|
scandox 1 day ago | parent | favorite | on: HR tech companies laying people off: was it overdu... > people need to get from place to place, and it’s very hard to build and run an airline. Why is it hard? Seems like the dumbest possible business. I mean I think a restaurant would be harder. There's more subtle unknowns in food than there is in carrying people from A to B. Educate me because I don't get it.
|
#
¿
Apr 21, 2020 14:33
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 23, 2024 08:32 |
|
|
alexandriao posted:The thing is the xkcd time chart comes into effect. This is the kind of logic idiocy which is why yudkowsky thinks you should torture someone for 50 years to avoid 2^(bignumber) people getting a dust speck in their eye. goatkcd version where the grayed out panels each have their own copy of hello.jpb
|
|
#
¿
Apr 28, 2020 00:55
|
|
|
benibela 2 hours ago [-] >You're never going to kiss anyone or share a cup or a smoke or any of the thousands of ways that have infected the vast majority of humanity? Sounds reasonable I am 30 and have never kissed anyone, and no plans to change that soon. Although I had some shared cups. I probably should get tested. But there is a good change I have avoided all herpes, even EBV. I hope they can find a vaccine soon. reply
|
|
#
¿
May 7, 2020 01:10
|
|
|
vmception 1 hour ago [-] I'm a male and I paid for Gardasil 9 treatments by a medical professional that lasted through my 26th birthday some time ago. It was a decent bet based on the idea that the money and privilege isn't necessarily going to last forever, while - if I wasn't already exposed to those strains - the vaccine helps. Since then they've expanded the utility to people up to 40 years of age, instead of cutting off at 26. They've said throat cancers in men are linked to HPV - I can figure out how that happens - whereas it was previously benign in men and they were just carriers causing cervical cancers. One more reason to date zoomers! The adult ones are attractive and have their shots, whereas older are basically oblivious and likely part of the group that fought against zoomers getting those shots. reply
|
|
#
¿
May 7, 2020 01:11
|
|
|
zaroth 1 hour ago | parent | favorite | on: There is one, and only one strain of SARS-CoV-2 I couldn’t agree more. The COVID discussions have been the single most frustrating experience for me on HN since I joined. Ever single comment I’ve made downvoted, even accused of contributing to millions of deaths (an account which was thankfully banned for making the remark). It’s only in the last week or two that it’s started to become remotely possible to have intellectual discussions on COVID, but it’s still overwhelmingly politicized and unscientific.
|
|
#
¿
May 8, 2020 19:44
|
|
|
Ask HN: How do I cope knowing people make more than me on onlyfans? 16 points by brutal_assault 5 hours ago | hide | past | web | favorite | 20 comments My cousin has been on only fans since the start and she’s making almost 10k a month, she has not put in 1% of the effort I have in life and it’s making me depressed. I know money isnt everything but it’s one of the biggest parts in quality of life and I feel like I wasted my time going to university, interview prepping etc when I could have just dressed up and showed the occasional cleavage Edit: just so I make it clear, I don’t hate her for it. I just have a hard to accepting it but i guess life isn’t fair.
