skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, thanks. I am not interested in helping you whitewash their history. It is common public knowledge that the founders of RSS were an admirer of Hitler and his party. (And they still continue to admire and glorify Hitler). The RSS is also a thrice banned terrorist organization whose members are involved in various communal riots and also assassinated Gandhi.

And no, Subhash Chandra Bose is not a Nazi because he didn't embrace their ideology. He was a secular and left-leaning revolutionary who believed that the British could only be overthrown by violence and revolution, and thus relied on the opportunist political maxim that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"to ally with Germany and Japan. While an inspiring figure in indian politics and its freedom movement, his politics was ultimately foolish, as the Japanese occupation of some parts of India, with his army's support, highlighted - the imperial army of Japan considered us as second-class citizens, as did the Nazis, and showed it with the brutality against the indian citizens in the occupied territories.
It doesn’t sound like that at all. “channel their inner Steve Jobs” sounds like everyone is staring at the clouds and practising some blue sky thinking, while the OP you replied to is talking about managing legacy systems, old data and bringing along an existing work force into using a new system. These are all the diametric opposite of “Steve Jobs architecting”.
I've worked with many database technologies and many data professionals. I don't recall any instances offhand of technical critiques of Oracle. Pricing and business practices are a different story. Oracle the database is fantastic technology.
“Maybe Chamath runs, maybe he doesn’t, but in the interim he’s gotten a whole new set of fan boys on WSB [r/WallStreetBets] that are going to buy up his SPACSs."

What I find interesting, and concerning, about SPACs is that if he did the kinds of promoting he does for SPACs for an IPO, he'd be in jail.
Nokia dumbphone!
That's fine. How do I also make cash?
I really like your explanation. It's certainly not the case that psilocyn suddenly transforms into new chemical compounds at will, it almost certainly happens through perception and most likely experience is needed.

> You'd likely need to have already experienced the drug in question in order for this to work, right?

I am genuinely curious about this. It should be but I wonder if somebody who has never smoked a joint in their life would be comfortable with the idea of ingesting it to test this out.

Most people seem to have horrible first trips because they are probably worried about going crazy so they do it in the comfort of their rooms which almost always triggers existential panic.

I just happened to take it on a commute and walking to work, seeing nature, oh my, it was serenity, I felt like it was repairing my soul.

Looking to repeat this I took it in my room alone; big mistake, the trip was quite disturbing but perhaps because my own life experiences were disturbing and I was only waking up to it.

Thinking back, taking mushrooms alone in your room has consistently led to horrible trips but compensated by an overwhelming sense of healing and long lasting anti-depressant effect.

Perhaps it is the ego which is actively trying to resist the Psilocyn Programming. Ego death literally feels like you are dying but on the other side is the realization, it is completely an illusion!
Bitcoin did end up dropping about 80% from its late-2017 high. It took about 10 months, but it bottomed out in the 3000s, down from $17K in Dec 2017.

Wouldn't surprise me if GME does the same thing - just the sheer number of shorts will blunt the price declines a bit, as they cover.
You're right, we should just expect free work from all developers. Because if you want to be a good developer, you have to meet this imaginary bar made up by other developers who want to show off about how "much extra work we do."

The point is the ask for the 737 Max wasn't a "plane that doesn't work." It was for a plane that does work. That was the deliverable. It wasn't met. That is not doing the bare minimum.
For a long time I've figured that the Fermi Paradox is not much of a paradox.

Open question: Are we likely to be able to detect the difference between large asteroids and a small swarm of habitable environments in a star.

And the second question is: Is it worth spreading out? An advanced civilisation can defend against or modify (maybe even focus) the damage that an imploding star would cause, and an Issac Arthur video on the topic of the amount of space we have in the solar system states clearly that there's more than enough for trillions of trillions of trillions of habitats. There doesn't seem to be much reason for spreading a civilization out whatsoever, given the cost of communication and the assumed cultural and informational lag between the settlement and the source civilization.

As the article states, it's unlikely to be the case that we see an expansive civilization until it's too late.
There's 18F for the US government, but unfortunately they're limited by government salary caps and other policies.
For various reasons this wouldn't work, you have the various bands of government salary

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/pay/2020/01/more-top-career-e...

>But for a GS-15, step 10 in Washington, his or her salary should total roughly $185,509 in 2020. But due to the federal pay ceiling, that same GS-15, step 10 in Washington will make the limit of $170,800 this year.

And that's the absolute Max, after you go to the trouble of getting a security clearance, which you just don't need in the private sector.

