skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An article that included statistical data to that point would not have received this criticism.

Instead this article is just the assertions of Charlie Munger.

> E.g if we plot the range of outcomes for two groups of people, one group embracing a victim mentality and the other not, we'd likely see two power-law curves. However, the curve representing those without a victim mentality would generally trend higher, indicating more positive outcomes.

What exactly is this based on? Because it _feels_ right? Because it aligns with your own personal beliefs of what makes someone successful?

The article's framing is very clearly "Successful Man has this advice to be successful" but there's no reason given for why this advice is correct in any meaningful way. So, like I said, it might even be good advice, but it's just an appeal to authority. Successful Man said it, and it sounds like common sense, so it must be true.

For all we know, people that feel victimized by a system might be _more_ likely to want to take action to reform the system. There's no data presented, there's just an anecdote about a time when he faced a hardship and didn't adopt victimhood.

How long could Mr. Munger have kept up this belief system had he not met with success. How important was this mindset when compared to the other incredible benefits he received, here's a leg up he had taken from the very beginning of his Wikipedia article.

> Through the GI Bill Munger took a number of advanced courses through several universities.[6] When he applied to his father's alma mater, Harvard Law School, the dean of admissions rejected him because Munger had not completed an undergraduate degree. However, the dean relented after a call from Roscoe Pound, the former dean of Harvard Law and a Munger family friend.

It is quite easy not to adopt a victim mentality when your family friends can reverse a rejection to Harvard Law.
How does that work? Isn't the second factor normally a text message to your phone?
You can't avoid taxes by not printing something.
How are they allowed to violate the 4th amendment this way?
Remotely related, but that site of Stripe Press is great! Thanks for linking.
TX still pays 2.13/h for wait staff + tips, with a guarantee of bi-weekly guarantee of 7.35/h if tips don't make up for it. 2023 is still the same.
Read above.
That’s why Martin Luther was smart and got the nailing part out of the way at the beginning.
Nobody wants U.S. Treasury bonds
No 99-year-old is "well" in absolute terms. A 99-year-old US man has only about a 66% chance of reaching 100: https://www.finder.com/life-insurance/odds-of-dying. A 95-year-old man has about a 16.5% chance of reaching 100, so he'd already done pretty well.
That post is not very damning for Taibbi nor Mate/Blumenthal, at least not in the eyes of critically thinking readers — “these guys have a show that is broadcast on RT” is not any more of a gotcha than saying the same about Al Jazeera, or the Washington Post for that matter.

From what I’ve seen from Mate and Taibbi, they present evidence to support their claims at a level that merits honest discussion, especially since they represent perspectives that deviate from the powerful who dominate messaging in mainstream media.
again, I never said anything about individuals or politics. You are the one interjecting that.

The situation is pretty simple.
We are talking about a sympathy strike targeted at a company engaged in a labor dispute.

The questions are 1) if government employees can (or should) be allowed to selectively deny government services to a company as a sympathy strike.
2) If not, should employees of a 100% government owned company, which provides a government service, be treated as government employees for the purpose of Question 1.

My position is that the government has a duty to ensure equal accesses to government services and that it's obligations to companies are met.

I think it would undermine equal treatment under the law if the government allowed its agents to selectively refuse government services. For example, if judges refused to hear cases from a specific company as a means of protest. I think there is a colorable argument that Postnord is providing a goverment service, and it is the governments obligation to ensure that Tesla has equal accesses to that service
things like irccloud made this easier for consumers this but it was too late
I wouldn't trust google to point to the blandest of memes let alone a spicy one.
Never understood the point of storing your 2fa where your passwords are.
So now you have two workloads, and they have half a workload, and there are differing standards to which you and they are held?

I admit that I come at this question from a very bitter place. I have been woken up many, many, many times at 3 AM to deal with a problem that someone else caused, out of sheer laziness or incompetence. Those people suffered no consequences. Had I applied the same level of due care to my own duties in fixing the problem, however, the consequences would have been different, and significant. It is difficult, in such circumstances, not to stew over things a bit.
Most people feel entitled to the value of their labor; tipping is merely the incidental mechanism that yields that value.

Put another way: we don't have any reason to believe that the author is abstractly "pro" tipping, only that he (shrewdly, like most people) recognizes tipping as a local optima that he has no real control over as a service worker.
I feel like a focus on minimum wages is misplaced, it's hiding the real problem that is the value of labour has been diluted.

The minimum wage should be set based on determining the rate a sound minded well informed advocate could negotiate for the work. That is preventing exploitation. It should not be used to try to set a living wage, because as we have seen, this just leads to the COL increasing for everyone... Leading to a greater concentration of wealth as the average person now has less ability to save.
Yeah I came to ask a similar question, I'm confused what this had to do with Obamacare.
The SNR has dropped poorly on a lot of subreddits that are still active.

