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Rereading my post, I can't find any sort of argument for either changing the system, keeping things as-is, or advocating for any sort of specific change.

Simply pattern-matching what people say to ideology is what leads to nothing getting done.

I'm not sure I have an opinion on what ought to be done. I do have an opinion that we should keep things fact-based. Licensing requirements protect entrenched interests. Is that a good thing? A bad thing? If there are problems, how should they be fixed?

Please try to discuss based on facts (or even your own opinions) rather than pattern-matching to an ideology you disagree with, and asking everyone to discount based on that.

All I did was point out a faulty argument. I didn't take a stance.
Well, it is problem, because the assumption is that you're measuring a proxy for g that supposedly doesn't change. So if it can change, by something as simple as learning some boolean algebra, the IQ test isn't measuring what it is assumed to be measuring.

That being said, you're right that it would still be useful for measuring problem solving potential, but that's explicitly not what IQ tests are supposed to measure.
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Perhaps, but I'd still consider them better than white sugar.
It appears to be difficult to isolate the people who give a shit from the people who are good at pretending to give a shit these days.
Deaths from Covid 19 aren't a big deal because we're all isolating ourselves and wearing masks so we don't spread it.

If we didn't take proactive measures, deaths from Covid 19 would be a huge deal.
> While everyone has been cursed by COVID, Amazon has done well but not because of its own merits. It’s done well because of the unprecedented state interventions to protect local health

Can someone explain how amazon did well because of state intervention in local health? I don’t see the connection.
Wait, so does that mean it's relatively cheap to rent or buy in Japan? I know Japan is not a cheap country, but I was wondering relative to other Western countries.

I might want to research if I'd want to live in Japan for a couple of years then, and simply become a remote worker.
Every time I see a bizarre mathematical output I am reminded that IEEE 754 is gross as hell.

I just use bigints wherever it's possible to transform the algorithm to work with bigints, and I "render to decimal" in views
Literally dogs and horses? With the level of craziness under discussion here I can't quite tell.
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Oh my, what drivel. Another startup CEO who thinks late-stage employees with essentially zero upside in the company need to put in founder hours.
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The second half of this should be: "...and help them to keep giving a shit."

I've seen too many times to count management completely squashing out any passion that employees might have for the company or product. The most common ways I think are micromanaging and soliciting feedback / ideas then completely ignoring it. Both will immediately have your employees checking out and saying to themselves "fine, I'll show up, do what I'm told, then clock out at 5."
Well, PG very probably is an independent thinker. I enjoy his examinations what makes people like him different from other people, and while this essay may sound like a rehash of his other essays, it isn't. It was genuinely surprising to me (and also obvious in hindsight) that people separate into independently-minded and conventionally-minded and that this determines what work they should be looking for. I mean, this is advice that is about as actionable as advice will ever get. Beware that there are strong forces that will tempt you to act against this advice, and make you doubt yourself.
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> How many hours were you working a week?

There you have it. Come on, by now we all know what this “caring” or “giving a shit” stuff is about. Just say you want people to work hard, long hours. Just say that.
To put it in context, this is a Canadian magazine, and here in Canada the housing market is just absolutely insanely irrational. There has been no downwards housing price "correction" since the early 90s. The 2008 bubble-pop never happened here. Interest rates remain at record lows and the COVID-19 crisis seems to have led to massive _increase_ in housing prices rather than a decrease. It's a huge distorted market with real estate, construction, and renovations etc. being the largest part of our Ontario provincial economy with primary industry, etc. declining every year. It all feels just insane.

My little hobby farm has probably "doubled" in the 8.5 years I've owned it, but I don't feel great about it -- where will my kids live? Where will I retire to? When will this all blow up in our faces? My 70 year old father in law would love to retire, and sell his place and somehow reduce his costs and move closer to us... but my area has become completely unaffordable as Toronto money is suddenly blowing up the market out here with bidding wars and no-conditions offers and the like, stuff we never saw before.

So yeah in that context I can't even imagine being working class and trying to make a go of it. It was bad before, but it is only getting worse. Rents are absolutely mental even in outlying areas that should be cheap.

And most importantly given that these outlying areas around Toronto (Hamilton, Oshawa, London, Cambridge, Woodstock etc.) are often where the few remaining manufacturing sector jobs are, what happens to the manufacturing sector when their employees can no longer afford housing near the factory?
Local retail is closed/reduced so people need to shop online.
The main implementors of Racket and Chez Scheme (Matthew Flatt and Kent Dybvig) were part of the committee that created the R6RS, and many of the ideas in R6RS came from Racket and Chez. Whether R6RS was "widely rejected" is of course up for debate, but the people that didn't like it decided that mostly after Matthew and Kent's contributions.

https://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/ is an ok comparison between Scheme implementations; you can see that Chez is much faster than Chicken in general. Chez also already supports many features beyond Chicken that were needed to implement Racket (for example, internal support that made delimited continuations easy).

