

From what I can tell, the root issue is that most people are item-oriented instead of system-oriented.

People are animals and animals need to survive. Survival is path dependant, so people think today is more important than tomorrow. In actuality, today and tomorrow are the same thing.

The American experiment seems to be failing its two pillars of capitalism and democracy for the same reason: they require input from most people. Rather, they require _thoughtful_ input from most people - and most people ain't that good at thinkin.

As far as I can tell, the game is already lost. Competition in all key products is at best reduced to 4 players. Money's influence on politics is hiding in plain sight. At least taco bell delivers.

kryogen1c··on News Blackout in Effect
This is a gigantic story, folks. Why was this flagged dead? I don't know what racket news is, but I know who Taibbi is.

This is something anyone (any American, at least) with a modicum of honest intellectual curiosity should be rapaciously interested in.

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