skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would end up killing a bunch of smaller sports, and hurting the larger ones.

NCAA covers a massive number of sports. The vast majority of those who go pro in any US sport, first go through an NCAA team.

Think about a scenario in the current world: You're a pretty good golf player in high school. You commit to Stanford for golf and a degree in some STEM field. The school already has a system in place to make sure both are possible. You give high level competitive college golf a shot and realize you can actually go pro. After college, you do. And even if it doesn't work out, you've got a degree from Stanford.

And then there's your world: You're a pretty good golf player in high school. You go to college instead of the separate LPGA feeder leagues because it's the safer bet and your school doesn't have a system in place to make sure you can compete in both. Why would they? You never get to experience and thrive in the high level competitions and end up not going pro.

So many professional sports would get maimed with your model. After a decade the US would heavily drop on the world stage when it comes to sports.
What's wrong with 'git diff'?

Then there's 'git add -i' to easily choose which files to add
Which is a good thing because it also makes them more immune to political pressure to overstimulate the economy.
Not counting BIOS time it is about 5 seconds to Windows login on my Windows with NVMe systems. It does take about 20 seconds after login for it to finish loading all of the tiny startup notification icons, but that's actually intentional by Windows so it does not overload and prevent you from launching the apps you want. After login I can click on the web browser or email and it will launch instantly for me.

If you are doing a lot of waiting look into getting an SSD for your boot drive.

Or you're running some kind of corporate security product that is going to a remote server for "Mother, may I launch this?" on every EXE and DLL.
Do Europeans not go into debt (tens to perhaps hundreds of thousands of €s) to purchase a home, for example?
It's a mindset, I have friends who earn X times as much as I do and spend it all on vacations and gadgets. If I had their salaries I would retire in 10 years, priorities I guess
I didn't say that. It's a complicated situation, right?
If an employee threatens to kill another, they can be terminated immediately (with security escort).

i'm talking about employees who are in good standing, like Timnit was at the time. She had just been previously promoted. A person like this, even if they are annoying many coworkers through emails or papers, can't just be terminated because the manager doesn't like them (huge liability risk). Instead, Google (or IBM, or whomever) wants a paper record showing that somebody is unable to do their job, is put on a performance improvement program, cannot improve performance. At that point, Google can terminate the employee and if there is a lawsuit or mediation, Google has the paperwork required.
Your description summarizes what I've been trying to express so concisely – it's almost shocking. I'm left wondering on what side of the split you stand on.
Many of them are affiliated with some organized religion which has been waning for a while now.
A lot of the calls for returning to office work boil down to people wanting to be in an environment where there's this "hum" of Serious Business™ being done--the "buzz" of people actively present and Doing Interesting Things. It's not the work itself, but excitement at the performance of work going on around them. Lots of work-from-office folks seem to get a charge out of this excitement.

Maybe (and I'm half serious) companies should hire actors to simply walk around the office, quietly talk about things, draw things on whiteboards, maybe carry papers to and from the printer, etc. and in general provide that "hum" and "buzz" that people crave. That way, people who want the Office Experience™ can get it, and people who'd rather WFH can have things their way too.
Because it is, unfortunately, far too easy to obtain credit in the US (unless one puts a 'freeze' on one's credit reports, one gets about 1-2 offers for new credit cards in the mail daily).

Additionally, credit cards are a way of buying things where the actual cost is wholly disconnected from the purchasing activity.

Purchasing something for $1 using a credit card feels (and acts) identically to purchasing something for $2000 using a credit card. The only difference is the size of the number being added to the balance, so buying "more than one can actually afford" via credit cards is far too easy, because for many it does not feel like "spending". I.e., there's no "physicality" of having to count out cash bills and seeing the pile grow.

As well, credit card payback rates as calculated by the banks are structured such that the principal is paid down as slowly as legally allowed, which naturally increases the banks profits at the detriment of the individual paying the bill (as most of the payment goes to interest, not principal, if paying the "minimum payment" calculated by the holding bank).

So it is simply very easy to obtain plural credit cards, and to use them to fuel an instant gratification lifestyle well beyond ones means without considering the consequences of loading up 20k or 30k or more onto credit cards on a take home salary of 2-3k/month.

And, once someone has gotten themselves dug into this deep pit of debt, it is extremely difficult to climb up out of the hole.
ETH will not have infinite issuance after EIP 1559. Isn't that true (my understanding is that ETH will actually become deflationary afterwards).
> They might also want to save their hard-earned money without getting the fruit of their work stolen by inflation.

"stolen by inflation" is a ridiculous take. Society benefits greatly from inflation as it's an incentive to not stockpile production/consumption potential in a way that it artificially stifles the economy in general and everyday people's lives in particular, because there is a very clear and obvious way to avoid inflation: apply the money in productive investments.

