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History is written by the winners, if Cancel Culture "wins" this will just be seen as a positive embyrotic formation of the dominant culture eradicating and stomping out evil in the world via a superior tactical formation (cancellation). If they win this will be seen as a very primitive form of mob-cancellation whereas in the future it will be cancellation via sophisticated "fair" social-credit scores.

If the anti-cancel culture people win out culturally this will be seen as a historic dark age of self-censorship and a period of significantly degraded cultural expression.

All history is relative.

I don't think it is a conspiracy to say that there is a large self-selection process going on in news that starts with ideology. A person has to pick whether they want to report for HuffingtonPost, Slate, or Breitbart. There isn't a conspiracy because there doesn't have to be one, people self select into their respective hive minds essentially. On your other point, the idea that the average person in news is an unbiased accurate reporter is laughable.

That kind of reporting is almost a niche genre at this point outside of small town papers. Everyone now seems to have a very obvious agenda, and the consumers seem to mainly want news that fits their own agenda. Again this isn't a conspiracy this is just the direction that the market forces took news into. A polarized ideological consumerbase, wants news that matches their polarized politics.

Not secret necessarily, just spamming only niche groups on telegram and discord, not publicly spamming. I believe they think this makes it less likely they get caught whilst still covering a lot of ground. For an analysis of these private telegram groups doing pumping, see the following paper. It has an index at the end listing all the private channels they used in their analysis

[0] https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~livshits/papers/tr/pump_and_dump_t...

No, it is so highly improbable that someone would receive the equivalent of a years tech salary in SV for a handful of speeches that the act itself is immediately suspect. If we required the kind of evidence that you are talking about no bribery cases would ever be put forward. Also, what you are asking for is NOT required by law to bring forward such a case legally speaking. You aren't required to have a smoking gun.

It isn't a lack of incentive to move it is a lack of ability. Think about what it realistically costs to move to NYC right now, first months rent, last months rent, deposit, and even then most rentals aren't even on the market unless you pay a broker several thousand. The majority of people in rural america surveys can't handle a 400 dollar emergency let alone the cost to move to a large metro.

And before you say "well they can get the money to attempt a move by selling their family property", realise what you are saying. Sell dilapidated rural property to whom exactly? How does that happen?

Unless you have grants of approx 15-30k to bring people to cities I don't think it is even possible. And what cities would even want this to happen enough to participate? Probably places like Cleveland? Detroit? Out of the frying pan into the fire I suppose.

I was under the impression that adverse reactions to vaccines are pretty common actually? Many of the times I have gotten shots I had to wait in the room for 10-20 minutes afterwards so the nurse could verify I wasn't allergic. I think everyone should get vaccines, and they are more than safe enough for most people, but they aren't as safe as this article is implying. There are also historical examples of vaccines that caused non-trivial medical issues with segments of the population (the narcolepsy issue that occurred with a vaccine in Sweden a few years back comes to mind).

I think the point is that none of us will ever want to call you. Please stop posting your number.

Could you elaborate on this latter point further? I guess maybe I have impostor's syndrome but I have a hard time understanding how you could ever tell if you are that person or not. Imagine the following that I saw on a poker video recently:

You have a table full of top-tier poker players and you have a rookie who won a contest to be in a game alongside them. The rookie is playing absolutely terrible, the commentators are cringing at the moves the rookie is making. The other players are clearly doing things to take advantage of the rookies playing style. Yet at the same time, the rookie comes out in 3rd place, up 50k from their buy in at the start of the night. 3 seasoned award winning professionals are all net-negative for the night, some of which are -150k from where they started after 150 hands played.

Is this rookie an impostor or not? Does it matter that the rookie is an impostor if he is still beating people who verifiably are not impostors over the average of 150 separate hands?

I guess all this is to say that I don't get what value using the impostor's syndrome framing gives us.

On a post like this I would like to direct peoples attention to the fact that Ross Ulbricht is still sitting in jail on a life sentence for running a website. His family can use any and all support they can get to set him free, please consider donating or signing the petition.

[0] https://freeross.org/

There is almost no demand for 'actual' engineering a ton of this is completely offshored into oblivion, my girlfriend has a degree in chemistry and now works in a bank. There is extremely little demand for everything outside of software.

He is a popular public figure who gets sent crank work claiming to have solved NP=/=P several times a week. His context for saying that is a little different than here where the author is critiquing someone for creating what is essentially a short survey of several papers alongside his commentary. The original author isn't claiming to have proved anything, and even is asking for feedback and public contribution to his survey. It hardly struck me as cranklike.

That said, Tao is a good example of why gate-keeping is so dumb. If Tao wrote an article surveying and commentating on the current state of covid-19 epidemiological research as someone with no experience in the field, I'd trust it. I'd actually probably be more likely to trust it than any random credentialed epidemiologist doing the same work.

Well it is also worth mentioning, the "we" can be used as a way to give a paper a conversational tone whilst still remaining formal. The "we" in that kind of case is the other domain experts reading the paper the author is assuming they are speaking to.

This is just a hollow pro-credential posturing without any substance to it. What is the point here supposed to even be? That software engineers too dumb to understand statistics and probability, and should just leave this to the 'experts' like the ones the original author was citing in order to make his argument?

I don't understand the critique of tone in this either. Is the idea here supposed to be "I disagree with what the author was saying, so he shouldn't have written it well with a concise tone" ? That is what this comes off sounding like the author here is saying. Like he thinks if your idea is wrong, you aren't allowed to write well or something.

Is it somehow a faux pas to call them a Russian distribution? Their home page is literally a .ru tld.

