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I got downvoted into sweet oblivion for making this exact point in another post. This whole thing is religious. In fact, it’s so religious that it’s caused me to question my own religious beliefs now that I’ve seen an actual religion assembled in front of my eyes. It’s so much like what I see in my own religion that all religion is starting to frighten me.
None, but if we're looking at this situation (where the government is finding secret homosexuals and prosecuting them) and asking "what policies ought we enact to fix this" if your answer is "better privacy" that seems like it's looking at the wrong problem.
I know what you mean, from a certain perspective. I do nothing most days, but internal teams use the platforms I built/developed. I’m around to janitor problems now, since I “own” them. Being an SME on a thing can seem like bullshit, but my presence and knowledge is still valuable to those users. Still critical in a crisis too. Also I can take like 4 hour naps and work on my hobbies. Maybe just try finding other things to do lol
Idk how many others share this opinion, but I consider even intelligence to be luck. So if you're giving the more intelligent people better jobs / living conditions it's still unfair.

But moreover, intelligence is too broad to rank. There's STEAM intelligence, which is what most people consider "intelligence". But there's also emotional intelligence, "quick-thinking" intelligence, "street smarts", etc. and even STEAM is kind of broad. So when you say meritocracy, do you mean that someone who's very analytical, but has no empathy or emotional understanding whatsoever, should rule the world?

I think an ideal society would be more in line with John Rawls' philosophy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Theory_of_Justice).
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In my experience, if you even gently approach something that you think is a false assumption in, not even a debate, but just a discussion in which there is not total agreement with someone woke, they may become so anxious or angry that you have to stop. Their syndrome is highly self-defending.
Ah ok—I get your first point now and I respect that you disagree on the second. Thanks for the kind reply.
That's interesting, thanks for the correction. I was extrapolating from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/health/white-people-covid... but that might not have been applicable here.
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If the result of the election is the choice of two finalists, then as long as there are more than two candidates, there are more than two possible outcomes. For example, if the candidates are A, B, and C, then the possible outcomes are: (A and B), (A and C), or (B and C), so 3 in all. In general, for n candidates, there are n * (n - 1) / 2 outcomes. By Gibbard's Theorem, then, either there is a dictator, or there is strategy.

Another way to see this: the entire process of choosing two finalists and then having a runoff to choose an ultimate winner counts as a collective decision-making process. That there are two separate votes doesn't actually matter. By Gibbard's theorem, then, if there isn't a dictator, then the entire process is strategic. Since the chance to use strategy doesn't occur in the simple-majority final runoff, by process of elimination, it must occur in choosing the candidates who qualify for the runoff.
David Graeber had created an account here on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davidgraeber), and this was his most recent comment, from January 2020 (he died in September 2020):

> Anthropologists are not qualified to decide whose job is bullshit and neither is anyone else. That's the whole premise of the book. Anthropologists however are trained to listen to what people say about their own lives and understandings of it and that's what I did - a bullshit job is defined as one which the person doing the job believes doesn't have to, or shouldn't, exist.

(in reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22030745)
I worked for/with one of those teams at ESB - Ireland's national electricity provider. We built a cutting edge real-time visualisation of energy production/usage from all the power plants in the country using different fuel types and forecasting models like yours in order to get the most out of renewables and also give the traders an edge.

I was thinking of doing my own system too so love what you guys have done. I'm currently just working on my own side projects so open to opportunities if you guys might have some? :)
I agree with you in the sense that those are literally the first thing I would do as a CISO anywhere too.

But I've long accepted that this is why you or I will never be CISO of an organisation like this. I've worked alongside such people, and they'd be horrified that thread isn't all about a logon disclaimer on that VPN.
I think a lot of these people don't bring much to the table professionally, so they use woke call out culture to implicitly threaten those around them to treat them with kid gloves and give them a wide birth. I doubt these companies feel that sad when people like that leave.
Isn't that pretty much what these stories are about? Big tech company implements policy that says no more political activism at work (big tech company already has policy to fire anyone who expresses racist/sexist or other taboo views). People mass quit in protest because they equate neutrality with supporting the status quo, which is to them evil.
In the last 20 years they’re stock has only gone up 150%....

To be fair, they’ve been paying ~ 2% dividend yield that whole time. Still, if your comp is mostly in stock, those dividend payments hurt versus something like a buyback.
forty cents buys you about 10 minutes of on-demand compute on a 96-core c5 instance

This is incorrect. 48 cores, 96 threads.

vCPUs mostly refer to threads, not cores. There are some exceptions. More here...

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance...

