skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moral absolutism has been out of vogue for 50 years, but I encourage everyone to give it a spin. It’s provides such wonderful moral clarity and said clarity is surprisingly effective at rooting out the sort of poisonous people who ruin friendships, companies and societies. I’ve dealt with numerous McKinsey consultants over a 30 year career. I’ve collected enough data points to feel safe in concluding the following:

• McKinsey is a vile organization without any redemption.

• That they are not condemned as such speak volumes about both our societies’ moral failings and more broadly, our individual failure to care about the people McKinsey helped murder.

• That last point bears repeating: McKinsey will happily and knowingly murder people for money. That only seems like a preposterous or exaggerated statement because we are not accustomed to hearing someone be impolite to evil people in a position to pay us well.

• People who work for McKinsey are sociopaths. Not occasionally. Not sometimes. In all cases. The only exception being people recruited directly from college who quit that firm within a few years of joining.

• Many here are in a position to punish McKinsey alumni. If you are asked to interview someone with McKinsey on their resume, I believe you should absolutely state that they performed terribly regardless of what occurred. I personally find it rewarding to repoer that their interview behavior during the interview seemed erratic, to the extent that I questioned their sobriety. If your sense of humor is as dark as mine I highly suggest this approach. If you have hire / fire authority, it’s much simpler. Don’t hire, do fire.

• Organizations like McKinsey exist because we collectively accept their behavior. When we stop doing that, McKinsey will stop addicting broken, damaged and hurting people to opiates.

Stopping McKinsey is up to us. I make an argument from the left. But I think there are also compelling objections to these parasites that can be made from a position far to the right.

This doesn’t and shouldn’t be a left/right thing. Because it is absolutely a parasites vs producers thing. And everyone, regardless of politics, will be healthier freed of this particular tapeworm.
Honestly, working on stuff at scale lets me tinker and analyze in ways I never got the chance to at university IT scale. You just didn't have the time or the capacity, and the ROI wasn't there.
There's a difference between getting something out of a relationship, or even having the relationship contingent on that benefit, and doing absolutely everything short of what will land you in prison to get the maximum benefit for the minimal cost.

My favorite local breakfast place only serves me because I pay, but I forgot my wallet one time and they just waived the charge. There's a spectrum between altruism and exploitation, and it's important we put pressure on large organizations to stay away from the exploitation end because it's clear some won't do it on their own.
Yes, dang is exceptional at what he does. Thank you dang for giving us a place to enjoy civil discourse.
Indeed its my second language, but I did get the meaning of sans right. Unfortunately I got mixed up with the two youtube links instead :)
Seems like the sensible solution is to have a linux VM and do push everything into the VM to run. Which is what Docker on Mac apparently does, but with less control over doing it yourself.

This is the exact workflow that VSCode w/ remote is supposed to enable: you just connect to the VM and everything works. VM could be somewhere else. Or it could be on the local machine. Doesn't matter.
Modern day IDEs alone are worth it for me!
You've redefined resource to be literally anything, in an attempt of coming to a materialist worldview.

There's three important attributes of resources. Firstly, resources of a same type, defined by their use, are fungible. Secondly, resources are a means to an end. Lastly, resources are valuable either because of their uses or because they can be exchanged.

Now, love, fulfillment, and the feeling of friendship realize neither of the three properties. Neither does a wife or a friend.

Because of that, I don't think one can say that every relationship a person has is based on nothing more than resources. Personal relationships are categorically different.

Additionally, unlike material relationships, personal relationships are most healthy and effective when they are between equals.
The thing you're expected to "give a shit" about is whatever it takes to make Alexandr rich. Unless someone finds particular life meaning in building a specialized mechanical turk? Of course there's grifting from the military-industrial complex involved too: https://www.govconwire.com/2020/09/scale-ai-gets-potential-9...
> On Tuesday, Purdue pleaded guilty to criminal charges, including defrauding federal health agencies and paying illegal kickbacks to doctors. The company also faces roughly $8.3 billion in penalties. As part of the settlement, members of the Sackler family will pay $225 million in civil penalties.

They made over $12 billion in profit as of last year[0], so they still came out ahead...

0: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2019/10/04/the-sa...
As everything carbon-fiber, a lot depends on the quality of the build.

Look for "Danny MacAskill Tests Santa Cruz Reserve Carbon Wheels": he really tries to destroy those rims, and it takes him doing ridiculous things to do so. Aluminum rims would have cracked/ bent much earlier.
The consulting class is killing the rest of America with crap like this. Anything for a buck.
I won't comment on specifics, but just as someone who has seen this subject periodically surface over the past 20 years in various places, consensus is almost always that, no, there is no tenably justifiable reason for voting software's code to be closed source. (In contrast, there are numerous counterexamples of why it's a very, very terrible idea in general.)
Addressing only the viability of the sample for basic binomial analysis, the sample size is on the small end. This would be okay if we could reasonably expect the underlying events to follow identical and independent distributions, but when we know the people involved worked together that assumption is clearly void. Unfortunately this means we really can’t use any sort of statistical analysis on this datum. The models just don’t support it.
Those aren't key factors. They are petty nonsense.

