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Interesting, I thought he had moved on to doing a masters or PhD.

Well then, I take back some of my hypothesis.
I don't give a fuck about GDP. We should be guided by quality of life.
I am most familiar with the situation in Israel with respect to layoffs; not paying severance in Israel is criminal whether or not the company folds (with officers actually indicted), and it’s 1-month per year of employment, with social security underwriting this payment.

As a result of this strict lawful requirement, there’s an industry of regulated escrow middlemen who collect 8.33% of monthly salary from employer on behalf of severance. If employee is terminated for cause, employer may get it back. In all other cases (including going bust), it goes to the employee.
> According to the homepage you should install now and it's already used in production by major companies!

> > they need to encourage users to build things

Is obvious from feedback on this article that this is alpha quality software. Feel free to be a guinea pig but I'd be very worried if I had any Elm code in production (unless you are no red ink and can hire the language author)
Learn how to export a database to CSV, then learn excel inside and out, it’s scratching the surface but a good start.
Money is just another tool, we need to know how to use it as well.
Do you mean eating out as a vegetarian is a nightmare?

I'm pescatarian myself, and when I visited I found my options were more limited. But I'm not sure if it's because of a higher than US meat % or perhaps I think it might have been more due language barrier + culture of eating meal as prepared (no asking for no-meat).
I've seen this happen where a mature business starts to functionally decomposes their business down to what they do and how they deliver. They then go out and buy products that do those things and link them in a chain with a DB. But each one of those is short about 10-20% in all the used to haves and nice to haves.

So what then dawns on the business is they realize that the missing 10-20% was part of the business that was really important and they have dropped serious money on a bunch of products. And really all they needed to do was better understand themselves and build their own business infrastructure.

But what you are saying about speed definitely rings true. But it's important to note IT failures that happen to new businesses are more or less written off as total business failures Usually resulting in the business going to the wall.
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This is most definitely the case, but the question is if it's really unhappiness then? The paradoxical nature of humans is such that extreme trauma, like car accidents, change lives for the better. "I stopped taking life for granted," this kind of thinking is fairly widespread among accident survivors. Maybe it is a coping mechanism, maybe it isn't -- but the people involved clearly do believe it.
> The thing is, the "regulatory revolving door", where ex-regulators are appointed to private industry

The usual term for that is “Regulatory capture”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Radioactivity is invisible, and not detectable short of a Geiger counter. It doesn't even hurt at a dose that would eventually kill people. Also, depending on the radiation, radioactivity can make other materials dangerous.

And yes, the fuel they are talking about is a lot more radioactive than a banana or whatever.

I just worry that somebody with ill will or even just bad luck will defeat security measures "en detail", if the material is moving around in smaller parcels. Also, more people "legitimately" possessing a reactor and radioactive material will hardly decrease the risk of intentional abuse.
I've never heard of them, got curious and found this: https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/i-tried-eating-at-jap...
So the recap of this is: Break up, Quit your job, Move to another country, Start a business, Don't propose, Don't have kids.

Seems to me like almost of the opposite of what everyone around the world is doing.
I read the premise of the article to be that people who aren't successful a) aren't taking enough risks, and b) aren't working hard enough. This is wrong in at least two ways and denigrates people who a) can't, and b) are. I'm restating my original point but please correct me if I'm wrong. I find that kind of reasoning to be utterly disgusting, ignorant and self-serving. That was my issue with the article.
I assume they are not fueling nuclear plants with bananas and granite.
>It's what separates Emperor Norton from a random homeless guy.

This, I think, is the key to the whole thing, and the disconnect between you and many of the others here.

I mean, yes, if you are the sort of person who values appearances, then yes, status is very important. that's kind of the point.

If you are the sort of person who doesn't value appearances over abilities, the story of emperor Norton is just the story of people making fun of a mentally ill homeless guy.

Of course, most of us in real life are between those two extremes; but I'm more in the latter camp than the former, and it sounds like you are probably more in the former than the latter. It's two different ways of looking at the world and two different ways of choosing leaders.
Thanks for the article. It is well written.

You promise some directions for fruitful research. It is a bit light on that. Maybe it's nice to expand on that topic a bit more.
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1 - Kaggle is a teaching tool to help amateurs work with real data and real problems. Chasing metrics is what data scientists do all day long, it’s a good resource.
Maybe not everyone, but most of the time the reason you quit is because of a new job. In all honesty the smart practice is to search for a new job immediately after you get one and keep updating your backlog of potential jobs (you don't have to apply, just keep them in mind)
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I'm not in the US, but whatever happened to student activism, protests and so on? There's no way they're going to rollover and say sure, don't worry about it, same with health care, working conditions and everything else that seems to be on here regularly.