|
|
#
¿
May 17, 2020 16:37
|
|
|
devwastaken 6 hours ago [–] That's the fault of cpu manufacturers. Specifically Intel. Nobody likes it, but the mitigations are necessary. We live in a software world that relies upon the Internet. Intel should be held accountable. A fine every quarter they continue to put national security at harm. reply
|
|
#
¿
May 25, 2020 23:28
|
|
|
the hackers are talking porn onemoresoop 6 days ago [–] You’re the deepthroat defender, I don’t know who’s weirder. I continued this out of politeness by the way, I don’t find you very worthy of conversation, I just thought I would open an idiot’s eyes reply
|
|
#
¿
May 31, 2020 00:48
|
|
|
dntbnmpls 14 hours ago [–] > Retrospective law does not exist in civilised societies. They exist in "civilized" societies when it suits their interests. The most famous being the nuremburg trials. Edit: In case the downvoter truly didn't know ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials#Criticism reply
|
|
#
¿
May 31, 2020 01:10
|
|
|
nsajko 5 hours ago [–] A glaring ommision in the article is how it fails to mention that King was himself of socialist and anti-war persuasion. reply
|
|
#
¿
Jun 3, 2020 00:54
|
|
|
Clark Nova posted:Most HN posters aren't avowed white supremacists but the difference is largely academic because they'll cheerfully reinvent Auschwitz after applying their engineer's disease to problems like littering or traffic congestion for ten minutes couple months ago they banned someone for saying a guy who used obscure alt right phrases from a few years ago must have spent substantial time among them and dang banned him immediately for uncivilized slander, but if you googled the guy's name and a couple terms turns out yeah he was big in the alt right blogosphere in the early 10s and might still be
|
|
#
¿
Jun 13, 2020 13:08
|
|
|
blackrock 3 hours ago [–] The Foxconn employees are not doing anything really productive for China. They’re in low value jobs that keeps themselves busy, but doesn’t bring in much profit for China, except for Foxconn and Apple. Apple benefits from cheap Chinese labor, while selling their iWares at inflated prices. What China can do instead, is to retarget these factory workers to work in software development, or AI grunt work. Currently, AI requires a lot of manual human data labeling, in order to identify objects. China can utilize this already cheap and organized factory labor, to build up an object inference database. That way, the AI systems of today, can cross reference against this inference database, to identify the object. This inference database literally becomes, the new oil of the AI age. And through a lot of sweat equity, China can possibly dominate this key area for the AI future. Maybe this is why 5G is so important? The lower latency of 5G would usher in the AI age. The western world is so focused on Foxconn, and its “supposed benefits” to China. But the benefits are meager. The biggest beneficiary is Apple itself. China should let Foxconn and other low value industries go, in order to free themselves to work on higher value pursuits. reply
|
|
#
¿
Jun 19, 2020 20:55
|
|
|
abtinf 7 hours ago [–] > All our current attempts at creating rigorous moral frameworks lead to intuitively immoral behaviour under some circumstances. Objectivism does not. reply
|
|
#
¿
Jul 17, 2020 15:37
|
|
|
lazyjones 1 day ago [–] The bullying/mobbing aspect of Cancel Culture should explicitly be made illegal. I don't understand how people don't recognize it as what it is: idealogical "cleansing" in the same way the Nazis, Mao, Stalinists did it. Simple employer protection as suggested doesn't go far enough, the intent to harm one's career on ideological grounds must be punished. reply
|
|
#
¿
Jul 18, 2020 00:45
|
|
|
otherprob 22 minutes ago [–] The bigger problem is that technology advancements gravitate at the demands of the noisiest, with the most social gravity. Yes there are a lot of smart people at FAANG and Cloudflare corp. There are a lot of just as capable folks not driven by job addicted meme. Technically there’s no reason the web couldn’t be replaced with 1:many via Wireshark key sharing based access control to local content. But via Wall Street, along these very particular rules, is how we are told to trade information. How is that not a planned economy? Not just by doing what we’re clearly interested in doing naturally. Make no mistake: big corp isn’t making us login at gunpoint. “They” didn’t do this. “We” did this. reply
|
|
#
¿
Jul 20, 2020 16:39
|
|
|
foobar_ 3 hours ago [–] I'm not insane ... you are just the type of person who will defend roman numerals. Maybe you just have OCD. 1. Socrates is mortal 2. Mortals die 3. Socrates dies Deduction is really like amazing. Holy poo poo we really proved something spectacular here. I guess you would be really impressed if I used tau and sigma and defined death with vietnamese alphabet. Almost the entirety of calculus was derived from problems related to physics. Volumes were calculated for doing engineering. Mathematics != Thinking. The last time I checked both logic and critical thinking were branches of philosophy. All good mathematicians are physicists or engineers. Heck some even learnt maths on their own. All mediocre mathematicians write textbooks and hide behind notations. Come to think of it they remind me of OO programmers in their utter arrogant mediocrity. Most abstract mathematics is like the definition of protocols/interfaces and other platonic garbage. I suppose this debate will never end. Plato vs Aristotle, Deduction vs Induction, Analytic vs Synthetic .... reply