One of my former favorites (the one I made an account for!) went from a very good and healthy moderation to a weird form of 'If we have to go into the thread more than once we have a short fuse for harsh enforcement of rules, nonpopular threads can still be cool though'.

It will be very interesting to see what happens next year; historically election cycles tend to make SNR worse and people just break.
https://libera.chat/news/matrix-bridge-disabled-retrospectiv...
Yeah but no. Pleasure is brutal manipulation at play.

Sex is short-lived pleasure, dopamine.
Family relationships are long-term happiness, serotonins.
Define better CI? It is much slower and way more expensive than GHA with all its free M$ money.
Incredible journey! Your methodical approach to career exploration, particularly the use of 'prototyping' different career paths, is innovative and inspiring. It's a great example of applying lean startup principles to personal development. Your transition from McKinsey to Meta, then software engineering, and finally coaching, highlights the evolving nature of what we consider fulfilling work. Your story is a testament to the importance of aligning career choices with personal values and emotional fulfillment. Would love to hear more about how this journey has shaped your current role as a coach!
Of course it does. Let's just calculate the revenue of two scenairos:

Person A consumes 2L of Coke every day. Dies an early death at 45 year old. 2L coke is ~$2. From the age of 18 to 45 that person spent $19710.

Person B is good at consuming things with moderation. Drinks one 7.5 oz Coke per week, and lives to the ripe old age of 90. A ten pack of 7.5oz coke is ~$6. That person spent from the age of 18 to 90 about $2252.

You can of course tweak the assumptions, but the thing is sugar doesn't kill anyone that fast. People by and large don't drop dead in years from overconsumption of it.
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Robert Frost got there first....

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53087/out-out
I do have to say, I really, really hate that word. Not once have I seen it used correctly - for anything other than to promote a product that's $5 cheaper than the competition.
The Israelis have also killed more kids in Gaza than the U.S. did in Iraq from 2008 to 2022 (according to UNICEF).

https://www.unicef.org/iraq/press-releases/more-9000-childre...
Thanks for replying, that makes more sense. Since you work for Red Hat, do you happen to know what the process for certifying hardware is? I'm curious to know what goes into guaranteeing that a given hardware configuration is supported by RHEL.
Raw Peanuts have a lot of fat, something like almost 50% by weight. A significant portion of which is omega-6 and with no omega-3’s. While something like 20-25% of the fat in raw peanuts won’t be absorbed (the absorption rate increases with processing), packing on omega-6 is not desirable due to the metabolism suppression effects of certain omega-6s like linoleic acid.

Probably not what people want.
What do you mean by “worth?”
I don't believe retail sales tax applies to tips in most (any?) states.
The whole thing with freenode-> libera and now this has been a shitshow to say the least. I am glad some communities are moving to discord where things are stable and reliable. Instead of implementing proper registration process for example, libera bans ip addresses from tor and vpns unless you auth first and you have to register with an email and an ip they like. I have many criticisms of matrix/element but in this case it looks like yet another libera complaint that is at issue, not really matrix's fault I think.

The only thing I'll say about matrix is they have a lot of cool features but a smooth/fast experience like discord is the only thing they are missing to compete there but aside from philosophy I see no reason to avoid discord unless I want to operare a server instance. To me it's like webmail, I don't care if gmail or proronmail are opensource as much as I care about their security and reliability. I mean, I gotta applaud all the folks that worked on matrix clients, but there is still much left to be desired, I wish I could help in some way.
If you ignore Putin's political assassinations, the assassinations during eras such as the red terror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror where Lenin and trosky were killed, and Nikolas II's 1918 assassination as well as the whole royal Russian family, sure.

Russia has a rich culture of assassination.
maybe their standards became too high, hard to believe some basic food (pasta, bread, milk) are not affordable anymore..
Emotional regulation in the form of self-soothing happens pretty quickly. Like 3-9 months, commonly.

I think more importantly, the GP was using the most negative possible interpretation of what, to me, sounds like a pretty healthy and self-aware approach to the new (to the author) phenomenon of tantrums.
Ah, those golden days when hardware companies made just hardware and were not after our data.
Covid tyranny?
Oftentimes 3 and 4 can lead to you escaping everything which may make your big picture situation worse.

"It's becoming miserable to work at X because so-and-so is very challenging to work with".

You can't control so-and-so and stewing in this environment while complaining isn't going to help the situation so the only choices are to never bring them up again and be internally miserable or leave. If you leave, the outcome of that might mean you can't pay your bills.
But if we pass in an odd value that is more than half of the maximum value represented in a usize, we get an overflow and a panic when we make a recursive call with n * 3 + 1, right? We shouldn't be optimizing those away.
This is a theater that also serves dinner with the show; think of it less like a movie theater, and more like a restaurant that happens to show a movie.
I wrote my own IRC + Matrix client to bridge the channels I operate. I've made the source code available under the terms of the MIT license here: https://github.com/susam/nimb

If you find any issues, bugs, etc. in this tool, please let me know. Although this tool works well for my modest requirements, someone else may find issues while using this tool that I have not encountered yet. In such a case, bug reports, pull requests, patches, etc. are very welcome!
And that's okay! The wages should be increased, and tipping should be put out to pasture.
This is why I advocate getting the waiter's venmo/squarecash and tipping them electronically.

