maybelsyrup

> They remind me of the "Effective Altruism" crowd

Honestly thought they were the same people

Man I was just thinking the other day that I was looking forward to his eventual writeup of whatever comes of this Air India accident. RIP to a real one.

You may not agree with it but I fail to see how it’s disingenuous

> I doubt he thinks about clippy much at all

Guys I think I found Bill’s HN handle

> My point is, anyone who isn't Israeli (be they Mizrahi, Ashkenazi, Ethiopian, Arab, Druze, Chechen, etc) or Palestinian should stfu (me included).

On the contrary: for the vast sums of money and military power we contribute to keep the lights on over there, US citizens should have two or three votes each in Israeli elections and free airfare to and lodging in the country. Oh, and access to their quite generous healthcare subsidies as well.

I liked him better when he was fourteen and helping me jailbreak my iphone

> In this tale of two trains, OpenAI might need to change their name to "ClosedAI" if they keep putting up barriers, being closed. The free and open train? That's the one chugging towards a brighter, better, free AI future for everyone.

This answer itself is an AI product, right? Like you're making a meta-point about something

There are many ways to decide to not read this writer, and they're all good!

Sorry, I feel dumb for asking, but what does “voice service providers” mean here? Like, Verizon and TMobile etc etc? Can’t be because there aren’t 2,411 cell companies.

> But that did not stop social media commenters from leaping to conclusions and from showing a blatant lack of sympathy over the death of a man who was a husband and father of two children.

The journalists' tone and choice of words here, which I've italicized, isn't helping the overall feeling many Americans have of "the people running the show have active and unceasing contempt for us", which of course is what's driving the "torrent of hate for health insurance industry" that this article sets out to document.

I'm sorry, but where do these writers get off wagging their fingers and tut-tutting people who'd prefer not to spend their neurons on sympathy for someone at the helm of an inhuman system? The point's already been made, but plenty of monsters are husbands and fathers.

Yes, that’s true, but in this case they’re all actually wrong. I’ve driven or lived in all of those cities, and they’re all placid next to Miami. It’s not even close.

You don’t deserve the downvotes here. Whether or not you’re kidding, I think you’re probably right.

> but it is a biological disease

I want to be charitable because I think I know the point you're trying to make in your comment, and what I want to say is mostly to the side of that. But I think that this statement at best glosses over what's been a long, expensive, and heated (though sincere) scientific conversation about schizophrenia over the past century and change. It's one that not only includes a substantively fruitless search for any underlying pathophysiology, but a spirited conversation about the validity, reliability, and plain-English usefulness of the concept itself! Further, this conversation is far from the stomping grounds of cranks and scammers; it has taken place inside what you might call the most orthodox psychiatric and psychological institutions: the APA, the major high-impact journals, fancy universities etc etc.

So when an eminence like Robin Murray, knighthood and all, can go into Schizophrenia Bulletin (2017) and write something like ...

"I expect to see the end of the concept of schizophrenia soon. Already the evidence that it is a discrete entity rather than just the severe end of psychosis has been fatally undermined. Furthermore, the syndrome is already beginning to breakdown, for example, into those cases caused by copy number variations, drug abuse, social adversity, etc. Presumably this process will accelerate, and the term schizophrenia will be confined to history, like 'dropsy.'" [1]

... saying that we know it's a biological disease as part of broader claims about treatment effectiveness doesn't tell the whole story. (I encourage everyone to read Murray's reflections in the linked article, as it's a fascinating retrospective on an illustrious career in psychosis research and psychiatry.)

[1] https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/article-abstr...

> Also they're all on drugs and will kill you if you report them for embezzling unit funds.

This is maybe not too related to the brain damage stuff (or maybe it is?), but I don't think the wider public knows nearly enough about the frankly shocking kinds and amounts of criminality in the various US special forces units. OP is not kidding about these people operating as gangs (but worse, because they're sanctioned killers).

A smattering of such behavior:

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/07/internal-study-defe...

https://news.usni.org/2021/01/24/seal-sentenced-to-10-years-...

https://abc7chicago.com/us-navy-seals-seal-training-drugs-in...

The journalist (and Army vet, iirc) Seth Harp does yeoman's work on this topic, and is a good Twitter follow. He's got several excellent long-form investigative articles, often for Rolling Stone. Here's one on the rampant murders (ongoing!) at Fort Bragg that the Army won't talk about:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/fort-b...

And another one about rampant drug deaths at ... also Fort Bragg:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/inside...

I think it's time to have a big cultural conversation about how much our current era of spec ops worship is worth all the war crimes and other less-than-normative behavior.

> the telecommunications infrastructure has been severely damaged

Distal to the tech here but man, once you see the passive voice vs active voice stuff on this issue, you really can't un-see it. Astounding.

Edit: finished the article. The tech here really is stunning -- like, the ratio of ingenuity to resources is insane.

Nothing specific to add other than that it's great to see Rob Wipond's work here on HN, and that I recommend him as a great journalist and researcher in a pretty niche field (maybe you could call that niche 'the underbelly of mental health'). I met him at a psychology research conference years ago and he's a stand-up guy.

He's got a great new book about involuntary detentions in mental health (psychiatric holds, in other words). "Your consent is not required" -- highly recommend.

NB I am not Rob Wipond lmao

This is some hateful stuff, even for HN.

Man, so true. The easiest way to verify this is to walk into the container terminal at Gioia Tauro and start opening boxes.

Interesting, but how to square this with the earlier report [1] saying that one of the pilots had told a passenger after the incident that their instruments had blacked out during the incident?

(Edit: which I see now has actually been mentioned in the last paragraph of the OP's article -- but still not explained.)

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/12/australia/latam-airlines-flig...

Buddy if some meaningful proportion of your population is finding foreign propaganda convincing, your problem isn’t foreign propaganda.

USA in terminal decline and, in typical fashion, it flatly refuses to look at itself and wonder why. American power elite has no one to blame but itself.

> People are just mad that it's telling kids to eat tide pods and then they get sick.

I think it’s more accurate to say instead that “the oligarchs who run this place are just mad that it’s telling kids to support Palestine”.

But in general I agree with your point!

Thanks! Either of these tools allow you to see where an airframe was assembled?

Anyone have the tail number for the airplane involved? Is it CC-BGG? Wondering if there's any way to tell if this is one of the 787s built in South Carolina or in Washington state.

> Feel like a Cheney

Rumsfeld

I think you're mostly correct but while it's not been as bad as the Max, the 787 has a not-so-short list of controversies, starting with those electrical / battery fires early in the plane's life [1] and going through recently with stray tools, fuselage issues, etc. [2] Not an engineer or a pilot, but like the poster above, I'm a regular person wondering how concerned to be on at least two Boeing platforms these days.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Boeing_787_Dreamliner_gro...

[2] https://aviationweek.com/air-transport/new-boeing-787-fix-de...

Damn, he was cooking here

> eg Exhibition Line

Small nitpick but it was Exposition Line. Also “Expo” line. LA Metro did a big system rename though, so now it’s just the E Line.

> why you find it icky for grown men to have sex with teenagers

Michael Bluth: Okay, you know what you do? You buy yourself a tape recorder, and you just record yourself for a whole day. I think you’re gonna be surprised at some of your phrasing.

Tobias: Butterscotch! Wanna lick?

> The zealots pushing the sensationalism often don't comprehend the forces at play - both natural and human-made

This is the exact sort of haughty condescension that pushes people further away, often right into the hands of real extremists.