skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who work for McKinsey are not "working class". They are junior members of the upper class who are being fast-tracked into largely undeserved positions of status and power by virtue of their class affinity. They are the nearest thing America has to aristocrats.

Tell me, exactly what actual expertise does some 20-something kid fresh out of college have in terms of business management? If that kid actually started their own business and became a successful entrepreneur, I might believe they'd know what they were doing, but then they'd probably be rich enough that they wouldn't have time for McKinsey. (Money is not equivalent to social class.)

So instead of those kids, McKinsey ends up with the kids whose life strategy is to leverage their class status to navigate their way through existing institutions. Which makes them a fairly strong parallel to the old European aristocrats who managed to gain commissions as army and navy officers without any particular demonstrated expertise in military or naval affairs.

Though it's unfair of me to pin this entirely on the old European aristocracy. Our aristocracy also has their way of gaining undeserved naval commissions:

> A direct commission officer (DCO) is a United States uniformed officer who has received an appointed commission without the typical prerequisites for achieving a commission, such as attending a four-year service academy, a four-year or two-year college ROTC program, or one of the officer candidate school or officer training school programs, the latter OCS/OTS programs typically slightly over three months in length.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_commission_officer

> After earning his Oxford degree, in 2007 Buttigieg became a consultant at the Chicago office of McKinsey & Company....Buttigieg joined the U.S. Navy Reserve through the direct commission officer (DCO) program and was sworn in as an ensign in naval intelligence in September 2009.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Buttigieg

> [Hunter] Biden received an age-related waiver and a waiver due to a past drug-related incident; he was sworn in as a direct commission officer.... The following month, Biden tested positive for cocaine during a urinalysis test and was subsequently discharged administratively.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden
I think you'd have a better point if you blamed skepticism on something Fauci said (though I'd like to see context on that, too). I've not once relied on a politician of any kind for medical advice. If the only person telling me to get the vaccine was Joe Biden, I'd be very skeptical indeed.

But again, this is cherry picking. The consensus opinion amongst medical experts is heavily in favor of the vaccine, and they have data to back up their judgement. The contrarian advice from skeptics is decidedly lacking in evidence and relies almost entirely on hearsay and non-scientific anecdotes.
well, the ancestor lineage also was able to take steps to accomplish that goal.

Your kids can tell you that if you don't provide an arranged marriage partner for them, it'd be your fault that they couldn't find a partner and thus reproduce!
Yeah it's kind of ridiculous both sides skewing statistics. (Granted, it's ridiculous that there are "sides" to this thing at all).

But I get super annoyed when I see things like CNN reporting 99% of deaths since January were unvaccinated. I mean, duh, hardly anybody was vaccinated then and those first months were the highest death rates. I'd like to give them a pass because, hey, maybe it'll convince more people to vaccinate. But it also creates cannon fodder for anyone who is viewing it critically. Both sides are so stupidly irresponsible.
The article is full of credit given to a huge number of people.
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Isn't the problem arising because GitLabs files are in the global namespace? If the user is the namespace for all their files, and GitLab files were under a Gitlab user, this wouldn't be a problem. Under the current implementation, every time you add a file, you have to make sure its name doesn't conflict with an existing profile. And a username has to avoid conflict with all present and future filenames. Mutual pain doesn't seem like a good way forward.
Treason has a pretty narrow definition, if you aren’t directly conspiring with a foreign power (and at that probably an enemy) against the US, it probably isn’t treason. People like to jump to that judgement, but it almost never happens.
I worked on one this year. You need Java 8 for it and an insanely old browser.

They didn't mention the applet part in the job description. That was my shortest tenure ever, including Summer jobs and internships...
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The problem with this generalization is that the vaxxed/unvaxxed populations are ultimately very different.

Vaxxed group is older, unvaxxed are younger.

i.e. groups are not randomly distributed.

They are going to have different risk factors and die of different things.

This showed up in British Columbia's health data that showed infections and hospitalizations way, way down for the vaxxed relative to unvaxxed, but the ratio between the two for actual deaths was not as extreme, because vaccinated population skewed older, more vulnerable, more likely to die even when fully vaxxed.

