skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth I have never seen this before and am certainly happy that it got posted again. It's not like your Hacker News experience gets massively influenced by a story being reposted every couple of weeks.
These folks won't be missed for the most part. "Climate science" (note the quotes) will probably benefit greatly once most of the borderline psych cases have left the field.
didn't know where to start so I stumbled over a wealth of information here https://www.agner.org/cultsel/ and looks my weekend will be filled with study of this fascinating pdf linked:

https://www.agner.org/cultsel/warlike_peaceful.pdf

>Regality theory is a theory saying that people show a preference for strong leadership in times of war or collective danger, but a preference for an egalitarian political system in times of peace and safety. These psychological preferences in individuals are reflected in the political structure and culture of the society. A society in danger will develop in the direction called regal, which includes strong nationalism, discipline, strict religiosity, patriarchy, strict sexual morals, and perfectionist art. A society in peace will develop in the opposite direction called kungic, which includes egalitarianism and tolerance. This book is both theoretical and experimental. The theoretical explanation of the regal-versus-kungic dimension is based on evolutionary psychology and human ecology. Contributions from the social sciences and the humanities are added to further analyze historical examples of regal and kungic developments. The theory is tested on data from both contemporary and ancient societies. These tests confirm the predictions of the theory.

thanks OP
> But it seems like at least part of the problem in endemic in our view of organisations. People often want management positions because they are paid more, are more secure, or have more power. Maybe if we shifted our view of management as "just being a different skill set" and not always being higher paid then we'd find people without the required skills wouldn't try and obtain those positions and would focus on what they are good at.

This is exactly it. Hierarchies are good for efficiently organizing and distributing work. I mean, they're trees which are used everywhere for load balancing and distribution in computer science. We just have to break the association of a work hierarchy with social status which we're hard-wired to see, and part of that is the higher salaries given to people higher in the hierarchy.

Really, salary should probably be tied to hours and seniority.
Most journalists, authors, and college professors are still writing in the analog mindset, when most audiences are attuned to digital mediums AND are extremely time-constrained. Editors who have responsibility for major websites (and who have high double-digit mobile readerships) still hand out assignments like it's 1998 - "800 words on topic X" or "write me a 1500 word feature on Y."

A few new media publishers understand that they need to retool content for the new generation of readers (think TMZ and early TechCrunch) but they are still the minority in the English-speaking world.

Yes, it's sad that long-form reading and comprehension levels are in decline. But this is the evolution of media and communication at work, and people who publish need to adapt to new ways of communicating. Humanity has had shifts like this before (orality to the written word, hand-copied text to the printing press, the impact of broadcasting, etc.) and we'll still survive.
I once believed as you do.

Attend some public hearings. Watch how the experienced lobbyists and administrators run circles around legislators.

I now advocate for professional legislators (full time gig) with sufficient staff to tackle the size and complexity of modern governance.
> What does India have to do with anything?

Come on dude, fine that we disagree but don't keep deflecting. You've twice given China a pass due solely to its population. India is proof that you can have well over a billion people without 4x the coal consumption of the USA. The exact thing you called "inane."
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This is scary. I used to read 2-3 books per day in the summer as a kid. I used to read books on planes or at coffee houses. Now I skim iPhone or iPad. I need to start reading real books again!
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Definitely so: but you're missing something too. I've found that STEM grads and philosophers often take this point of view, perhaps because they find nuanced arguments challenging or redundant: they see no value in the telling itself, in indirection or deliberate ambiguity.

A philosopher friend of mine, for example, refuses to read novels because he claims the basic propositions of most fiction can be more concisely expressed. Why read a whole book to learn that love is hard? This is true: his loss.
Hacker News, where you can say horrible and offensive things just fine as long as you vomit thesaurus entries onto your comment, but calling corporate management "bloody idiots" gets you tut-tutting.

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you could rent something similar for that amount in Indonesia for a year (or Thailand for half year) instead of week
Every rule change has winners and losers.

If you kneecap politicians, which are somewhat more accountable to us voters, you empower administrators and lobbyists.

