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paulproteuson What's happening inside the NIH and NSF

https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-legal-challenges...

Seven restraining orders. Seems like lots is not legal.

paulproteuson What's happening inside the NIH and NSF

8 trillion is the amount the debt rose while Trump was in office last time: https://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/us-debt-by-president...

How much do you think he will raise it by during this term?

paulproteuson Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore

I don't see how that relates to my comment. Can you elaborate?

paulproteuson The Constitutional Crisis Is Here

I found this helpful to keep me up to date on the legal situation of various executive orders: https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-legal-challenges... . Overall for me, 8 executive orders subject to restraining orders sounds like the executive branch vastly exceeding its authority, which for three weeks of government, sounds like a constitutional crisis.

paulproteuson America desperately needs more air traffic controllers

Sounds good! Maybe you can start a business and have a low-stakes regional airport work with you. I think the main way to do it is as an add-on/assistant for the existing toolset.

paulproteuson The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

Gotcha. The reason I was mystified is that the budget is written by Congress, so I would guess a phone call to a leader in Congress with a desired budget number would do the job. Given that this doesn't seem to be the plan, I couldn't tell if maybe they had some other goal. I hope that explains how someone could be mystified.

paulproteuson The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

Since you know the people in question, do you have any ideas? I am honestly mystified myself and hopeful someone who knows the people in question can shed some light.

paulproteuson Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to Federal Payment System

Trillions of debt is a congress issue. Maybe this congress can pass some bills to resolve it. Not sure how that's relevant to 25 year olds since there are no current 25 year old congress members.

paulproteuson Medical billing firm Medusind discloses breach affecting 360k people

One good option is FTC action. They have worked on this in the past, e.g. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2018/10/... https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2018/01/...

paulproteuson Wall Street banks prepare to sell up to $3B in X loans next week

I wonder if Musk will buy the loans.

paulproteuson Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff

Makes sense. Their software product isn't very good. They should take the profits they have and diversify into other businesses.

paulproteuson Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denials on the rise

Confusing statement when Republicans are the reason Obamacare shipped without a public option

paulproteuson Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

OP lives in Austin. If you have $1M net worth, you can probably buy a house there and live there. If you don't go do that, I think you're just punishing yourself.

paulproteuson Tariffs Won't Work, Just as McKinley's Didn't

I think the most likely option is that their support for Trump is not economically motivated.

paulproteuson Ambulance hits cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill

I am honestly not so sure. What's the evidence for this claim?

paulproteuson Make It Ephemeral: Software Should Decay and Lose Data

For this reason, my browser's Downloads folder is /tmp.

paulproteuson Ask HN: Why is .NET never talked about as an option for solo/small team dev?

In a recent analysis of venture capital returns for companies based on programming language, for the top 50 Y Combinator companies at least as of 2019, Ruby is #1, and C# is just not in the list.

https://charliereese.ca/y-combinator-top-50-software-startup...

I have no affiliation with Y Combinator itself or the author of the post.

The particular analysis is pretty skewed in its own way, so you can take it with a pinch of salt.

As a general rule, programming languages have ecosystems and communities, and if you pick a language where quickly delivering high-value features to users/customers is part of the community, it helps your startup; you'll probably meet founders and get business advice if you go to a Ruby meetup, but less so at a C# one.

It's not the whole picture, since it doesn't speak to the technical part of your question.

paulproteuson CA Governor seeks to harness the power of GenAI to address homelessness

I hope the CA Governor can use GenAI to auto-respond to NIMBYs who block housing development in CA. It would be a time-saving measure for state housing departments who are already very busy.

paulproteuson Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw

What if the design flaw makes AIs unsafe? This would be a fun sci-fi piece.

paulproteuson Safe Superintelligence Inc.

When people operate a safe AI company, the company will make money. That money will be likely be used by employees or their respective national revenue agencies to fund unsafe things. I'd like to see this safe AI company binding its employees and owners from doing unsafe things with their hard-earned cash.

paulproteuson ChatGPT Is at Capacity Right Now

This is the most fun I've had listening to AI generated music. Thank you!

paulproteuson Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking in US first

There's a lot of writing about a trend of less drinking. Do you have information to the contrary of them?

Here are some references:

https://www.theiwsr.com/moderation-trend-drives-demand-for-n...

https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-gen-z-drag-down-...

paulproteuson Android features I envy as an iPhone user

On my iPhone, I use Wipr: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wipr/id1030595027

It integrates with the system browser and, I think, all embedded browsers. I only use the 'privacy-safe' subset of Wipr, that is, the passive filter list that Safari supports most efficiently. It works great. I'm sure there are other options that other iPhone users can recommend to you if you ever want to try it.

paulproteuson Palo Alto – Putting the Protecc in GlobalProtect (CVE-2024-3400)

People are worried about `curl|bash` but not worried enough about C++ programs calling Python to call bash to call curl.

paulproteuson What Is Green Software and Why Do We Need It?

Does the green software conference have talks about this topic and how to fix it? That would be very interesting!

(edited after posting: I read the article, and I see it's a movement, but not a conference. So same question, would love to see operating systems improvements be part of the green software movement, do you know if it is?)

paulproteuson Only real people can patent inventions – not AI, US Government says

I use this app for that: https://www.paprikaapp.com (no affiliation, just a happy customer)

paulproteuson GitHub Spam

Since LLMs model language, does anyone know of any LLM products/libraries that are spam detectors?

paulproteuson PinePhone review after a month of daily driving

With that kind of budget, you can get an iPhone SE 2020: https://www.backmarket.com/en-us/p/iphone-se-2020-64-gb-blac... . If you can spare an extra $50, I'd go for the current model: https://www.backmarket.com/en-us/p/iphone-se-2022-64-gb-star... ($202)

That's basically what I did: https://announce.asheesh.org/2022/09/i-switched-to-iphone-fo...

paulproteuson Apple dials back car's self-driving features and delays launch to 2028

Fair enough. I think the UX challenges are tougher than FPS, and secondarily the hardware challenges are also tougher than FPS, so I probably should have omitted the FPS mention in my comment to keep things focused. :D

paulproteuson Apple dials back car's self-driving features and delays launch to 2028

Personally I think VR is outside the domain of expertise of 3D games and game engines. To think that VR is within that domain is exactly the error -- VR as an overall product requires different consumer behavior than buying a game for a PC you already have. It requires buying a new kind of device or buying into a whole new form of interaction. It requires remembering to use that device and think about what games you have for it. It requires engineers to ship high FPS and low lag to prevent nausea to a degree unheard of for PC gaming.

Facebook's VR plan seems to hinge on being "even more ubiquitous than mobile" <https://officechai.com/learn/mark-zuckerbergs-email-explaini...>, which is a level of constant use that 3D games don't really have.

I am not a VR or 3D game expert, but even I can list other key differences. I bet you can too if you try. I think those are reasons to think VR is not really the same domain. I am curious what you think.