skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think this is a case where people confuse correlation and causation. Hard work correlates with success, but it doesn't cause success.

Not true, hard work is a cause of success, just not the only cause. Luck (opportunity) is a factor, but a much more unreliable one at that. Genetics is also a factor (intelligence, passion, curiosity, playfulness).

I like to see this problem from the point of view of Reinforcement Learning - an agent playing a game in an environment, having to maximise rewards - which is the definition of success. The degree of success depends on many things, including:

- the environment (how complex it is, how many potential rewards it has for the agent)

- the internal structure of the agent (its ability to learn and perceive)

- bodily affordances (what the body can do)

- the exploration/exploitation strategy (will it try something new when it already has a strategy that is sort of ok)

- the amount of time it has to learn (life experience)

- if the agent exists as part of a multi-agent environment, then the strategies of the other agents count (cooperation/betrayal, tit for tat, forgiveness).

So there are many causes of success.
Maybe the big bang did produce a black hole, and we're living inside it?

Back in my undergrad physics days, I postulated that our "universe" could be a big black hole inside some "extraverse". I worked through classical gravitational calculations to determine, from an estimate of the mass density of the universe, what the Schwarzschild radius (aka event horizon radius) of that black hole would be, and it came out to between 5 and 40 billion light years or so (the density of the universe is hotly debated, see other discussion in this thread about dark matter), which is at least the right order of magnitude.
In my experience, because they don't solve the real, hard problems, slow down work, and make it harder to view a good chunk of code at a time.

Typing is not what makes coding hard, it is coming up with the proper algorithms, data structures, architecture (e.g. coupling), tests, etc.

Typing is faster than dragging icons and filling in properties.

Text is denser, so you can view more of your program at once, and in an expressive language can be quite descriptive.
> It always seemed dumb to me to cool the interior of your refrigerator by dumping heat into your home, which your AC has to then extract and dump outside.

It seems dumb in California, but in my much of the country (and much of the inhabited world, though there's a lot where this isn't true, too), you need heating of living space more than cooling, so pumping heat out of a fridge into the living space is a double win most of the year, and added complexity to avoid it is pure waste.
My ex-wife, for all her faults, that woman could tape and mud where you almost didn’t need to sand it. Sadly,
good drywall skills do not a marriage make.
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Not many that I can think of. Look out for local drug dealers?

Possible he could find a job that includes access to a shower. I know of once case where that has occurred. It was a job in a warehouse and there were showers and change rooms he could use. I believe he was actually provided with an unused room tucked away somewhere where could stay overnight before someone higher up in the company found out about it and put an end to that arrangement.

"Perpetually drunk" is more difficult and likely a deal breaker.
There's also a large segment of the world in which people don't have time for hobbies because they are hustling to survive. As education, medical, housing, etc explode in costs while wages stagnate, we have to work harder just to get by.

There are also a lot of angles the author might be missing by condensing a long article into small blog post. In the case of the jogger posting to social media and training for marathons, is this person picking up a hobby or is this person joining a tribe? If the social experience is greater than the activity, then this example makes sense. It might even be better for people who need the social experience more than they need the hobby.

I stopped reading at that point. Maybe I missed something later in the article which addresses the above points.
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They also won government contracts by not doing it; the High Assurance Platform mode (‘setting the HAP bit’) was a feature implemented by Intel for the NSA, incidentally discovered by security researchers.

Dell sold laptops with this as an option until they were asked not to.

It would be pretty easy for a sizable country or even a wealthy US state to demand that these ‘secure’ co-processors can be disabled at the user’s discretion, via regulation.

From the NSA’s perspective, having the keys to the backdoor is an asset, but having a backdoor at all is a huge liability, now they’re not the only game in town. US businesses and citizens simply have more to lose.

Honestly, I think it’s laziness and inertia more than conspiracy.
Amazingly dark and atmospheric series about the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, really worth watching:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2708480/
Ignoring everything else it does seem like he needs therapy of some kind, not for mental health reasons, but for learning to better control his impulsiveness.

As to any of his other behaviors: ehn. I don’t have enough money to be effected by his antics :D
Scholars gulled academic journals to publish hoax papers on ‘grievance studies.’
Yep, can attest to this. One of the reasons why senior people are extremely productive & valuable is that they seem to know the landscape more than others, and therefore know who to talk to & where to look.

Half-jokingly, as soon as an "individual contributor" knows enough to be productive, they're promoted to management.
Bye Elon
My undergraduate advisor had a small hole in his retina due to a high-power laser. The injury would have been far worse if it weren't a visible laser, since his blink reflex greatly reduced the damage.
There is no common symbol system that would facilitate tooling, interchange formats, common idioms and other ways of exploiting network effects. So the text based world has built a far away lead in inertia and value from network effects over the last 70 years or so.
Add in the tendency to consolidate and standardize technologies as the company grows for maintainability just means even little changes quickly ripple through the system.