Should note that age-standardized mortality rates are included in the study.
Well first, treason specifically is very narrowly defined in the US.

>Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

They didn't levy war against the US, or adhere to an enemy (because the UAE isn't one).

But in general, it's not illegal for US citizens to join foreign armies (if they aren't enemies). Lots of Jewish citizens, for example, serve in the IDF.

"According to the U.S. code, any citizen who "enlists or enters himself, or hires or retains another to enlist or enter himself, or to go beyond the jurisdiction of the United States with intent to be enlisted or entered in the service of any foreign prince, state, colony, district, or people as a soldier or as a marine or seaman … shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both." But a court ruling from 1896 involving U.S. citizens who fought with Cuban revolutionaries against Spanish colonial rule interpreted this to mean that it was only illegal for citizens to be recruited for a foreign army in the United States, not to simply fight in one."

https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/09/02/is-it-legal-for-america...
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there is a long story also of why that does not depend on having a government, come on... and many other things.

I just advocate for the possibility that better paradigms are possible (and some have even existed in the past!).

But how come you have to figure out if food is safe just because it is not the government who certifies that food?!

Man, we are not going to agree at all, I see.

Yes, you go to a link for China, where the biggest government is and you have death penalty.

A good show of why governments work for food control, right? hahahahahaha! You are just making my point, man. It does not depend on it.
It wasn’t intended that way originally, it was the developers of the time who started hitting the hardware directly. Software written to use the BIOS and DOS interfaces could run on other non-IBM-compatible MS-DOS computers that existed. But that didn’t offer the performance that demanding tasks like gaming required, and that’s the genesis of the difference between “IBM-compatible” and “MS-DOS compatible”.
In your example quote, he only managed to shoehorn in his cellular automata work. The reader is left hanging -- for an entire sentence! -- as to whether or not he was a child prodigy. Is that growth? Or is his game slipping?
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> we'll find a way to show that Gödel's mu-recursive functions or Church's lambda calculus also precisely describe 'what a machine can do'?

This is already proven to be the case. Mu-recursion (which IIRC is not Godel's general recursive functions, despite what Wikipedia says; Kleene was the originator of the mu operator. Godel's general recursive functions are defined in a separate, but yet again equivalent way that directly extends primitive recursion), Turing machines, and the lambda calculus are all proven to be exactly equivalent to each other. The fact that these three independent approaches to computability are all equivalent is why we have strong informal justification that the Church-Turing Thesis (a non-mathematical statement) holds.

Separately, there's a sentiment that I've seen come up several times on HN that somehow the lambda calculus, mu-recursion, or general recursion is more "mathematical" and Turing machines are less "mathematical."

I want to push back on that. The mathematical field of computability is based almost entirely off of Turing machines because there are many classes of mathematical and logical problems that are easy to state with Turing machines and extremely awkward/almost impossible to state with the lambda calculus and mu-recursion (this is consistent with my previous statement that the three are all equivalent in power because computability theory often deals with non-computable functions, in particular trying to specify exactly how non-computable something is). The notion of oracles, which then leads to a rich theory of things like Turing jumps and the arithmetical hierarchy, is trivial to state with Turing machines and very unwieldy to state in these other formalisms.

Likewise the lambda calculus and mu-recursion (but not general recursion) provide a very poor foundation to do complexity theory in CS. Unlike Turing machines, where it is fairly easy to discern what is a constant time operator, the story is much more complicated for the lambda calculus, where to the best of my knowledge, analyzing complexity in the formalism of the lambda calculus, instead of translating it to Turing machines, is still an open problem.

There is indeed a mathematical elegance to Turing machines that makes it so that most of the mathematics of computability is studied with Turing machines rather than the lambda calculus.

The lambda calculus on the other hand is invaluable when studying programming language theory, but we should not mistake PLT to be representative of the wider field of mathematics or theoretical CS.