If you want more accountability, empower politicians, so they aren't so beholden to monied interests. Public financing of campaigns, for starters. Increase their staffing, so they can manage the work load. Etc.
Sounds like poor role definition? You don't have your laboratory scientist cleaning lab equipment or ordering reactants.
Those are all M in the ESRB rating though (not AO). Despite the parallel in AO and PEGI18, they aren't really the perceived the same in the respective markets.
In which the author condemns poor thinking and then commits his own in the form generalizations, cherry-picking, not-me-ism, and edge case selection.
These are mostly failed consumber businesses until Baremetrics, which had $100k in recurring revenue last month.

https://demo.baremetrics.com/
Some animals can be kept in captivity well. Dolphins no, but tigers, bears, zebra and the like can do very well. Work with animals in the wild. Learn the misery that is thier "natural" life before making some high-minded judgement about fences. See how many ticks live on a wild lion's face, what starvation means. Zoos are hard, very expensive, but can be ethical. They can give some animals a good life and by doing so fill a social purpose.

Be afraid of a world without zoos. Look at what happens to people who never see animals. Talk to anyone who grew up without dogs. They have all sorts of misconceptions. Zoo animals represent the wild. They manifest our nebulous ideas about wildlife and wild spaces. Without them our kids will too easily dismiss wild nature. To demonstate to kids that wild animals have the right to exist we need to first show them how they actually exist. Nothing does that so well as seeing the wild in the flesh.
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Is this site worth our time? I am curious who Agner is exactly, but the animation, link popups, etc are a bit annoying.
I wonder if ratio of business skill vs HR skill depends on how political the organization is and how much direct business-oriented impact the management position has on the organization.

And that makes me wonder if there’s a way to (partially) decouple management from power, at least for most managerial positions. Part of what attracts the wrong people to management, be they players or engineers with limited people skills that want to fix things, is power. Would it be possible to have a manager that only dealt with performance, personnel issues and resource management without having any say over what they worked on or how they did things? It seems like there’s elements of that already accepted as the norm (project managers, product owners, etc.) but the effectiveness of those positions varies wildly from org-to-org because of people managers. Sometimes they’re not even distinct roles because people managers won’t surrender any power.
From my own professional experience, I'd say it's got more to do with the artificial delivery constraints that come with the mandatory annual and quarterly financial reporting of publicly traded companies. They announce their yearly results to the market and next years IT budget is broadly defined as a portion of the previous year's profits.

Everything is planned & tracked as a portion of an arbitrary 12-month time frame & the internal politics means each department are competing for funds on a "use-it-or-lose-it" basis. If you've never sat in on department/geography/company-wide governance forums where they agree next year's "change management" budget, the basic format is you present a business case & cost forecast based on FTEs over the expected duration of the project, all the mandatory regulatory compliance projects get approved automatically and the remainder of the budget is set based on how well each middle-manager can defend the interest of their department. They have a final number for total approved spend & approve as many projects as they who's forecast cost fits into that, Tetris-style, with a flat 20% contingency spread across everything to account for the fact that historically, trying to plan in this way is so inaccurate that it's basically a series of pseudo-random guesses. It's worth noting that even stuff badged as "Agile" is funded & budgeted for in this way.

Every programme I've been involved with has had some variation on "we can't start work on X in that month, because it won't finish until February and will cannibalise part of my budget for next year".

Unfortunately, given the economic & political status quo this problem is impossible to solve (but for the libertarians reading this, an interesting example of the 'higher order' unintended consequences of sincerely designed industry regulation.
Using the collapse of an Italian bridge as an example of the kind of disasters that happened in the past is somewhat unfortunate, although the author couldn't have known.
> Standardized testing leads to teaching to the test, and the tests need to be easily gradable, so we teach kids how to take tests that represents content in a mannor that is a mile wide but an inch deep.

Not true, the test could be arranged in other ways depending on the goals. I've taken one standardized suite of test, after 12 years of schooling, and the questions were quite deep enough.

The limited number of questions you can cram into six hours per subject meant that the math test could contain only one task in statistics, one in geometry, and so on; with luck you could do well while lacking in some areas. That would be a gamble though.
I don't understand this spray and pray approach to business - I'm not businessman so I may be talking out my ass - but I would have thought business is like a long term relationship. May as well have a spreadsheet of 50 failed marriages. If you aren't in it for the long haul what are you doing?
This is true. I'm a Ph.d. statistician with a "data scientist" job position in San Francisco.
After ITS was resurrected and running Ken Harrenstien's PDP-10 emulator, I wrote a version of Life in MIDAS for it: http://www.fmjlang.co.uk/its/life.txt
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99% of nuclear waste, and basically all the long-term stuff, is transuranics. Those are fuel, for fast reactors like this one. Consequently they produce 1% as much waste as conventional reactors, and it goes back to the radioactivity of uranium ore in about 300 years.

Another consequence is that these reactors can use most of our existing stockpile of nuclear waste as fuel. It's the only technology that can actually reduce our waste stockpile instead of just storing it somewhere.