Whether the money is lent or made available to someone else in exchange of a small payment (i.e., interest rates), those with money can already easily beat inflation just by investing conservatively.

ON the other hand, dumping cash on a ponzi scheme hoping that the next guy in line is left holding the bag, is not a good justification for this sort of scheme. It's extremely damaging to society and ultimately dangerous to society.
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This is BS. Money printing and 'trickle down' distribution of the newly created money is subsidizing incumbents and making it impossible for competitors to compete with them. Anyone who has worked for a big corporations knows how ridiculously inefficient they are and seen that this has 0 effect on the bottom line.

Imagine you open a coffee shop and then some billionaire opens a coffee shop next to yours. Imagine his coffee shop receives a $10 million government contract to provide coffee to the nearby FBI bureau for 1 year... On the other hand, you get no government contracts or subsidies of any kind... You cannot compete! Impossible! He can afford to sell his coffee at a loss to regular customers. On the other hand, you cannot! You cannot compete on price, so you go out of business.

The same dynamics permeate pretty much every part of the economy. A similar story can be told without government contracts (which is entirely funded by newly printed money BTW). Big capital holders have access to cheaper credit and lower tax rates than everyone else; they have an unbeatable competitive edge. It's not merely hard to compete; it's impossible! They can make so much money from big institutions that they can operate their front businesses at a loss! That's why they get all the customers! Because they're subsidized by the money printers.

Big corporations can setup shell companies to take out huge loans at 0% interest and then give each other huge phony contracts to get that freshly printed currency circulating between themselves. This creates huge revenue numbers on each other's balance sheets. If the shell companies go bankrupt, no big deal, just make new ones and repeat! That's what limited liability is for. Always use 'intangible assets' as collateral that way you always have the upper hand over the banks when repo time arrives and they collect your worthless intangibles... Just like the Fed did buying all these intangible toxic assets. All the companies and all the banks behind them are offloading their toxic intangibles onto the central banks which are paying for them by diluting the salaries of average workers through money printing.

The worst part of this is that even if you manage to negotiate up your salary over the years, you will get pushed up into a higher tax bracket. This effect was described by Milton Friedman several decades ago. The system eviscerates workers in countless different ways. It's a kind of slavery which keeps getting worse over time.
I would just like to point out that the existence of (what I assume you mean when you say) "objective ethics" isn't a sure thing. I don't mean to imply that ethical nihilism (basically saying ethics aren't "a thing") is the only way forward though. We can probably assign ethical value to human action even (some would say especially) if "objective ethics" don't exist.
> I really wish there was a bit more introspection into how you see your past behaviour in the light of being cancelled.

I don't get this comment. The author says explicitly that he was an asshole in the past, that he changed who he was, and that he apologized privately to the people he had hurt. What more do you want?
Why do this and not just create an OnlyHoldings with OnlyFans as one of the wholly owned companies, and divert some capital from that business into a new venture then cross-promote on the existing platform.
> “I was terrible to women,” Bradley wrote. “I preyed on them. I ceaselessly hit on them. I pressured them into sex. I got too drunk and did all manner of dumb things. Yes, I was one of those shitty, creepy sexual predators you hear about.”

This is literally the first I've heard of Bradley, and I have no knowledge of him outside of this HN post. That's a pretty self-damning quote, though.
https://articles.starcitygames.com/news/mtg-artist-noah-brad...
I have never met a single person in my life who didn't ghost multiple people especially in business and dating. Like I receive 10 messages from LinkedIn everyday from recruiters trying to hire me when I'm not on the job market and trying to focus on my job and hobbies. What am I supposed to do?

It's clearly rude to ghost friends, acquaintances, business partners etc. But if someone reached out to you with the intention of doing business with you, I think it's ok to ghost them if you're 100% not interested. Am I wrong?
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notice that just because I said I'm freenode staff... that doesn't actually make me freenode staff.
LSD and Mushrooms are both ways that can help one approximate the naïve mind.
I'm not saying it's not bad. I'm not sure under which US law you'd be claiming it's illegal.

Should Beanie Babies have been illegal? Were Beanie Babies a ponzi scheme? If you answer yes to those questions, just understand that your evaluation of how the US legal system should work is not even in the same ballpark as where it currently stands, regardless of merit.

But those are all totally irrelevant to whether it meet's a specific set of criteria to be a Ponzi scheme. I'd be curious for you to lay out your specific definition of a ponzi scheme under which specifically both this and madoff are ponzi scheme but doesn't include every other asset that is in a bubble and doesn't involve your subjective assessment of if it is good or bad.

To be blunt I don't think you can do it.
If you can’t afford to pay for good developers, then you shouldn’t expect good software to be written quickly. That’s something only good developers can accomplish.

