skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Additionally, they brainwashed a significant portion of the populace to actively ridicule, harass, and even physically attack anyone

Do you have any sources for that? I'd like to read more on this.
Burst City
I'm not talking about Musk, it may be hard to believe, but I genuinely don't care about him. He is the current guy with too much money, fame and ego.

I'm talking about his fans and their perceptions of Musk.
They hear "he is the real life Tony Stark" and they think "WOW" instead of Tony Stark is a character of fiction that can't possibly exist in reality".

Absurdity is fascinating to me.
President Biden literally just gave a speech months ago demanding oil companies increase production and lower prices.

Energy companies would have been happy to push solar or nuclear everywhere if there was any market/regulatory demand that justified the effort.

Even if oil companies decided that "oops, we shouldn't exist" and decided to cut production to zero and give back their shares to everyone (which is arguably what they have been trying to do until the current administration began threatening them), that vacuum would have to be filled with something. And it would probably be filled with a nationalized oil company that is un-sue-able like most of the rest of the world has.
The problem is that China does not want to become the US, they want to become colonial great Britain or France. The goal is classic mercantilism-all raw material have to go through them to become a product. It's barely disgused Manchester allover.

The US by comparison has been quite dedicated to free trade. They abandoned there own production base, imported more culture then they exported and overall been quite friendly an empire.
It's easier to write code than it is to read code. That's why there's so much emphasis on documenting and why someone inevitably writes functions that already exist.
> Technically correct, it was the US State Department and Congress (See: McCain, et. al.) implicated in the ouster of a legitimately elected Ukrainian president in what would most reasonably be described as a violent coup with the president being far upon by far-right militia, one that might reasonably described as Neo-Nazi in nature.

None of this is true, what happened in reality and not in the fever dreams of FSB, GRU and SVR agents is that there where protests when Yanukovych went back on a number of election promises and started aligning himself with Russia instead of joining the EU Like he promised he would.

After that happened he was removed from his seat of power by the parliament and he fled back to his handlers in Russia.
I'd be so wary of continuing any work on any connected application if I were the developer. They may have an exception for the moment, but Reddit hasn't kept any of the promises they've made to third party developers when it counts.
...until you have to buy one? Lenovo, HP, Dell are top sellers, and I'm pretty sure it's not because they have the best product.
Today was a good day (for physics)
> Unfortunately, this is how most "I tripled my salary in X years" stories look when you dig into the details.

The only unfortunate thing is how many people don’t find their way to the same story. That’s why I shared it the way I did. I thought I was asking a lot, and many people will too. When I just… got it… I realized my negotiating position.
‘Hello, World’
> There's not a single smart plug on market that won't connect to cloud to control plug from anywhere.

Don't ZigBee and zwave smart plugs work locally only?
Well, you just think that because you haven’t tried the latest sugar water flavor.
You seem to be confusing knowledge and skill.

Twitter could be packed with extremely skillful senior engineers who don't understand the product well enough to predict complex outcomes of planned changes.
We treat housing like investments. Buying multiple homes to rent out just makes the problem worse because first time home owners are competing with investors who can pay all cash.

Singapore and other Asian countries do a 99 year lease of government land near transit stations that allows a person to have an affordable place to live while they are alive, but not to treat as a speculative investment.
Oil companies also know that their products are critical to the production and distribution of food and a long list of other modern day necessities. Should they cease operation and let us starve ?
all I've heard about this guy is that he ignored warnings, cut corners, and that he was a wealthy dude who's never had to deal with anyone telling him no his entire life. in all the reporting I haven't heard anything at all that would make me say "he got that right at least" and I challenge anyone to come up with something.

also when engineers disagree with each other you generally don't continue to use the topic of disagreement as a passenger vehicle. Finally, the guy making decisions wasn't an engineer and as far as I've heard no actual engineers who were well informed on the subject and experts in the domain were supporting this guy.... so what you should have said is "management disagree with engineers and dismiss their opinion all the time, often leading to high public catastrophes like the Challenger and the Titan"
I also used levels.fyi they most certainly helped.

The consultant previously worked at both Amazon and Facebook. I was working at Amazon at the time, and got competing offers from Facebook and Google.

Even with the competing offers I’m very happy I spent $3k for the consultant. Lots of good drafts of emails ( I did still need to carry the email ), but lots of great advice about strategy, and about what buzzwords to say and to avoid, which company to talk to first and what number to ask for that would be very easy for them to hit.

We ended up pushing FBs offer up to the limit before triggering an escalation then sent that to Google to beat. I would NOT have done as well without them.

They even told me “FB is gonna try and pressure you with a time limited offer. The time limit is not real. Don’t feel the pressure.” Stupid info like this was itself worth the money.
I looked it up and the AP style guide now recommends against using [sic].
> avoid personal anecdote, they have little value compared to what a doctor says.