It's hard to know exactly how many people use what, but it seems likely that Racket is the most widely used Scheme derivative.
Thank you, Dang! I didn't know about you until I read this thread. Is it really just _one_ moderator on HN? I imagine it's more than a full-time job to manage that...
Agreed on europe.

In fact my 1980-2020 pendulum analogy doesn't work for (eg) Germany or France like it does for the UK or US. In a lot of western europe, there wasn't the same sharp de-unionisation. So, unions exist and their role is well understood. They more or less form for a regulatory body for labour by sector. It's stable. I doubt amazon themselves are concerned about these. Not much uncertainty here.

Interestingly enough, shop-level organization at amazon scale gets somewhat similar to sector-wide unions.

In any case, unionization laws aren't deterministic.
For those railing against this essay, who feel that PG is fluffing himself up and patting himself on the back like a nerdy middleschooler -- you've missed the big point, badly. PG writes unapologetically, directly, and simply, and this may pattern match to a naive middleschooler, but you are letting your base instincts cover up the fact that PG is wise, has earned his stripes, and is sharing his wisdom, unapologetically, directly, and simply.

He knows exactly the kind of backlash he will receive and is prompting you for it intentionally. He's not writing for you or to you, and he cares not a whit what you think.

He's writing to and for people like him, trying to help them put words and clear thought to vague understandings and apprehensions they've been wrestling with.

He's not self-aggrandizing but student-aggrandizing, as the headmaster of a school of thought that he values deeply. If you hate the headmaster or his style or the school of thought, that's wonderful, but it's not at all relevant to his aims. I hope this sheds some light on the bigger picture for those unaware.
>I am not sure why some people think there is a Hydrogen conspiracy that is attempting to sabotage electric energy, the issue is with batteries and storage.

You need to be on guard and skeptical about anyone critical of renewables, because there's been a coordinated and large-scale campaign by oil companies to push climate denialism and to pour FUD on any alternatives. And after 50 years, we're both out of time for the slow-and-steady approach and we also have technology that has major real-world adoption.

Good-faith actors are hurt by this, but there's no real alternative short of A) letting corporate campaigns control the agenda, or B) fixing our political system so corporate money isn't so effective at influencing politics. It's an unhappy situation with no easy solutions.
> Unions are effectively dead right now in 2020

The rampant corruption in American unions contributed to this.

Here’s the most recent instance:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/busi...
TL;DR -- people won't give a shit about your company, but they might give a shit about you.

Step 1. Create jobs that enable people to have a quality life.

Step 2. Ensure people feel like they're building a career they can take beyond your company.

Step 3. Give them reasons to stay, so they feel like working for you is the best option available to them.
> But the act of asking the question makes the person, who may not have put too much original thinking in; quite defensive.

Honestly, this is a good thing. Don't talk to these people. Over time I've found friends that I can discuss rationally with about many of their disparate experiences, them being from various races, genders, nationalities, and other such factors.
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don't really know.
Next tweet has who did what: https://mobile.twitter.com/iyoiyostudio/status/1330960748458...

It is a studio run by Kyle McDonald that "offers creative and tech consulting, with a focus on ML, comp. vision and 'weird' tech" per https://mobile.twitter.com/kcimc/status/1124195544945926149
It could be a buzzword but I think it'd be fair to assume that different covers of the same song are slightly out of sync at different points. So the algorithm (AI or not) would look for signature beats in the original and match them with beats in a close range in the other songs.
There is couple of reasons for this.

If you choose Java for your project it usually means you don't care a lot about latency and performance (you care some, but not all that much compared to, for example, linux kernel development). You care more about managing larger codebase, having easy access to whole lot of frameworks and libraries, good development tools and easy development / deployment process.

Developers who have experience with Java are inevitably people who have mostly had experience with those kinds of projects of which I would say most are corporate backend systems or Android applications. It really is difficult to find any other projects.

On the other C is inflicted pain of having much harder development environment for the size of the project. You only use low level language like C when you have a specific need. Maybe you need to develop Set Top Box software, or video codec, or some device controller, or high performance quant library, that kind of stuff.