|
|
#
¿
Jul 23, 2020 00:05
|
|
|
Neon Noodle posted:
one thing that stood out is the dude insisting on a strict definition of 'snuff film'
|
|
#
¿
Jul 24, 2020 00:48
|
|
|
mystes posted:Oh wait, that wasn't from HN. this way lies helldump fwiw
|
|
#
¿
Jul 28, 2020 19:56
|
|
|
cw: hacker opinions re: child sexual abuse imagery lilboiluvr69 12 hours ago [–] He said: “If they are caught actively searching for this, they will have no more of a defence than someone that’s doing it because they want to find it for their own gratification. It is not a defence in court going looking for this.” I wonder, with the rise of deep fakes and CGI, why a company hasn't come up with a business model offering professional rendered synthetic child pornography. It seems to me that there would be demand for it, and if an ethically un-encumbered product is indistinguishable from the real thing, much of the demand of child sexual abuse imagery would evaporate. reply thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24025442
|
|
#
¿
Aug 2, 2020 15:07
|
|
|
graycat 5 hours ago | parent [–] | on: Frances Allen has died Fran and I were on the same floor at IBM's Watson lab. I was in an AI project doing applied math, e.g., some optimization, and mathematical statistics (for the AI work we were doing, system monitoring, i.e., anomaly detection, better than our AI work!). She was regarded as a major expert in compiling and numerical codes for scientific computing. I heard that she was working on a software product that among many other things would do fast matrix multiplication using some parallelism. So, just for the heck of it, I wrote and ran a little routine in PL/I that used PL/I's feature of multi-tasking to get some parallelism and showed my code to her. She was a little surprised I'd written the code, had a smile, and explained why her work closer to some hardware features (I don't recall the details) would be faster! I wasn't surprised or disappointed that my little PL/I tasking code would be slower than what she was doing, but at least I got her to explain the hardware she was using and how she was exploiting it! As I recall, she was married to Jack Schwartz at Courant Institute of NYU and as in Nelson Dunford and Jacob T. Schwartz, Linear Operators. reply
|
|
#
¿
Aug 6, 2020 15:26
|
|
|
Maximo Roboto posted:Looks like they're at it again. The marks are waking up. though again their response seems to be either join FAANG or start their own company kristopolous 6 hours ago [–] For me I'm far too naturally transgressive to work at a large company. I really wish I could, life would be easier, less work, less stress, pay better... None of them will take me so I keep help building and (sometimes) exiting startups. It's really exhausting. 20 years of this... I wish more companies would value those who "challenge the book" instead of "follow the book" or that I could find a way to obediently follow it instead of challenge it. I've honestly thought about figuring out how I could put things on ice for a few years and get a PhD, because then I'd have the proper paperwork to allow for my disposition and could finally stop this exhausting startup life. reply
|
|
#
¿
Aug 18, 2020 22:00
|
|
|
hackers! i hate them! klmadfejno 3 hours ago [–] I saw the Anti Racist author, Ibram Kendi, speak. Honestly I wasn't really impressed with what he was saying. Yes, structural racism is a real problem. But the concept of anti-racism just did not feel well defined and just begging for semantic ambiguity that distracts from the point at hand, much like how feminism suffered from allowing detractors to claim it was about females asserting supremacy. Ideological terms move the conversation away from ideas and towards meta-arguments around what the ideology is. I found this article somewhat hard to follow but it's last paragraph seems to resonate with that. What is anti-racism? Is it: * taking proactive steps to combat racism rather than trying to avoid taking part in it? * asserting more power to minority communities that have been harmed by structural racism? * a means to justify breaking down dominantly white structures even if there's not obviously malicious racial actions at play? Which of these are good? Which of these are obviously good without nuanced discussion? If it's something like the third one, does it seem like a good idea to call that model "anti-racist" in a way that clearly antagonizes the other party merely for existing? reply hirundo 3 hours ago [–] I had a girlfriend in high school that learned about feminism, and developed an annoying habit of playing "gotcha" with anything that could be spun as