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mise_en_place··on Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B
I'd recommend US Bank.
mise_en_place··on It looks like the status/need-triage label was removed
Now that's what I call job security.
mise_en_place··on Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
Because voluntary association isn't really allowed in the United States. You are forced to associate with people you don't want to, for a variety of reasons.
mise_en_place··on How will the miracle happen today?
It's a distinct possibility. What's more likely is that this person is an example of someone robbed of their own agency, either intentionally or not.

It leads to becoming dependent on others, a true Last Man in the original sense. That's where the resentment starts on the part of the giver, especially when enabling people such as this repeatedly and on long enough timescales.

What's become clear to me is that there isn't anything inherently wrong (morally speaking) with these people, but they need to be moved out of the way so to speak. They cannot be allowed to escape their various containment zones, and the mechanism for their containment must be strengthened.

mise_en_place··on Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
I'm not making a normative judgement here, it's just my observation as the child of immigrants myself. There are of course exceptions to the rule. I'm making an argument in the context of political economy, please don't take it personally.
mise_en_place··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
2-3 years max in a federal country club prison, minimum security. Then it's off to Switzerland or Dubai with his ill gotten gains. It is rather sad to see people having a personal stake in this. It's a big club, and you ain't in it.
mise_en_place··on Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
HN has been a kaleidoscope of the human psyche. idlewords dissing pg, Michael o' church's rants, Terry's slow break into insanity, etc. I'm thankful above all that this place still exists.
mise_en_place··on Crypto hoarders dump tokens as shares tumble
This is unsurprising. Maxis won't care, because in theory they don't care about the price. The only people complaining about this are those who bought at the top and made unsound financial decisions.

If you couldn't tell the majority of crypto influencers were foreigners before Twitter/X disclosed their location, I don't know what to tell you.

mise_en_place··on From blood sugar to brain relief: GLP-1 therapy slashes migraine frequency
It's Gila monster venom. You may become a druid while taking it.
mise_en_place··on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030
The reason for this is that leverage is extremely expensive and punished in the current macro regime. OpenAI will lose money faster if they scale up. That's because the Fed can capitulate all it wants, but real interest rates and real yields won't move. The market is saying "pay me".
mise_en_place··on There may not be a safe off-ramp for some taking GLP-1 drugs, study suggests
> TRT is no longer limited to men with clinical hypogonadism. Men’s health clinics that advertise on social media, TV, and radio will prescribe to anyone who contacts them (and pays cash for the prescription and gear). In some surveys of patients on TRT, 1/4 of patients didn’t even have testosterone levels measured prior to initiation of TRT.

That's hugely problematic if true. They should be investigated and if found of wrongdoing, have their medical licenses revoked.

mise_en_place··on There may not be a safe off-ramp for some taking GLP-1 drugs, study suggests
By what mechanism? That's not how it works. LH and FSH are suppressed when you're on TRT, but they stabilize after cessation. The question is, why would someone with clinical hypogonadism cease TRT?
mise_en_place··on What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality
Expectations and reality will differ. Ultimately we will have soft eugenics. This is a good thing in the long run, especially with how crowded the global south is.

Nature always finds a way, and it's telling you not to pass your genetics on. It seems cruel, but it is efficient and very elegant. Now we just need to find an incentive structure to encourage the intelligent to procreate.

mise_en_place··on After my dad died, we found the love letters
At the end of the day it's about integrity.

One of my relatives is an MtF transwoman now.

Her wife was the first person she told about it, and they are still together, with a daughter.

It was a little weird for me when I found out, but if her wife is OK with it, and they're providing a stable home for their daughter, I don't see an issue with it; not really my business.

