skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What? The article talks specifically about his upper-crust background and his professor parents.

It vaguely alludes to his parents being upper-class Stanford law professors. It does not specifically talk about SBF's father being an influential law professor and scholar[0], SBF's mother leading a powerful democratic PAC[1], SBF's brother having worked on Capitol Hill and the "Democratic Party-aligned consulting firm Civis Analytics"[2][3] — let alone Caroline Ellison's alleged family connections. I am not insinuating that there's a grand conspiracy theory — this should all be taken with a grain of salt — my point is that SBF's unique personal circumstances gave him access to capital and connections in government and industry that were pivotal to his success.

It would be like saying that the disgraced "DreamWorld" project was able to scam thousands of people and receive funding from Y Combinator because the founder was an upper-class white male; there's obviously a grain of truth in that statement, but it's a dishonest portrayal of events because it does not mention that his co-founder was friends with someone at Y Combinator and that perceived endorsement was what lead so many people to trust the project.

[0] https://twitter.com/JagoeCapital/status/1590805884556673024/...

[1] https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/1/6/21046631/mind-the-gap-si...

[2] https://archive.ph/GndX4

[3] https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/guarding-against-p...

> You're the one laser-focused on race here. You got triggered by the headline, and you missed the forest for the trees.

I did not get "triggered by the headline", I read the entire article and pointed out that it fails to acknowledge SBF's personal privilege and family connections because the author was dead-set on writing an article about race and needed an archetype — he literally admits to this in the article.

) I have been itching to write this essay for some time, but lacked a foil and context to make it relevant to my readers.

As I've said in another comment it's a worthwhile read, but his explanation of why SBF was able to dupe so many people falls a bit flat.
Discord Will Not Help [video]
This isn't 12-bit color depth. It's a 12 color palette, so its color depth is x if 2^x=12 or

ln(12)
------
ln(2)

Color depth (or bit depth) is the number of bits used to indicate the color of a single pixel. So 24-bit color depth produces 16,777,216 colors, 12-bit color depth produces 4096 colors, 8-bit color depth produces 256 colors, and 4-bit color depth produces 16 colors. A 12 color palette is 3.58496250…-bit color depth.
I refused to use certificates for my own projects as it was too complicated and expensive, until LE came along. Thank you!
Even better: outdoor grows have been located via their heat signature at night (I have a relative who was a national guard pilot and did this). There's no way to know what's there, just that it's a different temp than the native greenery. Generally this is done on public / state land, but I imagine more than one raid on private land was cued by this technique.
I helped to design a visa targeting remote workers and corresponding program for a South American government in an effort to drive more sustainable tourism to the country in the wake of the covid pandemic. They implemented the visa idea but not the program (which was focused on creating more of a concierge service for newcomers and helping integrate them into local communities, eg. volunteering at a local makerspace rather than just hanging out with other remote workers). Still very early days but hopefully it turns out to be impactful.
I don’t know if comment you are responding to was edited after response, but you may want to reread it:

> That reminds me of repackaging a traditional historical male dominated marriage, including occasional corporal punishment, as a BDSM kink to make it normal again. You think you’re seeing a woman in a dress, but actually it’s fetish gear showing her submission.

That’s clearly a joke about normalizing historically traditional roles between men and women, with the man being dominant and woman being submissive. Says nothing about there being men wanting (or not wanting) to submit.
> I met someone on Grindr who was really cute and she

There are women on grindr???
My point was that most (if possibly not all) ATs let you limit the gearing to use engine braking when going downhill.

Sounds like it would work fine for you if you but used it. “More fleet efficiency” is not a huge concern on downhills, you just switch back to the automatic regime when you’re at the bottom.
>the performance hit is too great

I see this myth referenced a lot due to misconceptions constructed around design issues in early, pre-Liedtke microkernels (particularly Mach, used in IOS/OSX) leaving a long-lasting impression.

L4 changed everything, and seL4 takes it to the next level.

Some references:

- https://archive.ph/30hhi

- https://youtu.be/INBEKSkAiTA?list=PLtoQeavghzr3atxNQig-sLGbw...
Different car, but I've been super pleased with my Ioniq 5. The build quality and comfort are much better than the Teslas we were considering.
you can't disable google play services
Ah, then whoever I'm quoting from HN who said that was mistaken, or I've remembered it incorrectly. I don't think it changes the point - he's good for Levine professionally; he'll never run out of material for his column at this point.
This makes me think of:

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

I would think that nothing in reality is infinite, but allegedly sound waves collapsing bubbles in a fluid can cause a very small amount of plasma to become hotter than the sun and emit light. Some controversial research claims it might even be possible to create atomic fusion this way.
Credit when credit is due.