I think what you want is not possible. More process, monitoring… is only going to slow down your development.

I also think if a developer manager is going to be non-technical that they should be able to demonstrate extraordinary developer relation skills. Otherwise, what are you paying them for?
Yes, in the 1960s. Universities were expanding rapidly to respond to the influx of baby boomers, and humanities majors were much more popular, so it was relatively easy to get hired.[0]

It's pretty much been varying degrees of bad since then, but as the first chart in [1] shows, it got a lot worse after 2008.

[0]: https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/pers...

[1]: https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/pers...
it's effective in raising intense, context-free, subtlety-free, short-lived outrage with little effort or follow-up action. If that's not your goal, it's not very effective.
A growth stock is engaged in an ongoing value creation process. In your scenario, it is also subject to all of the public disclosure requirements consistent with being a publicly traded company.
Same. It seems we could be building better communities where we live.

Now the office is an escape from people who don’t want to be in their homes/communities?
They have been in a slow decline, along with unions, middle class, and manufacturing, during the rise of the internet and globalization.
I'm confused about what you're arguing. Are you saying "by allowing people the freedom to work from home it harms people who wish those other people would join them in the office"? Or are you saying, "I realize you're not saying people should be forced to come into the office, but if you were arguing that it would be very selfish"? One of those is absurd and the other is the weirdest kind of straw man I've ever heard.
I didn't see any libel mentioned in the article. The author seems not to dispute the claims made against him.
The 2-3 huge money-maker sports tend to fund all the rest. Paying athletes real money will cut into those profits (especially if a strong labor market for student athletes develops) with a plausible result being that other sports will be cut as budgets tighten. The only ones that would be for sure safe would be whatever women's sports are needed to achieve Title IX parity with the income-generating men's sports.

Of course, it's also possible that colleges will find other ways to pay for the "lesser" sports, and there would be no cuts.
Technically yes, but practically no. The difference between paying nothing out of a 100k hospital bill and paying 1k out of a 100k hospital bill is approximately the whole bill.

> We reimburse, at pre-set rates, the cost of hospital services received as a result of a sudden illness or an accident, as follows:

> * a maximum of CA$100 per day for hospitalization

> * up to CA$50 per day for healthcare received at a hospital outpatient clinic

At those rate, I wouldn't even bother submitting the forms to RAMQ for reimbursement.

https://www.ramq.gouv.qc.ca/en/citizens/absence-quebec/know-...
"Three men make a tiger"
"Defund the police" is frustrating because that slogan got coopted by moderates who wanted to sound supportive but didn't actually believe in it - it was intended to mean literally what it says on the tin.

See this NYT opinion piece, "Yes, we literally mean abolish the police": https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...

(See also "All cops are bastards," which doesn't mean "Some cops are bastards.")
The most interesting part was the question of how to pronounce it...

I'm not sure why Doggy-coin didn't make the cut. That's honestly how I thought it was pronounced.
This was brave self exploration and a lot of empathy for others, I strongly resonate with everything you said. I think these surveys of people saying they feel more productive at home are taken as law right now but it will look different over time. From my perspective, there seems to be a negative feedback cycle too for a lot of people feeling bad from staying home over a long period of time and then wanting to stay home even more as the main lever for feeling better.
Sometimes people don't want to talk about it. I know society likes to paint people in terms of victims and culprits but people _can_ change. When this happens, sometimes you cut off those parts of your life and then you don't go back. It's hard enough to forgive yourself at times and it takes strength to realize what kind of person you were back then and try to reconcile that with now.

Here's an example of that learning: he obviously has turned from some sort of jerk into someone whose wife didn't want to leave him after all of this happened.

Seems like a big change to me.
TortoiseGit exists too and is fantastic IMO: https://tortoisegit.org/
I think the NCAA should create an investment pool backed by individual students' contributions to revenue. So, you're a star at Alabama. Based on your play time, jersey sales, you get a share of Alabama's share of total revenue into the pool. It grows and after 5 years you are eligible to withdraw that share. It could be used as a buffer in case of career ending injuries or liquidated for profit with incentives to perhaps see out your college career.
isn't your advice just 'find a lawyer ... that your competitors suggest'. Competitors who by default do not have your best interests in mind.

Just because you're nominally competitors serving the same market doesn't mean you can't work nicely together. In many cases the true competition is 'people who don't understand how much they need our products.'
I don't know the guy, and I don't know what happened. That's why I certainly don't want to side with anyone in this specific case.

But boy, cancel culture and this whole social justice warrior crap makes me so glad that I moved away from the U.S. many years ago to saner parts of the world.

