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Since there seems to be some activity around this comment and I can no longer edit the parent comment, let me add a few more thoughts here.

Diverse hiring (as in equal outcome hiring) does not materially benefit companies.

I was on, or closely worked with teams that built early versions of modern virtual memory, Excel, Turbo Pascal, WebTV, and IIS, and they were largely white men, with a sprinkling of Asian men. Would these products be better engineering marvels with more racial and gender representation? Possibly, but not because of the existence of “women algorithms” or “black design patterns”. Human brains work similarly given similar inputs. There is some revenue to be regained in designing for edge case blind spots, but it is an overwhelming small fraction when you are working at the bleeding edge of an industry. You did not see these initiatives in tech at the time for the same reason you don’t see them in the space travel industry, or anti-aging research, or on the teams working on a COVID-19 vaccine (how ridiculous would that sound?). The industry was not mature enough, as it is now, for such overhead (distractions, to be less polite). There was important work to be done, and we didn’t care who you were as long as you could help. These were some of the most open, progressive, intelligent and honest teams I got to work with.

Then why is it important? Because diverse hiring (as in equal-opportunity hiring) is __the right thing to do__. Talent can come from South America or South Chicago just as easily as Bangalore or Austin, TX. The next Donald Knuth or Jeffrey Dean should not be denied an opportunity because of their skin color or gender if they shone through. And in those teams, several of them shone through and we scrambled to bring them aboard.

What is happening now is analogous to dredging the river bed, incurring the costs of that (which is possible because the industry is massively profitable and mature, with very little paradigm-shifting work left at these companies) to find what might be remotely shiny. We can then report our “progress” and pat ourselves on the back. Except, this breeds resentment from the rocks and diamonds not getting dredged, the aforementioned Peter Principle issue, and as I’ve observed, the general unease. You will not find a team at a company like Etsy that is as accepting and open as the teams I mentioned, because the sacred thing that pulls together smart people - the “bar” for lack of better term - may have been compromised in bringing in the latest new hire. If there is a shadow of doubt about that, even if this person truly is a diamond, they are done a disservice because of this dynamic at play. It is unfair, and in the long term, actually hurts these UR communities in this industry.
Meditate. When I started I was surprised to discover "slower" thoughts that took time to arise, but were of higher quality. The noisy, fast, surface thoughts are often more conventional - echos of what I've been told. Silence is part of creativity.
My thoughts went to SaaS startups in particular when reading the essay - most are highly conventional and seem largely a result of VC-like market analysis and application of a well-honed SaaS playbook, not some place where unconventional and novel thinking is deployed and benign ignorance of a market is desirable. The only surprise as an outsider is really the size some markets turn out to be, not the decision to go into the market nor the solution settled upon.

This suggests to me many/most are started by people looking for a relatively conventional experience, just with a bit more appetite for risk. None of the attributes for these positions are required in much greater degree than elsewhere in tech - curiosity, resistance to being told what to think, or fastidiousness to truth. Perhaps it's a testament to YC's success that the choice to found a startup is more accessible to 'conventional thinkers' these days. No value judgment - we should let a thousand flowers bloom! - but the conflation of startups to the above attributes of 'independent thinkers' is perhaps overblown.
Love the oatmeal smoothie base — my wife and I do something similar but substitute strawberry or blueberry for the honey.

The only issue with it as a cream substitute for me is that it’s heavy sugar. After not sweetening coffee, I find the cream complements the coffee flavor. Like all things, ymmv :)
Loved this read. Looks like most hate towards the message of the article comes from the conventional-minded ;-)
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It depends who they are not conforming to. Enron.
Can't tell if I'm looking at eccentric humour mixed into a legitimate concept, an elaborate prank, or a high-brow version of the Time Cube.

What's k? What's -npat/2?? "es is a parameter of the representation", ok, but what is it?
I don't understand why you need to measure anything but instantaneous crank torque, speed, and (for completeness) pitch angle. Integrating power in vs acceleration out, the difference is loss. What am I missing? Does bad posture waste energy before it reaches the crank?
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A fantastic debate between Christopher and his brother Peter in which Christopher defended the Iraq war showed me just how much of an "independent thinker" Christopher really was (i.e. Not as much as you'd think). Being a militant atheist is hardly enough to be considered independent or contrarian in today's world.
> Both of these can be found in normal first aid kits

Neither are found in a normal first aid kit.

> I would bet that you can legally use it at home

No, suturing is a surgical procedure.

> this work was probably done by a nurse with a 2 year degree

I'm not a medic, but from what I can gather online, suturing is considered an advanced specialised skill for nurses.

