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> Do you really think that's what people are complaining about here? Not the professors being fired, the well known economists being forced to resign? There was a professor who lost his status running a residence hall because he was on the legal defense team for someone despicable.

So the only actual example I was able to google here was the last one: and I have to say, is that it? A guy wasn’t asked back as a dorm administrator once he joined Harvey Weinstein’s legal team? That’s the “cancel culture” you’re talking about, in contrast to one of the most brutal and grotesque onslaught of police brutality in the west in recent memory?

Like you realise the protests were sparked off by a murder, right?

This is what I mean when I say it’s ridiculous. The Harvard guy didn’t even lose his job, for goodness’ sake.

> Everything the protestors are doing has probably set us back a decade.

Where did I defend or endorse the actions of protestors?
My point is simply that it’s ridiculous to think the main authoritarian crisis in the US right now is “cancel culture” when it is literally in the midst of a brutal police crackdown against protestors.

Also I’m sorry but it’s hard to take you seriously with regards to police violence when you didn’t mention a single thing the police did wrong in your list of grievances, but you’re happy to talk about the protestors.

> every major spike in crime due to police being defunded instead of retrained

This is not a view supported by the evidence.

> We have a legal and social framework for affecting longterm change and it works much better than arson.

The US has more prisoners per capita than any society at any point in history in the world. The police are armed and violent. And those systems which apparently work so well have been in place throughout all this. But maybe you should tell me more about how these systems work so well.

Also I’m continually amazed that Americans forget their proud history of violent protest so quickly. It always seems like protest against injustice was fine in some unspecified “past” but of course all of that Is behind us now and The best we can do is vote (vote for the party at least partly responsible for the state of the police today, by the way).
I feel like PG has neglected the literature with this one. The two axis are probably aligned with exisiting traits from the field of psychology (agreeableness seems relevant for starters). It's nice that he considered all this, but I think he did so in his own bubble.

There can be benefits from reinventing things in your own way, but to completely overlook the existing work can be a mistake too. There is so much more out there on this stuff than analogies from junior high.
15 minutes drive seems quite far away to get to anything. The residential area where I grew up in had all the basics within 10-15 minutes walk. From kindergarten age to finishing secondary school I could do almost everything on my own by walking or cycling there. I rarely had to have and adult driving me. Before turning 16 I was pretty much only ever in a car or public transport for weekend trips to the mountains or going to another city. While the car is certainly convenient, it takes someones time to drive it.
This is neat! That said, I don't think the statistical size makes this a conclusion you can draw:

- "a reply rate of 1% (1 in 100 users)"

- "a reply rate of 4% (1 in 25 users)"

- "a reply rate of 8% (1 in 12 users)"

Sorry to say but... we really can't draw a conclusion like this strictly from these kinds of numbers.

Totally possible these conclusions ARE true, but I'd test at a bigger scale and/or with qualitative research with users.
Not sure about the business models, but it might generate pseudo-translations of the same article, like this:

https://www.news98.info/indian-it-consultancies-wrestle-towa...

My eyes bled trying to read that hash.
I said it in a jokingly way, but it would really be a nice read.

The hype is huge in that train, but I'm sure there must be lots of professionals that have already learned about its shortcomings. Not sure if proper studies exist about Kubernetes yet, though. Hopefully you'll get a PR with some content.
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The quoted claim that I responded to was the claim that "it's never too early to know". Any my claim was made in relation to the hypothetical scenario that I spelled out, where it was not specified that the individual in question was sick.

I think you think I'm changing what I'm saying because you're still making the quantifier scope error. If you read through my comments paying more careful attention to the quantifier scope, you'll see that I've been saying the same thing consistently. I can only make sense of your responses if they are objections to "for all x, you're better off not knowing x", rather than to what I actually said. This misunderstanding is evident from several of your first comments. E.g. "Your hypothetical includes every illness and thus, cancer", and "This unambiguously refers to the list in its entirety." These replies only makes sense if you imagine that I'm saying that you don't want to know anything on the list. But this simply isn't what I said. Or at least, it's the least plausible interpretation of my original comment, and inconsistent with the explanations I've repeatedly made of what I meant.

I don't know why you are so reluctant to accept this. Early in this thread I politely pointed out the quantifier scope error in your interpretation. And the wrong interpretation that you insist on attributing to me has me saying something implausibly ridiculous (i.e. that all medical tests are bad!) Go back to my examples (A) and (B) earlier. Do you have difficulty understanding that (A) does not entail (B)? I doubt it. So why is it difficult for your to understand my claim about the list? I'm baffled.