Even government contracting involves so much red tape, more innovative engineers would probably just rather not do it.
It does: https://www.usds.gov/. It's my understanding that USDS also bids on projects, but isn't necessarily the go-to team for such work.
I think "there is only one person working full-time on maintaining Linux input libraries and he's overworked" is probably a decent excuse. I don't know what you plan to do, but I would advise against forking unless you can hire a team to accumulate testing hardware and work on this for multiple years. What we have seen too often is these forks just fizzle and get forgotten, especially if they are only focused on getting one feature to work on one very specific device.
Huh? States have lists of eligible vaccination recipients that they reach out to. It’s very much not just keeping track of a line of cars.
Does a US company contracting with say a Chinese company to produce its products help or hurt Chinese workers? I think it would help Chinese workers by increasing employment in China and generally improving the Chinese economy.
I agree on observing the opposite.

My hope is leaders with tech backgrounds can grow into that space. Its far more lucrative than most software only endeavours.
The bare minimum is the deliverable. If it's "a working website that does X, Y, Z" and they deliver that, what is the problem? That's what was asked for.

> thinking about the customer, understanding the right technologies, designing for scale, etc.

If they were asked to design something for a customer then they're fulfilling what is asked - e.g., the bare minimum.
Short squeezes aren't just theoretical. They're very real.

However, consider this: If this short squeeze was as easy as WSB wants you to believe, why didn't a well-capitalized hedge fund cash in on it already? It's not like WSB planned this in secret. It was literally headline news on a top-10 website for weeks.

As you said, the hedge funds are certainly making a lot of money here. Early investors are making a lot of money. However, we don't actually know how many of the short positions entered at $2 or $200 or even $400. Smart hedge funds will make a lot of money by taking short positions on this stock, selling their borrowed shares to Redditors looking to get rich, and profiting by exiting their short positions when this finally crashes. Those shorts will cause the "short interest" number to stay high, or even increase, as this situation goes on.
> Yes, that's basically the point we've reached with the stock market as a whole right now.

Not really, though. GME and other meme stocks might be out of whack a lot, temporarily, and stocks generally might be overvalued somewhat (and, I’d say, harder to value because rates are so low, making the horizon longer), but I’m pretty sure that the mechanisms are still there that fundamentals will reassert themselves.
Now it's back, try escaping linkedin
Probably not true. It means blocking them from using the site because they only have 1 or 2 devices and those are running IE.

The article talks about the fact that a lot of the seniors get help with their online stuff from the libraries (which are currently closed). What is the probability that folks like these have multiple devices at home and/or they can use them?

Years ago, a lot of my bosses at work (in Tech) still used IE. Lots of our clients used government issued computers which were locked down to IE, sometimes several versions behind.

At the end of the day, it boils down to - know who the actual users are.
>To illustrate, I usually use a simple example: How do you render a 20px tall font at scale 1 2/3?

You replace it with a 33px tall font.

This is what Gnome 3.38 actually does in my experience: on the computer on which I am writing this, I have a scale factor of 1.50 set in the Displays pane of Gnome Settings. Google Chrome and vscode show up in the output of xlsclients, which I am told means that they are talking to XWayland (and there are web pages promising that in a few months those 2 apps will be adapted to talk directly to wayland), and those 2 apps are blurry whereas Gnome Terminal and Evince (my PDF reader) do not show up in the output of xlsclients and those 2 apps are not blurry, but their default text size and the size of their UI elements are consistent with everything being scaled by 1.5.
(not sarcastic) Good for them!
Thanks Ben, I have fond memories of listening to your a16z discussions about the iPhone 8 (or so) while rocking my baby to sleep. We live in fun times.
> But at that point you’ve had to replace the battery on your Tesla

This isn't true. Typically after 100k miles Teslas lose about 5-10% capacity. I suppose if you are bumping into that limit a lot, it might be a problem, but it would make far more sense to sell your current car and buy a new one at that point. You could get decent resale value out of it because lots of people would be perfectly happy with a Tesla with a 280 mile range versus 310 miles.

There are Teslas out there that have clocked over 300k miles and still have more than 70% of their rated range. Again, even if the current owner has an issue with ~200 miles range, selling a Tesla with a 200 mile range won't be a big problem.
One reason that comes to mind is that a lot of people browse on mobile devices. These days a site really ought to be responsive to mobile viewports and a lot of “basic bitch” government sites are not.
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YES. Thanks for saying this. I reflect on this a lot when I try to imagine how I should "expect" the society to tend toward some pseudo-stability... A related TED talk by Donald Hoffman has stuck with me: https://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_reality_a...

> Well, I hate to break it to you, but perception of reality goes extinct. In almost every simulation, organisms that see none of reality but are just tuned to fitness drive to extinction all the organisms that perceive reality as it is. So the bottom line is, evolution does not favor veridical, or accurate perceptions. Those perceptions of reality go extinct.

Written format: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-aga...
Cutting taxes to half might force these guys to become more competitive. I don't see any incentives for the government to give up (I'm sure this benefits their friends at these firms) until forced to make hard decisions.
Is bitcoin meant to be a currency or an investment?