> If the kid were at summer camp, they would have probably had the staff nurse do it.

I doubt it, even with a qualified nurse on site. No summer camp wants a reputation for being reluctant to take injured children to the emergency room, neither do they want liability.

> Emergency rooms are both overkill for this

Does any first-world country agree with you on this? As far as I'm aware suturing is always treated this way, it's not just for-profit medicine and artificial gatekeeping.

> We are all talking as if the hospitals performed a dangerous complex procedure and saved the kids life

It's routine emergency medicine. Nothing more, nothing less.

> If so, then isn’t 19,000 a small price to pay?

No, it's absurdly inflated.

> If not (and it’s a simple task as I believe) then why did they charge so much?

Because they could. There's a deep power imbalance at play. You can't go price-shopping when your child needs emergency treatment. You might know going in that medical expenses are the top cause of personal bankruptcies in the USA, but you can't haggle. You won't even know what you owe until after the fact.

Brits like myself are generally horrified at the way American medicine is run. This kind of thing simply doesn't happen in the UK. (That's not to say our healthcare system is perfect, of course.)
I don't know, but I rather hear sporting/fitness advice from someone that won NBA finals, or the soccer World Cup, then just some random loser. The winner at least can tell you how they did succeed personally, even if they have no comprehensive studies with data.

On the other hand, you are just a random guy from the internet, and offering advice with no data at all.

You might be broke and posting from your mom's basement, or from the top of a penthouse that you bought from building successful companies/startups.

We don't know, so your advice will be treated like: just another opinion, from a internet rando/keyboard warrior, and everyone has opinions.

I listen to PG as he has been more right then wrong, also he was very successful, multiple times, and is single handedly a major contributer to many products I use.
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There is a popular opinion that having a certificate doesn't necessarily means that you have knowledge. And that certainly doesn't mean that all certified people don't have knowledge. That also doesn't mean that there aren't any reputable certifications. But there are many bad certification programs.

Nobody is against training and that's why companies still encourage juniors to take training and even some certifications. But some certifications aren't really designed to be a good training. Just go on internet and see how people are seeking for tips and tricks to handle the exam itself and also check study materials and you will understand where that opinion is coming from.
1 million percent!

Which makes me wonder, why do we all rely on status pages rather than solve the problem ourselves in ways that don't require us to rely on the vendor?
You are basically dismissing my firsthand experience. Maybe that's not your intent, but you start off It seems really unlikely that vacuuming is worse for your health than not vacuuming.

I'm telling you from firsthand experience that I don't have a lot of dust and my health is better these days and I don't own a vacuum. I'm not asking you to give up your vacuum.

If you want citations supporting the idea that vacuums can spread germs and particulates, here's one:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3811220/

If you want to continue to imply that I'm wrong to choose to live without a vacuum cleaner, I'm done. That's out of bounds for debate. It's a personal choice.
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Tree based history is available already. I haven’t built Roam integration yet. I do plan to do that.
But Roquefort cheese is the combination of specific bacteria and production conditions. If I have the same ingredients and the same production technique and conditions, then the only difference is that one was made in a specific location, and one was not. So what if mine tastes slightly different? No cheeses produced in the same region and in the same way taste exactly the same.

As for your "another blue cheese" comment - if someone makes a blue cheese using different bacteria, techniques or conditions then it isn't a roquefort so shouldn't be able to be labeled as such. But that difference is due to the place of origin - if I made a generic cows milk blue cheese in the south of france I could claim it's a roquefort just because of the origin.
No. I never said anything about Spain and southern europe.

Overall unemployment isn't worse historically. Not sure why you cherry-pick youth as if it invalidates the overall stat somehow. But even that stat isn't worse historically.
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That's just survivor bias.
Don't start your IT/tech career with AWS certification first.

- Instead, learn some scripting (bash, python). You will need to constantly work on improving this.

- Learn how to set up a Linux server and get a website going, from scratch. Even if you won't do it much in real life, it's helpful to know how it's done.

- Get at least AWS Associate cert.

- Find an employer/manager who will let you work with AWS in lab/production in real life.
Absolutely. Look at their CEO statements. They seem to hire very anti-establishment, anti-pc (in their view). It’s easy for a culture to then not hire people who don’t fit that mold.
Considering how horrifically broken hCaptcha is, slapping your hand on the keyboard would have an equivalent solve rate. I've had hCaptchas where one of the images was virtually identical to the example and it still didn't count as one.
An interesting point Burke repeatedly made is that the connections were made by people wanting to make money. Gutenberg invented the printing press to make money, the Wrights invented the airplane to make money, Enbrel (first effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis) was invented to make money.