The pie analogy is a good one. Every piece of the pie is nutritious and worth eating (let's say). Similarly, every item on the unrealistically comprehensive list of medical information may be useful in and of itself. But just like you can have more pie than is good for you, you can have more information about future problems and risks than is good for you.
I don't think this is a fair assumption. The work is going to be defined by the client... so if the client wants .Net 3.0 experts to maintain a legacy system, then that's what they are going to get. I have worked for and with Indian IT firms (I'm not Indian myself) and in most cases the directive is to use latest standards and best practices. In my case it has to do with cloud architectures. Outsourcing is something that still needs onsite experts that can help guide the project and critique/review what is being developed. Clients that are mostly hands off during the development are inevitably going to have significant struggles.
(Current green card holder) I was scheduled to have my citizenship interview in early April that got de-scheduled. On USCIS website it still says I’m scheduled to complete the citizenship process in August, which seems unlikely. Do you have any insight as to whats a realistic timeline to receive my citizenship?
Deep threads hide the reply button temporarily as an anti-flamewar thing (You can still reply by clicking on the timestamp to go to the comments permalink, it's just intended to be a soft deterrent against too much back-and-forth). Purely downvotes shouldn't disable replies, only if a comment gets killed (by flags or automated filters) it gets disabled.
I'm from Hungary and I agree. I don't think this is a democracy. In fact it never was. We never recovered from communism we just changed the old mafia to a new one.
Cool, thanks. Other than the lack of dual core Ram and some cooling issues, the original sounded like a great cheap laptop.

I'd personally also no longer buy a laptop without usb-c-pd.

Sounds like they've addressed those. I hope Walmart picks it up.
> That's how things tend to work when people are so alienated or disenfranchised from the system that change within the system becomes impossible, yes.

And it almost never ends well.
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> everyone will instantly do it

With the current state of software development, I'd wait at least a year, like when a new Windows version comes out (or less in case of iPhone iOS).

I don't like to beta-test with my HW; I wouldn't do it with my body.
The problem in the latter case isn't solved by adding more journalists.
I look on in desperate horror at the blatant, authoritarian corruption happening every single day at the White House, and yet the only righteous anger I see on the “intellectual watering hole” of HN is towards cancel culture. I don’t get it. Don’t people read the news? How do you not have an ulcer from watching this shit every day for four years?
Definitely. I was trying to argue something about intermixing logging with app logic :) It indeed seems to me the decision about what to log should be the caller's, not the callee's, and so it shouldn't be hardcoded within the latter.
it’s official. substack is the new medium. a platform mostly for worthless “expert” opinion.
Why? They were being quite racist towards each other. Should I get involved somehow? Other than 'be angry' what are my choices? I literally can not change what those two do to each other. I sure did not feel sympathy towards either of the two people. I see neither party doing much to help at all. I see one party who has promised to fix that exact issue and made it much worse with poor economic choices and making people think they are getting a good deal. The people of those cities have consistently voted for that. So it is what they wanted. Now they seem shocked that they have made it worse. They literally voted for it.
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Yes, I agree entirely. Removing socially necessary goods like food, housing, and healthcare from financialized speculation would resolve many that issues countries like the US face.
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It's pretty clear that you don't get to keep your knowledge of the world as it is today - if you did, the question would collapse to "Do you support slavery?" which is much less interesting.

Asking what your ancestors believed is also a bit of a miss. My ancestors in the US were all German-American, and German-Americans overwhelmingly opposed slavery, so my ancestors probably opposed it, and I probably would have opposed it too if I had been part of that population, but that's obviously a total cop-out.

So take the framing of, say you were born into a white slave-owning family in the antebellum American South. Would you have freed your slaves and joined the abolitionist movement? The actual people in that situation weren't entirely a monolith - surely at least a few of them actually did that. But if the actual share who did so was, say, 1% of the population, then you have to think you're in the top 1% in terms of some combination of empathy, racial tolerance, forward-thinkingness, etc. to claim that you would. The question is useful because we're not different than people 200 years ago, no matter how much we like to think we are.

I think the obvious and more explicit follow-up question is even better though - "What beliefs do you hold today that will be viewed as negatively 200 years from now as slavery is today?" If the answer is "none," we must be in such a utopia to have finally reached the end-state of human moral development.
Sorry silly question, still learning. Can you talk about how your linode setup is? Do you report back the same fields?
beware the "mineshaft gap"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23712008
While the parent is getting down-voted because his comment is presumed to be supportive of the "enemy". I think he brings up an important talking point regarding the press/media. While I don't think lies are the right way to describe it I do think there is a truth problem in much of the media today left/right and both political and non-political news. Sensationalizing and Click-Bait is a form of dishonestly and leads to people having skewed understandings of events and their relative importance. I think this is not primarily driven by politics but the economics of the "attention economy." And the question of what is the effect of this on wider society is import to consider.
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Two things: dividends, and significantly less covid-drop than all my other stocks.