This attacks the custom of tipping directly: It prevents the management from being able to use tips in their scheme to pay workers less, and absolves the customer of the requirement to hurt the worker if they want to fight against tipping culture.
I have raised this point so many times. People tend to forget why they are using a particular technology in the first place
visually pretty similar. Thank goodness we live in the future with typesetting and even monospaced fonts so rn and m don't look similar.
Diet of coca-cola, sweets and dry humor.
That's the whole point though. If the types of restaurants that you like can't make enough money to offer jobs that workers would accept then those restaurants shouldn't exist. They can be replaced with more profitable businesses that more people will enjoy.
Q-azon. You heard it here first.
Imagine that I go to a movie theater and order a soda and a beer.

The cashier pours the soda into a cup from the fountain machine.

The bartender pours the beer into a plastic pint from a tap.

Why is the bartender deserving of a tip in this scenario?
He's written some fantastic books. Worth a read, imo. He's my favorite author.
> Wikipedia is not an authoritative identity layer, it provides no proof of identity and is thus strictly weaker than any other proof you can come up with. If you don't trust any arbitrary website that Wikipedia cites, then you have no more reason to trust any arbitrary Wikipedia editor.

It's the "strictly" with which I take issue. I certainly have no more reason to trust that a Wikipedia user whose username is BigImportantDude is actually a particular Big Important Dude than to trust the analogous fact about a blog post purporting to be authored by the Big Important Dude; but I dispute the fact that I should trust it less.
At some point you start wondering what's meta and what's data, after all.
I assumed he was referring to the ability now for people to buy individual healthcare plans that are subsidized by the government, whereas they couldn't before. But I admit it isn't very clear.
What makes humanity unsustainable is not the amount of human but the unleashed greed of a minority.

100 billion aborigines would pollute less than a handful of western oligarchs
Connect GPTs to your Mac with macOS-toolbox
I hate these articles that make it sound like weight loss/gain is some kind of mystery magic.

That being said, if it's mentally easier to just eat potatoes go for it...but it sounds like a hell of a boring way to live.
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It's subtle and powerful propaganda.

If showing 'the other' people dying on tv/print/web is generally normal, and showing 'our people' dying is generally tragic, there's a deep suggestion that 'the others' are less worthy of dignity than 'ours'.

Though, statistically speaking, one might expect to see a lot more murdered Gazan children, given that so, so many more have been horrifically killed, every year.
I found a lot of sites that cater towards talking about politicians and science. These ones appear to be somewhat active:

Politics / Politicians
- https://debatepolitics.com/
- https://defendingthetruth.com/
- https://www.houseofpolitics.com/
- https://politicalhotwire.com/
- https://www.politicsforum.org/forum/

Science / Scientists
- https://www.scienceforums.net/
- https://thescienceforum.org/
- https://www.physicsforums.com/
- https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/
- https://forum.cosmoquest.org/

Any decent online community will also have its share of memes. They are inevitable

Let me know if any of these hit the mark for you

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>... after getting run out of town on a rail for Covid tyranny...

This feels disingenuous. McCamley ran the department responsible for overseeing unemployment claims, and it was death threats related to those unemployment claims that prompted him to leave town. I'd be genuinely curious to see if you have something that ties this to COVID specifically.

>... tries to cash in on that sweet, sweet, substack blogging-money

Kinda hard to do that when you're essentially the guest commentator on someone else's Substack, though, no?

>We truly live in the wildest timeline.

Yeah, timelines where people flippantly throw out factually incorrect hot takes are pretty wild.
You still need all the infrastructure that electric cars rely on.

You'd get rid of private cars, not cars categorically. E.g. you could order a taxi for cheap and the taxi operator could have a car that lasts for 30 years instead of just 15.

The "eat bugs" remark was rude and uncalled for.
The only way to reach the global optimum of no tipping and higher wages would be for customers to start to refuse to give tips.
Isn't there a potential for net relative displacement and so thus couldn't (microscopic) black holes be a space drive?

Is there a known inverse transformation for Hawking radiation, and isn't there such radiation from all things?

Don't black holes store a copy of everything, like reflections from water droplets?

PBS Spacetime estimates that there are naturally occurring microscopic black holes every 30 km on Earth. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33483002 https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-33483002

And ER=EPR: https://twitter.com/westurner/status/964069567290073089

What are the critical conditions for naturally-ocurring and lab or particle-collider made black holes? Are there safety concerns, and how would that be perceived?
> The amount is already being spent — but it's spent in the much more valuable currency of time right now.