...and here (which is inexplicably missing the c5.24xlarge):

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/physicalcores/
This is essentially what Enron was doing to pay the bills before their loans disguised as assets fraud scheme blew-up. They explicitly manipulated supply in some instances.
I asked google about data in google my business and they told me that it's just people's opinions. Go figure
Why not automatically punish users that abuse flagging to censor stories (e.g. users start with 100%, each flagging that’s removed decrease their flag-weight with 50%, so 3 wrong flags means 100->50->25-12.5%, and similarly, correct flags increase by 50%, and stories where mods haven’t accepted/rejected the flag will have no impact)? This way good actors that flag blog-spam and whatnot will not be impacted, whereas bad actors/nationalists will quickly lose their ability to abuse this moderation/censorship tool (which is clearly being abused to a degree where your manual intervention, if any, doesn’t cut it).

Why even allow flagging to influence a submission’s ranking without mod intervention in the first place? Spammy links won’t reach the frontpage anyway (although they sometimes stay on Show HN for a while, so can make special exceptions for Show/Ask submissions).

And how about if a user flag a post, then you might consider making the post completely inaccessible to said user (and if they posted a comment in the submission then set their flag weight to 0 for said submission)? After all, good actors will have no interest in engaging in the submissions they flagged, whereas bad actors will want to attack the submission from all angles (flag submission, downvote comments, post own comments).
Right?! That’s the real story here. When the heck did that happen and why did it not work?
Lableaktheory.com has aggregated links to various primary and secondary sources on the topic.
"Antiracists" coined the term BIPOC which literally excludes certain minority groups because they were too successful.
Can you address the semantic intent of your use of the word only and what Dan said please: the substantive point to me is you implied only == specific == evidence of bias and as Dan said it is well established they down weight for more than one reason which implies != only which I think, personally you haven't adequately addressed. You're basically wrong.
I think that’s their public justification. The reality is there’s a camera pointed at each one and a couple of pool cashiers that run to any as needed.
Not to mention stamp collectors, antique collectors, art buyers, retro video game collectors, etc. Most of this stuff only has value for being an original thing with limited supply. You can get all the practical value from cheap copies. Also gold, diamonds, etc.
What prevents that from happening in a web-based experience?
This is amazing. I tried following Stephen Diehl's JIT compiler in LLVM tutorial[0] a few years ago but it was already outdated (the llvm-hs library changed quite a bit), and subsequent web searches didn't turn up much.

For those interested in tutorials like this, I'd also recommend a very literate Haskell compiler for the PCF language to C[1], which is essentially lambda calculus with some primitives and pattern matching. It details a number of transformations such as closure conversion and lambda lifting.

[0] https://www.stephendiehl.com/llvm/

[1] https://github.com/jozefg/pcf/
Honestly I still wish I could shop in person, it's just too far :)

Not trying to be rude but maybe you didn't tip enough? The default tip is 5% but I usually do ~20%.
It is pretty easy to search for 10-K for all the big retail companies. They all show sub 5% profit margins, frequently in the 2% to 3% range. It is a pretty cut throat business.

Lidl is probably coming in and destroying competition by running leaner operations with less payroll due to not having to deal with legacy unions. It happens and has happens in many businesses (see declining real wages for past few decades for bottom 3 quintiles), but a lot of the “growth” in retail comes from cutting labor costs.
Dollar yields in the crypto universe have forever been higher. I've consistently got 12-25% per year from 2015 using exchanges like Bitfinex and haven't lost a single dollar.

Why isn't it arbitrated away? Because institutions and market makers don't trust crypto. When they do, I'm sure it'll go as low as rest of market rates.
Oh don't worry, not complaining about downvotes. Just baffled that the community stands by that characterization of the issue at hand. Plays into crummy stereotypes about the tech community and their general naivety regarding social issues / norms (or perhaps worse, apathy?).

It's neither snarky nor insubstantive. It gets straight to the heart of the issue in few words. It does speak volumes. Few words can given context and choice.
You failed a basic ethical test: Can you wait until the needy have had their turn? The answer seems to be that no, you cannot. I recognize that YC views this as a positive trait in founders, but I hope that you recognize that the vast majority of folks view it as a negative.
If Bitcoin had a bank-robbing feature all transactions and wallets would be private. They aren’t.
Not sure if you're allowed to say, but who was the misogynist/what was the context of her defense?
Walmart really started the race to the bottom, killed countless good paying retail jobs (many union), so I choose to hold them accountable, even if it's irrational at this point given their competition (Amazon) is arguably just as bad or worse.
Because you’re being paid to come to work and work. That’s why they call it “work”, not “debate club”. The idea that young, affluent tech workers like those at Google expect to come to work and argue over the plight of black lives in between writing code for serving ads all while making $300k a year and complaining about other peoples’ privilege is just gross (and a little funny).
How about this?
https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/cedars-sinai-statement...
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Are there tools that will take a paper, do a tree of citations, and find ones that have been debunked
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I think GP means RAII, which is still an open area of discussion in Zig: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/782

I'd love to see it if it can be implemented in a way that fits the language, but that remains to be seen.
"refusal to hear" isn't the "unsafe" problem so much as "refusal to agree".
I think you are unwittingly coloring your words, likely because you are frustrated by this post (it's petty drama you want to downvote but policy says you can't, and you have inside information you can't share). This is like subtle apophasis, where you're implying that the tweeter (wow that sounds so weird) is on the wrong side.