EDIT: I should perhaps make clear that if I put on my mathematical hat, mu-recursive functions seem like the most familiar formalism, because they align with a common way families of things are defined in mathematics (specify individual members and then generate the rest through some relationship). However, I would contend that for the majority of mathematicians outside of computability theory, the lambda calculus and Turing machines seem equally "strange."
Correct: his full name as given was "Lionardo di ser Piero da Vinci," meaning more or less Piero's son Lionardo from Vinci. Deriving a childs name from their lineage was incredibly common.
How are they isolated if you can inject JS that downloads resources from anywhere else? I mean, just to start:

- You have no CSP header that I can see.

- You do expose the server version in the headers, though.

- The site is available at a non-SSL-secured domain.

- There's no X-Frame-Options, X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies, etc.
There is activism and propaganda. There is also counter-activism and counter-propaganda, and they're pretty effective. Tons of people don't accept that climate change is real (or even if real, not our responsibility), and they have allies who may accept that it's a problem but far from their top priority.

The result is enough votes in enough places to stop any political solution. Even if there's a majority, the rules are designed to prevent action unless the majority is overwhelming.

People and up doing something, even though they suspect it's not very effective. It at least diminishes the accusation of hypocrisy, that they're not taking it seriously -- not that it matters, since the counter-propaganda will leap on any instance of hypocrisy as proof that the entire movement is wrong. Check any HN argument on climate change, and wait to see how long it take for Al Gore's jet to come up.

It's a poor argument, but it's sufficient to keep the US from overcoming its designed-in bias for inaction.
I think this is the real reason Toyota cut production targets 40%. Their insiders probably know that the politburo intends to make personal vehicles illegal for kulaks like me.
I worked at an investment bank in the 1990s. Their programming staff (and IT staff in general) was roughly half female. I think it's more common in companies where IT is a supporting function and not the core business. By contrast, the tech companies I've worked at have all been almost entirely male.
Laws are for the little people who don't have important friends. Want to hack? Want to call China as a US general? As long as you are in good standing with the Party you can write your own ticket.

Edit: Just a year ago our feeds were full of people complaining about a call to Russia from an underlying who was not a US general.
The flip side to this, is that workers who bake 1 pie per hour will demand the same pay as those who bake 10 per hour. Lest their "rights to equal pay" be under threat.

Put another way, it will be very ... very difficult to reward good people with higher pay, without consequences. The onus would be on the business to articulate in legal terms, why X should get more than Y. This would open businesses up to lawsuits.

I suspect that the net effect of this will be that businesses are going to work much harder at vetting people, and more rapidly letting go staff members who are on the wrong side of the bell curve (say 1 or more sigma below peak) in productivity. I'm not sure this is a good thing, for workers, or for businesses.

As they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I'd love to read more about this if you have a source.
I read a while ago about some coffee machines unintentionally bridging an internal network and spreading ransomware. I think they had Windows XP on the inside. Couldn't help but find the situation funny in a way.
I've noticed that as the risk becomes too high to ignore, people do finally put their politics aside when they have a reasonable expectation that their life actually does ride on the decision.
So, contrary to your email to your customer directly stating that this has been completely and fully and finally reviewed, there's this secret way you won't tell anyone (except your friends here on HN)? Yeah, this is working great.
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You're absolutely right about 1.a., but you're missing the fact that the same is true for the relationship between companies (and their owners) and the government. So just as the typical employee often could not generate the same value without the infrastructure and resources of the company, that company could not generate the same value without the infrastructure and resources provided by the state.

My entire original "profit is theft" argument rests on the same kind of assumptions as your "taxes are theft" argument. Namely that in both cases the affected party is not getting anything for their contributions and could have done it themselves. In my mind the only difference here is that taxes are explicit and transparent, while "capturing excess productivity" is hidden. The former seems much more honest in this regard.

Edit:

> You also have no word on where your money goes or any control over it. The people who manage it do not pay penalties for mismanaging it. In private companies I can assure you this is much more sensitive and you are much more careful with what you do than in public instances.

This is patently false. Not only do you have less control over how your employer spends your excess value than how your government spends your taxes (I don't recall being able to vote for my CEO), but corruption in companies is not uncommon. It's just less visible because companies are allowed much more secrecy than governments. This is not any better. It's also rare for a CEO to be seriously punished for running a company into the ground. "Failing upwards" is common.
For dashboard.html, sure. Fixing that requires making a breaking change to URLs.

