Readit Newsnewmac commented on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Lex Fridman Podcast [video] youtube.com/watch?v=L_Guz... · Posted by u/ftxbro
newmac commented on Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market dagster.io/blog/fake-star... · Posted by u/kaeruct
It is worth noting that it is trivial to buy fake stars for a project you are not affiliated with. The reason someone might do this would be to "test" the purchasing of fake stars without risking contaminating their own project.
newmac commented on Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market dagster.io/blog/fake-star... · Posted by u/kaeruct
I think the most interesting thing would be to run this test against the list of Launch HNs, sorted by votes, grouped by class.
newmac commented on Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market dagster.io/blog/fake-star... · Posted by u/kaeruct
You can be factual and still sound pretentious and cringey. Like the medical doctors who insist on being called “doctor”, to the point of smuggly “correcting” strangers in a social setting.
I don’t know this user and won’t assume his intentions, but I can see how having “I’m a GitHub star [star emoji]” as the first sentence on the profile is doing him a disservice: it makes it seem like it’s the most impressive thing he’s achieved and diminishes everything else.
FWIW a smug doctor usually corrects people that they are a Physician.
newmac commented on Silicon Valley Bank unmasks the hypocrisy of libertarian tech bros newstatesman.com/quickfir... · Posted by u/thm
David Sacks wants to run for President. He watched Trump's election closely. He wants to be the smart guy that uses the idiot's playbook. He is working hard to get placed on as much media as possible as a commentator. He is connected to many of the richest and most powerful people in the country.
He is, at the end of the day, a bored billionaire with some very pedestrian ideas. He does go to great effort to shout them louder. He does seem to have some serious ego issues, but I guess what politician doesn't?
I think the hilarity of Calacanis literally tweeting his own similar ideas is that it was a transparent attempt to be louder. ie: he just didn't feel heard about his ideas, so they needed amplification.
I was able to read in all the data points and then use the weather forecast and a few other data points to make changes to my HVAC system. The comfort different has been very drastic. Our house doesn't overheat on hot days and doesn't get cold fast when the temperature drops. (I am in the Northeast where there are big swings).