> * Everyone hates ads.

Yet ads are everywhere.

> since there is too much competition that doesn't rely on ad revenue

What competition? What is the challenge to google search, youtube, chrome, etc?

> and too many companies trying to block ads.

Is that a joke? Google's problem is too many companies want to buy ads. But ads are never going to disappear. Actually, ads are only going to increase on the internet. More video ads especially.

> * Google doesn't have a solid revenue stream besides ads.

If you're argument is ads are going to disappear, then I guess you have a point.

> EVERYONE freakin hates ads

Right. And the article said the same nonsense you are saying. But it said that in 2017 and guess what? Turns out the article was wrong.

You just have 1 point. Nobody likes ads. Duh. But if that mattered, google wouldn't even exist.
He’s building a “generational” company for his heirs and inve-erhem sorry, “society”. Aren’t you motivated by that alone? If not, when was the last time you worked obscene hours for something? Because if you haven’t, you clearly don’t give a shit about anything (except ya know, work life balance, family, hobbies that have nothing to do with tech, etc)

If we don’t want toxic cultures, then we all need to prioritize that when job searching.
United Begins Flying Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccine
This is interesting. How much moon dust do we have that we are conducting these kind of experiments?
The problem was that it was full pressure, 1 atmosphere of pure oxygen. That was stupid and was only really done on that test, because it was a sea level mock-up. The actual spacecraft operated at just the normal oxygen partial pressure, but with no other trace gasses aside from exhaled CO2.
We should enjoy the view we have of The Moon, before the whole thing becomes a damned strip mine.
Ergo, the purpose of writing is to destroy your ego.

That way, something more interesting can take its place.
thanks again internet. some unknown intelligence, ironically named, wnoise, is confirming my intuition. That a plane is the result of two intersecting 3d volumes in a 4d space. And 'our' 3d space (where the meat lives) is the intersection of 2 4d volumes in a 5d space. But dear Wnoise, enlighten me about ' _projective_ geometric algebra, and intersections turn into "meets".' Where can I find the book, 'Projective_ geometric algebra' for dummies?
I know htmx is a good idea, still waiting to see if hyperscript pans out. :)

It still needs some pretty basic stuff like for loops and so forth. The goal is for it to be a embeddable, DOM-friendly & transparently asynchronous scripting language so you don't need to deal w/ callbacks:

on click
add .throb to me
wait 3s
remove .throb from me
end

I'd like to make ajax and web workers trivial to use from it. I hope to have a lot more time for it in the next year, now that htmx is stable. We'll see. Suggestions welcome!

edit: one thing I'm pretty sure about is that I'm going to go back to an interpreted runtime over the transpilation I'm doing now
/thread for me. Well said
The only real practical concern is that if you don't use data- you might use an attribute that will become meaningful to future browsers. But what are the chances of html gaining an attribute that starts with hx-?
If you want it quick.

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> Coming from conventional bikes, I don't understand who this is for.

People who want an ebike and have a good chunk of disposable income and are willing to pay (a lot) more to have the best experience on a bike. The weight and integrated lights and non-shitty look are particularly nice next to the typical ebike offering.

> Suffice it to say, you'd rarely see a commuter using a carbon bike.

The first thing I thought about seeing this bike is how great it would be for commuting. I live in a rainy city and work on the second floor. I've carried my fairly light non-ebike up to the second floor about 200 times and it's still no fun. Pulling a bulky ebike of those stairs is a hard no.

Likewise, I know a lot of apartment dwellers who have to carry their bike up to the second floor. Plus, in general older people. Lifting a 35 pound eBike onto your bike rack is a non-starter. A lot of my older friends who bought ebikes also bought newer lower bike racks because of the weight.

This bike isn't a general use-case bike for certain, but it's got a lot of appeal in my eyes. Doubt I'll buy one (an e MTB is way higher on my list!), but if I was looking to replace my commuter bike it would be up there.
Easier to debug
Consultant for well over a decade now. I've worked with quite a few MBB kids over the years as well as with clients who previously hired them. I'd say it's fairly uncommon for clients to actually yell at the analysts on the ground, but it does happen. It's more likely that the MBB associate or engagement manager gets yelled at for various reasons. But it's a lot more common for the analysts to be told "do whatever the client wants" and end up working absolutely stupid hours to cover client demands that should have been pushed back on, on top of internal commitments to stay on the right side of the "up or out" funnel.
I'm glad you spoke up, and maybe I and others should've.

