superquest
Re:How H-E-B planned for the pandemic
on Thursday March 26, 2020 @03:27PM (#22696988)
> This is remarkable because it's hard to imagine most American companies, which are always looking to squeeze out a little more profit to juice the quarterly report
HEB is privately owned and run by the owners. Those are very different incentives than public or VC-backed ventures.
Re:If not SICP, then what? Maybe HTDP?
on Saturday January 12, 2019 @10:58AM (#18891698)
This last week I took an in-person class where we covered almost all of the book: https://dabeaz.com/SICP.html
The instructor David Beazley very skillfully weeded out all the non-essential parts and added one amazing exercise where we implemented the lambda calculus and, funny enough, the ycombinator.
Highly recommend it for anyone who desires to learn this material, can't find the time, and is willing to pay $2500 for the experience.
Re:Ask HN: Any resources to learn the fundamentals of critical thinking?
on Saturday June 09, 2018 @11:14AM (#17273408)
https://www.fs.blog/mental-models/
This site has great information on how to think. The above post is particularly excellent.
Re:GitLab sees huge spike in project imports
on Sunday June 03, 2018 @08:15PM (#17223372)
Reddit link missing a 'r/'
Re:Zillow surprises investors by buying up homes
on Sunday April 15, 2018 @02:09PM (#16843966)
In this case it seems the customers are unlikely to revolt. Most won't even notice, right?
Re:Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007)
on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @05:01PM (#16701902)
Benedict Evans tweet: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/955539670103859200?...
Re:Ask HN: Resources to learn real analysis?
on Saturday March 24, 2018 @01:16PM (#16667634)
Draw lots of pictures. That habit helped me learn analysis most.
Re:Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #delet...
on Friday March 23, 2018 @03:11PM (#16661603)
That's the only reason I won't delete. So many friends from traveling that would be lost ...
Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon Valley ‘Ec...
on Sunday February 18, 2018 @01:51PM (#16407487)
"openly supporting" the winning presidential candidate isn't "absurd".
Re:The Largest Number of Scientists in Modern U.S. Is Running for Offi...
on Saturday February 03, 2018 @06:53PM (#16300397)
Scientists generally pursue truth whereas politicians spend most of their time pursuing power by building a constituency, trying to get and stay elected, raising money, etc.
And I'm not saying "scientists are bad politicians". I'm saying what the two groups do don't overlap a ton.
For a gross example, most scientists will have to learn to lie to be good politicians, because all good politicians play fast and loose with the truth.
Re:The Largest Number of Scientists in Modern U.S. Is Running for Offi...
on Saturday February 03, 2018 @03:52PM (#16299573)
They also might be bad at politics.
Re:A.I. Has Arrived in Investing, Humans Are Still Dominating
on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:36PM (#16293995)
Stopped reading after their first example of an investing model was "high frequency trading" ...
Re:I Quit Twitter and It Feels Great
on Friday February 02, 2018 @11:48AM (#16291964)
Attempting to follow the news in real time is what wears most Twitter users out.
I felt the same way, but then I unfollowed everyone who tweeted about current events and the stress is gone.
Re:More than 10 percent of $3.7B raised in ICOs has been stolen
on Monday January 22, 2018 @03:20PM (#16207545)
Ethereum was an ICO.
Was Ethereum a scam?
Re:Yacob and Amo: African precursors to Enlightenment thinkers
on Sunday January 21, 2018 @05:16PM (#16200367)
The comments section on aeon.co is very good.
Encourage you guys to read the comments.
Re:Michael Moritz: Silicon Valley Would Be Wise to Follow China's Lead
on Saturday January 20, 2018 @02:35PM (#16194989)
Which means they are still basically farmers and just getting started.
Re:Michael Moritz: Silicon Valley Would Be Wise to Follow China's Lead
on Saturday January 20, 2018 @02:35PM (#16194985)
I can't find any evidence from 20th century, but here's a study from 2016: http://ftp.iza.org/dp10179.pdf
It says Americans work 25% more. This is usually the conclusion of this kind of thing.
Re:Michael Moritz: Silicon Valley Would Be Wise to Follow China's Lead
on Saturday January 20, 2018 @02:30PM (#16194959)
And this explains Africa's dominance of the world economy?
Re:Switzerland “Should Become the Crypto-Nation” Says Minister
on Saturday January 20, 2018 @02:29PM (#16194954)
> a true digital commonwealth.
That is hysterical.
Re:Michael Moritz: Silicon Valley Would Be Wise to Follow China's Lead
on Saturday January 20, 2018 @02:25PM (#16194939)
Elon's take: https://youtu.be/GtaxU6DZvLs?t=1m36s
Re:Michael Moritz: Silicon Valley Would Be Wise to Follow China's Lead
on Saturday January 20, 2018 @02:19PM (#16194904)
Fair.
I became interested when this happened: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f8/18/f8/f818f8735acfdbf8f4a6...
Re:Michael Moritz: Silicon Valley Would Be Wise to Follow China's Lead
on Saturday January 20, 2018 @02:16PM (#16194886)
I'm deliberately being vague for the sake of argument. Of course there are many details in practice.
A similar argument applies to the economies of Europe and the USA in parts the 20th century. A lot was similar, but Americans had the better work ethic.
Of course, work ethic doesn't explain everything. But it's really freaking important.
Re:Michael Moritz: Silicon Valley Would Be Wise to Follow China's Lead
on Saturday January 20, 2018 @02:13PM (#16194876)
True. Because everything else wasn't equal. And it won't be here. But if it gets close to equal ...
I imagine Chinese work ethic had something to do with the destruction of the Rust Belt, no?
Re:Michael Moritz: Silicon Valley Would Be Wise to Follow China's Lead
on Saturday January 20, 2018 @02:06PM (#16194823)
I can see why people hate on this POV, but one thing is very reasonable:
Imagine company A and company B are equal in all ways, except company B's workers work twice as much. If they come into competition, company A will be crushed.
All the SF tech companies will come into competition with Chinese companies in the next 20 years. And there's a chance they just get outworked.
Re:Michael Moritz: Silicon Valley Would Be Wise to Follow China's Lead
on Saturday January 20, 2018 @02:02PM (#16194800)
Sequoia has been in China for more than a decade ...
Re:What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?
on Friday January 19, 2018 @03:06PM (#16189314)
I think the article was pretty fair.
He is controversial and polarizing: many people hate him and many people love him.
https://www.reddit.com/r/JordanPeterson/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/Jordan_Peterson_Memes/ are kind of cultish. It's a very ironic cult, but a bit of a cult nonetheless.
Re:What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?
on Friday January 19, 2018 @02:54PM (#16189200)
No. This is the "so you're saying" interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54
Re:What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?
on Friday January 19, 2018 @02:52PM (#16189179)
She is such a firebrand.
After watching that interview I've tried to make my body language more expressive like hers.
Re:What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?
on Friday January 19, 2018 @02:42PM (#16189089)
Below is a very good related article about the "intellectual dark web" consisting of academics like Peterson who are being driven out of the academy by orthodoxy and instead work through podcasts, Youtube, Patreon, etc
http://conatusnews.com/rise-intellectual-dark-web/
edit:
I made a thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16189120