Doctors are like engineers. There is a body of science and research for their field. They were once trained on part of it. But day to day each individual doctor is a practitioners. What they say is often just their own anecdotes. Research on a topic may exist but it's up to personal interest and work style whether they read it.
They should sue everyone who drives a car. They are the ones who are combusting the oil and releasing CO2.
50¢ is not worth it considering what even a small bottle costs.
> Consider, for example *this* text*

Oh yes. I made the fun decision to write a markdown parser/contenteditable component for https://sqwok.im and ended up spending probably a month on it, largely writing endless unit tests and covering odd cases like that.

It's far from perfect and probably will still break on certain ambiguous inputs. I like his ideas for clarifying the language for the most general audience.
If you call for a bear market long enough you will be right 100% of the time.
I disagree. Gyfcats don't really contain anything of value in my opinion. It's much different compared to other image hosts which can contain the only copy of something. Most gyfcats are illegal reproductions of other material.
People didn’t leave because of the bad decisions. They left because Musk said he wanted “hardcore” people who’d work 80 hour weeks. Turns out masochism isn’t correlated with great engineering.
She’s gonna sell molly?
I’m certainly interested to read more about your setup.
Touché. I'd invest too. ;)
I disagree with every part of this quote and the whole "bullshit jobs" thesis.

People think they know what a job is, without having done it.

You cannot imagine even, say, stocking shelves at a retail store, without doing it.

If, for the sake of argument, most jobs are bullshit, the only way that can be maintained is if people are ignorant of what other people do.

But if you're so ignorant, you should consider that you can't imagine jobs you don't do, let alone do them.

One job I had I suppose was bullshit, was sweeping a fairly spotless warehouse, because, I was told, a division boss was coming to inspect, and so they hired a temp to look busy.

But a job is not bullshit, just because you have a flight of fancy that involves massive restructuring of an organization or society. "Writing this CRUD application should be unnecessary because everybody should've used the same database in the beginning". So...make a time machine, or get everyone using one of them to switch. Should be roughly comparable difficulty.

And I'm pretty sure that "the key flaw of traditional socialism" is not that they recognized reality. I think it was Lenin who declared that there would have to be a temporary phase of socialism. It's a sick mind that thinks the "key flaw" of existent socialism was employing educated administrators and not, say, dekulakization.
> This makes me realize "the code base is a mess" has been so overused it could be a standard greeting in our profession.

I'm printing up t-shirts already, pre-order now and get 10% off the insane nest of logic tee while stocks still last!
Are you really considering a tough work environment at a high tech company to be abuse? At company that little voluntarily choose to be employed at?

Do you know what conditions are like in most jobs?
The quote doesn’t say that at all
The merit of a 'give me an example' question is that it evidences a degree of self reflection in the candidate. Specifically, that they can abstract their daily circumstances to produce general truths regarding themselves. This we should all be doing regardless of whether we are preparing for an interview.
I think the argument here is that they shouldn’t deceive the public about the realities of their operations in order to raise or sustain their profits.

If the service is essential, the consumers of said goods can make their own decisions about how essential they are without all the smoke and mirrors.
That already feels like the norm tbh. Nearly every imgur link in an old reddit post or chatlog seems to be dead these days.
Ya we didn't have food before oil...
There is plenty of Microsoft advertising in any country that they're in. But it may be more subtle. There's search advertising. They also subsidize partner advertising (co-marketing).

> The internet business model is an exception because there ads actually fund useful services.

?? Most public information services, including newspapers, radio, and television, are funded in large part by advertising.
> all I've heard about this guy

Hearing something else would require a journalist to formulate an alternative narrative. Not only would that conflict with their peers, it's not very interesting for readers ("actually that guy with the sub took a sufficient level of care").

Have you every had insider knowledge about a public story? How different was it from reality?

> no actual engineers who were well informed on the subject and experts in the domain were supporting this guy.

How did it get designed and built then? I wouldn't own up to this project with bad press. Would you?
> This will make federated services into even MORE echo chamber ultra-moderated spaces than Reddit ever was

That already happened. In fact that’s the main selling
point of the
Fediverse. Make your own
bubble and
enjoy the
likeminded
people
Just curious, if China sanctions the UK, would the US stop trading with the UK?

What is your opinion?
> It was how they felt safe — it was how they could maintain the fragile illusion of never-ending perfection and success.

Indeed. Learning to take action in the face of uncertainty and failure is a major challenge for this personality type, though it's possible to unlearn that tendency with enough practice.

I wrote about a similar dynamic here [1] if it's interesting.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30223559
People who use that argument are the same ones saying 'sure, I can do it in an afternoon/by tomorrow', and leave a trail of accumulating tech debt in their wake. It's a solid career move, what can I say? You get noticed for being such a sport and result oriented, and if you've got that service attitude, you get promoted/hired out of having to maintain that mess.
Another common reason for self-sabotage that the article doesn’t mention is ego.