Matt did call him out months ago on about how cynical his take on crypto was.

Saying he was describing a scam.

And that raised many red flags for others on SBF's ethos.

SBF prolly noticed his error and took efforts to cozy up to Matt afterwards. Hard to resist liking a billionaire who spends on you. It's a superpower that few are immune to in this capitalist world.
Can you list the numerous examples of tracing covid saving lifes?
What's the "poor man's" stuff? Is there a better way I don't know of
I can be critical of more than one person at a time.
Strongly agree with this! To add my own experience to this -- one of my close friends work in a gold mine. Her official job is a certain amount of tasks that she does competently, but isn't the best at.

What she also ended up doing is to smooth over tense situations between very competent people who are working in a high-stake environment where the urge to lash out/to fight for your vision above others' is getting increasingly strong as fatigue sets in.

That value isn't written down in her performance review. Yet, she's diffused a number of conflicts, allowing easier/quicker resolution of issues in a business where a mistake can (will) cost thousands of dollars. Because she's more approachable than her cross-shift, her subordinates are also more susceptible to ask her if they don't know something, instead of doing a potentially costly mistake or letting suboptimal situations carry on.

Personal skill-wise, she's not a magical 10% -- she's decently skilled, still learning her trade. However, she does help multiply everyone's performance.

As parent said, a gear needs many parts to turn.
Content moderation is broken (2019)
Earthquakes are one of the few disasters that strike with absolutely no warning.
Replicating meat is important for cultural reasons: people don’t want to reinvent dishes or have them taste different, they want what feels right. Vegetarian substitutes work in many - but most importantly - not all dishes.

Anyway, an interesting company in this space is Meati: https://www.meati.com

Effectively growing steaks/chicken from mushroom root. I’ve tried their stuff over the past day and it’s pretty damn close, and overall feels much simpler than the other fake meats. It’s pretty cool stuff.
Depends on situation.

If it's a quick stop then usually I'll just slow down and then clutch in and shift to neutral as the car stops. Then I shift into 1st. Sometimes this transition happens quickly, such as if it's red long enough that I'll be slowing to 5mph or less or it's red, then turns green right as I'm slowed to about 5mph. Just depends on the intersection, traffic, etc.

If I'm slowing down to a red light that I know is about to change, or traffic is about to move, then yeah, I'll rev match downshift through the gears. I never really go into first in this case though, because my car's manual transmission is tuned such that you almost never need first except when you're going into motion from a complete stop; so I'd just downshift to 2nd or 3rd depending on the speed of traffic.
Twitter used to be terrible at staying up. It was the poster child for "rails doesn't scale."
An inquiry for a description of an object. Nothing in language is difficult it’s finding the smallest abstraction to generate all the rules for all language that is.

You’re asking a simple grammar question under the impression it’s an unsolved science question.
It is nonsense, but I don't think this is the right critique. EA is very focused on answering "where should money go".

EA is notably less interested in answering "where should money come from" and "what impact does the manner in which I earn money have".
We went once to this Alba truffle festival (and actually bought 1 black truffle which got fungus on it in few days because I am a clueless idiot and this was just 10 euro curiosity), quite nice experience if you are around. But what is described in the article about scales was definitely not present in those few restaurants in Alba that we visited.

We got boatloads of finely grated / super thin sliced black or white truffles on plates but nowhere were any scales seen.

I think best truffle experience there was some local salami made with truffle bits in the festival stalls themselves, that taste was heavenly.

That being said, we have some olive oil and balsamico flavored with truffles (real and artificial), which has actually stronger flavor than original mushrooms which have rather mild taste, and we use it very sparingly, not missing it at all. I guess one can overeat even on truffles (or at least that taste).

One final point - many here and article too mentioned that it smells like gas. Maybe my olfactory system is broken but I never had this association, nor with real truffles nor with imitation.
Tumblr is still relevant with niche corners of the internet, even if you're unaware. TikTok is for passing the time, Tumblr is for posting, and Discord is where everything gets reshared. Cool cool
Strawberry shampoo have nothing common with real strawberry. I think it will be safe to bet on the same situation with banana chewing gum. Will we make cases out of it, or we are not interested because it's too cheap to be bothered about?
Good question. I don't think so really. You can drive a car with it outside motorways and with a qualified driver on board, and if you are caught breaking the rules, it goes on your license, but that's about it.
Holy heck I love that. Try to cheese a Stanley Parable achievement, and one dependency deep down inside Steam breaks.
>I am curious if this would have occurred on rooted and de-googled phones using alternate operating systems

All 12 of them?
Nope. The idea of describing an object is built in to humans and likely all mammals.
Wow, that's fantastic work! Hopefully you haven't been turned off of gov work forever, there are now more and more programs to bring in tech talent (e.g. the Presidential Innovation Fellowship, TechCongress, USDS, U.S. Digital Corps) at more reasonable pay scales for impactful roles. May be worth checking out if you want to do it again
> The calls for advertiser boycotts started as soon as the takeover was announced (...)