My comment, and the issue that was submitted here, is about *.mov
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Linked is a fascinating dataset showing exactly what you are talking about. The average american thinks if they get covid, their odds of dying from it around 10%. In younger age brackets this is almost 1000x wrong.

People are very, very badly misinformed about their risks for covid. This makes it almost impossible to have rational, grounded discussion of public policy. If everybody is walking around thinking covid is a death sentence, of course they will beg of all the crap we are doing right now.

https://covid19pulse.usc.edu/
Yeah, he won by 5% not 10% points. But if you look at what happened, is that they were pretty accurate about Biden's percent, and underestimated Trump's (e.g. undecideds or shy voters broke for Trump). And again, if your margin of error is 3 points, then a 55-45 could be a 52-48, a 10 pt difference shrinks to a 4 pt difference.

In any case, even if the polls were systematically off, and they may have been, that doesn't justify calling them all propaganda, or bs. It isn't even evidence of it. Because, as it happens, polling people is effing hard.
If I'm understanding your example here, you're basically arguing in favor of per-piece pay rather than fixed. This has its own set of challenges, for example imagine if developers got paid by the line of code rather than by the quality/efficacy of their code. Outside of physical item production jobs it gets tricky to make per-piece systems work without getting gamed to hell.
I think your analysis doesn't account for the fact that the majority of double vaccinated people are also at far higher risk of covid to begin with. There was an interesting article about this (Simpson's Paradox, as it's known in the world of data analysis) recently: https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-... -- the overall trend is reversed when the data are grouped properly.

The preponderance of evidence shows that the covid vaccines are overwhelmingly effective and safe for the vast majority of people. Your alarmism and calling Government vaccination campaigns propaganda is contributing to the spread of an incurable but now preventable disease that is killing thousands of people daily and you should feel bad about that. You are a menace to society.
I doubt you will find that one number anywhere. The CDC estimated a mortality rate of 0.06% for the 18-49 age group, but that doesn't account for health status.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

Of those deaths, many had pre-existing conditions such as cancer, heart failure, obesity, and diabetes which drastically increased their risks. You'll have to do your own calculations on how that impacts your expected mortality rate.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

I encourage healthy adults to get vaccinated because the personal benefits outweigh the risks, and it can help reduce load on the healthcare system.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037e1.htm
I think a lot of the comments here are missing the point, and the author doesn't help by putting Zuck/Musk/Gaga at the top.

It seems to me the author's point is: Why do people who reach a certain level of wealth keep grinding away at jobs they may not like? For the sake of argument, lets exclude those who shift and work on what they care about. I think he's talking about those who do not necessarily love what they do. This group would be millionaires, and using his numbers are the top 0.005% globally (40M/7B). His answer is that they continue to strive for money because they look towards the next class above them and to provide for their children.

I agree with the author in that people are seeking higher and higher status, and I agree with a peer comment that people get used to luxury. But I would add that that this striving for climbing the class ladder is both endemic in the culture of the US as well as accessible. In many other places in the world there are stricter controls on upward class mobility. I'd posit that people continue on in this because they don't really create a philosophy of life or pay that much attention to how to live until they are much older. It's easy to just keep doing the same thing, especially if it provides a luxurious life. It is a subjective value statement on what to do when you reach that point that is clearly different for everyone.
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This is completely anecdotal but at least in my friends circle in the US a lot of people have stopped using Facebook (Messenger is different) or they use it for very specific purposes like Marketplace, specific events, or major life updates. None of those are really engagement driving activities. It seems like most of Facebook's growth is coming from developing nations and older generations who are just now finding about it or haven't bothered moving on to other forms of social media.
Of note, GitHub doesn't allow periods in usernames either. I'm not a Ruby expert but I wonder if file extensions give some specific Ruby gotchas that means both GitLab and GitHub operate this way.
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I wish, SMT-solvers, in particular, were easier to approach. I have a number of problems that are solved once-per-month, that I wouldn’t mind throwing a couple of weeks of compute at to get absolute tip-top results.

Posing SMT-problems though … that’s an art. There’s not enough resources for “problems at scale” for me to just dip my tie into…