There are some kinds of topics that I can immediately guess will invite certain kinds of comments on HN, and I've learned to just take a deep breath and ignore them. (If it gets really bad, I go catch up on that other Web site that does over-the-top criticism of HN, so that I don't feel like the only one.) On rare occasions, I've tried to engage some of the, but it's just draining.

However, when not enough people speak up, that can send an implicit message that some life-sucking background noise from others is OK with everyone else, when it's not.
> Just recently in the US I've only had two places doing temperature checks which is wild to me at this point

I've gotten a temperature check every time I've entered a commercial building for the last few months (in NYC), but temperature checks hew dangerously close to safety theater.
Ask HN: Online Tech Resume
Hi hackers,

I've got the idea to make a paid online tech resume service with a monthly fee 2 USD.

The goal is to make your single resume page by choosing the skills you have and the software, frameworks and languages you master.

Each skill is represented by an interactive icon with a five star rating.

Adding social links and personal blog writings is also possible.

More interesting for open source related work, is to display your pull requests.

You can then link the interactive resume page when looking for a job.

You can also use it as a visiting card to share what you like.

Personal hobbies or favorie movies could also be added, but on a diffrent page.

Employees can then browse your profiles and contact you.

You can also use it to gift people involved in your github project special icons.

Would you use this service ? What is missing ?
It's not "newspeak" to suggest that Black people are treated differently than Asian people; in fact, it would be more surprising to hear that they aren't, since the two groups of people have wildly different histories in the United States.
The message was I can't believe people made comments with the points above. Everyone should be on the page that racism exists specifically against black people in 2020.

I don't think the parent poster was pretending anything the parent-parent poster didn't share.
In addition to FJCVTZS instruction, they added more floating point execution units and registers. Also did lower latency of pipelined fp instructions
Light weight and stiffness change how a bike feels, far more significantly than it improves objective performance. A light, stiff bike with a fast-engagement hub feels sporty and fun, it’s that simple. It makes you want to go harder and makes you smile as you do it.
In my view the comment you replied to is neither outrageous or ridiculous, and it ought to be possible to disagree with it in a civil manner even if you think it's very wrong.
If I didn't learn from movies that yellow cars are Taxis in America, I wouldn't know.

In France, almost all of the yellow cars are from the French Post, this is kind of a national brand...
> cultivate relationships because that seems to be the thing people regret most when they die.

Dying regrets are bullshit, because those people actually made conscious choices not to invest into such relationships on a daily basis and would do it again if they were in the same situation. I don't buy it.
But more generally, there is a fundamental problem with social media: it unfortunately acts a generator of large amounts of "perfect bullshit".

First, it gets thousands of people to generate various conspiracy theories and plausable looking ideas. Many of these will be interesting and have some real merit, but most of them wont. (By itself, this doesn't do much - we're people, we generate ideas and theories, many of them wrong - nothing special about this process).

Then, give people the retweet button, and have them act as a filter for the most convincing looking bullshit. This is where things go terribly wrong. Retweets are a powerful amplifier. What gets retweeted? Is it the most throughly researched content? Highly unlikely, most people aren't experts in the subject (heck, I don't even dare go into the mechanics of the theory, only the math and stats) but they will still retweet if they find it interesting, plausible and aligned with what they strongly believe or wish was true.

Side note: having some authority (Nobel prize, etc) also helps a lot with this process. Still, remember that social networks won't differentiate whether 1 scientist is actually having this idea or many, and worse, it won't necessarily inform you if many scientists are actually demonstrating how the idea is wrong (unless they make it equally interesting for a retweet)

Finally, trick people by giving them dopamine system rewards (notifications for retweets and likes). They inevitably end up surrounded by a group of supporters that praise and retweet what they say. This whole process makes it so much harder for people (even scientists) to go back on what they said if it turns out they were wrong.

So what do you end up with? You end up with a system that delivers the most perfect bullshit to the largest number of people. The scientists that tweet the same old boring conservative stuff (words like "likely" often appear) are largely voiceless.

I don't think any single person is necessarily at fault in this system. But I do think that the system is a total disaster, and we have to invent something better than this. These simplistic social network designs are failing humanity.
If you're thinking in a way you've been "taught" (aka told) to think, you're not truly thinking for yourself.
> Creativity is reserved to founders and designers

Sadly for some of us, our creativity never manifests in a profitable way. If I had an idea worth anything and I found as engaging as most of my side projects, I’d probably try the founder route.
> There is exactly 1 mass you can accelerate to any speed you want. YOU.

Still not true. YOU have rest mass ant therefore the faster you go, the more of the energy used for momentum transfer will be converted to relativistic mass, thus preventing you from ever approaching the speed of light in any frame of reference.