chauvinist. For instance anyone saying "C'mon you guys let's go eat" would get a lecture about how using the word "guys" to a mixed sex group was being oppressive. She didn't say "patriarchal" only because that word wasn't in currency yet. Years later her gotcha shtick became her profession as a college professor who taught it to a new generation, year after year. I think the events at those meetings are more about the joy of the gotcha than anti-racism versus non-racism. It just feels good to catch someone out, to be the one who sees it first. Like most pleasures it has addictive power. It wasn't because the anti-racists were actually racists that they were triggered by a white man bouncing a black baby on his lap. It was because they were scanning desperately for a gotcha to feed their habit. For a target that you disagree with, a behavior has a much lower threshold to become a gotcha. If it wasn't for the baby it could have been his supercilious smile or hair style. In modern anti-racism, not only does a gotcha not need to be justified with argument, any criticism of the gotcha is another gotcha. What I have written here is just more evidence of my own racism and sexism. They've got me. reply
|
|
#
¿
Aug 20, 2020 20:16
|
|
|
this one is ok tho econcon 4 days ago [–] I use granite slab as my bed. In winters I heat it from below using silicone temperature controlled mats. Am I the only one who prefers flat and hard bed? Granite is my bed and mattress. reply
|
|
#
¿
Aug 20, 2020 20:20
|
|
|
colinmhayes 2 hours ago [–] People who donate to domestic charities when AMF and the malaria consortium are saving lives for $5 a net are immoral or naive. reply
|
|
#
¿
Aug 20, 2020 20:23
|
|
|
alexandriao posted:Shh, nobody tell them they're shadowbanned. I want to see more of their posts I think he got banned for correctly caking out that Scott locklin dude as altright.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 6, 2020 01:29
|
|
|
power botton posted:boomers love vinyl. its the material of the future!!! I assume it was viewed like microwaves and cars with 5 MPG back when those freaks could buy a house when they turned 23 our house has vinyl, aluminum, and wood siding in various places, it looks like poo poo but there's more important things to not get around to having fixed
|
|
#
¿
Sep 25, 2020 01:13
|
|
|
i think ill have to give that dude a little bit of props for at least trying to make art
|
|
#
¿
Oct 17, 2020 01:14
|
|
|
Jose Valasquez posted:like he got banned from quora for sockpuppeting to post and answer questions like "Is Michael Church a genius" and then claimed it was because Paul Graham invested in quora just to get him banned he got banned from hn for calling melissa meyer a 'queynte'
|
|
#
¿
Dec 14, 2020 16:43
|
|
|
i wanna hear some of those mchurch-at-google stories
|
|
#
¿
Dec 15, 2020 22:36
|
|
|
PrefixKitten 1 day ago | parent | favorite | on: Pornhub just purged all unverified content from th... I'm saying people do not like it when I interact with women in the real world so in their view it would be a good thing if porn were to prevent me from doing so
|
|
#
¿
Dec 15, 2020 22:47
|
|
|
the rare ok hn post bastawhiz 6 hours ago [–] You're going to need to present some evidence for this, I think. I don't even know what an "inferior toilet" is. I've pooped in a lot of SF toilets and can assure you that they've all gotten the job done satisfactorily.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 29, 2020 00:55
|
|
|
centimeter 10 days ago | parent [–] | on: How much does it cost to send 1kg to lower earth o... I can't stand stuff like that. There's no way the actual negative externality of a small bag of trash is $2. If I lived in a place with a ridiculous rule like that, I would be more inclined to protest the rule by dumping illegally than going along with it. Trash disposal here is great; free unlimited household trash disposal if you drive it to a dump, with only larger things like tires and mattresses costing money (but a very reasonable amount, like $2/tire). reply centimeter 19 days ago [–] > when there are ubiquitous firearms and not is the level of fear and nervousness among strained relations 100% disagree. The saying "armed society is polite society" is absolutely true, at least when it comes to the interaction between arms and western social ethics. Obviously your results may vary in the Congo or Chicago or whatever. Even if we accept the (most likely contextually false) premise that reducing firearms access for non-criminals also meaningfully reduces firearms access for criminals, I do not have any preference (ceteris paribus) between getting shot, stabbed, or having my head bashed in. In fact, I might prefer getting shot. In the more realistic case where criminal firearm attainability is less than perfectly correlated with non-criminal firearm attainability, it makes sense for non-criminals to be armed as well. There's also the MAD dynamic; people are less likely to physically escalate if there is a possibility of a high-severity response. > it’s a cheap solution A murder charge for an unjustified shooting is hardly "cheap".