You guys invented the protest movement, seems like some marches on DC would get these things fixed, complaining on Internet forums doesn't really make a difference.
I don't think I was arguing from a position of any kind of agreement with US foreign policy.
Great for China! The point is that the OP used the all-too-common, purposefully-vague "lobbyist" argument into his rant, as if a profession (rather than the oil and gas companies for whom they work) is responsible for all the global warming problems in the world.

Further, the OP obscures the simple fact that even with large shifts in power production over the next few decades, China is, and will remain, the largest coal consumer in the world by far. And yet his suggestion is to cut off the USA, not China, from all global trading.
And yet almost everyone around the world is depressed, unfulfilled, poor, and making too many babies.
Who's to say you're deluding yourself into thinking you're in a comfortable job? Maybe it's actually boring and soul-crushing in ten years.

Not only are people terrible at judging the outcome of our long-term plans, we're also terrible at judging relative happiness over long periods of time.
The big difference between leaving a relationship and leaving a job is that even if you're in a good place, a job will never last for life. Some relationships will.

Anecdotally, I don't know a single person that has regretted leaving a job when they decided to (disclaimer: most people I know work skilled jobs). Even when people come back to the same company, it's usually on a different team and with a 30% bump in salary. So I generally agree, once you're thinking about it, it's probably time to go, you'll only end up better off.

Relationships are a lot more nuanced, hence the lesser benefit the article reports versus leaving jobs. I'd want to see it broken down by relationship length, age, happiness level and other factors before making any serious decisions based on this article.
If you want an average outcome, follow the average path.
Having kids or getting married or staying in the same place all their life does not make people any happier. God knows I've seen plenty of people who were bitter about any combination of those choices.

If you want to actually live your life as a conscious being, stop looking at what other people are doing and decide what you want. It's scary and it's not for everyone.
So you try to minimize your partner's advantage‽ Sort of a worrying strategy there. :-)
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Yeah, this bit for example:

> The algorithm was also constantly changing. The data inputs were flowing into the algorithm in real time, but the actual weights, measures and trade-offs that the algorithm made weren’t static either. Some of the functions that the researcher had woven in used machine learning – techniques where the machine constantly learned and adapted to what the most important patterns, correlations and relationships were. It meant that the algorithm was constantly changing and moving as the world moved around it, and its diet of data changed to reflect that.

shows the reporter having only a superficial acquaintance, but wanting to sound authoritative, and engenders considerable distrust on my part.

For a much much more credible and vastly more entertaining take on the issue of opaque processes empowered with scary real world decision making abilities, see James Mickens' recent talk[1] on why we should be deeply worried by this, enough to update our traditional computer security model (discussed here[2] also.)

1: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentat...

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17785162
Being a good politician I think has two meanings which kind of drives this divide in opinion:
1) being good at getting elected
2) being good at getting things done

It really does take experience, connections, networks, and skill to accomplish things in legislatures. Same with getting elected.

The problem is in order to become #2, you have to become #1.

Unless we as voters become far more informed and drastically change the way we evaluate candidates I don't think we'll get #2 skillsets from politicians who also don't have the qualities many term limit advocates despise.
Allow me to correct your misunderstanding.

My premise is that there are way too many people who haven't built successful software companies because they a) never even tried.

And, that the reason many of them never tried is because of rationalizations that the "successful" people must have had some special quality that they themselves could never possess, and that therefore it would be pointless to try at all.

Which is a shame.
This applies to basically everything on the internet now, not only starting a company or something similar.

What everyone seems to forget is the truth that a successful person is one who failed a lot and just tried one more time. For example - Dr Seuss was rejected by 100 publishers before he found one that said yes.

What's the important part of that story? He kept trying.

I feel certain if he posted on the internet today (especially HN) "Hey everyone, I followed my dreams and got my quirky children's books published" with the advice of following your dreams, there would be a hundred comments saying "blah, blah, advising others to follow their dreams is all about Confirmation Bias."