If it’s a currency without price stability, what’s the point?

If it’s an investment without any underlying economic value, what’s the point?
India. The Indian approach to multicultural laws has its own merits, which I have seen lauded in German law journals.

Indian divorce laws were moved forward for a few communities at a time - till at one day the courts said "The laws are such for Hindus, Muslims and for Parsees. The fact that they have not been reflected in Christian practices is also incorrect so we hereby update the Christian divorce code"

Over the years the laws in India have been moving forward and reforming, in parallel to how the country has been evolving.

All laws are some function of its local customs.
Yes, why counter with facts when you can say it’s just “common knowledge”. I will not try to talk you out of your beliefs. But I can assure you from first hand extensive experience, RSS is not “nazi”.

You are making extraordinary claims at least specify one “admiring and continue to admire” source.
"finding patterns where there are none" is"systems level thinking" now?

the idea of an all encompassing force that affects everyone on Earth is hard to fathom, and yet gravity is an accepted idea today, where it wasn't at the start

And yet it turns out that gravity is not a force at all. Gravity is just the shape of space.
At this point, it's almost indistinguishable from a pump-and-dump. WSB is pushing every narrative they can come up with to convince Redditors that they should buy! buy! buy! Meanwhile, earlier Redditors are selling off their positions so they can take some profits.
That may be a low salary compared to FAAMNG, but it's quite reasonable for the rest of tech. It's a good bit more than I make with 6 years of experience in Austin, and I currently make almost twice as much as I did when I started.

They don't need industry-leading researchers, they need people who can build a maintainable business systems.
I don't mean to support any ageism and would be happy to withdraw my age reference.

What that may leave is decision makers who don't always have a high enough level of digital or technical literacy.

Folks who are not competent in technology decisions and implementations being in positions of decision making and spending is the point I was trying to make.
I never said they chose to. I know all about the DTCC and its rules.

I've also taken out 5x my initial investment. I've been trying to minimize exactly that kind of regret along the way.

I would love to hold and see it going to the moon but I will likely have a few limit sell orders open before monday morning.
These deals are mostly to help out friends and line pockets. Building something that works doesn’t even matter. Government contracting is one of the biggest scams happening in broad daylight.
Where Hindu is a nationality/culture and not a religion. India is a name given by slavers. Bharat is a very very old concept.
So the answer is no :(

Anyways I expect RISC-V to appear in Chinese mobile phones before laptops as the main unit.

It would be fun to run Android on this RV64X architecture....I guess that's the goal.
I also still use PHP, Perl, and CGI, for their ease of deployment.

I can make a basic web app without googling.
> I don't know why you'd call it bait and switch.

Well, I can't even go back and look at the original marketing now because when I do I get a warning that Stadia must be played on Chrome and to download that. Obviously I could go in private viewing or something but why would I even bother with that? It's so user-hostile.

But the marketing that I do remember that enticed me to check it out was that I thought that it was for streaming games. When I checked out the site they had this big list of games that it looked like I could stream. If I could only stream, say, 15 games as it appears to be why not just show those? Hmm.

I do think there's a market for those (like myself) who have a few games they'd like to play. Cyberpunk 2077 looks cool - I'll pay $10 or $15 or even $20/month to stream that (among other games) because my alternative is buying it for $50 and not having it run at ultra-max settings on my MacBook Air. Not desirable.

To your point that this was a knock against it at launch, well, yea. They have all this marketing copy that makes it look so cool and then I have to pay retail price for a new game. Why wouldn't I just buy a Playstation or use Xbox or Sony's online services? Like what value is $9.99/month for some lame games that I don't care to play? Pass.

This service doesn't address any market that I can see.
The Whys and Hows of Porting Software (2002)
I know just enough about vim so I can exit it if I find myself staring at a file that I accidentally opened with it.
I think it’s wrong to attack someone for this reason. Being highly successful and giving paid speeches is something most of us would like to do. We should judge her by her actions.

Side note: many people you imagine to come from a smoke-filled room of evil (Citadel?) are much more reasonable once you get to know them. It’s not like everyone in finance is actually a reptile.

Instead we should focus on making the economic game fairer. I think Janet would agree.
I feel like the damage done by the underside lights on airplanes is minimal at best, especially since planes, you know, move out of the way relatively quickly. The damage done by removing them can be tremendous.
We also didn't have access to targeted disinformation campaigns at the same scale. There's a lot of angry ignorance spreading these days.
> dividends are irrelevant when valuing a stock

Aka the Modigliani–Miller theorem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividend_policy#Modigliani%E2%...
I can expand on the Steve Jobs reference.

Apple is about creating usable technology for the masses, not the few.

Apple also simplified access to legacy systems, like buying music and making it digital. Or maybe using your watch or phone to pay.