Storage for 300 years is generally considered a solved problem. I think the basic idea is to encase the waste in blocks of glass and bury them somewhere.
> Amazon affiliate sites

I think this is a completely different mindset compared to engineers/"nerds", that's why most of us work for others instead of starting our own businesses.
Raising cows is easy: put them in the grain elevator.
I always put on my seatbelt when driving. YOLO!
It really isn't. There's the weird link thing and the random space at the right you can scroll of the page.
Or rationalizing their decisions to their bosses or their bosses’ bosses.
First at all, a huge background on maths and statistics. Then, select a programming language and become as good as posible. I recommend you to choose python because it has a lot of libraries of data science (I recommend you to learn numpy, pandas, scipy and sklearn). After all, you should consider to put tensorflow in your learning curriculum.
Most philosophers I know are perfectly happy reading books.
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Hans Rosling says no: https://www.amazon.com/Factfulness-Reasons-World-Things-Bett...

But you're in good company thinking that.
Nothing would stop everyone from defaulting. There would just be less student loans to default on in the first place. If defaulting was an option, student loans would either not exists or nearly not exist. If student loans didn't exist, colleges would have to drop their cost or not be able to fill seats. If colleges drop their cost, students don't need loans. The cycle ends.
Few of our pathologies can be solved piecemeal.

Consensus would be nice in a less polarized, partisan context.

The primary driver for our partisanship is our winner-takes-all form of elections. Switching to approval voting for executive (one position) races and proportional representation of assemblies (house, councils) would dramatically reduce partisanship. Which would maybe then enable more consensus driven governance.

One can hope.
They are more akin to projects than businesses. The majority of the businesses could be categorized as small web apps and Amazon affiliates. Most appear like he didn't find a problem to solve, but tried to create a solution. There also doesn't appear to be much thought given to market size for each product.
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Don't forget David Donoho. His paper "50 years of data science" provides a great historical context of data science and a vision of what "Greater Data Science" should be.

https://courses.csail.mit.edu/18.337/2015/docs/50YearsDataSc...
The DMSR was a pivot to avoid the U233 problem but it worked by adding U238 to the mix, which inevitably produces plutonium when irradiated. So it was trying to balance low-quality fissile uranium with low-quantity plutonium. A difficult balance. Still it's too bad the program didn't continue, they were doing great work.
Just in case this is useful to anyone else. I had no idea that there was such a thing as "barber college" where the expected cost of the programme was $42k (including living expenses) but https://larrysbarbercollege.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/C... there you go. And it's noticable how heavily they push federal financial aid for students https://larrysbarbercollege.com/financial-aid/
>ungodly amounts of content...1000s of Gigabytes

You mean a Terabyte?
Either you're still on dial-up and that number actually seems big to you or you're either purposefully making it sound bigger than it reall is.
I have a solution for Apple: that surely no one has thought of: spin off the Mac into it's own company. They can keep their shareholders happy with wonderful sales of the iPhone, and the pro users who rely on these computers will have access to real pro gear.
The only waste from molten salt fast reactors is fission products, i.e. atoms that already fissioned. Encase them in glass and they'll be back to the radioactivity of uranium ore in 300 years.

We could use these reactors to eat the nuclear waste we have right now.
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Then, why they don't create a laptop for pros, little thicker, more battery, better thermals and maybe some more RAM.
The flip side to notice is not notice, but severance pay. Who cares if you're not required to go into work every day but the paycheck keeps rolling in?
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Kudos on the transparency.

Where did you find your buyers?
That made me laugh. And I was just looking for my 10mm in the garage. I found a 9mm, a 11mm, a 12mm, a 13mm, but no 10mm. I think someone borrowed it.
Lol Elm devs are often bragging about their huge line counts. Meanwhile I rewrote an Elm project in Clojurescript and it removed 75% the line count. Large line count is such a strange metric.
Dunno why you were downvoted. This is a legitimate position, even if you might disagree.
Check out the reality shows. May not be accurate representation of humans or worse maybe it is.
I agree, they hinted at a "modular Mac pro coming in 2019" and what's more modular than a little macmini with an external GPU, external storage, and lots of USB-c ports.
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Kind of weird that they used a novelty fake newspaper front page to illustrate this. The Scottish Scribe is a book of mocked-up newspaper front pages attempting to show how a modern tabloid might have dealt with historic events.
What he called "business" others (myself included) would call "side projects" until one of such projects would evolve into "business".