Failure sucks, especially when it’s because you just aren’t good enough. But if you self-sabotage, at least you were right. You thought you’d fail and you did fail. Ego wins!

And who knows, maybe if you actually tried, you wouldn’t have failed! You weren’t not good enough after all, you just didn’t try. You totally could’ve done it if you wanted to, you just didn’t wanna.

Ego stays nice and safe.
I studied at Harvard and the answer is that they want to pretend to be so smart and talented that they don't need to work. The image is of the effete aristocrat who enjoys life without lifting a finger.

Think of George W. Bush: Got into Yale (Harvard too!) because his blue-blood line always did. Mediocre grades. Lots of alcohol and drugs. (Quit that later.) Avoided Vietnam with the cushiest fun job as a fighter pilot who never flies out of Texas skies (and mostly skipped that too). Led some companies funded by his rich family. President twice.

Who wouldn't want that?
Peter Cameron's Blog: Real-World Turing Machines?
The interesting tidbit, IMO, is that "... Sir Roger Penrose ... started off with a brief discussion of artificial intelligence; he doesn’t believe there is such a thing, and dubbed it “artificial cleverness”."
Plus the tanker focused short range aircraft. Ruskies have a special missile designed just to take tankers out.

So you can’t refuel, your home runways are trashed and the carriers are sunk. Then what.

Range and logistics matters and the Ruskies have it in that neck of the woods.
As the article mentions though, one of the issues with using carbon fiber for this is that unlike titanium, it weakens with each pressure test.
I would certainly NOT apply what I did in the job in this kind things. They are of different leagues.
That argument worked great at Nuremberg
Reading the study (https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2019.158...) the questions don't sound overly morally charged. They're certainly what I'd imagine a normal person may find moral questions, but are otherwise fairly middling in terms of moral impact. Other than vegetarianism, I'd say many of the don't have moral weight, at least not how they were asked. And even if you had considered them moral, it would only be from a deontological, or possibly virtue, ethics perspective.

The behaviour is a little more damning, but they only show evidence from two different scenarios. One of those scenarios had to do with charity and once again I feel like donating to charity is not overly morally charged. And if it is, it's certainly not the way they presented it.
> then what's left but subscriptions?

The WeChat model is the obvious answer to that rhetorical question. Build paid services on top of your hellsite with millions of addicts using it daily. For example, Twitter could have easily been the gateway to OnlyFans, or to Patreon. Apple is another example of this kind of value-added ecosystem that leverages a foothold to sell other crap to people.

Or there's the TikTok model: gobble up all the data, sell data to governments, give MBS or Putin admin access to Twitter, build AI on top of the dataset.

Even a private equity chop-shop like Bain could do a better job of extracting value from Twitter than this mess.

This isn't a profit-seeking venture for Musk. This is about politics, about power, and primarily about revenge. Musk is giving Notch stiff competition for the title of most pathetic billionaire.
That was my reaction as well. I get that shipping and insuring expensive things is itself expensive, but that's life. You can't tell a shipper that your stuff is worth one amount, and then demand more if it's lost or damaged.

I think the only case they might have is that security measures taken (regardless of declared value) were substandard. It does seem strange to me that it's considered ok to leave the truck essentially unattended; one driver sleeping inside while the other leaves to get food doesn't count as "attended" in my mind.
Maybe somewhat off-topic, but if you don't know, there is a video on YouTube published 11 months ago by "CBC NL - Newfoundland and Labrador" titled "This submersible takes passengers to The Titanic wreck. Climb in!" (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClkytJa0ghc)

If I put myself 11 months in the past watching that video, I would probably think this company OceanGate is so professional with zero possibility of merging and mixing their passengers with whatever content in that tiny toilet box.

In my mind, all 5 lost souls are explorers. But 11 months... that's long enough time for someone to generate doubts on the thing to either fix it or speak out.
Sometimes people try psychedelics and have great experiences just like that! Sometimes they try psychedelics and they have baaaaaad experiences, that are essentially traumatic and result in lingering negative feelings.

Risk versus reward!

… but you don’t have to risk much, for your first time. Yes, tripping with your friends at a festival is great - but you can also do a little, on your own terms, to try it out, and get a feel for whether it’s the sort of thing you’re interested in.

Possible benefits of micro dosing notwithstanding, you won’t get the dramatic effects everyone tells stories about without taking a significant dose… but that’s okay, it doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing arrangement. You can try a little, you can increase or decrease your dosage next time, you can take notice of the conditions surrounding your hood and your bad trips, and - I mean what I’m really describing here is how to learn to use a drug responsibly. It’s like any other powerful experience, you need to be smart about how you approach it.