So it isn't really fault of Java developers to not know the stuff. It is natural result of Java being suited to a different type of projects than C is.
Thanks for clarification :) It indeed sounded strange in the article
Yikes. I would never work for that person after reading that article.

“I started a company and I’m totally wild about it. It is my life. If it is not your life too then you don’t belong here.”

Founders are supposed to be obsessed with their company. (Though I question that too.) But demanding everyone else at the company be just as obsessed is doomed to hire children and sycophants and drive off professionals who have seen this movie before.
And companies who dare asking your consent to collect, retain, and share (with 3rd parties they like) everything about you from your teams chat to gene data.
>Bryan Caplan in his book The Case Against Education suggests that employers value college degrees partly as a signal of conformism, and that that's the reason college is so hard to replace.

I dunno how true this is. I think it is more because it signals above average IQ although I think conformity may play a role too.
Pay people enough so they give a shit
Here you go! He posted this a few days ago on reddit. Custom 3d printed case, PCB, and Code. He leverages Home Assistant :)

https://smartsolutions4home.com/ss4h-sd-smart-doorbell/
Can I ask how you came to this conclusion because I always thought the current belief was these sugars may be a lot worse for people after all. From my understanding the debate was still on going; can I ask why you would prefer sweeteners over white sugar?

Edit: I love how you can’t ask a genuine health question here without being down voted. The sugar industry has spent decades brainwashing people and using fake science to push sugar. Even recently I thought there were a lot of concerns over sweeteners hence why I asked the question hoping to gain some insight as why that is not the case. I have always thought sweeteners were worse in many ways but I don’t have any thing backing that up. I was genuinely asking because I am now wondering if I have it wrong about sweeteners. Thank you to those who added some insight.
Do you understand the difference between fact an opinion?

You can't call a lie an opinion.

This is nothing new: People used to argue that the earth was flat, then they argued that the sun orbited the earth. You can't let people get away with contradicting established fact just because it's an "opinion."
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It's specific unions, not broken down exactly by country. https://makeamazonpay.com/
Lockdowns, for example.

Intervention--> more online shopping.
It would be racist and anti-Afro to suggest that either you are a bot or a scammer for failing all your captchas. Also it would be offensive and inappropriate. And it would be outside the scope of this topic, and it would be a decidedly ad hominem comment when you should be celebrated for standing up to such narrowly contrived captchas.

As an aside, how do you like American security questions? "What was the make and model of the car in which you had your first kiss?"
I don't see anything surprising.
"is" has higher prevalenz than "in" and that's it. Or am I misreading something?
1. The big performance issues early on were compilation speed -- Racket had a simple JIT compiler that ran almost instantly.

2. Some rewritten parts of the system, such as IO, were initially slower, but have now been improved to catch up to the previous implementation.

3. Chez Scheme didn't support some performance features that Racket BC had, such as unboxed floating point arithmetic, parallel GC, or continuation marks. Those have been added to (Racket's variant of) Chez Scheme.

4. Racket's prior compiler was somewhat more competitive with Chez Scheme than we expected, particularly for larger and more Racket-idiomatic programs.
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You also, as I recall, had a fair bit of location shooting including places like Navy ships that probably took some producer a bunch of time to arrange. The technical barriers are certainly much much lower--younger interested in film me would have killed for an iPhone much less even a $500-ish videocam--but it still takes a lot of work to film a professional looking documentary.
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> PG sure has been on a kick about how brilliant of an independent thinker he is in a sea of conformity.

If your first reaction reading this essay is "PG is trying to big himself up as an independent thinker", that tells me more about your attitude and mental state than about PG.

Forgive the cliche, but "great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people" is a decent heuristic, with good reason. Once you start seeing attempts to communicate as status contests automatically, you're not in a useful frame of mind for rational discourse any more.
/sarcasm on

Does that work if the candidate is obsessed not by something but by someone?
I described my approach to large new projects here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24896237

For more free thinking the best thing is to keep it in the back of your mind and stay close to a notebook at all times. With several similar ideas they will cross-pollinate and put you in a mindset to explore them further.
>down-featuring new users

What is this?
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And the inverse: have a business which is worthy of shit-giving.

It’s extremely hard to give a shit about Yet Another Middleware CRUD CRM Layer Corp.

There’s a fine balancing point between working a bullshit job (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs) and recognizing that no, the B-Ark (https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_... ) is a bad idea, we really do need telephone handset sanitizers.

Don’t fall for the trap that says that only the sexiest sounding jobs are OK—for one, what that means varies by the talents and interests and skills of the workforce. For another, it’s going to bias you towards treating, e.g., janitors as subhuman, and that way is the path to a very bad place.