The issue is being dishonest, for decades. That's the primary issue. There are always excuses, but living your life with integrity is of the utmost importance.

mise_en_place··on X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run
Their humiliation ritual is just beginning.
mise_en_place··on We remain alive also in a dead internet
On the contrary, it is the creation of synthetic life that reaffirms humanity and what it means to be human. Don't blame the mirror for what you see (or don't see).
mise_en_place··on We remain alive also in a dead internet
The counterpoint is that we must formalize the rights of sentient synthetic beings. The Emergency Medical Hologram gained sentience and was horrified to find his next version was relegated to cleaning ships as a glorified janitor. Whereas he developed his own hobbies, interests, hopes, dreams, and even romantic relationships in the Delta Quadrant.
mise_en_place··on OpenAI signs $38B cloud computing deal with Amazon
Correct, oAI is short rates vol.
mise_en_place··on OpenAI signs $38B cloud computing deal with Amazon
It doesn't freak me out and it's actually completely rational. If both OpenAI and AMZN expect real rates to keep rising while inflation spirals out of control, this deal makes a lot of sense for both of them. They're just duration hedging.
mise_en_place··on AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds
The average person in 2025 has been so thoroughly stripped of their humanity, that even a simulacrum of a human is enough.
mise_en_place··on Guess I'm a Rationalist Now
Yeah. It's not like everything's a Talmudic dialectic.

"I haven't done anything!" - A Serious Man

mise_en_place··on Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site
For actual SERDES, JSON becomes very brittle. It's better to use something like protobuf or cap'n'proto for such cases.
mise_en_place··on Joining Sun Microsystems – 40 years ago (2022)
Every Sun alum that I had the pleasure of working with was brilliant.

Truly learned a lot from them, especially when pair programming. Must have been a special place to work at.

mise_en_place··on New York Times shut down Tor Onion service
Listen closely when people tell you who they are.
mise_en_place··on A 2FA app that tells you when you get `314159` (2024)
They're still around, they just happen to be on X/Telegram.

Roughly speaking they're in two camps: Groypers and BAP-adjacent Yarvinites. I suppose both are "Nazi" in the sense they are anti-intellectual and anti-egalitarian. Some are paid. Some do it for free.

I don't see much of an equivalent on the left, maybe extreme far left Zizarian types or femcel/misandrists.

mise_en_place··on Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone
Do you volunteer for such a massive undertaking?

Sarcasm aside, I'm seeing a lot of wackiness on both sides of the political spectrum lately. The Constitution is fine and provides provisions for changing it via amendments. You guys aren't involved in the political process at all, I caucused and was a delegate so I can tell you the system is fine and working as intended. Don't complain about it if you aren't even involved in the process. That just makes you look silly.

mise_en_place··on Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone
I think he took issue with your framing that democracy is interpreted. Judges don't interpret "democracy", that would be silly. Judges interpret the law.

I do agree with the general gist of the point you are making however. The Constitution itself holds no special power, it is the State's monopoly on violence that does.

mise_en_place··on OpenAI O3-Mini
Too little too late IMO. This is not impressive at all, what am I missing here?
mise_en_place··on Kevin Langdon's 'Omni' IQ test
I'm more of a wordcel than a shape rotator myself. It's not that I can't, it's more so that I get terribly bored when doing it. The last time I can remember being excited about it was in elementary school, where I was tested for spatial reasoning and put in some gifted mathematics class. Incidentally, my verbal skills were very poor at the time, I tended towards being very quiet and keeping to myself.

As I grew older and my verbal skills improved, I switched to the abstraction that comes with language. I also became more outgoing; I'm still an introvert but nowhere near what I was when I was a child. I suspect if you took a random Masaai hunter, they would do very well at these kinds of spatial reasoning tests.

Even in my career as a software engineer, I still tend to rubber duck a lot and really excelled at pair-programming. That's why I really enjoy using LLMs when programming now. When I transitioned to engineering management, I learned over the years to get out of the way of my directs who performed better alone; many times I wouldn't even meet with them for a month, and that made them extremely productive.

The issue with a lot of organizations is that they don't account for the variety in problem-solving techniques and abstractions that engineers use. Engineers are not some monolith that always need to be managed from the top-down; you should always play to their strengths and support a variety of problem-solving styles.

mise_en_place··on From where I left
The license change is a necessary evil, otherwise BigCo will continue EEE and extract value from the project without giving anything back. It's time to hit them where it hurts. The world will be a better place if Google collapsed tomorrow. FOSS must adapt to SaaS and the modern rent-seeking behaviors of BigCos.
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