Hacker News: natrik

New comment by natrik in "The Rise of the $10M Disc Golf Celebrity"

natrik — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 03:50:43 +0000

New comment by natrik in "Microsoft president: Orwell’s 1984 could happen in 2024"

natrik — Thu, 27 May 2021 02:44:03 +0000

"Welcome to BBC News, America's most trusted news source".

A low quality hodgepodge of words, masquerading as an article promoting the BBC's Panorama's Are you Scared Yet, Human?

A few low quality choice of quotes:

Speaking to BBC's Panorama, Brad Smith said it will be "difficult to catch up” with the rapidly advancing technology.

Eric Schmidt, former Google chief executive who is now chair of the US National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, has warned that beating China in AI is imperative.

Seth Moulton, chair of the US Future of Defence Task Force is urging tech companies to support the Department of Defence. "Because we're in a race, because we are in this competition, that’s really what it comes down to,” he said. “Are you going to help us win this race or are you going to essentially be against us?"

Are we sure this Ministry of Truth style doublespeak isn't already here?

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/26/facebook-ban-covid-...

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1396769717805780994

New comment by natrik in "Making the case for a homegrown Canadian semiconductor industry"

natrik — Tue, 04 May 2021 06:03:21 +0000

Wikipedia data says (2017)

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/debt-to-gdp-continues-to-ri...

New comment by natrik in "Making the case for a homegrown Canadian semiconductor industry"

natrik — Tue, 04 May 2021 04:38:40 +0000

https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iroikDYIT5Q...

Canada's deficit is among the worst of all relevant countries at the moment.

New comment by natrik in "Cancel The New York Times"

natrik — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 06:38:25 +0000

"The octopus is oppressing America, and it is destroying America. In the New York Times the country seems literally on the brink of anarchy and war, all in service, to the power of the New York Times. Look what is happening! When times are good and people are happy and fulfilled and successful the New York Times is an irrelevant bore. When the world is ending as they would have you believe (it is not) they become more powerful than the president. They are the ones that choose the president. You may think that if you vote for Trump or Biden that it will get better. It will not! It will only get worse! The only way to get better is to stop reading the New York Times. And stop writing for any of its tentacles."

This resonates with me especially. In a time of excess we are led too often to believe we are on the brink of collapse. Manufactured crises.

Relevant readings talking about the NYT and journalism:

- https://savingjournalism.substack.com/p/how-newspapers-handl...

- https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26122924

New comment by natrik in "We Are Preparing a Class Action Lawsuit Against Robinhood"

natrik — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 18:06:11 +0000

Citadel, Point72 to Invest $2.75 Billion Into Melvin Capital Management - 3 days ago [0]

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/citadel-point72-to-invest-2-75-...

New comment by natrik in "We Are Preparing a Class Action Lawsuit Against Robinhood"

natrik — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 17:59:18 +0000

Absolutely disgusting what Robinhood did.

PR Puff Piece by Robinhood - https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/28/keeping-customers-...

Keeping people safe from themselves. Stocks where Retail investors are blocked from buying by TD Ameritrade, Robinhood, etc. yet hedge funds and others are free to continue...

Just yesterday Discord bans the WallStreetBets community.

Note: I held a few positions in some of these volatile stocks

New comment by natrik in "Where do we go from here and who is going to step up to help us?"

natrik — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 00:52:47 +0000

"We're suffering from success and our Discord was the first casualty. You know as well as I do that if you gather 250k people in one spot someone is going to say something that makes you look bad. That room was golden and the people that run it are awesome. We blocked all bad words with a bot, which should be enough, but apparently if someone can say a bad word with weird unicode icelandic characters and someone can screenshot it you don't get to hang out with your friends anymore. Discord did us dirty and I am not impressed with them destroying our community"

Key point for me. Under the guise of 'hate speech' suppression is occurring. Of course every platform has the right to dictate users of their platform yada yada...

New comment by natrik in "The Cruise Ship Suicides"

natrik — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 01:53:57 +0000

Australia (Victoria) just got 3 cases and mandated stage 4 measures including limiting gatherings to 15 people.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-31/victoria-coronavirus-...

New comment by natrik in "UX Issues with Notion"

natrik — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 20:25:54 +0000

Notion has had some great marketing, and has some useful features, but I don't think its as great as the hype around it suggests. YAWT, Yet Another Writing Tool. To be forgotten? in a few years.

When I used it, it seemed like a Jack of All/Master of None type of tool. Seemed like it was focused more on those who enjoy and find value in the act of taking notes rather the value of the note itself. I'm probably not the intended user, but for a lot of daily uses (Meeting notes, TODO lists, etc.) I found a barebones GDocs/Word/Pen and Paper to be more efficient and less taxing to pick up.

New comment by natrik in "A closer look at U.S. deaths due to Covid-19"

natrik — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 00:58:55 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20201126223119/https://www.jhune...

https://twitter.com/JHUNewsLetter/status/1332100136152035330...

New comment by natrik in "Don’t Eat Inside a Restaurant"

natrik — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 06:08:13 +0000

Could it be argued it's the worst of both worlds? Virus still spreads, restaurants are forced to heavily reduce customer numbers and pay for new anti COVID measures. Decreased restaurant revenue and increased COVID numbers?

New comment by natrik in "Don’t Eat Inside a Restaurant"

natrik — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 05:45:57 +0000

Governments mandate closing by X time or mandate masks while not seated... of course to minimize risk and spread. These same governments don't mandate closing the restaurant completely for... the economy? I'm not left or right on this COVID issue, just interested in these arbitrary restrictions.

New comment by natrik in "No excess deaths in Sweden compared to the last ten years"

natrik — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 23:06:25 +0000

I think you misunderstood my comment. I already knew those 3 countries had a lower death rate.

New comment by natrik in "No excess deaths in Sweden compared to the last ten years"

natrik — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 21:34:59 +0000

6,000 preventable deaths? So with measures similar or better than Finland and Norway and Denmark the deaths would have been 164? (Current Covid deaths Sweden 6164).

New comment by natrik in "No excess deaths in Sweden compared to the last ten years"

natrik — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 19:39:24 +0000

It is possible the harms of lockdowns have been understated or misrepresented. The data on lockdowns isn't black and white and the response to COVID is very 'political'.

New comment by natrik in "Exodus of Silicon Valley"

natrik — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 23:24:24 +0000

This article reads like fiction with its emphasis on providing an exodus narrative, but this point stood out to me.

>San Francisco had four times as many deaths from overdose this year as it did from the COVID-19 virus.

New comment by natrik in "Into the looking glass: Post-viral syndrome post COVID-19"

natrik — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 20:12:25 +0000

https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-archive-united-nat...

New comment by natrik in "Trump Covid post deleted by Facebook and hidden by Twitter"

natrik — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 18:17:01 +0000

Is this being intentionally hidden? It isn't on any of the 5 most recent pages anymore.

Link to the tweet in question - https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13134498444139929...

New comment by natrik in "Only existing market leaders are benefiting from coronavirus lockdowns"

natrik — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 19:04:02 +0000

If some countries aren't successful at containing the spread of the virus despite lockdowns, its because they didn't lockdown hard/good enough. If a country locks down hard and still many deaths occur, claim that the virus would have killed many more if they didn't lockdown.

Morton's Fork. If deaths are low it's because lockdown worked. If they're high we didn't lockdown hard or early enough. Two outcomes, same conclusion: More lockdowns. No consideration to the null hypothesis.