What makes work satisfying is, to a large but not total extent, a function of the mutual respect the employer and employee have for the humanity of the employee. Some jobs are just bullshit. Some aren’t. All jobs have a certain amount of toil.

You’ll get people who give a shit about the work when your work isn’t bullshit, and about the job when the culture at work respects them.
Not sure if this study will replicate:

The study had about 30 participants, with 15 in each arm, so that's not a lot of statistical power to begin with.

Both the low-glucose-label and high-glucose-label arms showed a spike in actual measured blood sugar after ingestion. The difference in blood glucose between the two arms was just about 10%.

The naïve p-value between the two arms was barely significant at 2%, 6%, and 2%, but the p-values were taken from a complex model that probably has p-hacking problems and needs p-value correction.

I would wait for the replication study before believing in this effect. If the effect is real, they only need to double their sample size to get a t-stat of 3 instead of 2, which would give a much more convincing p-value of 0.2% instead of the 2-6% right now.

I applaud the authors for exploring this theory though, and encourage replications to push the p-value down.
“Giving a shit” seems to be entirely focused on whether they are putting in hours. I notice that nowhere in the 6 questions is there anything that would assess what was achieved.

So if I went to Scale, sat around for 12 hours and spent 7 on Hacker News, I would achieve as much as the Google employee but somehow be differentiated according to Scale.
Great advice, but I'd add one thing - the company itself, the leadership, etc. also has to give a shit at the same level as its people.

These Googlers that work 11-4 probably either used to give a shit, or still give a shit, but when you care deeply about your work and the company gets in your way or doesn't share your passion, it's an awful and demoralizing place to be.

So quit, you say. But you can't because you give a shit and you really, really want the company to succeed and do great things.
Jason Fung talks about this in his books.

Independent studies find artificial sweeteners raise insulin. Industry studies mysteriously find no link.

Also, injected glucose doesn't raise insulin like swallowing it.

The world is a big weird place.
Governments put also a lot of money in green energy too so it makes sense to for them to put money in more "green" storage.

>Not only is in inefficient, its also inherently expensive and inherently dangerous.

Use best tool for the job. The natural gas I use to heat my home is dangerous too so I had to use approved professionals to install it, and I have to have approved professional come and check my installation every 2 years. When electricity would be better for my job I will use it.

Isn't a failure in logic to believe that batteries will get better and greener over time but for some reason hydrogen related stuff won't get better as well? Maybe chemists will find some efficient way to make a denser liquid fuel if we would invest enough in research.
> Technically, the use case in the network industry should be called an ASSP (Application Specific Standard Product), but network engineers are simple people, so we prefer to call it an ASIC.

Strictly speaking, ASIC only refers to "a custom chip for a specific customer for a narrow application". If the chip is available to the general public, it's not an ASIC but an ASSP. So a Wi-Fi chipset [0], an Ethernet controller or an LCD driver on the public market are all ASSPs, never ASICs. But colloquially speaking, for many people, "ASIC" is a synonym for all custom chips, so almost everything is ASIC, even if the chip is a general-purpose CPU, many will call it "ASIC" if it's someone's original design. Loose term, but it's not really bothering anyone, so this usage remains. Oh, and the word "chipset" has a similar problem. It originally refers to the ASIC/ASSP on the computer motherboard (originally IBM PC's I/O controller, but also graphics and sound), but nowadays it's often used as a synonym of "ASSP", in other words, "highly integrated chip designed for a specific application in mind", hence Wi-Fi chipset, 5G chipset...
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Did you read the article? The point of the study was that covid has had no affect on the overall number of deaths. This is in contrast to most publications which cite at least 250,000 deaths.
the world is not standing still of course they are "creeping towards the left". how could it be otherwise?

correlation that words like toxic masculinity are rising. well, they didn't exist before, did they? we had different problems then. we tackled them, now we're moving the the next ones.
Pretty sure this is at least somewhat related to Carrier-Grade NAT[1]. Influx of connections from a single public IP shared by multiple public users = 'security concern'. Not to forgive the big tech giant of its inflexibility :P

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT
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Do people at google actually work 11-4 like it says in the article?
I have a genuine question and I'm not trying to be snarky -- do people actually think this way in real life, or is it an elaborate social game of pretending to be more "passionate" than the next guy?

Scale seems like a cool company with an interesting product, but let's be honest, rational people here - they aren't curing cancer, creating art, or landing on Normandy Beach. This seems obvious to any self-aware person. So why all the bravado?