What I took from the thread was: Bad news is reported more, if bad things happen, you need to act fast so it's good to pay close attention to bad news, that's what news organizations want you to think. And then you…
This is a good argument against technocracy. I want expert's views to be taken into consideration when making decisions that affect other people. I don't want them telling people what to do using the lens of their…
Wishing something was open source and committing to build it are pretty far apart. There are examples everywhere where people have built open source alternatives for things. Understandably, there are way more people…
I'd find a few people that have been at startups of a similar size and stage and talk to them about this. First, there is no single "startup" definition. Are you the third employee, did they just raise series A, are…
I think the point of the headline is to show how shockingly low the cost would be compared to the economic cost of covid. At the same time, it's a bit disingenuous. What does "vaccinate the world" mean now? Two shots,…
My car was stolen recently, and the day it happened I was told it's most probably already in a shipping container on the way to Haiti or something, and not to expect to get it back. The role of the police seems to be…
No I wasnt clear, I used the api at ipinfo.io to get the information about the ip address the parent had posted. That info pertains to the "problem" ip he is encountering, its not generated by some service at that…
So yeah # curl ipinfo.io/34.66.115.47 { "ip": "34.66.115.47", "hostname": "47.115.66.34.bc.googleusercontent.com", "city": "Council Bluffs", "region": "Iowa", "country": "US", "loc": "41.2619,-95.8608", "org": "AS396982…
HN is still a decent news aggregator as long as you turn on "showdead" and browse through new submissions a bit. Upvoted stories and comments are more often one-sided, but there is lots of diversity in what gets…
They do have a loss function, that is analogous to human desire. I think we are fundamentally missing something, that there is an irreconcilable difference between a mathematical expression and actual conscious desire,…
> as climate change, racial injustice, gun violence, and the negative effects of social media on self-worth, Dr. Murphy concluded that youth are facing multiple challenges, even before factoring in the ravaging effects…
War deaths are typically young men in the prime of life. Covid deaths are mostly old people. Not to say they should be ignored, buy what people must have experienced seeing a generation of young men die in WWII is…
I think there is a "social construct" aspect of beauty, typically a variation on very skinny women, maybe plus big breasts. Those are basically what as a young man (and probably woman, I'm a man) you are conditioned to…
Amazon textract, I think there is a free tier. I also heard that excel now has an image to table input capability but I've not tried it. You may need to screenshot the pdf first, I'm not sure over the input formats that…
I'm 40, I feel like I've had a good, relatively free life, and I largely accept that is over and mostly feel bad for younger people who have to grow up in the fallout of the over reaction we've had. Imagine dating,…
Our stuff isn't worth endangering their lives, but in many people's calculus, a paycheck is. That's one reason we have workplace safety laws, because a pure market solution would lead to people doing unsafe things.
> "the delivery service partner's dispatcher didn't follow the standard safety practice." Amazon, not uniquely, has a business model based around devolving blame and recourse in a way that insulates them from the normal…
I'm not sure if you're saying this is a good thing or bad thing. I've worked closely with police and military and the front line folks of these and similar "operational" departments should be the least of people's…
It could be interesting- the challenge would be to incentivize quality and participation. And at least IMO it's much more interesting to see different perspectives argued on a topic, rather than actual rebuttal in most…
Part of the support YC companies get is the ability to periodically post ads on the HN front page. Part of the point of this forum is to promote YC companies and encourage people to apply for YC. The post would have…
Interesting take. So if i can restate it, automating people's agency - basically their decision making or judgement - creates a "disposable" class that there is (from management perspective) almost no point in investing…
> blue collar or back office labor jobs like mailroom processors could work hard and rise to the top I'd guess a factor in ending this has been the rise or at least growth of an administrative or managerial class in…
I think a shorter way to summarize this could be "intellectual property is not property". The arguments he makes work because IP is essentially an imaginary concept and so doesn't have the same concerns about…
Not the parent. I think it's the standard social media stuff - pseudo anonymity, lack of nuance or easy clarification, lack of private conversations meaning everything is exposed to the lowest common denominator. Not…