I'm not taking sides here, despite being a YC alum (alternate account) I stopped looking at the forum forever ago and had not even heard about this nor do I care, honestly I just thought it'd be fun to read some drama on HN since it's so rare here.

I think enough other people are commenting on this to suggest it's not just me. I think you mean well, but none of us are unbiased. It seems like a no-win situation though. So it goes.
Companies fail all the time, even long-lived ones (Sears). It takes a very long time - and a lot of societal misery - for a country to fail. Government is perhaps 100000000x less dynamic than the private sector.
Here’s an article that touches on it: https://reclaimdemocracy.org/walmart-product-quality-durabil...

Basically, Walmart is responsible for so much of some products’ sales, they dictate the price to the manufacturer. Manufacturers respond by producing special versions of products to meet their price demands.

Product quality is sort of a hobby/passion for me. Most popular brands these days prioritize price wayyy over quality. Even without Walmart, finding well-made products is difficult, inside a Walmart, I don’t even bother looking anymore.
True, no one reads the constitution or charter of human rights - way too long, unenforceable and niche. /s
And offshoring manufacturing to dictatorships that also "reeducate" and forcibly manage the reproductive rights of religious minorities in the country and threaten neighboring countries with invasions and harvest organs when the like.

Oh, wait... that's right these activists don't care too much about THAT violence.
>People lie to jump lines all the time. Hell, some people just cut them. Does it anger me personally, yes. Will it change the overall outcome, no.

I thought by me saying it angers me when people cut lines it was pretty clear that I follow the rules and will wait my turn. Glad you got vaxed. Tell others.
most economists have bullshit jobs, since they are, almost to a one, stenographers to power.
> Is CNN irresponsible for presenting it as credible?

Yes. Does CNN brag about following the science? Yes. Is CNN following the science here? Nope.

> What is CNN supposed to do, title their headline as "A bunch of bozos in the military think aliens are real LOLOLOL!!!!"?

For news that's not credible, yes. That is, if CNN itself wants to have any credibility.

For some perspective, CNN pretty much labeled everything the President of the United States said in the last 5 years as a lie. They're hardly afraid of doing that.

> I don't mean to be patronizing

You shouldn't believe everything authority figures tell you. UFOs are aliens should be pegging your bullshit detector.
it was 100% malware, why are people looking back at this fondly lately?
Yeah, the point of leadership is to make decisions. Seems like a win-win for people who can't tolerate each other to separate.
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Algorithmic Engineers? CS is essentially the study of automatic algorithmic processes that scale, so something along those lines.
> So, to be honest, I don’t know what you’re on about. What’s the fairyland alternative to “markets”?

idk, whatever we have right now?
I blame the long hours and dying of outside of work social groups. Churches and "bowling league"-style activities probably kept it out of work fairly efficiently.
The thing is though that most all of these crypto lending platforms only offer over collateralized loans, so the risk of them being screwed over by lack of payment from the person taking the loan is negligible. Meaning If I want to lend $100 worth of USDC I must give $200 as collateral worth of BTC to get the loan. Where if that $200 worth of BTC drops to a worth of $100, it's liquidated, paying off your loan, leaving the lender with no outstanding loan and the loan taker with the $100 worth of USDC still, but no longer their BTC. (this would trigger a Capital gains event too, as the BTC was effectively sold.)

These types of loans of course aren't useful for most people in the traditional sense where somebody needs access to money they don't have. These are mostly for 2 cases:
1) Exposure to other crypto when you think both your collatoral and the crpyto you want to be lent will both be worth more. SO you borrow $100 worth of USDC, give $200 BTC as collatoral, use the $100 USDC to buy $100 worth of ETH. SO if after a month ETH and BTC have gone up, you can sell enough to pay the $100 USDC loan and keep the profit.

2) Access to illiquid capital. If you have $1 million of BTC but don't want to sell it and trigger a capital gains event, you use that as temporary collateral to get access to something else, thus never selling your current crpyto holdings (unless they fall below the liquidate threshold of the loan)

I should say too, using these methods still has counter party risk regardless.
These days cheapskate companies will insist on a validator app on employee provided phone rather than take the hit on capital expenditure for a proper key. It would be nice to have legislation that bans that practice.
Ok, where's your data? This article cites the work of Soffia, Wood, and Burchell[1] who "use representative data from the EU to test five of [bullshit jobs theory]'s core hypotheses" and find them to be nonsense based upon opinion and conjecture.

