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Thanks for the link. His decades of tech columns were so well-served by his skeptic curmudgeon style. There's danger in bringing that persona to all topics, I now see, shown by thi…

I'm glad this worked for your family, but in my kids' experience this is too heavy to use as balance bike. By the time they were comfortable hoisting their de-pedaled 12" / 5.4kg b…

Just as ChatGPT is now called "Chat" by the kids (go ahead and finish grinding your teeth, I'll wait...), if Antigravity takes off then it'll get an irksome nickname like Antigrav …

NHTSA now recommends "8 and 4" hand position. Did see the memo about this? I'll go ahead and make sure you get another copy of that memo: https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/file…

The quote you've selected is an unfortunate example of the NYT poorly summarizing the findings of their own study (not your fault, they're the ones who wrote it). You can find a mo…

In the 70s in SF my father had his car window broken by someone who wanted to steal his parking space. He found his car pushed in front of an adjacent driveway, and ticketed. His d…

$9B/yr is less than half of the Pentagon's more recent estimate of $2T through 2088 for the F-35 program (according to Wikipedia and its sources, which is all I have to go on). And…

What's your source for: > California [has] removed qualified immunity for their law enforcement officers at the state level. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_im…

I think the only one lying here is Gwern for calling the NYT liars. Gwern's claim is that by discussing someone's vape-induced injury in an article about flavored nicotine vaping, …

> all they have to do is US IC assessment is Iran is 5-10y away from delivery tech, and there's no imminent threat.

Context: The FBI Director Is MIA - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813001 (18 days ago) F.B.I. Director Sues The Atlantic Over Article Claiming Excessive Drinking - https://…

Beware, this is a book excerpt rather than a standalone blog post, so it ends on a cliffhanger. Still a fun read.

> Our entire economy is built on scientific advancement and advantage. Devil's advocate: Only productivity gains, not the entire economy, are built on scientific advancement. But w…

The article charts a Nature survey that shows "percent trusting the scientific community" was sub-50% for both D's and R's from 1985-2015. That's more interesting and concerning to…

If you're the type of person who checks the comments on a post with this kind of headline, then you probably also want to (re-)watch the 2 minute highlight reel of Mark's backyard …

Israel violated the 2024 ceasefire over 10,000 times [0], not counting all the ones since Feb. 28. I guess this time they're not satisfied with having only 50 "freebies" a day. [0]…

> or just ignoring the laws, and illegally reporting from dangerous yellow or red zones I skimmed Wikipedia [1] but couldn't find any mention of laws in Ukraine that forbid reporti…

No, this is a different strike. Please read the NYT article you linked more carefully. > The Feb. 28 attack occurred the same day as a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile struck a school …

I assume this is an infuriatingly subtle parody, because: > Why can't you just celebrate this good thing? reads like /s .

Another situation where bad actors benefit. From the article: > What really interests Cian, who has published research[1] exploring how audiences tend to have less trust in media o…

Note the way he brushes off his own attorney's objections, not even looking at or reacting to her, while he discusses why someone who's mass-canceling grants doesn't need any grant…

No. This person should not try to circumvent moderation by creating new accounts. They should ask the moderation team for reinstatement of normal posting privileges, but be willing…

Coincidentally, I just used hn.algolia to look up one of your old comments where you describe being sandblasted, and was surprised to find the most recent use of "sandblasted" on H…

Besides the telltale "it's not x, it's y" used repeatedly in their comment history, I also struggle to imagine what would motivate a human to type such blandly agreeable jargon-fil…