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The delusion is also a "costly signal" that you're committed to the group.

Is Flexport part of a real industry? Is Stripe? Is Gusto?

Just because something is not physical, doesn't mean it's not valuable.

> Most of the public cares about climate change and wants the government to do something

Most of the public cares about climate change and wants the government to do something so long as it doesn't cost them anything (Or more precisely, more than 10 $/mo)[0]. Or you can just see the consternation about gas prices right now to predict how well any climate change related regulation that actually materially affected carbon production would go.

[0]: https://apnorc.org/projects/what-americans-think-about-the-e...

You might be able to make them sleep more by having there be more time between when the sun goes down and when they have to wake up.

Humans aren't totally divorced from biological cycles.

I've gotten all my jobs except my first by gathering a list of companies that I thought were interesting on whatever axes I was considering at the time, then finding people in my extended network to refer me to them; sort of a hybrid approach. It's worked well enough.

That said, I got my first (and longest tenured) job by applying to a random "who's hiring interns" post on HN.

Oh huh, TIL!

Well, then I have no idea at all what my caste is.

I think it's pretty normal as a human to attach oneself to various identity groups (An anodyne example being local sports teams), and the more you salience an identity, the more likely and more strongly individuals are to attach themselves to that identity.

It seems like that could in fact an issue with race-centric DEI training, at least per the one study I found at short notice[0]. But that needs to be weighed against the potential benefits and the fact that race relations are a significant issue across America society regardless of whether we address it explicitly or not.

With caste discrimination, the issue currently exists within a very small slice of American society (immigrants born in India). So even a small negative effect across the rest of American society would wipe out even the most significant improvements in that slice.

[0]: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1948550618780728

I think the argument that "efforts to raise awareness of these issues in the United States would sow further division" isn't totally without merit.

As an America-born Indian-American, I honestly don't know what my caste is beyond knowing I'm not Brahmin (I didn't do the string ceremony some of my childhood family friends did), and have basically zero idea of how I'd identify someone else's caste. I imagine that that's not terribly uncommon among ABCDs.

Educating people like me about that would suddenly create the ability for them to identify a difference that they wouldn't have noticed before. This makes it unlike gender, racial, or age discrimination, where the categories are usually surface level obvious. That in turn could have a star-bellied sneetches effect, where people identify with the new categories that they wouldn't have considered before.

> When population goes up: positive - the area is vibrant economically; negative - rent is spiraling upwards out of control

What's endlessly infuriating is population going up in a city should be an almost unmitigated positive. It's just our unwillingness to allow building new housing turning it into a zero sum game that makes it a mixed bag.

What is OOP today in practice if inheritance is dead, as you say, and mutability is out of style, as I've notice in all of the codebases I've worked on since ~2014?

It feels like we're just left with a heavyweight syntax for structs + functions bound to data, which feels like pretty thin gruel.

The distinction between pointer and optional is not vast. The distinction between pointer and not optional is.

The whole idea of optional is to make not optional possible.

As good a time as any to remind everyone there'll be a total solar eclipse traversing the US in 2024[0]. If you haven't had the chance to see one before, this is likely your best shot until 2045

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_April_8,_2024

Just anecdata, but I've been given offers without interviews purely on the basis of my resume, and viewed it as a pretty big red flag.

I've known enough people who've gotten where they've gotten with little technical ability that I'd be suspicious of a place that doesn't even attempt due diligence.

It's not scaled to the viewport for me. It's centered in the middle of it, but still tiny.

As someone who is strongly pro-choice, this strikes me as begging the question.

> There is only one entity involved with both the ability and the standing to justly apply either defensive or retributive force in response to a threatened or actual infringement of their rights

Presumably your stance here is that the fetus does not have the ability to apply defensive or retributive force, and therefore has no right to it. This seems to suggest you hold a "might makes right" morality: If someone isn't able to defend themselves, then they have no right to. Taken to its logical end, wouldn't this imply that any murder would not be immoral, since if someone was not able to defend themself from murder, then there is no violation of the Non-Aggression Principle?

Huh, a lot of this doesn't ring true to me, as someone who's negotiated comp at 6 (mostly YC backed) startups over the past 5 years.

In my experience, 10 year expiration dates for options and reasonably detailed financials (at the very least, ARR, ARR growth rate, churn rate) have been table stakes. And most companies were happy to let me view their latest round's pitch deck, after signing an NDA.

It's frustrating that almost no company offers early exercise rights, given how significant a tax value that it can represent, but compared to most other industries, it does seem tech is particularly employee friendly.

Vitalik's the only person in the entire crypto space that gives me pause about my belief crypto is 90% a mixture of useless and fraudulent. He's clearly much more intelligent than me and much more thoughtful, and has come to the opposite conclusions about the topic.

I really don't know how to square that with basically everyone else in the space being clearly morons or hucksters.

People certainly pass on specific kinds of insulin when their price increases.

Note that the "old" kind of insulin is available for 25 $/vial. It sucks in a lot of ways (requires more frequent dosage, and has a smaller margin of error), but it is dramatically cheaper than the newer and better kinds.

So financially strapped diabetics do have a trade off available to them.

Is that an april fool's joke?

No, the exact opposite for me: Code that works on first run is almost always actually bug free; if I find one bug in a piece of code, then I almost always fine more eventually.

I've worked at 5 different tech companies across that period (2 YC startups, 2 FAANG, 1 mid-size). It might be a US coastal tech thing, but it's certainly not a single office thing.

The Myth of the Paperless Office seems less like a myth and more like a premature prediction.

As someone whose career started in 2011, I don't think I've ever used a company printer for anything but a convenient way to print out personal files. In fact, I don't think I've ever interacted with paper in a professional capacity except:

* to sign employment contracts (and even that's gone 100% digital in the past 5 years)

* my personal notebook that I use to noodle on ideas

Does your calculation try to recreate the 0.83 $ statistic by assuming the proportion of the workforce of a given (gender, race) is the same as the population as a whole?

Because that's not necessarily a valid assumption.

Go has multiple return values, so you could instead do:

    matches, mismatches := slices.Partition(xs, func(x) bool { return x == condition });

Oh, interesting. TIL, thanks!

> Monads

Are "just" an interface a data type can implement/obey (in languages that support higher kinded interfaces)

> a foreach method/function for iteration over data

Again, "just" an interface a data type can implement/obey.

Java doesn’t have union types

Given that mental illness is stochastically predictable via genetics, I'd be very surprised if that's true.

A quick google found a twin study suggesting that they're significantly inheritable: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8776880/

I would strongly expect it to be clustered in specific populations. I'd be very surprised if the rate among HN readers was equal to the rate among the general population.

> If that was true, the poorest would be the most corrupt and the richest would be the least corrupt.

It seems clearly true to me that poorer countries have greater issues with corruption than poorer ones. What makes you say that's not true?