"Confirmation Bias" is just a convenient excuse the internet has when what they really mean to say is "What you're proposing is not without it's risks, and I'm too scared to take that risk."
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I don't know if it's always laziness or time constraints which stop people from condensing their thoughts more. Fluffy articles remind me of when I wrote essays in school: I made them as long as possible because I thought longer = more important, even if the information density reduced as a result. Fluffy articles often remind me of that mindset, except there are no marks for effort on the internet, only originality.
Without humanities you just presume you are. We see in discussion people talk about social and political issues without any context of history, as if our lives and societies just are, without any context of the processes and how things came to be.

Look at the perspectives and quality of discussion on the other. These are complex human societies with a rich history and context for their current reality just like any other country or region. And without a study of history, philosophy, sociology, a lot of the humanizing factors and a huge chunk of human societies and their evolution gets lost.

Things like the the change from feudalism to capitalism, the experiments with communism all have massive historical context and without at least a slight familiarity with that context its nearly impossible to have informed discussion.
> France with nuclear remains the first world country with the cheapest, …

France had a nationalized electricity grid when it build its nuclear fleet. So, the demand side was nationalized (EDF), and they made sure to nationalize the supply side of nuclear as well (Areva).

This was probably the main reason why Nuclear is cheap in France: They standardized the design on the supply side (only two designs in 30 years) and they could deploy top-down without having to pay anyone to shut down the pre-existing plants (since they already owned them).

In a free market setting, nuclear is not going to be cheap.
How about a tool that extracts text from youtube-dl downloaded videos? And when you click on a line of text, the tool will read the fragment out loud (useful when the transcription is not clear) using the original audio. And it could show the corresponding video (useful when the presenter is using overhead sheets). You could click a button to make a snapshot of the sheet which is then inserted into the transcript, so the next reader wouldn't have to do this.
Without giving any spoilers, unfortunately, as the book (Homo Deus) progresses, there's more and more speculation.

He also wrote a third book, that will come out in a week, with a heavily click-bait title :-( 21 Lessons for the 21st Century—I just can't stomach the lacklustre title, and probably just stay away from it, as I'd assume it'll be a "thin wrapper" around his two other books.

Sapiens was the book I enjoyed 3 years ago, before it became popular. Reading that single book gives insight into his fresh and original perspectives.
Maybe the author should write a follow-up article in a few years after a hotshot VC-backed startup or a large corporation starts competing with his product and destroys his company.

If I was the author and I didn't have personal connections to tech elites, I would try to sell my business ASAP.
Paradoxically though, not having those elite connections does make it harder to get your startup acquired.
Their vision of freedom and independence is not freedom or independence

"Urban" aka liberal culture openly advocates surrendering all liberties for security and safety. Surrendering all libertarians to achieve "social justice". etc

From free speech, to the ability to engage is commerce the "urban" culture believes everything should be regulated, controlled, and approved by a central authority

>>Eventually, some group of people will decide to take up armed insurrection,

Unlikely, the most likely scenario is that the "urban" culture will attempt to use people with guns they employ to violently seize the guns from people they do not employ.
Cool idea! I see the iOS keyboard already do this to an extent. I often type words in my native language in English. I see that over time it learns these and predicts a bit better when I need to type it again. Of course, if it collected a larger corpus from many such users, allowing us to tag this as, say a corpus of Kannada words, I can see a cool application of this kind of learning
These seem to measure project popularity more than anything else. Of big projects. Of which you can choose among several similar ones.

The success of a OSS project lies in the hands of the user. There are projects done by a single developer over a decade, with zero contributors and with rare commits (or god forbid -- no repository!). In a niche which is too technical for a casual contributor, yet it does exactly what you need.

This is still 100% success to me, and represents what OSS is all about.

Big OSS projects backed by companies are a different breed of commercial endeavor.
Fun aside: Given the relation between temperature and density (i.e. hot gas is less dense than cold gas and compressing gases heats them up), it takes a large disturbance to coax interstellar gases to get dense enough to cause the cascading accumulation that becomes a star.

Metals play a critical role in this process [1]. By radiating away heat, they form the cool nuggets around which stellar material can accumulate. More metal in a gas cloud means faster star formation. That, by reducing the accumulation period before fusion blows away un-captured mass, produces smaller stars.

But what about before there were metals? The first generation of stars. Our models imply, without any metals to catalyse formation, the stars would have collapsed extraordinarily slowly. Fusion would have started very late, which means lots of material would have had a chance to fall into the neighborhood. The result? Truly massive short-lived stars, unlike anything our metallic universe could produce.