It's like microservices, but with systems of people and businesses.
The headline made me immediately think of the “orchestrated litany of lies” that came from the mt Erebus disaster
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"First you need to understand that the Big Bang was not an explosion of matter into space, it was an explosion of matter and space (technically space-time)."

This is a type of statement I have read many, many times, but to me, it's the same as saying "wakalixes!". I've never read anything that gave me a hint of why and how there should be a difference between two objects receding from each other and "space itself" expanding.
This matches a description I was able to find online. What that seems to imply though is that expansion was literally faster than light. Yes? No?

[edit] and it seems this is true and can be explained by the space-time matrix not being bound by light speed limits.
What's in that license agreement.. blood?
this is an incredibly interesting case. Highly recommend anyone involved with public data to watch this video.

Note: Mods - I submitted this late at night, but if you could bump this to front page tomorrow, I'm sure it would be very useful watch for many startup founders/employees :)
I bought a Brooks saddle, and now I can go 50-70 miles comfortably without the padded shorts!
Where's his dedicated young second? Kimbal?
This is related to Taleb's observation that employment is a kind of "slavery". What he means by this is that you effectively have sold your option to own those to outsized returns in exchange for a regular paycheck.
Risk-aversion, cost of relatively small changes can look large, and the tendency to "design by committee". You can send an email out to some colleagues throughout other units of the business and get inundated with reasons why it won't work, and edge-cases you need to handle, whereas if you'd just implemented it, they'd likely work-around or improve their processes and everyone would have been better off.
> Doesn't automation eliminate the need for negotiating with a union?

Not if the union literally forbids you from introducing automation in the first place. This is how the Transit Workers Union prevents the MTA from using technology that's been standard across the industry for decades.

An alternate strategy is to require the employer to pay the union when new technology is introduced. This drives up the cost of technology to the point where it costs more money than simply hiring the manual labor, thereby preserving the union jobs (at the cost of the taxpayers, in the case of the MTA).
I wouldn't assume the F-16s have Von Neumann.
https://thewest.com.au/news/world/fake-academic-scandal-adol...

> A trio of concerned academics has published seven intentionally absurd papers in leading scholarly journals, making bizarre recommendations including chaining up children and keeping men on leashes.

> The trio say the papers, which used fabricated authors and credentials, are an attempt to expose political bias in fields that study race, gender and sexuality, which they see as being misled by biased research and poor methodology.

https://quillette.com/2018/10/01/the-grievance-studies-scand...

> For the past year scholars James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian have sent fake papers to various academic journals which they describe as specialising in activism or “grievance studies.” Their stated mission has been to expose how easy it is to get “absurdities and morally fashionable political ideas published as legitimate academic research.” To date, their project has been successful
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I think it helps in such cases to remember that just being in such a position puts you in the top and being mediocre across very talented peers is an achievement. It always helped me when moving up ranks in activities, when I hit my ceiling.
That's... not what slavery is. That analogy is extremely poor compared to using securities derivatives, which is a field Taleb is familiar with.

Edit: also, is this feature of salaried employment so misunderstood as to require an analogy? You get paid a fixed amount, or with specified bonus structure. It's literally the number one fact people know about their employment contracts.
There are major challenges/issues with Big Bang theory. The easiest issue to see and understand is temperature in the CMB appears to indicate “communication”... basic descriptions of the problem here
https://youtu.be/dbm3M9Bz4RE

No one really knows anything about the universe before 10^-42 seconds, and there is no physics to describe what likely happened. Photons/light and matter as we known it didn’t exist and wouldn’t for another 400,000 years.

There are many very deep issues that are explained pretty well here
https://youtu.be/JDmKLXVFJzk
It’s pretty heady so be ready
> What that seems to imply though is that expansion was literally faster than light. Yes? No?

No. No particle of matter outruns a light ray at the same location and moving in the same direction. Or, to put it another way, all pieces of matter are moving within the light cones at their spacetime locations. "Moving within the light cones" is the correct General Relativity version of "nothing goes faster than light".

The coordinate speed of pieces of matter can be greater than c, but in a curved spacetime that, in itself, is not a problem.
> They had passed on Thursday’s generous offer, and the S.E.C. felt compelled to extract greater concessions. The ban on Mr. Musk’s serving as chairman went from two years to three, and his fine doubled to $20 million. Tesla will also pay a $20 million fine, and Mr. Musk agreed to personally buy the same amount in Tesla stock.