You have to start somewhere and try things out to find a business bringing revenue. And yes, it is "spray and pray" in essence. And I see nothing wrong with it. (probably because I tried to launch a similar number if not more of such "businesses"/projects and continue doing so)
Sometimes it fractionates me, how we manage to move from 1 to 1000x the computation power and yet Nuclear technologies seems to move at a very very slow pace.

I would also like to know why no one invest in Nuclear Fusion?
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i was about to ask that
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> it took decades to shave everything that can be shaved off the construction of gen 3 plus reactors to arrive at their current designs

One of the game changers are new superconductors. These are smaller, lighter and cheaper than anything we've had before. They're a very recent product of American and European colliders. Their use is common across many compact designs.

> Anything that will be employed in a design claiming bigger efficiencies has to be using less than a bare minimum used by them

Not necessarily. For example, a low-efficiency design that is simple to mass manufacture could be cheaper to build and operate than an expensive, efficient design.

Furthermore, for each element you list as being necessary there are designs which do without them. For example, Tri-Alpha uses direct energy capture (no steam power plant). Several companies eschew refueling in favor of capsulation. Large-scale forging is an odd thing to list when we're talking about minitiarrisation. Et cetera.

A small amount of research would show many arguments you present as established fact to be untrue or unfounded.
“Working hard will not guarantee that you will be successful, but I guarantee you, that all successful people worked hard.”

- Coach Kamogawa thru George Morikawa
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> It is a funny situation, Apple wants most of the people to move to iPad, and leave the Mac for pro uses. That is a perfectly fine strategy excepts its execution has been rather poor by Apple's standard.

I agree with you on this, but not on the rest of your analysis.

> The iPad aren't anywhere near ready for business uses.

Didn't you just say that it was the mac that was for pro users? Business users are the largest professional segment, by far.

I think this is where most pundits mess up. A pro computer is not a rendering farm or a rack for software compilation. And rarely do you need to run several virtual machines locally in order to code in an IDE.

A pro use case is someone who works on a machine all day. Compared to an "amateur" machine, it has to stand up to more wear and tear and it can afford to be "nicer" to use, because it is cheap compared to the monthly wages of the professional user. Business class doesn't fly faster, it is just "nicer" to sit in.

Apple's pro features have traditionally been heavily skewed towards usability. 10 years ago, "pro" was aluminium body and backlit keyboard. But now that these features are common-place they are struggling to differentiate their pro line-up.

But with that being said, I think Apple could use a little bit of Ballmers "developers, developers, developers", as they don't offer anything for larger businesses to use for rendering and compiling. Instead we have large app developers cutting screens off MacBooks and racking them ...
It seems to me he is persevering, at starting new businesses.
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By this I mean somebody who checks that the systems of their organisation are compliant with the applicable RFCs, ICANN specs, etc.
> This is a legitimate position, even if you might disagree.

The downvotes are because in 2018, people believe the only legitimate positions are ones in which they agree. The others must become greytext, since they might convince other people.
semi-OT: curious why you submitted the medium post instead of the version on your website?
This is not about beauty. It is about reliability, simplicity and safety, all of which contribute to development velocity.

Golang is simple only for toy examples.

At scale Golang codebases are difficult to navigate, understand and test due to the repetitive repetition of repetitious repeats.

And the idea that at-the-time-viable alternative languages like Java, C++ or D are too slow for something as relatively lightly trafficked as the core Kubernetes controller codebase is just plain silly.
Agner is a legend. I had the mildly hilarious experience of, during our acquisition by Intel, seeing that one of Intel's most talented network engineers (the sadly departed Venky Venkatesan) was using Agner's material as his reference rather than some super-secret awesome Intel docs.

His work is an even-handed and well-presented coverage of modern architecture. I'm perennially amazed by the way that people will regularly spout off about what might or might not be expensive or cheap on modern IA when you could just go look it up in Agner's work.
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Hadley Whickam also stressed the importance of readability and reproducibility of code vs software like Excel.
A sequence of manipulations and button presses doesn't leave a clear history for others in your team to understand or quickly test and reproduce your work to validate, or apply to be data sets.

For work to be "science", it really ought to be transparent and reproducible within your community (eg, team within your firm).
> Everyone has a natural level of happiness that is extremely difficult to change permanently.

I see this is true in today's world, but I don't think there's any evidence that this is a permanent state of affairs. I have a hope that there is a recipe for a permanent human elevation of mood that we just haven't unlocked yet.
Wow. Fuck you, tbh. Just fuck right off.