Also, yes, terrible headline.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0006082
>> why can't data science simply be about applying the scientific method in the realm of data analysis?
>That's what a statistician do.

Mmmh.

Run that experiment for me next time you meet a statistician:

- ask him if he can apply Chi-squared to a decision problem

- ask him if he can *explain* how and why Chi-squared works.

In my experience, all statisticians can do the first, almost none can do the second.

Learning how to use a screwdriver to screw screws without understanding notions of torque and moment doesn't mean you're applying the scientific method.
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All the more for machine learning to crunch texts and provide a succinct summary for the reader.
Many IT projects are failing because their budgets and deadlines are deliberately set too optimistically.

The reason for this comes from too sides: on the one hand, there is the client (either internal or external) who wants to have as many features for as little money as possible and who is many times not very good at judging if their demands are realistic.
On the other hand there is the IT organization which has an incentive to comply with unrealistic targets.

If it is an external client, this unrealistic promise is the advantage over the competition that might get them the project.
But I also see this happen regularly with internal projects where there is no competition between implementors. In that case the motivation is usually that IT management wants to have the consent of higher management to get this project started; they know that once a project has been going for a year or so, it won't be terminated if it's over budget or past deadlines. At the same time, if they would have tried to give realistic estimates too higher management the project might never have been approved.
F# has a type provider system that can facilitate creation of such tools. And of course, it also has strong interoperability with C#.
There are two types of Republicans. There are the standard pro military, pro business, pro sensible immigration, pro trade conservatives. Those are the type that usual rise to prominence nationally.

But then you have the Southern Republicans who use to be Democrats before the Civil Rights Era in the 60s - the Confederate Flag waving, “Moral Majority”, hate immigrants, anti-trade populists, who see the world changing and “ruining American culture”.

But when I look at the Republican Party today, I don’t recognize it. How did they get overtaken by The far right? If they had focused more on rural America instead of big business would that have helped?

Yes my view of the Republican Party has always been viewed through the lense of keeping southern republicans out of power - no matter if the Republican Party had some ideas I agreed with.

Democrats on the other hand are just weak and don’t have the courage of their convictions. They could easily have brought the middle class and rural America and minorities together. Except for the South, until the demographics change, there was no way a Black man was ever going to win the southern states.
> The material they used in the original Molten Salt Experiment was great at resistance but re-qualifying this (or anything) to modern standards is incredibly difficult.

Care to elaborate? Looks like a very interesting problem.
From my point of view the biggest gift if your life if you want to make a business is not money, it is not connections, it is just mindset, and the emotional training of your parents.

The most successful people I know in business have no formal education, no career. My super smart friends with PhDs and advanced degrees can't touch a business with a 100 meters stick. They work in places like Academia, constantly talking bad about it.

They will be paralyzed at taking risks, handling this much responsibility over other people. The constant fight, people looking at you for guidance and having to decide with incomplete information,people not paying you, your salaries, your taxes... The anxiety they would face is too much for them.

With all the money in the world, with all the connections it takes an entire emotional reprogramming of your mind to be able to handle this.

I regularly see people with 100.000, 200.000 euros in the bank telling me they can't create the business they always dreamed about, if only they had enough money...the reality is that they are in doubt, insecure about risking their own money but somewhat they expect someone else to risk their own money trusting them when they can't even trust themselves.
Super fascinating. It seems like there's hardly any need for DNA/gene hacking when we can probably do most of it from tinkering with epigenetics.
> What everyone seems to forget is the truth that a successful person is one who failed a lot and just tried one more time

Consider, too, measuring every person based on their deviance from the norm. (For sake of argument, imagine a one-dimensional measure.) By definition, these would be the only people capable of shifting the norm. Ex ante it is impossible–based purely on consensus seeking–to discern the mad from the brilliant.
Survivorship bias is more apt here.
Oh, we have learned all those things as developers. It just seems that none of the decision makers have gotten any hint.

I’m honestly not sure why that is. I’m hesitant to only ascribe it to incompetence, because not everyone can be, but maybe we only hear about the failed project with bad decisions.
Construction projects are the same. It seems like every week I read about another construction project that’s far beyond its initial estimate. The difference is that a half-finished construction project is a gaping wound in the landscape, but a half-finished software project is just some code hidden in a corporate server. The incentive to finish construction projects is greater.
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