Free markets for the win!
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Maybe the quote I used was too long. I'll shorten it to just the part that shows it's more than a single case, and add caps to emphasize it was more than ONE exception.

>>"so I guess these guys have just NEVER hung out with ANY athletes?" Turns out it ISN'T THAT ABNORMAL FOR THEM to like cool and nerdy stuff.
In a world where we can do virtually anything we want with technology, why do we rely on vendors updating their own individual status pages?
Many successful people overrate their personal characteristics and underrate the degree to which they were merely in the right place at the right time and such. Fortune favors the prepared, of course, but I personally believe there are far more people in the world who are adequately prepared for success who do not succeed because they are under-resourced or poorly connected.
Yes, that is a risk, but ...

1) the amount of valuable resources sitting above ground is now immense. What's currently missing is a good way to "harvest" them. Necessity being the mother of invention ...

2) Problems with "sufficient remaining resources" are only really relevant if population levels do not decline dramatically. It seems likely to me the civilizational collapse in our era would also be accompanied by substantial population declines, some through the death of the living, some through reduced life expectancy of newly born people, some through reduced birth rates.

3) In the long run, it doesn't matter if individuals lose knowledge, only if the knowledge becomes lost to all and needs to be discovered anew (from the world, rather than from some sort of cultural artifact).
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For what its worth, in 07 I had Andy Rachleff as an instructor and we did a case study on Webvan, and Andy's conclusion was that if he had to do it over he'd still invest in Webvan because the business was sound, it was just a bit too early.

There's certainly at least as many opinions about business as there are people working in the private sector, and most are probably wrong, but the fundamental workings of business aren't entirely a random number generator. You can use tools of business to determine the viability of a particular approach, at which point you're left with figuring out the timing and execution of that idea.

Still, not as solid by any means as science.
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Well, there's also something similar, but related, that I've found.

Namely, the amount of understanding and effort needed to solve my problem correctly and safely...is frequently less than the amount of understanding and effort needed to use some opinionated library or framework.

Not always; there are plenty of times a library or framework is a better choice. But what tilts the scale in that direction is making them very simple, with minimal assumptions, minimal state, and simple APIs into them, because that can keep it simpler than writing myself.
Strongly agree with your sentiment. The number of jobs that require "expertise in AWS/expertise in Google Cloud/etc" is laughable. It's like every company is creating its own vocabulary for things network engineers have had terms for years.

This serves as an artificial barrier to hiring. I've done years of network engineering but then it comes down to "how many years of experience in AWS."

EDIT: Note that this isn't a new thing, e.g. we're looking for an "Oracle engineer"/"vmware specialist"/etc.
Even excluding things like insulin levels, I think the main advantage of artificial sweeteners is that they reduce the amount of tooth cavities, because the bacteria in the mouth feed on sugar, but don't feed on sweeteners.
Yes. I think it was a genius move. I'm subscribed to their channel and it is always at the top of my subscription list as being live. Having the video constantly feeding in fan submissions was also smart.
And as a non-American, I neither know nor care what American parking meters look like in the first place. They're training their model on my model of their model
> M1 has instruction-level x86 emulation

Source?
Just went back to double check the article and am actually not certain how you are getting to the number 75%. 11 employees cited a complaint to HR according to the article. Where are you getting the denominator for total number of black employees in 2019?

There's a data mismatch between the CB blog post and the article. CB cites that only 2-3 formal complaints were filed iirc.

11 employee complaints matches pretty closely with the PDX group.

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FWIW I'm not dismissing the complaints. I've worked and studied in places where I've felt like an outsider; I've seen people make inappropriate comments about race+stereotypes in past work environments; I've also seen people make fishing claims of racial discrimination.

I wasn't on those teams in 2019, so the truth is I simply don't know.