IPhone is geared for ease of use for anyone to adopt, including folks who arent super tech saavy..

Apple's innovation is charging a premium to create beginners in tech adoption who might not be experts at tech, who want yo feel empowered by everything just working.
If you don't do it, how can you know what's going on inside and how it works?
"because configuration of the VAMS application is occurring using Deloitte’s propriety GovConnect platform. Therefore, no other contractor has rights or access to leverage the system to carry out O&M activities"
If the errors are happening further out than your civilization has ever been, what's correcting them?
Seasoned readers (or even those only on the sub for a few months) know that, but the influx of WSB readers is coming from average reddit users who are here for the get-rich-quick and "stick it to wall street"
theme the GME squeeze has ignited. They'll be the ones disappointed and holding the bag once everyone, including WSB veterans, have cashed out.
Batteries typically degrade slowly over the life of the car. Not a ton of hard data since there aren't a lot of Teslas out there with 200-500k miles. The ones that have made it that far seem to retain about 90% capacity after 150k miles.
Also to be clear, I’m not super pro BJP or anyone. I’m pro competence. I’m certainly not pro some of the nonsense that the various state BJP governments pull, including the past beef related hysteria.

Modi himself is not pro that nonsense as he has mentioned more than once. However, to govern he does need to create a big tent. Beef ban vs 15% of Indian women legally treated as chattel. Which battle would you prioritize?

As far as India doing better under Manmohan Singh? I like Manmohan Singh. I think if he actually had freedom to act rather than being a puppet he would have done really well. But frankly, in terms of how the country did it’s not even close. And if the Congress won again, you wouldn’t get Manmohan Singh. You’d get Rahul or Kamal Nath.
> Tourism, restaurants, brick and mortar shops, malls, theaters, airlines, etc. are affected by no malicious cause but because of the virus. The wealthy class did not cause this.

This is what the wealthy want you to believe. There's no scientific evidence that places with lockdowns did better with regard to either economic or health outcomes; the lockdowns and economic destruction they caused were entirely unnecessary.
I'm not 100% sure of the overlap except for the cynicism, but I'm a fan of Franco "Bifo" Berardi and his book "Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility'

He takes a broad look at the change in motivation, the pyschological effects of believing we have no power over what happens in the future, a kind of answer to Curtis's "Hypernormalization" that explores how we thought we were in power, that we could rationalize outcomes, but in fact the world will always throw a wrench in your plans, and maybe there's no way to keep the world under control

Franco doesn't see this as a reason to be nihilistic, but outlines how nihilism became a common response to the global financial and political trends.

This one isn't a book but a written piece by Curtis in 2014, detailing one way the automated financial markets are an effort to keep things stable:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7...
It's amazing they make policy decisions from Wikipedia when proper unambiguous sources can be found.
It's easy to be original when you have a decade of being demonstrably wrong under your belt. Just say something out of the ordinary, poof, origionality.

His demographic data is correct. Any extrapolations he makes based on that data are usually completely off base. I used to give him credit around 2012, but not any more.
> Why more people don't realize that this is a bubble is beyond me.

I think plenty of people recognize that it is a bubble, but they are planning on offloading to the bigger fools.
You’ve missed my point.

Semi’s air suspension seats bounce around quite a bit which prevents them from keeping their hands steady. So, they need to dampen the input from such motions at highway speeds as
race car style steering with would be counter productive in terms of precision. Which is why they have to turn the wheel so much.

It’s also useful for mechanical leverage should power steering go out.
Look, I am not arguing that ads, of whatever sort, cannot ever work for anyone. I'm sure that internet marketing is a key part of some companies' business plans. Warby Parker, perhaps.

What I'm not yet convinced of is that they're a panacea for all small businesses. Details aside, one moral of the eBay paper is that a $50B business, with a whole dedicated department, still managed to make a dog's breakfast of their online advertising; Uber reported similar problems earlier this winter.

It seems hard and it's not obvious to me that every business has the aptitude, market, or business model to do it well. At the same time, I can easily imagine people deciding "We need to do something about advertising" and then forging ahead with whatever something they land on. This is especially true with the ROI is difficult to calculate--and I do think it's probably harder to calculate for an ad than for something with very standardized cost/performance characteristics like new equipment.

Google, Facebook, and Shopify making money doesn't really answer this question. As an analogy: "Is there gold in them there hills?" "Sure, even the guy selling shovels is making money!"
Discord, a huge chat software, is hosted on Google Cloud. This might help explain why they tried to kill Element, a client for Matrix, a competing chat software with similar targeted user base.
>Beware Management Consultants and Accountants encroaching into "IT". Their worlds are drying up because tech folks can learn business easier than business folks can learn tech.

Could say the exact same thing about tech recruiters