|
|
#
¿
Dec 29, 2020 00:58
|
|
|
globular-toast 3 hours ago [–] What's troubling to me is that people like you act like some kind of saviour for women yet you don't appear to have ever spoken to or really, really listened to one of them. I don't presume to know what any individual's aspirations are, but I do know that a species doesn't survive if its members don't want to reproduce. I also know that women's happiness has only declined over the past several decades despite what we are told are great strides towards women's liberties and opportunities. The women around me are under incredible stress due to the opposing pressures of a society that wants them to work and "be strong" and their own biological clock telling them to reproduce before it's too late. Just look at the statistics on anti-depressant and other drug use amongst women. You'd have to be crazy to think this is healthy. You cry misogyny but it's you who is killing them. This isn't what women want. They don't want to go to work. Who the hell would? globular-toast 10 days ago | parent [–] | on: Richard Ford: Do we really need friends? (2017) Yeah. I also struggled with that. We are told from a young age that we need both friends and someone to have sex with. It makes you feel pretty inadequate to be missing one or both. But at some point in my life I realised I just don't care what others think. I do have someone to have sex with, and if I absolutely had to use a term I despise, "best friend", she would probably be it, but ultimately the only constant in my life is me. Everyone else is on their own path. Our paths may cross. They may even align at times. But our paths are our own. reply
|
|
#
¿
Dec 30, 2020 03:17
|
|
|
Der_Einzige 15 days ago [–] Maybe I'm the ultimate hedonist, but this seems not-dystopian to me. I wrote an essay back in high school for some english class with exactly the same sentiment when I had to read brave new world. I'd fking love to be either engineered (brave new world) or have an ML algorithm learn how to generate the perfect stimuli for me. If they can do this while avoiding all of the negative effects of normal drugs (and again, brave new world does this with Soma) - I'd be the first to do them. I think most critiques of hedonism are basically more refined versions of "you should hate nature!". Seeing how John Stewart Mill regarded folks who describe themselves as hedonists made me realize that western Philosophy has a whole project to keep people from enjoying themselves: "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are a different opinion, it is because they know only their own side of the question.” Apparently, I am irrational if I choose to give up knowledge or freedom for pleasure. It shocks me about how universal this sentiment is within western philosophy, and how few actually critique it.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 30, 2020 16:26
|
|
|
Breakfast All Day posted:and there came out from the camp of the evopsychs a pundit named steven of pinker, whose intellect was six cubits and a span pinker blocked me on twitter for repeated posting of that picture with him + epstein
|
|
#
¿
Dec 30, 2020 16:26
|
|
|
Best Bi Geek Squid posted:mods plz rename me to "the ultimate hedonist" and give me a hedonism bot av, tyia make sure it look like a dishrag
|
|
#
¿
Dec 30, 2020 21:07
|
|
|
MattGaiser 1 hour ago [–] It is mentioned in the article, but I also have seen this anecdotally. How often do school libraries have things boys want to read? In high school, even among those who did read, very few of us ever used the library because it mostly had fantasy novels, fiction, etc. My friend group wanted to read about history and economics, topics not really covered. reply
|
|
#
¿
Dec 31, 2020 21:22
|
|
|
DuckConference posted:
they do when it's at Little St James
|
|
#
¿
Jan 18, 2021 09:06
|
|
|
llcoolv 14 minutes ago [–] I don't really believe that such thing as a shortage exists in a free-market economy. Executives who complain of shortages are just way too rigid with their planning and are not willing to pay the increased price. Exactly this goes for VW. reply
|
|
#
¿
Jan 22, 2021 22:05
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 23, 2024 08:32 |
|
|
the 'myers' of 'myers-briggs' wrote a couple of detective novels back in the day, the second one was about a rich family whose members kept killing themselves and the big reveal as to why was that they had a black ancestor whose blood was in their veins
|
|
#
¿
Jan 24, 2021 19:59
|
|