I don't consider myself a brilliant trader (that would be Warren Buffet) but I do like a bit of the balance he preaches. Banks are indeed slow moving, but they are less likely to die away in today's rough and tumble.

Since everything is universally down right now since Covid became more of a reality than distant news, I'll happily leave a chunk of my money on shares that I know will still be worth something when I'm ready to exercise them. I have "play money" which I would refer to a pool of shares that wobble around insanely and generally make good for me, and a bunch on banks as a safe buffer. The dividends are automatically put back into shares on the bank, so I have now some fractional shares, too.

I bought the majority of my bank shares at the point I figured the banks "bottomed out" from the initial shock of Covid lockdown. I certainly wouldn't buy them when everyone is up since, as you have alluded to, it would take forever to profit on it then. Slow and steady wins that particular race. Volatile over a longer period of time is too risky if you want to "set it and forget it" and it'll make more money for you than simply leaving it in the bank.
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If you get pulled into an unmarked van by someone who is not wearing a police badge. That is an abduction, not an arrest, regardless of whether the person doing it happens to belong to a law enforcement organization.
I think along with the physical office, you also have to post it in journals/job boards etc., I think it should not be impacted, but will wait for proberts to respond.
The one off DSL exists. It’s worse because you may think it doesn’t but it does: it’s just in the comments. The fact that COMMENTS have side effects that affect how your code is built is so backwards I don’t get the justification.
>but why would any country do that? China's economic and financial data reporting seems to be spotty at best.

If yuan is good enough for china then it's good enough for other countries with lower GDP than china.

China is where mega GDP numbers are happening, it's much better to use the currency of place where services/products are actually being produced rather than places where money is coming out of thin air with clever financial engineering.
I can see that I am getting a lot of questions about options to move to the U.S. The answer is going to be very fact-specific - tied to your background/achievements. If you would like me to assess your options, please email me your CV.
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Though, if the maintenance schedule items are mostly of the form "W needs to be inspected after X flight hours, Y landings, or Z days since last inspection", there's probably significantly less experience backing up the Z parameter.
Things like this are exactly why I stop and pay attention whenever Hillel Wayne starts to speak.
Or that capital could be returned to the people whose labor earned in the first place.
It's hard to identify which practices are responsible for which outcomes. Suppose you wanted to combine the high happiness rate of Denmark with the low crime rate of Japan; how would you figure out which are the policies you need to accomplish that?
Worth noting that the "aggressively non-conformist" quadrant includes not just inventors and leaders but also criminals and trolls. For some reason the essay downplays that.

Also, is it just me, or does it seem like most of pg's recent essays are attempts to "poison the well" against anyone who might try to hold him and his peers accountable for their contributions to the sorry state of our society? He doesn't directly attack them, but he seems to be coming at a general "social pressure is bad" theme from multiple directions lately.
Well, at least from where I sit they're still getting plenty of business as with the apparent sun-setting of the H1-B program companies are just hiring offshoring firms instead.
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The amount of negativity in the comments is astonishing (and has been with regards to all of his recent essays). Which is perverse on a couple of levels:

1. PG's essay outlines a theory that the majority of the world is conventionally-minded and doesn't like to discuss new ideas. The comments here perfectly resemble that theory. PG wins. (Edit: at the time of writing, the comments were exclusively negative. This has changed since.)

2. If you don't like his writing and his world view (the brave startup founder is the hero), then why come to HN? Why support someone's website and accelerator/fund if you think they are so wrong?

3. While recognizing the limitations of this framework (see below), let's recognize that PG became very wealthy by employing the brave founder thesis. There's got to be a lot of truth there.

If there's anything wrong with PG's writing, it's that he doesn't spell out the truth for you - which is that in 99% of the cases, you're not the target audience. This essay is the perfect example. The quadrant he's romanticizing about is the smallest one, and of course most people are not going to see themselves resembling those characteristics. Many other essays have this quality - it's easy to walk away realizing that you're either not young enough, or not hard-working enough, or not smart enough, or not in a position to take the required risks to be the target audience. And that hurts, because it's true. Just don't shoot the messenger.