The extra year of not being chairman seems immaterial if threatening to quit got the board to shoot themselves in the foot, so he basically paid ~$10 million to loudly proclaim his innocence for 48 hours?
Thanks for the well founded argument.

I'm still worried about the TLS implementation. I think in your [6] phk considered just incremental improvements, not switching away from C - after all the whole post is about not wanting to implement TLS at all in his own C codebase, having anticipated problems like Heartbleed. (Also at the time of writing, 2015 the Go TLS stack might have been too new to rely on?)
From your point of view, if so-called black holes are "fuzzballs"[1] is that a vindication or a refutation of the existence of black holes? Without a deep understanding of physics, I have the general attitude that infinities must be a mathematical error, and therefore something must stop black holes from collapsing totally, but whether they "exist" is only a matter of definitions.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzball_(string_theory)
>There used to be an addon called "Remove it permanently",

isn't that just adding it as a ABP/ublock filter?
Elon probably screwed himself here. The 'fight it', 'ok, settle', 'nevermind' will not play well on Wall Street. He had a much better chance either fighting it or settling but now he looks unstable. My guess is we'll be looking at a Tesla without Musk soon, unfortunately.
Concision.
Media plays such a huge part in this. How often do we see young people saving the world versus old people? I like the Marvel movies because the protagonists are mostly reasonably aged.

I try to remind myself at times that Gaston Glock didn't design his first gun until age 52.
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Said by the head of the Royal Commission of Inquiry (Justice Peter Mahon), about the cover-up attempted by the airline involved in TE901. Totally where I went too.
Ok so this comment weirdly oscillates. I’m really interested in just how many votes it’s received now.

Anyway I agree with the many people who have said variations on “slippery slope”, only i think it’s more of a cliff.

But I also think that we do need to develop some system for managing defendants who directly attack the legal system and the people involved. Clearly the current approach has a weakness when dealing with people like el chapo.
This is a important point to make. I’ve asked myself, “Even if you never achieved another PR again, or even raced again, would you still run?” The answer is “Yes.”

I’m lucky enough to have this happen to me in a couple other disciplines so I came into it with more perspective.

LetsRun also has thr NCAA Division I focus, and that is a pressure cooker environment I was never a part of, and I think shapes a certain worldview there.
Lots of outside work, depending on locale. Lawn mowing (depending on the type of alcoholic. Best not to contribute to lost fingers or toes), ditch digging, etc.

Dumpster diving (if it's still worth while, which it might not be).[1] If you're serious about it, it's not really any less of a job than those American Pickers guys.[2]

There's lots of jobs out there, especially if you widen your criteria for "job".

1: I had an interesting run-in with a homeless man at a taco truck almost two decades ago. He was in clean clothes, had a bike with a trailer, and was trying to sell a 49ers jacket. My friends and I started talking to him and he explained that he found a few of the jackets in a dumpster behind one of the big sports stores around, and had a few other things to sell too. He explained that he and a few friends actually had a fairly nice camp (carpeted areas, make-shift shower with water in the day through solar of some sort, DVD player with TV hooked up to solar trickle cell). He camped a little outside the stalled development of a local apartment complex, where they had an agreement with the developers that they could stay there and they would keep people from squatting in the partially completed complex so it didn't sustain damage. He said he was on disability from the military, and liked living outdoors, but would probably rent an apartment for the winter with his girlfriend and friend. Honestly, I left the interaction feeling a little envious of his freedom.

2: https://www.history.com/shows/american-pickers
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This is an improvement but it still seems like HAProxy is offloading a small (but annoying) amount of responsibility to users when handling restart requests. You still have to track the existing process' PID and give it to the new process, give the new process the same "-x [socket_file]" argument, and make sure the new process comes up before making any subsequent changes to the HAProxy config file.

Does HAProxy have any plans to wrap this process juggling to make things as stupidly easy as nginx's reload behavior?
The people automating their jobs are automating themself out of the job,but freelancers are just simplifying their job.
The difference is freelancers aren't obligated to reveal the magic of their work. They just "do it".
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I assume it’s a very NZer centric response? Much like our knowledge of French terrorism, Pitcairn island, and the appropriate number of sheep per person :)
These articles about Elon are interesting to me because Tesla could not have become such a valuable car company in such a short time if it wasn't for Elon, and that includes his personality.

Yet, many couch investors would prefer to have a CEO who is stable, boring and predictable. People want to put their money in for steady long-term returns, and not worry. Tesla is doing wild things which are causing crazy growth, but also crazy panic.

It seems the market really wants Tesla to slow down so they can sell more stock to an average risk-averse consumer, but Elon wants to keep running light-speed, regardless of the short-term worry that it might create. Neither is wrong, they just have different priorities.
> Is this him resigning in the same way Yukio Mishima committed suicide?