[0] https://www.calculate-linux.ru/

The point of the list is to be a short list of operating systems the author is highlighting, they link to the lists they are referencing which are more complete near the top of the article.

I think that NixOS could definitely become a foundational next-gen distribution if they fix the Channel system. One fix I'm particularly fond of is flakes.

[0] https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/49

Yep, just grab any random ML paper off the top of arxiv and have your product development team replicate it. Even if it doesn't end up working properly at all and you have to shelve it for a more common solution, you can still claim the 'revolutionary' technique is in R&D at your company. Most investors can't tell the difference.

It clearly wasn't realistic enough.

That is definitely a very insightful post you linked, but I think the project is terrible even if you block out every single possible connection between the tech and ideology. I quite literally mean that I can't read the code. They designed a variable and function naming convention which obscures what the C code is doing. The naming is all nonsense syllables and seems deliberately intended to confuse anyone trying to audit the code.

The app for example claims to be end-to-end encrypted peer to peer connections. Is this true? Is it implemented correctly? I'm not sure they could find a reputable security auditor who would willingly subject themselves to this codebase regardless of how much pay was offered.

I think the larger problem slowing down their growth is not his "neo-reactionary" thought bleeding into the architecture of Urbit. I think a big part of it is the massive technical debt that Yarvin straddled the project with via his C code. It is written in a hard to read style that I at least have never seen before anywhere else.

[0] https://github.com/urbit/urbit/tree/master/pkg/urbit

If they remove it post-coronavirus, they will probably get a lot of leeway from the judge on the case.

"Kings and dictators can also deploy new features faster than democracies, and they don't need to negotiate with anyone. Thus autocratic societies are simply better." This is literally how you and Moxie sound to everyone rational when you spout these opinions on centralization.

Nobody as far as I know, is arguing that a dictator ran software can't effect change faster. We are simply arguing that we would rather take a less effective system that has to compromise on certain aspects, over a unpalatable centralized solution. These arguments about 'We want the greatest amount of privacy for the largest number of people' are straight out of Plato's Republic.

I mean, if you can't see that there is something different about the current market space we are in now vs the one in the 70s/80s I don't know what to tell you other than to read more or talk to people who lived through it.

My father got hired on as a machine maintenance person almost immediately after he dropped out of college, with no previous training or experience whatsoever, and then bought his first house within two years. They trained him and he worked his way up on the job and held it for over 30+ years. Lets look to a quick Indeed listing typing in that same job title today and read a few off the top listing together that don't have 'senior' in the title.

Applicant must have 3 to 5 years’ experience

Three (3) years equivalent work experience required or a machinist/technical degree.

Technical degree/machinist certification or 4-6 years equivalent work experience required.

I mean if you are going to argue that this is the same way the market has always been, that is just completely incorrect, both anecdotally and statistically.

I think the bigger problem is getting more companies to allow fully remote employees, internet connectivity is only a small part of the issue.

I would literally move to nearly anywhere in the midwest, in a heartbeat if they paid real salaries. I see it now, the hundreds of HN comments from years past talking about COL differences.The salaries I've seen in the midwest are what would have been reasonable in 2006, even adjusting for CoL differences. These companies are just not keeping pace with the market. This "oh the CoL differences" line was valid in the past, and still is valid in the few tech cities that have kept pace properly like Austin, but for most places it is a excuse to trick people into accepting lower salaries than people are worth regardless of what local rent costs.

Ever notice how everybody here knows Austin even though it is flyover small town? I feel like I repeat myself a hundred thousand times. Almost EVERY city in the midwest, every city, would be as viable a location as Austin is, if the companies there weren't cheapskates and paid people what they were worth.

What did your hustling for clients consist of? Like I get the pounding the network pavement, everyone recommends that, but beyond that I never really get what it is that people do. Like do you just cold call people or do you entirely go through your network? What specific situations do you place yourself in where you can hustle up work?

I kind of take issue with the fact that this works, maybe not in your foreign language example but in general. I shouldn't have to learn the terminology of HVAC services or plumbing services or any service that I have no intention of learning more about to get better service. Every customer regardless of their knowledge of the service they are using should get a competent response without having to learn anything about that profession. That is the whole point of having a professional there working for you afterall.

This thread is really long, so sorry if I missed it, but as someone who does not currently know what their expired prescription was. Is there some way to tell or measure what prescription the glasses I am currently wearing are? My eyesight hasn't changed at all and I need another pair, but I don't know my prescription.

I know this is kind of a disparaging comment, but I would really like to hear their response to it. There have been numerous good services similar to them in the past and all have been placed on spam listings and blocked by most major services. Mixnet solutions have worked for over 30 years, they aren't particularly novel, what is novel is having an email service that allows reasonable privacy whilst not ending up on a spam listing.

This seems really dependent on finding a good company with openings, which is not always the case. I tried to stay in the Midwest as a recent cs grad with an internship under my belt, but after spending 4 months doing job search I just gave up and went coastal.

1. The offers I got were abysmally small and out of touch with the market even when adjusting for my experience and local cost of living.

2. Most places were either extremely poorly reviewed on glassdoor, or were not hiring junior/midlevel developers.

3. Places I interviewed at were using ancient software stacks from 2000-era that would have hampered my professional growth.

Until all these things are fixed and accounted for there is no way brain drain is going to stop. I literally spent 4 months interviewing, fully willing to relocate in the general Midwest to stay in a smaller more affordable town within reasonable driving distance of my family. If people want to keep smart people around, give them reasonable offers in line with the global market, and take risks on junior developers.