Local time has nothing do with that. Sure, you once you exceed ~70.7% c time in your local frame of reference will tick so slow that you perceive less time than an observer on Earth would see light take to get to your destination.

But in any frame of reference that's more or less "at rest" relative to you, time will tick faster so any message you send once you get to say Alpha Cen, will only be received about ~8.74 years after you left Earth.

An FTL vessel, however, would allow you to go to Alpha Cen, take a picture, send it to Earth, return and arrive back on Earth before the message containing the picture arrives. THAT's the difference.

> you can travel any distance in any subjective amount of time

Even that doesn't seem to be true [1] as the CMB seems to slow relativistic spacecraft down even in intergalactic space.

> "a couple Jupiters worth of hydrogen that you fuse at perfect e=mc^2 efficiency"

You don't fuse hydrogen to get that kind of efficiency. Only matter-antimatter reactions are capable of coming close to that. While antimatter is hard to come by, it's the ultimate rocket fuel.

Ultimately, even a reactionless drive would be limited by the human physique - it takes about 3½ months to accelerate to 30% light speed at 1g constant acceleration. So unless inertia negation devices are invented, that sets the practical lower limit for any interstellar travel time.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.05845v1.pdf
I'd certainly agree that, when poor, powerless and disenfranchised people are randomly lashing out, the only solution is to enfranchise them and bring them out of poverty. (And of course, we should try to do those things no matter what - bringing people out of poverty is an important priority no matter how peaceful things are.)

What scares me is when wealthy, powerful, and enfranchised people fan the flames. There was a period of a week or so when mobs were going around breaking things, buildings in every major city were being boarded up - and many politicians and news outlets explicitly endorsed the mobs! There was a famous video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1mxJMIIMuE) where an MSNBC reporter said the protests were "not generally speaking unruly" while standing in front of a building burning to the ground.
> I say they're interchangeable in this context.

How can they be interchangeable when they mean radically different things?

Both sentences might be valid, and we might have no way to determine which one was meant, but the two are clearly not interchangeable.
Every GPU including Nvidia, AMD, and Intel have video decoders.
TeXmacs will probably meet my needs then ... not as much sizzle and flash as reveal.js, but better WYSIWYG support for technical content.

For anyone still looking for an open source editor:

https://docs.deckdeckgo.com/

https://pencil.evolus.vn/

http://thomas.nadev.net/notes/2017-inkscape.html

https://github.com/rainwoodman/inkslides

https://sozi.baierouge.fr/
ULA is definitely not like SpaceX and is not a competitor at this point. ULA is failing due to the exact problems that you describe and if your rocket is not reusable, it cannot compete outside government launches at this point. The only other rocket company that I see competing at the moment is Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin (and we are still waiting for the first New Glen launch). SpaceX is different with Elon Musk leading the engineering. Move fast, iterate, everyone working on the project should understand the whole vehicle so that people can see when making radical changes is the way forward. SpaceX was building carbon fiber pieces for their next rocket after the Falcon 9/Heavy, and completely scrapped that idea and went with a steel hull instead. About a year later the new design is going to launch up to 15km and land in the next few weeks.

Elon Musk comes from the start-up world and he is hoping to get to Mars himself, so he is in a hurry. I would say if you can get a job there, you should. If you have not already, check out reddit/r/spacex for lots of interesting stuff about the company and what they are doing. You might want to apply to work there if you are looking for a fast paced aerospace company.

There is also the startup called Boom that is working on building a supersonic passenger plane. They have just finished a smaller human-piloted supersonic test plane to prove out their ideas and hope to have the commercial airplane in service by 2025.

These companies are both run by people that started in software and then moved to aerospace without any other real prior experience in the field. Maybe you can have a similar route with founding a successful software company and then, with that success, found an aerospace one of your own. Good luck.
It's unclear but I think when it's mentioned PHL employee is able to work remote, they mean they are able to work out of the NYC office which is remote relative to the PDX office. It was not my read that they are working remote from home.

Your wording speculates on how the communication around remote was delivered in an unfavorable light. We know the decision was made to end WFH/remote, and one employee managed to get permission to work from the NYC office. A more realistic (still speculative) scenario imo:

-Company announces end of wfh/remote for a team. Folks are asked to relocate to PDX.
-Employee asks for permission to work from NYC. Request is approved.
Kinnnnd of. It does better on Medium. I had to start sharing Twitter stuff to iOS notes bc I bookmark a lot and I went back to find something and I couldn’t go older than May on phone or PC.

From what I could gather, Twitter’s bookmarks have a limit and it deletes the older but it’s not said out loud.
This is why people say we have a legal system not a justice system.
Anything to replace Google photos and local business maps?
yeah I guess the wording of the story is confusing. I think it’s less “here’s a reward for literally killing people” and more “here’s a little something to soften the blow of an OD so that you continue to fill Oxycotin without judgement or heavy restrictions”