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by hliyan 1y ago
I'm glad this is being discussed on HN instead of getting flagged. If we're intellectually curious, then we need to be curious about phenomena that defy explanation and events that may define the future course of our civiliazation
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by hliyan 1y ago
One (yet to be verified) insight I've had of late is that we make an implicit, paradoxical assumption about the unimpeded operation of the free market: that the rationality of market participants (a function of education), and their de
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by hliyan 1y ago
I still haven't forgiven whoever made Voyager's first images of Jupiter's moon Io bright red and yellow, and The Saturnian moon Enceladus green.
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I got replaced with AI (by a "friend")(twitter.com)
5 points by hliyan 1y ago|2 comments
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by hliyan 1y ago
Here's how I see it: in the absence of growth in market share or cost-reducing innovation, the only remaining strategy for profit maximization is the delivering of progressively lower quality products for progressively higher prices. T
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Why did you hide Reddit account? Indian student faces US visa scrutiny(indiatoday.in)
5 points by hliyan 1y ago|1 comments
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by hliyan 1y ago
For some reason, I was expecting a user experience like: $ weather in san francisco, today evening? about 14C, no rain, cloudy
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by hliyan 1y ago
This is one of the most harmful attitudes to come out of otherwise smart people in Silicon Valley. Dismissing any effort that does not bear immediate, tangible fruit, failing to follow a chain of causality to long term benefits and discount
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by hliyan 1y ago
Particularly satisfying to see this section calling out a lot of business jargon: https://stylepedia.net/style/#avoiding-confusing-language e.g. best-of-breed Jargon. Say exactly what you mean, for example, "the b
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by hliyan 1y ago
He's making the the following argument: "...innovators keep just 2.2 % of the value they create. Every $1 in billionaire profit delivers ≈ $45 to workers + consumers" Onecounter-framing is that entepreneurs keep 2.2% of the v
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We should have more billionaires(twitter.com)
10 points by hliyan 1y ago|17 comments
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by hliyan 1y ago
Concur, but from a control systems point of view. Any system that does not define upper/lower limits and does not address feedback loops, are prone to oscillations, and if the size of the system grows over time, the oscillations can be
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by hliyan 1y ago
The "end of history illusion" is not the belief that there is a decent end state, but the belief of each generation that that state has been reached, and that they were to first to reach it.
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by hliyan 1y ago
I'm starting to realize, very belatedly in life, that we suffer from an end-of-history illusion in politics and political economy. I used to think we live in a golden age because a hundred years ago, democracy broadly replaced monarchi
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by hliyan 1y ago
Pure luck. A friend of mine was one of the founders. This was in 2013.
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by hliyan 1y ago
One of the happiest periods of my life was when I was working for a non-profit tech company building software for humanitarian work (human rights documentation, labour law compliance, election monitoring etc), after working a full decade in
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by hliyan 1y ago
Important: "[payroll processing firm] ADP's report has a spotty track record on predicting the subsequent government jobs report"
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by hliyan 1y ago
For me, a natural next step would be to turn this into a service -- rather than doing it in the browser, this acts as a proxy, strips away all the crud and serves your browser clean text. No need to install a new browser, just point the bro
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by hliyan 1y ago
It's absoluely ridiculous that investors are driven (and are expected to be driven) by maximisation of return of investment, and that alone, but when labour/employees exhibit that same behaviour, they are labeld "mercenaries&
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Amateurs Talk Algorithms, Professionals Talk Data Cleaning(progressandpoverty.substack.com)
4 points by hliyan 1y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 1y ago
Maturity/commoditization of technology (a good thing) can only be seen as problematic in a world where steady-state businesses with steady profits are seen as "stagnant", and only companies that delivers (or at least promises
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by hliyan 1y ago
When reading the article, you realise that the techie who went home without fixing his mistake was not the developer whose Celsius/Fahrenheit change created the false alarms, but the electrician who tripped all the breakers in the buil
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by hliyan 1y ago
I think it all started when libraries began to be replaced with "services" (I mean this in the broader context, not just auth). Integrations that were once development time or compile time, are now runtime. Two somewhat perverse i
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by hliyan 1y ago
That doesn't sound right. The initialisation code has a database connection string argument. YOu wouldn't do that from a frontend.
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by hliyan 1y ago
Perhaps a better approach would be to randomly replace links in your social media app with links to a random image of what you imagine to be a social media addict, or someone who has ruined their lives due to social media. Perpahs with a me
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by hliyan 1y ago
I think we will soon have to confront serious, real world proof that an unregulated free market is not ultimately self-regulating. Control systems without upper bounds (e.g. shareholder value / profit maximization ) are prone to feedb
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by hliyan 1y ago
I must say, the sample section[1] does an excellent job of making a case for the tool, especially to people who are inclined to make a snap judgement about the usefulness of the tool within the first 5 minutes (I'm sometimes guilty of
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by hliyan 1y ago
One theory I have is that JavaScript's originally low entry barrier as an untyped scripting language that works very close to the front end, allowed many programmers who might have found other programming languages too challenging (esp
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Ask HN: Is cloud infra making us forget the local file system and memory?
8 points by hliyan 1y ago|2 comments
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by hliyan 1y ago
I completely forgot about this. Current aerodynamics and heat shielding are optimized for Earth reentry. They may have to significantly rethink the design for Mars. What they land on Mars will likely be very different from what we see today

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