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This is a pro Blind post and I appreciate that you took the time to write it up in such detail :)

I am not the GP of course, but I kinda enjoyed being tiger-parented here, it's at least entertaining and might even be good for my career.

Super pro comment, should be much higher in the thread. You should write about this in more detail somewhere! And link it here.

> "Maybe you're too fussy?"

I agree with the parent. "You're holding it wrong." /s

Besides the "unrelated legislation" thing, this is just such blatant corporate welfare for the American BigCo's that will buy Tiktok. Microsoft and Google are absolutely salivating at the thought of buying their way into a major social network in 2024, and not only will the Feds not go after them for antitrust, they'll actually greenlight it in advance and mandate the sale. Big tech lobbying money well spent!

In "The Right Stuff" Tom Wolfe claimed that pilots talk like this because they are (unconsciously, due to cultural reasons) imitating a famous/high-status fighter pilot from many years ago called Chuck Yeager, who had a West-Virginia drawl.

Ah yes Nepal and Somalia, the USA is in good company.

Oh man the "sell Tiktok" thing is just pure corporate welfare for whatever US-based BigCo buys Tiktok. Spoiler alert, it will be one of the BigCo's that enthusiastically lobbied for this bill. Regulatory capture at its finest, in service of a social media tri-opoly.

Microsoft and Google must be absolutely salivating right now, imagine being able to buy your way into operating a major social network in 2024, and not only do the Feds not come after you for antitrust, they actually mandate the sale and greenlight it in advance!

The blatant vote-buying will continue until the polls improve.

Well in defense of the GP, the "planes can observably fly upside down" point (and its close cousin the "flat wing cross sections can fly too" point) is a good one, this pokes holes in the usual two-dimensional "the air goes faster on top" themed explanation that omits any discussion of vortex shedding/third-dimensional effects.

I am in a semi-similar situation and I use an MVNO called Ting. I don't claim it will work in every country, but it works in lots of countries (all that I've tried) to receive 2FA SMS, and costs usually less than 10 bucks a month depending on how much you use it overseas.

My phone number works great for Whatsapp and Telegram. However, the caveat is that they don't currently support e-SIM, so if you have a USA market iPhone 15 (no SIM slot) then you're out of luck with Ting, and presumably future iphones will also not support hard SIM cards. Overseas (at least EU) market iphone 15's mostly seem to have SIM slots still, so maybe that's a workaround.

Furthermore they seem to be mostly honest, let you chat online with an actual English speaking human on relatively short notice, and have a fairly straightforward website without a bunch of dumb interface chrome. Also it's a "real" phone number so it doesn't trigger the VOIP detection filters that sometimes plague you during various signups.

Lastly, I suspect that probably many other MVNO's will offer a similar setup, they're cheap so you can probably A/B/C/D test a handful of them in parallel in whatever subset of countries is relevant to you.

>> "... turn the chat bot off entirely"

This sounds like an ideal outcome!

Possibly there are other wolf subspecies that are more aggressive; there are many (anecdotal) stories of non-rabid wolf attacks e.g. in Canada and Alaska, and Wikipedia [0] seems to bear this out.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks_in_North_...

>> "At least Hyundai hasn't been faking emissions tests..."

Not to devil's advocate, but it's tough to prove a negative. All we can say for sure is that they've not been caught yet.

The "exploiting edges on your own" thing is a great point and I like it a lot, but there's also something to be said for always trying to have one "tentpole" element in your life which is a reliable bright spot, even if other elements of your life are chaotic/problematic/in flux etc.

This could be different elements at different times, e.g. you could lean really heavily on a friend group for a couple years, then later become religious and let your Church be your life's Northstar for a while as the friend group organically scatters, then later go deep with your family, or a sport, or travel, or whatever.

Right now it seems like your job is probably filling that "reliable bright spot" role in your life, and imho it's not worth discarding that until another independent element is clearly ready to fill that "bright spot" role.

Most of the fasteners on the airframe are probably not bolts, e.g. rivets on aluminum airframes. But yes it's surely still a lot of bolts.

What do I type into google to find this?

By far the most pro comment in this thread, should be much higher.

Thank you for ec2instances! I use it a lot and it's really great :)

> "What's hard about AI that requires special expertise?"

Several years ago on HN there was a blog post which (attempted to) answer this question in detail, and I have been unsuccessfully trying to find it for a long time. The extra facts I can remember about it are:

* It was by a fairly well known academic or industry researcher

* It had reddish graphics showing slices of the problem domain stacking up like slices of bread

* It was on HN, either as a submission or in the comments, between 2016 and 2018.

If anybody knows the URL to this post, I would be stoked!

My daily driver phone is an iPhone 7+, which Wikipedia tells me is from 2016. It works great and people often compliment the pictures from its camera. That's not "8+ years old" but it's in the ballpark :)

Yeah this is great, shocking how reliable the speech-to-text is even for my unconventional accent.

Imho UX would be improved by a larger text box, more clear demarcation between "stuff I've said" and "stuff the bot said," similar to how iMessage or Whatsapp have two-column message layouts or blue-vs-grey or both.

Also maybe some "hold spacebar to activate mic" keybindings would not go amiss, similar to how Zoom or Gmeet makes the mic hot if you're muted but hold spacebar. That would save a lot of choppy/distracting clicking. (Or possibly just make the mic hot all the time when the bot isn't talking?)

Out of curiosity, what countries are those?

>> "...but this just seems really shortsighted."

This guy made literally (tens of?) millions of dollars in revenue from his software. Sure the gravy train stopped, but man I hope to be shortsighted like that someday.

The article claims "...will not impose any penalties on individuals using the app". A commenter elsewhere in this thread links to the law itself, which could presumably disambiguate, though I've not read it.

One underappreciated aspect of this is ban is that anyone who wants Tiktok will just go download it in Wyoming or Idaho etc, as it seems to be merely a ban on downloading the app, and not a ban on Tiktok traffic itself. So the ban will have near zero actual impact in practice (even if it somehow makes it into effect).

Furthermore, it's unclear if the web app of Tiktok will be affected, or if it's only a ban on the mobile app.

Source: Am Montanan

I am also interested in this, IIRC my PKO and Mbank accounts are not that high.

Much is made of "independent central bank," though I typically think of that independence in the same light as "newspaper with independent newsroom which is firewalled off of the advertising/commercial side such that editorial decisions are never influenced by the business."

In practice Congress and the Fed are sibling entities in the same system, which cooperate when stressed (there are many historical examples of this, e.g. WW2). The alignment is obviously not perfect, but there is much more coordination than "totally independent" as is often bandied about.

> "...the Federal Reserve will keep pushing those interest rates higher and higher..."

They really can't raise interest rates much above 5%, this follows straightforwardly from observing how much of the national budget is consumed by debt service as a function of the interest rate. (Higher rate = larger fraction of budget allocated to debt service, obviously.)

If they go above five-ish percent, this implies that they'll need to either A) raise taxes to a level that would likely inspire mutiny, B) greatly reduce borderline-impossible-to-cut parts of the budget such as the military industrial complex + welfare spending broadly construed, C) increase productivity by a lot, D) monetize the debt or E) default on the debt.

Probably they will attempt to pick F) all of these, in varying degrees, though obviously some are easier to implement than others. Anyway it is very unlikely that we will see rates much above 5% in the foreseeable future.

The common answer to this question is that the base rate could be set by some free-market themed mechanism, where the price (aka base rate) depends on the balance of supply and demand for loans, instead of the current status quo of centrally-planned rates.