From what I see today and the lack of concrete evidence in the article, I do have some doubts about the overall impression the article tries to give. I have the sense that certain information might have been omitted that might paint a clearer picture. I could totally be wrong as well.
right but im sure whatever purpose it's using it for is going to be used against the commoners at some level -- weather it be to sell a new service at a higher price point, help further their monopoly, or to better create dark patterns (against us).

they have no "benefit of the doubt" -- it's pretty blatantly clear they are not on "our" side.
Why do you think you missed it?
I would start taking an online class about it, or find a book to read. And create a routine, some scheduled time during the week when I work on it. Because I'm not going to figure out big things like that by just mulling them over in my head. Somebody else spent a lifetime doing that to contribute to a chapter in a textbook that we have now. If I tried to spend all my time on that I would be lucky to reach some of the same conclusions, when I could just read about them and start there.
It's fine to listen to him. And your logic is sound. And I am in my parent's basement. My post was firstly a question and secondly an opinion on this type of content. So, it's good to know you appreciate it and might be at a different place in your evolution in content consumption. We are all different and get benefits from different things. Just wanted to know where others stood.
You are all individuals
Every time a new pg essay comes out, comments appear saying how much he and his essays have changed (for the worse, of course). I think this perception has the nicely ironic property that it exists because it's false.

pg hasn't changed. He can't; he's too weird (nonconformist, if you prefer). Traits at that level just are.

What's changed is his status. Becoming rich and famous changes how people perceive you. What sounds scrappy and original coming from an underdog sounds inflated and self-congratulatory coming from a fatcat. It's because he hasn't changed—in particular, to accommodate the expectations people have once they classify you as a fatcat—that people complain that he changed.

Even more ironically, this 'change' is the invariant: pg never accommodated the expectations people had. His essays pissed people off 10 years ago, 15 years ago, coming up on 20 years ago. While the surface reasons have changed, the feelings are so similar that the deep structure of the off-pissage is surely the same.
> Network neutrality, most commonly called net neutrality, is the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all Internet communications equally, and not discriminate or charge differently based on user, content, website, platform, application, type of equipment, source address, destination address, or method of communication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
People who coast might. People who are vying for a promotion or good rating absolutely work much harder than that. Google keeps a high bar for talent, and such talent isn't the kind that is satisfied with chilling at work. Google is notorious for making it hard to get a promotion - you wouldn't hear that complaint from coasters :) Painting all Googlers in the same brush is one of the following:
1) Ignorant and immature, if coming from a place of ignorance
2) Malicious if intended to show big companies in a bad light to attract ambitious young people
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>If you care about being less wrong tomorrow than you are today, you have to take this extreme attitude towards criticism. It will show in your writings and in the way you express your ideas. If you want to be perceived as smart and right, you will articulate your ideas in a moderate way so that others agree with it. (This is one of the main problems I have with contemporary intellectuals who always seem to take the middle ground.) If you are searching for truth, you will articulate the most extreme and radical consequences of your ideas, precisely because others will disagree with them and tell you where your ideas are wrong.

I wish it were like this. In reality, your ideas will just be ignored or dismissed as kooky and stupid, if they are too extreme. Newspapers and intellectual publications use nuance because that is what is needed to build credibility. Appealing to extremes may work for fiction but will not work if you're trying to persuade a skeptical reader about something that is factual in nature. It is not that people cannot handle the truth, but if you make extreme opinions and conjectures, your burden of proof just becomes that much bigger. If the goal is to persuade, the last thing you want to do is give the reader a reason to dismiss you outright.
what kind? im sure you're not talking about onlyfans, but are you referring to the comments sections of paid magazine subscriptions?
Taxis aren't all yellow in the US, either? We have orange and green ones in the Seattle area, not including lyft/uber private vehicles. Those CAPTCHA vehicles are recognizably taxis because of the sign on the top / writing on the side; not the color.
Here’s the catcher though: these people never personally sacrifice themselves, and a good number of them are quite biased themselves.
Honestly, even if it’s just a few otherwise-sane people who literally died of COVID while simultaneously denying the disease's existence, that is astonishing in and of itself.
I don't see that here. I see someone trying to figure out things that interest him. As for unconventional ideas and observations, here's one:

Political extremists [...] think themselves nonconformists, but actually they're niche conformists. Their opinions may be different from the average person's, but they are often more influenced by their peers' opinions than the average person's are.

The material of that bit may not be unusual, but its precision and density certainly are, and the fact that it coins a great name for the phenomenon (niche conformism) easily clears the bar for "unconventional idea/observation" in my book. Also, there's nothing formula-for-successy there. You might be missing the best reasons for reading these things?
How does deepnote compare to https://cocalc.com/ ?
I think ThrowawayR2's comment really makes yours seem a bit ridiculous
Just for scale, Americans receive about 620 mrem per year, mostly from radon in the air.

https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/radiation/around-us/doses-dail...
Perhaps, I think they just haven't had the years on their cars to have that sort of reliability. They're definitely overvalued, but they're overvalued because of investor madness that isn't going away soon.
What are the returns and how many years?
Only if you're in a hurry.
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