> It takes weeks

This doesn't jive with your willingness to spend 20% more for the same car as a direct sale.

The dealer experience can take weeks if you want it to, because you want to comparison shop and negotiate to the last penny. Some people enjoy this (I hate it).

But if you're willing to pay more, you can be in and out in an hour. Walk to the closest dealer, point at a car and say you want it and will pay the price in the window sticker. Zero searching or negotiating, fill paperwork and drive out. It won't even cost you +20% over the best negotiable price, although you will pay a bit extra for the convenience.
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Even if you render with whatever you please, software, OpenGL, Vulkan, you have to communicate with Xorg to slap it on the screen, and that'll result in tearing. On my Nvidia machine, the only escape from tearing is manually enabling the full composition pipeline in Nvidia's settings application. Nothing else, even Vsync settings, can save me from it.
Unity Software to cut 3.8% of staff in 'company reset'
I'm this man's signature reduction supervisor and I can verify that this is true
>Munger’s $200 million donation to the university is contingent on the structure being built to his windowless specifications.

Reason being:

>“Our design is clever,” Munger assured skeptics. “Our buildings are going to be efficient.” In addition to cutting costs and foiling potential defenestrations, his design would force students out of their sleeping cubbies and into communal spaces—with real sunlight—where, he said, they would engage with one another.

It seems to me encouraging university students to spend more time alone would be more conducive to getting work done. Overall Munger seemed to have had this notion a lot of old people have that the youth need to suffer because
of-course they suffered more.
This is really just the modern patent regime at work, isn't it? Any random problem a chip company SE or EE can solve in an afternoon can get that solution whisked past an overworked patent examiner. Now open-sourcing your basic code to "optimize the order of the commands" opens your company up to a hojillion-dollar lawsuit from a patent troll or any competitor that feels like going nuclear. Maybe the patent is BS but it'll take a multi-million-dollar lawsuit to prove it.

It might not even be realistic that some jerk is going to search through 10 million lines of driver code looking for patent violations, but these are corporations we're talking about. They're twitchy when it comes to risk. So the source of insanity here is the broken patent system, isn't it? (I agree that while you get to write vaguely clever code, even specialized software dev is 99% perspiration.)
They still show up in the market price, even if they are traded off exchange.
The ACA employer mandate is still in place (it's the individual mandate that has been zeroed out). Maybe this guy isn't a full-time worker?
There are ways that your comment and the parent are both right.

I’m very much on board with the idea of eschewing victimhood thinking, and I generally see the invocation of survivorship bias as a pretty sad indicator of someone’s attachment to victimhood.

However I also recognize that the world isn’t great at empowering people to get out of difficult situations in life. Once you’re down, the world has all kinds of ways of keeping you down. “Just work hard and save money” seems like simple stuff that anyone can do but it doesn’t get you very far if you’re at the bottom of the heap, especially if you’re dealing with illness, family problems, or other burdens.

I do believe there are things that almost anyone (without irrevocable health problems) can do to go from a bad situation to a very good one over the long term (I’ve done them), but these things are not widely known or accepted by mainstream society.

So I sympathize with the sense of futility that many people hold.
>I have my password manager and can login with 1 click to all my sites. 2FA is always a pain in the ass and always extra effort on something my password manager already protects me from.

So I think there are a few potential issues with this argument based on assumptions you're making. I'd argue this isn't entirely true because:

1. Many password managers allow you to manually copy the password into your clipboard, which mean you could paste it somewhere that's unsafe / untrusted. Someone could then use this password to authenticate as you. Many sites disallow token reuse, so once used if you accidentally pasted that somewhere as well an attacker couldn't reuse the token.

2. Similarly, if someone has managed to exfiltrate login details you provide without being able to also obtain the session cookie sent back, and the site enforces one time use of MFA tokens, then the MFA token can also avoid a replay attack of your login details.

I'll admit the second one may be a bit contrived, because if they can exfiltrate login details it seems likely they could also just obtain the session cookie. But if said cookie is tied to a certain IP address, then that cookie is useless to them and they wouldn't be able to replay the credentials.
That was in an area administered by Palestine. It can't really be considered "in Israel" at all. I think it strengthens his point that it's hard to get comprehensive journalism in an area either controlled or actively contested by terrorists.
I think that the mangler deleted the relevant part of the address, namely the anchor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger#Sexual_.... (I'm not sure whether this is something that's relevant for HN—or, rather, something that is more relevant now to HN than at any other time—but, as we're always rightly reminded, what's relevant for HN is what interests HN-ers, so I'll keep my opinion inside parentheses.)
Yes we are, and it's a bit concerning how much people in this forum like overpopulation, our species literally already outnumbers rats.