- Well, if we compare what we know about China's NGAD, which is almost nothing, with what we know about US NGAD, which is also almost nothing, we can safely conclude almost nothing.
- Can you clarify what are you talking about? The US has been developing 6th-gen fighter since the mid mid-2010s - not that I'd consider it as an important new original invention.
What I would consider as the most impactful inventions of the last decade would be things like mRNA, Generative AI, and reusable rockets - all came from the US and the US is maintaining the lead in them.
- I've noticed when it comes to evaluating AI models, most people simply don't ask difficult enough questions. So everything is good enough, and the preference comes down to speed and style.
It's when it becomes difficult, like in the coding case that you mentioned, that we can see the OpenAI still has the lead. The same is true for the image model, prompt adherence is significantly better than Nano Banana. Especially at more complex queries.
- You'd very likely be wrong. People said the same thing in Trump's first cycle.
We tend to overestimate the short term effects due to polarization and the constant media cycle.
- This is an area where hacker news shows its weakness. We have:
1. A chart showing a very low increase (1-2 percent)
2. Nothing to control scores rising in every school in America in the last school year (due to reduction of COVID effects).
3. Scores not moving immediately after the ban, but only after the start of a new school year, which means a new cohort of students muddying the data.
Yet the data fits people's biases here (regardless whether it's right or wrong), so the celebrate it and add anecdotes and explanations why it's true.
- Those who have to work capture almost all of society.
It’s a little odd to clump everyone into the same bucket of wealth.
- Melbourne has an excellent ambulance response time (defined from the moment 000 call is received to when the first ambulance resource arrives on scene):
* Average Code 1 response time: 12 minutes 47 seconds
* Code 1 responses within 15 minutes: 77.2%
* Number of Code 1 first responses: 12,375
This places Melbourne among the faster councils in the state, and well ahead of the statewide average response time.
Source: The Victorian Parliamentary Budget Office’s 2025 report: https://static.pbo.vic.gov.au/files/PBO_Ambulance-funding-an...
- It occludes dentinal tubules, helping reduce dentin hypersensitivity. It's a tooth-desensitizing agent helping people who are for example, very sensitive to very cold/hot temperature in their mouth.
There is evidence that it can foster enamel/dentin mineral gain, but head to head studies shows that it's comparable to regular fluoride toothpaste and not superior. E.g. In a randomized in-situ trial (Caries Research, 2017), adding 5% NovaMin to a 927-ppm SMFP toothpaste did not improve remineralization outcomes vs the same fluoride formula without NovaMin.
Also, you can find NovaMin in the US (e.g., NUPRO Sensodyne Prophylaxis Paste with NovaMin).
- He said a lot of things that are not backed up by the study he shared but didn't link, where powders clearly underperform pods.
At the end of the day, it'd have been much better for this community if we could have just gained access to a proper study comparing different cleaning options and learn from it instead of watching a 40 minutes video that doesn't say much and doesn't link to the study which is briefly mentioned there.
- I find his videos to have quite a bit of hand waving and poor methodology together with being overly verbose.
For example, he kept on saying that pods are not better in previous videos, but in the study he presented in this video, it showed that pods are performing significantly better than powders in every category. The study (which was not linked and I couldn't find it) was sponsored by a powder maker which the video recommends, but even this study showed just on par results with pods.
- Exactly. The US private space industry is thriving and profitable. That's exactly what makes it so efficient and dominant.
- I really don't get this sentiment. 80% of orbital launches last year were Americans. The USA hasn't been this dominant in the space race since the 60s.
- Is your suggestion to ban future sex robots in order to make sure that human-to-human connection is more robust? (I don't know the right answer, just that intuitively it seems not right to do it, even if the outcome of very good sex robots means less couples / less children / etc.).
- Canadian manufacturers (Sandoz and Apotex) are preparing to launch their own generic versions in early 2026.
I bet many Americans would travel to Canada to buy it there (despite the legality concerns). The medications lasts 2 years in a refrigerator.
- Isn't the best performing (markdown tables) and the worst (pipe delimited tables) basically the same format?
- I've copied the required features from your linked document. With that said, I'd say most people tend to have every trait there to some extent. So I'm not sure that the medical criteria is as specific as you implied. It seems like the main criteria they use is that the symptoms cause significant impairment in your life.
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Essential (Required) Features:
Persistent deficits in initiating and sustaining social communication and reciprocal social interactions that are outside the expected range of typical functioning given the individual’s age and level of intellectual development.
Specific manifestations of these deficits vary according to chronological age, verbal and intellectual ability, and disorder severity.
Manifestations may include limitations in the following:
Understanding of, interest in, or inappropriate responses to the verbal or non-verbal social communications of others.
Integration of spoken language with typical complimentary non-verbal cues, such as eye contact, gestures, facial expressions and body language.
These non-verbal behaviours may also be reduced in frequency or intensity.
Understanding and use of language in social contexts and ability to initiate and sustain reciprocal social conversations.
Social awareness, leading to behaviour that is not appropriately modulated according to the social context.
Ability to imagine and respond to the feelings, emotional states, and attitudes of others.
Mutual sharing of interests.
Ability to make and sustain typical peer relationships.
Persistent restricted, repetitive, and inflexible patterns of behaviour, interests, or activities that are clearly atypical or excessive for the individual’s age and sociocultural context.
These may include:
Lack of adaptability to new experiences and circumstances, with associated distress, that can be evoked by trivial changes to a familiar environment or in response to unanticipated events.
Inflexible adherence to particular routines; for example, these may be geographic such as following familiar routes, or may require precise timing such as mealtimes or transport.
Excessive adherence to rules (e.g., when playing games).
Excessive and persistent ritualized patterns of behaviour (e.g., preoccupation with lining up or sorting objects in a particular way) that serve no apparent external purpose.
Repetitive and stereotyped motor movements, such as whole body movements (e.g., rocking), atypical gait (e.g., walking on tiptoes), unusual hand or finger movements and posturing.
These behaviours are particularly common during early childhood.
Persistent preoccupation with one or more special interests, parts of objects, or specific types of stimuli (including media) or an unusually strong attachment to particular objects (excluding typical comforters).
Lifelong excessive and persistent hypersensitivity or hyposensitivity to sensory stimuli or unusual interest in a sensory stimulus, which may include actual or anticipated sounds, light, textures (especially clothing and food), odors and tastes, heat, cold, or pain.
The onset of the disorder occurs during the developmental period, typically in early childhood, but characteristic symptoms may not become fully manifest until later, when social demands exceed limited capacities.
The symptoms result in significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning.
Some individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder are able to function adequately in many contexts through exceptional effort, such that their deficits may not be apparent to others.
A diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder is still appropriate in such cases.
- No - they are the fastest growing by subscribers count.
Note that they exist for only a year and went from 0 to 36M subscribers.
Nobody disputed that mRNA, like all science, has many inventors. And that many people in the west as a whole has worked on the technology. Everything you said about the contributions to mRNA is correct, and doesn’t diminish US’s critical part in it.
The point was, and remains, that saying that the US has stopped becoming innovative, is just nonsense.