Obviously that is going to get me downvoted to oblivion here on HN. But hey.
Alternatively, don't be a sexual predator that assumes it will never lead to any consequences later in life.
Fair point! I guess I was writing this to people who have already heard the story. But I do get into what happened and why it happened in the podcast I recorded, if you're genuinely interested (and have some time to spare).

Put simply, there's a lot to cover here. There's a lot of history, context, perspective, etc. and covering it all would take, well, probably a book. I couldn't get it all in this article, but maybe I should have included a little more on the lessons I learned before and why I had already changed. Next time.
I still don't understand "cancel culture." It seems the equivalent of a random person saying "I put a voodoo curse on you." What non-mythological power does it invoke? Does it ever lead to mainstream, widespread shunning?

The next part I don't understand is the weak culture of profuse and repeated apologizing and contrition for a "microaggression." This is something Bill Maher harps about from time-to-time.

Finally, the culture of competitive, and sometimes crybully, victimhood is tedious and nauseating. Why does everyone have to outdo themselves to be the biggest victim? Are you "The Man" to be collectively punished and assaulted if you don't have enough victomology points?
Git checkout branch means change the entire working tree to the reflect the state of the branch and git checkout file, checkout the state of that file in HEAD. Both commands to the same thing, change the state of your working tree to reflect a point checked into version control.

It sounds like you are unaware of

git switch branch

and

git switch -c new-branch
> They don't have a law enforcement division or anything like that with guns and badges.

What's interesting is that they're probably one of the only few federal entities without at least a small attached police force. Even NASA and the Department of Education have their own police.
Someone on Twitter started a poll on how to pronounce Doge and Kashkari replied, "The right pronunciation is pon-zi." It's probably just an ill-considered joke and not intended to be taken literally. Someone in his position should be less careless though.

1. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/paul-grewal-288978b4_grabbing...
Not to mention I’ve worked in places with two bathrooms total for like 300+ males lol. Always a pleasure to be standing in line after lunch.

If you're based in the US, that's likely illegal. OSHA requires 1 toilet + 1 urinal per 50 employees (IIRC). CA and other states have slightly stricter requirements.
> If that assumption holds, most people would be unable to see the forest for the trees, maybe even the president of the fed of minneapolis.

It reminds me of living through the early www.

We went from "who would ever buy books online?!", to DotCom euphoria, to market crash, to a long-term recovery, to a thriving internet economy. Some of the largest companies on the planet were created during the initial heyday period. Their trajectory was very non-linear, but they've had tremendous impact.
You can also just not do anything when you're in the office.

Is someone who writes bad code all day really less valuable than someone who gets their tasks done, and then plays Xbox
Most POSIX APIs are crap, but most significant systems projects don't code to them directly. Almost all large projects have their own internal (or third party) libraries that either wrap or reimplement the underlying POSIX APIs.

That said, at some point knowing the POSIX APIs does become necessary, but that's usually relevant a bit later when you start becoming interested in modifying the toolkit of large projects.

If you're wanting to start a project on your own rather than jump into an existing project, in a nutshell, if you don't have hard real-time requirements, if you're using C, use glib, if you're using C++, use Qt. There are other libs that are useful for real-time usage (basically things that don't ever have hidden memory allocation), but I'm not familiar enough with that space to recommend one.
I've seen lots of those before, but never anything that could remotely approach 18 months (I typically see them last only 1 month). I cannot imagine the frustrating bureaucracy that is Google.
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Good point. A free education in most fields might likely be a net gain for society, even if it was troublesome from a justice point of view.
The Compound Finance smart contract, and similar contracts, let you deposit digital assets, including digital dollars, and earn borrowing fees from others who want to take on leverage. Unlike in traditional finance, the barrier to entry is relatively low, so there's lots of competition and the fees end up being very low meaning users keep most of the profits. Compare this to traditional stock brokers - unless you're in the 1% with a very fancy brokerage account, usually the broker retains 100% of the profits of lending your shares out, with a really good deal being when they share 50% with you.

As soon as stocks get meaningfully tokenized on the blockchain, I believe p2p lending of stocks will explode just as p2p lending of cryptocurrency has. It just makes sense for people to keep all the money their shares are earning from stock lending rather than give half or more of it to a brokerage.

It would also let stocks settle instantly and non custodially, so there's no "Robinhood had to halt stock purchases because they ran out of money" moment.

That's not to get into the fact that a lot of this is traditionally inaccessible from a lot of countries, and smart contracts are global by default.
The "You're Wrong About" podcast recently had a very good episode on the topic of Cancel Culture[1]. For me, one big takeaway was how the modern form of this phenomenon is largely localized to a small group of people - primarily on Twitter. Thus I was not surprised to see Twitter be ground zero here as well.

[1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cancel-culture/id13800...
I’ve experimented with both, but have noticed the effects are fleeting within a couple of days for me