For clarification, all you get from being a part of PG's target audience is having a certain set of traits which are good for one thing, but would also disqualify you from being an astronaut and pursuing many other desirable careers.
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I am not sure why this bank example keeps coming up. Almost no twitter user tries to contact support like they contact their teller for their bank. It’s really bad that 20% of the company had access to user data. No wonder it was abused in the past. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-saud...
Ahhh... I think I was just on the wrong track, I was looking at the parent comment trying to place a 1a), 1b), 2a) ordering onto the points they made and getting confused.

Thanks!
This is still very shallow thinking. Every company that views tech as a cost rather than a way to generate revenue will invest in these contracts/offshore centres, and that is the noose round their neck.

In most cases, but not all, hiring consultants suggests you don't understand enough about your own business to manage it yourself (insert image of senior executive trying to work out the Zoom so they can check their staff aren't slacking off like their damn nephew, useless kid, thinks he knows everything). The cost advantages really aren't that large either...sure, the staff cost less but they hire 10x more staff, they are slower, and when the requirements change you are done for.

Btw, some places are very good for outsourcing (Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Belarus) but India is definitely not one of them imo...which is bizarre given how many engineers, prevalence of English, etc.
We did exactly this for a side project last week:

https://github.com/shabda/tweet-signer

At it's core it's just a spec, so feel free to write your own tools! Suggestions for improving the spec welcome. Please use Github issues
I suppose those who are spreading bad ideas are more committed than those refuting those ideas. It takes a fair bit of commitment to even adapt flat earth or ant vax ideas in the first place.

Tge internet is good at filtering commitment and not very good at filtering truth.
This is a non-sequitur.

Getting low level employees fired for some kind of political faux pas does absolutely nothing to combat Trump's gross abuses of power.
Single family detached housing on fully separated lots of 1-2 storeys, and very often only a ground floor, is typical through much of the US. That describes a startlingly large fraction of San Francisco, and even larger "dense" neighbourhoods (Richmond, Sunset) are typically 2-3 floors, where ground level is garage parking ("soft story" construction, a major earthquake concern. Only in NYC and environs do you find generally denser construction.

A 5-6 storey standard would likely more thaan double SF's housing capaacity.
I believe to an extent they are: Hilary Clinton's hacked email was not the govt provided one, and most of the flack she received was for using personal email for gov stuff at all.
I don't know, my partner works at a civil engineering firm and the day to day work there sounds pretty similar to what I do as a software dev. Sometimes they have to do complicated calculations and research, but by far most of the work is copying templates and tweaking them as needed.

The hardest part of most projects is taking unrealistic and ever changing client demands and trying to turn them into something that will actually work in reality; a process which is probably all too familiar to many software developers.
This is good information. Again, doesn't suggest that this is kidnapping at all or akin to what's going on in HK. You are addressing this issue the way it should be approached, rationally and with evidence.
I'm moving to the US on an H1 the first time with my wife and daughter, and interested to bring my nanny as well.

1- My wife wants to be able to work shortly and my understanding is that she won't be able to on an H4 until my I-494 is approved). Is it feasible for her to do a J1 if an employer is willing? Are there other options?

2- I'm working on getting the nanny a B2-domestic, but consulates around the world are closed which puts a very long delay on the process. Is it possible to bring the nanny on a tourist/business B1/B2 and do the change within the us? Are there other options?
How do you justify being an American whose work entierly revolves around taking jobs that Americans could have fulfilled and trying to give them to people who are not citizens, did not grow up here, and see America as nothing less than an institution they can use to get ahead?
Can relate to that. I used to work for tech mahindra and they were using vb6 and .NET 2.0 for a major client even as late as 2014 when I quit from there. Its most likely that they are still using that old stack because its typically difficult to justify migration costs to a newer stack.
Should it matter if the majority supports something if it violates the human rights of others?
I dunno if there's a deep discount.

This is 140 DGX A100 systems. The advertised price for each DGX A100 is $199,000, so 140 of them is ~$28 million. It's plausible the networking, storage, cooling, power distribution, etc (i.e. everything but the compute nodes) could cost $22 million.
I wonder how many of the users that complete the form mistake it for a newsletter subscribe, as that's commonly where subscribe widgets live.
This is a bit unrelated to HN, but in the terms of "memeculture."

What you've discovered and described is called "NPC" by meme culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPC_(meme)
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It's not a conspiracy, just a murky business.

Real estate is the most "advantaged" businesses out there. They tend to support local political figures heavily and get heard.
What do you think is more reasonable, that your emotional commitments to this subject are distorting your read of the article, or that the American Psychological Association knows less than you do?