This seems like an obscure reference (I am not Japanese). Care to explain?
I did parse it as top 10% among people interested in a topic or activity.
I don't know why the author recommended a book on Haskell, ruby, php, and python/django but did not recommend a single book on ux/ui. I would rather he included a couple books on ux/ui like "Dont' make me think" by Steve Krug .
WRT the half-joke, this is one of those truisms that probably has a lot of basis in reality, but there needs to be a corollary about the choice of the individual as well.

I was heavily invested in our public facing technical side, working a lot with our on-boarding, teaching newbies to be really self-sufficient, working through the technical issues with our clients directly, and then I was asked to take on a Management position.

I liked the pay raise, but I made it clear exactly what I wanted from the position, and though we butt heads on it still, my boss respects the fact that I still am heavily invested with our technical team while doing the Managerial work. We had to revisit the job definition a few times to find a description that matched what I was (am) doing and also made HR happy, but we did it.

The point is that in some cases at least, a promotion to management doesn't have to be a death knell for "individual contributors". It depends on the company's willingness to accommodate the wants of the individual, and the individual's own desire to continue contributing. I know too many people who did get the Management golden ticket and relished it for just being an excuse to boss people around and make more dashboards in our CRM.
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I think you should hire more passionate farm workers.
I find your examples as arbitrary. Just look at the results. If labor rights were increasing they'd be able to pull more compensation due to a better negotiating position, but real wages are falling. Look at the right to work movement and at will employment.

Hell, I gave less than two weeks notice at my last job and was privately approaches by multiple coworkers asking me if I was worried about the company black listing me. When we have companies lay off/fire people though, no one bats an eye at them being immediately walked out the door. Stating that labor rights have been going up just seems willfully ignorant based on the actual results in the economy
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukio_Mishima:

In 1970, [Mishima] and three other members of his militia staged an attempted coup d'état when they seized control of a Japanese military base and took the commander hostage, then tried and failed to inspire a coup to restore the Emperor's pre-war powers, in accordance with Mishima's conceptualization of the Kokutai. Mishima then committed ritual suicide by seppuku. The coup attempt became known as the "Mishima Incident".
That sounds more like an option pair for an equity. Both your upside and downside are limited and you get a steady income stream. Slavery is very different.
No, under the settlement he gets to claim perpetual innocence (ie. no intention of doing $420 on purpose). For him 10m is spare change, so long as it means he gets to maintain integrity.

Also, as reported in another article, this non-admission of guilt makes it much harder for the DOJ to go after him with a criminal case.
From my repeated personal experience, hiring decent programmers and teaching them Scala is not hard.
I assume the “Common Sense” title at the top of the page is NYT-speak for ”Editorial”.
Tyk and Kong are similar in terms of what they do, though with a Tyk we bake a lot of key functionality into the core instead of asking the community to build them for us.

We also don’t have the concept of proprietary plugins, so where Kong is “Open Core” (for example if you want to use openID connect you need to buy enterprise, with us it’s just par for the course), we bake everything gateway-related into the open source version and don’t hide the ball. Our “value add” is in our dashboard GUI (proprietary) and multi-cloud/multi-DC server (also proprietary).

Also, in Tyk you can model your api routing as a file, with Kong you need to specify all routes as API calls to the gateway, so backing up/version controlling your APIs is difficult without using a community-provided solution. (Though don’t get me wrong, both Tyk Gateway and Dashboard are entirely API driven, so you can do everything programmatically or declaratively).

Lastly - we have a compatability promise of “no breaking changes within major versions”. It’s harder to do, but makes our users happy :-)

Ah, and in terms of extensibility, we provide middleware and event hooks that can be hooked into with any gRPC compatible language and offer native binary (FFI) Support in Python and Lua, we also have a baked in ECMAScript interpreter which is fast (it’s written in Go), but being an interpreter doesn’t have the expressiveness of some of the other extension options)

In terms of other implementations, in open source there’s not many thst have quite the breadth of functionality we offer.

To be fair though, the other solutions out there (especially coming out of the Go/K8s/CNCF communities are very impressive.
That is nihilism approach. there is always , I don't want to push my agenda, karma.
Very much so. I expect people from elsewhere haven't even heard of it, whereas for us it's the deadliest disaster in history!
I imagine that a successful implementation of this will eventually become a feature of the web, agnostic to any one company, and interoperable across the current cloud services as well as the emergent Web3.0 protocols and federated social networks. Solid, Keybase, Blockstack, Civic, uPort, Sovrn and many others are doing their part to get us there. I've found a great deal of insight via https://www.weboftrust.info