I think people get suckered in by unnuanced anecdotes on either side - “it was amazing, it cured my depression!” and “it was awful, it escalated my schizophrenia” are on opposite ends of a spectrum. I always think everyone owes it to themselves to experience wherever along that spectrum they are comfortable going - not necessarily a psychedelic evangelist per se, just very much in favour of careful deliberate experimentation with your own brain and body chemistry.

Glad you had a good trip! Ones where you come away learning something about yourself are the best.
If the CCP were so concerned with COVID why did they have a victory concert in August 2020[1]? Obviously the virus is still deadly, but it seems at least inconsistent for CCP COVID policy to be “we did it!” in August 2020, then lock downs in 2022.

Regarding “lifting people out of poverty”, did hundreds of millions of people’s hard work have anything to do with lifting _themselves_ out of poverty or does the CCP get all the credit? If CCP gets the credit, there was certainly a lot of “trial and error” before they got it right. Was it worth the lives of 30 million people?

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhans-mask-less-pool-party-...
I agree with all that you said, except that we as outsiders don't have enough information to make the conclusions you want to make.

The best evidence for recklessness would be a pattern of similar failures.

> the absolute worst reaction is to take it as a personal affront, especially if it's coming from all directions.

This is a good point. Especially if that's the response given to other insiders working on the project.
Many established doctors have their habits set after years (or decades) of practice, and aren't particularly interested in new stuff. Many young doctors are unsure of trying something outside of the norm. All are afraid of malpractice. It's very difficult for new treatments to spread in this kind of environment.
I would normally take the effort to explain this but I don't think you'd get it.
We didn’t. Not at the scale seen in the 20th and 21st centuries. You could use every acre of land to produce food for humans using the best traditional farming techniques, and only feed 4 billion people. There literally wasn’t enough biomass and replenishing reactions. The other half would have to starve.

What feeds the world today? Fixed nitrogen fertilizers made out of the combination of air and fossil fuels.
I stopped caring about AMAs after they canned her. If felt like reddit wanted to turn AMAs into nothing but advertising. Occasionally other subreddits would host them with varying success though.
Ppl are not thinking to deeply abt what problem is being solved. They are just reacting.

Telling everyone to build and grow audience is very nice, until you realize (1) the Total Available Eyeballs are not growing. So new problems are being caused by this unescapable fact, as ppl try harder and harder for less and less (2) lot of ppl who deserve attention just get drowned out.

If you ask the decentralizing crowd what should be done about it or whether their work is going to make a diff they haven't thought about it. What's the use of designing essentially decentralised broadcast to replace centraliazed social media broadcasts without thinking about the limited eyeballs/info overload problem?
I just realize how poetic that is since you're now no longer able to view anything without logging in.
Ahh, I thought it was a case where they kept the listing the same but started changing the product to a lower quality version or knock-offs.
I'm talking about the fan perception of Musk.

For example Jordan Peterson went on stage to say somethink (not exact quote) like: "Elon Musk wow. He wanted to built an electric car which is basically impossible and yet he went on, nobody thought he would be possible and he went on to fouund Tesla and now it works".

In real life though the first electric car was invented in 1881, because electricity and fossil fuels have always been the two obvious sources of energy for making a car.

Elon Musk wasn't the founder of Tesla, he bought it. He played a role sure. But obviously, painfully so, he didn't do the Tesla engineering alone. Tesla in fact pays shitloads of engineers to do the engineering. And Tesla is just one company making electric cars. Elon Musk brought the hype, the money, sometimes the right decisions, sometimes the wrong decisions, sometimes the toxic workplace. And he got lots of money from big government.

And sociology taught us you don't have to be rich when you start your career. But that it sure helps a lot when you have no shortage of money, good education, you are a dude, your mother tongue is english, you know the right people, you are an illegal alien but that's okay because you come from a white supremacist country, and you happen to be here during the california gold rush, I mean the silicon valley in the 90s.

When you check all those boxes, you are much more likely to become a "self made man"
Of course. The machines get it. And do exactly as commanded. ;)
As usual the headline misrepresents the article. They are starting to use it for modest things like articles that are mostly lists. Not actually replacing any journalists yet.
Though I'm not supporting oil companies, this is very wrong. Without oil (or vehicles in general), the manpower required to produce same amount of food will increase multiple times, and food won't travel much from the place where it grows, limiting the distance that people can reside.

So yes it's a necessity but as other have said, oil companies can keep operating without lying about climate effect though they'll get less profit as impact.
Ya we had ~8bn people before oil
Smart and talented people need to work.

Wealthy people don't.
Amazon is a company that makes a tiny amount of money a billion times a day. There is no sustainable way to increase costs without increasing prices. Regulatory overhead in competitive markets like retail gets paid for by customers, not corporations. It makes poor people have to pay more to buy stuff.