What I took from the thread was: Bad news is reported more, if bad things happen, you need to act fast so it's good to pay close attention to bad news, that's what news organizations want you to think. And then you…
This is a good argument against technocracy. I want expert's views to be taken into consideration when making decisions that affect other people. I don't want them telling people what to do using the lens of their…
Wishing something was open source and committing to build it are pretty far apart. There are examples everywhere where people have built open source alternatives for things. Understandably, there are way more people…
I'd find a few people that have been at startups of a similar size and stage and talk to them about this. First, there is no single "startup" definition. Are you the third employee, did they just raise series A, are…
I think the point of the headline is to show how shockingly low the cost would be compared to the economic cost of covid. At the same time, it's a bit disingenuous. What does "vaccinate the world" mean now? Two shots,…
My car was stolen recently, and the day it happened I was told it's most probably already in a shipping container on the way to Haiti or something, and not to expect to get it back. The role of the police seems to be…
No I wasnt clear, I used the api at ipinfo.io to get the information about the ip address the parent had posted. That info pertains to the "problem" ip he is encountering, its not generated by some service at that…
So yeah # curl ipinfo.io/34.66.115.47 { "ip": "34.66.115.47", "hostname": "47.115.66.34.bc.googleusercontent.com", "city": "Council Bluffs", "region": "Iowa", "country": "US", "loc": "41.2619,-95.8608", "org": "AS396982…
HN is still a decent news aggregator as long as you turn on "showdead" and browse through new submissions a bit. Upvoted stories and comments are more often one-sided, but there is lots of diversity in what gets…
They do have a loss function, that is analogous to human desire. I think we are fundamentally missing something, that there is an irreconcilable difference between a mathematical expression and actual conscious desire,…
> as climate change, racial injustice, gun violence, and the negative effects of social media on self-worth, Dr. Murphy concluded that youth are facing multiple challenges, even before factoring in the ravaging effects…
War deaths are typically young men in the prime of life. Covid deaths are mostly old people. Not to say they should be ignored, buy what people must have experienced seeing a generation of young men die in WWII is…
I think there is a "social construct" aspect of beauty, typically a variation on very skinny women, maybe plus big breasts. Those are basically what as a young man (and probably woman, I'm a man) you are conditioned to…
Amazon textract, I think there is a free tier. I also heard that excel now has an image to table input capability but I've not tried it. You may need to screenshot the pdf first, I'm not sure over the input formats that…
I'm 40, I feel like I've had a good, relatively free life, and I largely accept that is over and mostly feel bad for younger people who have to grow up in the fallout of the over reaction we've had. Imagine dating,…
Our stuff isn't worth endangering their lives, but in many people's calculus, a paycheck is. That's one reason we have workplace safety laws, because a pure market solution would lead to people doing unsafe things.
> "the delivery service partner's dispatcher didn't follow the standard safety practice." Amazon, not uniquely, has a business model based around devolving blame and recourse in a way that insulates them from the normal…
I'm not sure if you're saying this is a good thing or bad thing. I've worked closely with police and military and the front line folks of these and similar "operational" departments should be the least of people's…
It could be interesting- the challenge would be to incentivize quality and participation. And at least IMO it's much more interesting to see different perspectives argued on a topic, rather than actual rebuttal in most…
Part of the support YC companies get is the ability to periodically post ads on the HN front page. Part of the point of this forum is to promote YC companies and encourage people to apply for YC. The post would have…
Interesting take. So if i can restate it, automating people's agency - basically their decision making or judgement - creates a "disposable" class that there is (from management perspective) almost no point in investing…
> blue collar or back office labor jobs like mailroom processors could work hard and rise to the top I'd guess a factor in ending this has been the rise or at least growth of an administrative or managerial class in…
I think a shorter way to summarize this could be "intellectual property is not property". The arguments he makes work because IP is essentially an imaginary concept and so doesn't have the same concerns about…
Not the parent. I think it's the standard social media stuff - pseudo anonymity, lack of nuance or easy clarification, lack of private conversations meaning everything is exposed to the lowest common denominator. Not…