> instead of analysing them more clinically

Can you point to a clinical analysis supporting your claims? You may be falling prey to what you accuse the Economist of: ideology over evidence.

Additionally,your viewpoint seems internally inconsistent. On the one hand, bigcorps are profit obsessed and will stop at nothing to juice margins. But also, they somehow allow jobs (ie labor cost) which produce nothing to proliferate.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09500170211015...
With regards to RAII (as in constructors/destructors, not the stuff in the issue you linked), I think it simply didn't fit within Zig's goals. A big part of Zig is readability; what you read is what you get, and RAII is very much not that. Looking at a block of C++ code, there's no way to tell what happens unless you also know what the constructors/destructors of each data type in the block does.
I wonder how much the $5 billion sunk cost from the new(ish) office has to do with this, or if Apple is just clinging on to their original, conservative view on WFH.
It took a century for USD to swing 99%, how long did it take BTC?
> I would also hope that customer service is awesome all the time, but saying the greeter was not nice enough is a pretty specific dog whistle.

You're probably white and haven't experienced casual racism that exists at Wal-mart and less worldly venues

> dog whistle

> calling an elitist a spade free of any strawman you want to pile on.

Is it an elitist dog whistle when less affluent people also avoid Wal-mart on the sentiment that it's not actually a better value proposition such that customer service is a differentiating factor ? There is extreme poverty where people have to squeeze every penny out of their expenses even if it means trading their time for those pennies, but I'd hardly call a family in the middle ( below the middle class ) vying for Costco or a Target as having elitist preferences.

You're the one who sounds like an elitist white knight suggesting less affluent people have zero options and necessarily have to shop at Wal-mart. For example, Dollar Stores have great service, not actually cheaper, but is perceived as a cost saving to less affluent people.
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Not everything needs to be connected to the internet. They own right of ways for a pipeline. Go bury some fiber along the pipe. All critical company communications can now be handled internally.
Is it just me, or is the sarcasm problem worsening? Sometimes I earnestly can't even tell if I am being sarcastic.
Wow very cool.
The USA's sentimental protection of human life slowed down experimentation.
I'm sure it's a lie too. They probably found they could save money by understaffing their store and/or customers would buy more stuff if they have to wait around more. I'm sure it works on one scale, but on the other hand they seem to be confused about why they are losing customers to online shopping or other stores. I'm sure I'm not the only person to stop using them.
are you aware that software installations and customizations take you further away from "vanilla", rather than closer to it?
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If you think about what they are doing, they are searching your personal belonging. That bag is yours. Do you want to give money to a store that thinks it reasonable to randomly search customers?
That NYT article got to Besos, that's why it was the only time you saw some changes.

If he wants good PR he will do anything, even buy a newspaper.
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The "A" in STEM probably does not belong there and in any case has the least amount of "meritocracy" of anything since it's all about gatekeepers, I mean curators and trendsetters.
> It’s a pretty miserable place to work.

Huh sounds a bit like another company I happen to know
this is quite the joke. walmart maintains a standing para-military with a lot of weapons and equipment. when people find mass grave-sites all over south of the the border (and there's A LOT of them), there's some common characteristics. walmart hats, coca cola hats, chikita banana stickers, and goya labels. imperialism and fascism both suck, so does walmart and amazon
Northern Scandinavia is rising by ~5mm/year, because the land is still adjusting from being weighed down by ice during the ice age 10k years ago.

But Denmark is not affected by this.
Is a scientist actually a scientist if they don’t adhere to the scientific method and try their best to maintain skepticism and abstract themselves from personal and political bias. I would say they are not actually scientists, they just think and claim they are.

Humans are flawed, biased, and fundamentally limited creatures that are wrong a lot of the time. So we invented a system to evaluate hypothesis based on experiments, data, etc... A person speaking gospel or pushing a trust “The Science” while prematurely rejecting unproven hypothesis is NOT a scientist. They are no better than those who sought to banish or kill Galileo and the like.
it has little to do with age, to me, though it is far more common in older people: you value your time, and spending ages customizing everything does not help you reach your goals, so you just don't do it.
Just searched `opera browser "jpg" "yuv"`, no date filtering. Second result is:

https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2018-03-22-compressive-image...

Seems to be it?
So why don't people in those groups speak out against it?

When Reddit hired an admin with repeated links to child molestation, moderators of trans communities like r/LGBT staunchly took the position of the admin and called anyone speaking out against it transphobic. (The admin is trans).

It kinda feels like law enforcement. The good apples aren't speaking out about the bad apples. If you see activists using your group to advance an agenda you disagree with, eject them. Don't just let them do their things.
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X is, these days, usually “white supremacy.”