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ryeights··on Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta
More like a middle finger…
ryeights··on Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and feuding
Apparently not…
ryeights··on Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024
That would seem to fall afoul of antitrust regulation.
ryeights··on Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO
Most of OpenAI comp is in equity… which is worth much less now
ryeights··on OpenAI investors try to get Sam Altman back as CEO after sudden firing
Undoubtedly, there are a lot of HN posters with a vested interest in OpenAI's continued success… Talk is cheap when it doesn't affect your bottom line.
ryeights··on OpenAI negotiations to reinstate Altman hit snag over board role
Sexism
ryeights··on Ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly planning new AI venture
the next all-lowercase tweet with minimal punctuation i have to read is going to make me lose it
ryeights··on Why thinking hard makes us feel tired
If you don’t live in a Lyme-prone area, Lyme is unlikely and your risk of a false positive is high
ryeights··on Porsche Open Source Platform
PIWIS for the people!

I got briefly excited that Porsche was going to make this happen.

ryeights··on Now that cars are like smartphones, we don't really own them
People’s needs change, and not everyone is OK with being locked in the state of automotive safety in 2005 for perpetuity.
ryeights··on In praise of America's car addiction
As a city slicker, I’ll admit that my appreciation of cars has increased since moving in without one.

I enjoy not having to drive for daily tasks, but being able to put a big Costco haul in your trunk is undeniably nice, a lot of outdoor recreation is (and can only be) practical with a car, and car renting is in a sorry state right now. It’s a pain in the ass and in the wallet, if you like to take trips on the weekends.

ryeights··on Now that cars are like smartphones, we don't really own them
And then if it breaks, nobody knows how to fix it, and once you’re done with it, nobody will want to buy it off of you…
ryeights··on In praise of America's car addiction
Why talk about cities' "accessibility zones" in area and not population? Sure, America has 1,160 accessible km²s vs Europe's 430, but that area is far less dense. The average population density of the US is just 94 people per sq mile [1], while Germany stands at 619 pp/mi² [2].

[1]: https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/built-environm...

[2]: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/germany-popul...

ryeights··on Signal Public Username Testing (Staging Environment)
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android#contributing-cod...

>For larger changes and feature ideas, we ask that you propose it on the [unofficial Community Forum](https://community.signalusers.org/) for a high-level discussion with the wider community before implementation.

So it’s almost certainly legit, but they really should be linking to signal.org proper for sign-up instructions.

ryeights··on Show HN: Ladder, open source alternative to 12ft.io and 1ft.io
For those on mobile it was the opposite, since the archive sites only show you the desktop sites
ryeights··on Confusing Git Terminology
Ha. Right you are
ryeights··on Confusing Git Terminology
That’s not quite right is it? HEAD is simply a pointer to whatever commit is currently on disk.

HEAD can point to a commit that is the end of a branch (typical state, HEAD is “attached”), but it can also point to one that isn’t (HEAD is “detached”).

ryeights··on In California, you can now sell your ADU
To elaborate: this would be a fine policy IFF it were accompanied by other legislation that meaningfully improved the affordability of non-ADU homes as well.
ryeights··on In California, you can now sell your ADU
The idea is degrading. A generation of people for which the only feasible path to home ownership is living in a mobile/kit home in someone else’s backyard.
ryeights··on California is banning junk fees
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37817112
ryeights··on Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value
https://archive.ph/Y3OAM
ryeights··on Is the first cure for advanced rabies near?
>(and in fact didn’t work)

This review [1] cites 11 documented survival outcomes of the Milwaukee and related Recife protocols. Is there a basis to your claim?

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7670764/

ryeights··on More Than 80 Percent of Americans Can't Afford New Cars
Have you tried shopping for a car in the last 3 years? Because if you had I’d expect you wouldn’t be making this statement. In my area many used models are MORE expensive than new ones due to onerous wait times and dealer shenanigans.
ryeights··on Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster
Median personal income in the US is $40,480 as of 2022 [1]. That puts the Civic at 57%.

Moreover, Dodge was a mid-level marque in 1950. The proper comparison would be the Plymouth Deluxe, Chrysler’s entry-level full-size car, which had an base price of $1,386 [2], which comes out to 42% of income.

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA646N [2]: https://www.jdpower.com/cars/1950/plymouth/deluxe/2-door-cou...

ryeights··on Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster
This comment misses the point of the article. I.e., the monotony once required in hand-washing clothes (say by a housewife) has not been converted into free time, but rather converted into a different form of monotony (parents earning dual incomes)
ryeights··on Google assigns a CVE for libwebp and gives it a 10.0 score
All programming languages are syntactic sugar around processor instructions
ryeights··on Insider trade on Splunk acquisition?
What’s unusual is the volume of contracts purchased, not the contracts in and of themselves… without knowledge of a merger, these contracts had a 99.9% chance of expiring worthless the very next day, so buying $20k worth is rather suspicious…
ryeights··on Openmoji
Gone but not forgotten!
ryeights··on Ball milling destroys PFAS in contaminated soil
Namely?
ryeights··on WHO advises against use of artificial sweeteners
I can’t speak to OP’s claim about former smokers. However as a younger person who knows many younger never-smoker vape users, I can attest that they all consume vastly more nicotine than would ever be practical with cigarettes.

Vape pods are highly concentrated and you can use them anywhere, any time. No more need to bother with sneaking out of the house or taking smoke breaks.

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