You're casually glancing over Elon Musk's reiterated announcements that he would eliminate Twitter's moderation, and you're completely ignoring marketing execs stating publicly and in no uncertain terms that Elon Musk's decision and actions were a liability in terms of "brand safety/suitability".

https://twitter.com/LouPas/status/1588599808587345921
Fair enough, and I’m glad you’re getting value out of the experience. But I’m talking about the broader culture. Where is it, and where is it going? It seems to me like it’s moved on, and that the things you like about Mastodon are niche. To put it another way, it seems like a lot of the energy being poured into decentralized alternatives are focused on the past.
Food is about nutrition, not taste.

Unfortunately the modern processed food industry and the human body's addictiveness to sugar put that up-side-down.

So now the ultra-processed food companies want to force their way in the meat market and destroying the real meat market under the guise of "climate friendlyness" while creating things that taste good but have totaly and completely unknown nutritional and health effects on the long term.

We already did have one food revolution in the last ~100 years.

The result? 10% of USA people have diabetes!

Truly a great "accomplishment" for the ultra processed food industry!

I'm not sure I want to have another such "revolution that will surely not cause the same problems, because trust our $cience".
>but if most people are too busy scrupulously examining whether reusable shopping bags are better for the environment than plastic, well, no one notices the massive effect that global consumer product shipping (facilitated by Amazon) has on the environment.

This feels like a non-issue to me. If you're the kind of person who's "scrupulously examining whether reusable shopping bags are better for the environment", I doubt you're going to forget that ordering stuff from amazon involves a ship traveling half way across the world.

>But, to answer your question, I think we can most effectively blame an economic system that rewards continuous production and consumption, with emphasis on disposable, rather than repairable, items.

But is the economic system actually incentivizing disposable stuff in particular, or is it incentivizing producing what consumers want? The fact that amazon is strewn with "reusable" variants of everything imaginable (eg. reusable straws, reusable bags, reusable k-cups) makes me think it's the latter.

> Amazon helps facilitate that with free shipping and impossibly low prices.

Maybe the prices are indication of something? For something like straws, it might actually be better to manufacture 1 gram worth of plastic and ship it across the world, than it is to wash/sanitize a reusable straw which also involve labor and resources (eg. hot water).

>we are asked to feel guilty about how much we recycle, or how much we drive. I could not own a car, and walk everywhere, but if I purchase nearly everything I need from Amazon, I suspect my "environmental impact" is no different from a person who drives to work everyday.

I don't understand what you're trying to say here. If you don't own a car, then presumably you're not driving to work. If you don't driving to work, that's one less thing that's contributing to environmental impact. Of course, if you're ordering stuff from amazon rather than going to a store, that loss might be offset by your amazon deliveries, but I suspect that you're still coming out ahead. The fact that the alternatives have environmental impact as well shouldn't come as a surprise either. After all, maintaining a first world standard of living is going to have some environmental impact associated with it, and it's unreasonable to expect otherwise.
Being that vaccines are made by Big Pharma, and the anti-vax movement says we can't trust vaccines one has to imply that one can trust Big Pharma because we have to trust what they are delivering.

Of course this nuance might be beyond many, as it's consistently acknowledged that vaccines do come with some risk and that efficacy is not 100 percent guaranteed.

edit: first statement was awkward but essence is the same
Search queries look like spam, like the sort of spam keywords you will find in comment spam. "Free cialis 50mg online pharmacy near me"-type stuff

Best guess is they're gambling I'm backed by Google's API and trying to poison their suggestion data.
People often use those good intentions to silence dissent. If anyone questions their actions you can just spin it to say "well then you obviously don't care about [good intention, ie “grandmas dying of COVID”]".

So they are a very critical piece of the puzzle with this sort of abuse of power. They can very easily muddy the waters and obfuscate things.

It's often the side effects of their actions anyway. In this case the access the app provides is the side effect. The side effects outweighing the alleged benefits is what matters. Easily the most often recurring problem is politics. 1 step forward, 2 steps back.
Rust is probably a recent development, it's been a long time I last checked up on PrinceXML. Might also mean that Mercury is on the way out long to middle term.
So… just eat oysters.

Plant based as a term gets conflated with veganism, but veganism is it’s own thing: a plant based world means we just depend less on those other sources, not that they go away entirely.
Reminds me of Logo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)

Python has a Logo-ish mode called turtle graphics:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html
I wouldn't say it's thoroughly debunked or rigorously researched. More studies need to be done. Decision fatigue is also a slightly different concept from ego depletion.
Nice, I can extract some 4 colour palettes out of this for game dev.
I know that about as well as I know anything. I have 40+ years in the software industry and I have never seen an actual shortage of jobs available. I have seen the number of fun, cool, sexy, ridiculously high-paying jobs expand and contract. Right now, in this climate, I personally know about multiple small companies who can't recruit or hire programmers, openings infilled for a year or more for lack of candidates.

The numbers I could easily find back this up:

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3542681/how-many-jobs-...

The FAANG (or whatever we call it now) companies and startups represent the tip of the iceberg, the most attractive segment of programming and tech jobs. Those companies also have the most candidates to choose from, the most grueling interview process, and seem to have the most churn and turnover when economic conditions change. A job at Twitter or Meta probably pays a lot more and offers more perks and prestige than a job at a regional trucking company or retail chain, sure.

Downturns like this always hit the younger and less-experienced cohort of tech workers hardest. People fresh out of school with no experience will struggle. People with narrow skills, short experience at one company, or an exaggerated opinion of their actual value, will struggle. While the FAANG/startup companies that get attention on HN can optimize their hiring around leetcode and whiteboard trials, the rest of the tech world tends to value experience and fitting in with a team.

If you can only produce from an Aeron chair writing Clojure and shunning meetings then you will find the job market limited. As companies tighten up and lay off and focus on profits and retention programmers who want to get a paycheck have to adjust their expectations. A truck driver who will only drive a customized red Peterbilt 359 on one interstate route will similarly find their options limited, even in a market with plentiful jobs for truck drivers.
Haruki Murakami, japanese Author of fiction and nonfiction books, explains, where the actors in his work come from.
A little shocking to see a comment saying 'why does it take work to keep a website running' at the top of a comment section here.
Gaussian distributions are symmetrical, which means every argument about what happens at the high end equally applies to the low end. That's not what the article says: it says the low end (far below the mean) is highly correlated with performance, but the high end is not. By your argument, someone with an IQ of 70 should be more likely to be simply having a bad day than to have a natural "intelligence" (whatever TF that means) truly at that level.

Edit: On second thought, the argument works a little better if you assume that the variance of the "daily fluctuation" distribution is proportional to the magnitude of the "innate" one, so someone with an "innate" 70 varies +/- 7 per day, but someone with an "innate" 150 varies +/- 15.
A quick stab of the accelerator to get the revs up to match the gear you're shifting into. The closer your "blip" gets your engine rpm into the right range for the gear you're shifting into, the smoother your shift will be.
Wow, what a comment. Totally packed with insight and truth.
I try my best to NOT stay informed. Like a sibling mentioned: stuff that's big enough tends to creep through one way or another.

I am however on top on rather arcane topics that I am very interested in. Twitter curation works wonders for that.
The system fluctuates. Sometimes a large fluctuation happens and some people perceive that as a long-term trend. Posts like this have therefore been appearing for about as long as HN has existed. Years ago I tracked down a set of examples, if anyone is interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869

Another factor: when HN fluctuates in an undesirable direction, relative to what one would like to see, one experiences it as a noticeable negative shift. But when the fluctuation subsides, the reversion-to-norm doesn't get noticed nearly as much. This bias seems to influence most of the general perceptions people have about HN*. It explains why the perceptions are so conflicting, e.g. "HN has become Twitter news" vs. "dang can we at least have one discussion about this?" or, less nicely, "why are you suppressing this story you VC plutocrat lackey".

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The Many Ways to Access RDS
Until recently, the bear honey was basically all you could get at the grocery store. Now you can get some real stuff as well.
So funny! Thanks you made my day LOL hard!
I had to chuckle given the detail of the article such as it is.
If you are interested in chicken to this degree your theme song is.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=unW7UYXSQNY
not again...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33549059

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33672924

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33573636

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33543718

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33527047

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33568141

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33554271

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33551288

Maybe enough with this. Hacker _News_, please
Their point might be, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, perhaps. I was in Seoul, South Korea recently, and their public transit was simply insane. could get anywhere in the city with merely at most a 2 minute walk away from both my current location to the bus/train stop, and the end bus/train stop to my intended destination. For transit to longer areas, there were trains every 30 minutes at least to for example the coast from the center of the country.

I saw plenty of disabled and elderly and they all were able to take the buses and trains, and they used a cab for the last mile.

In contrast in the US, we don't have the transit at all, unless you live in a city like NYC, we just use cars everywhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste_(sociology)#Bad_taste
They also tend to get significantly better range than stated, right? I've read that from their previous EV models anyway.