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by czep 5y ago
Hi HN, I started working with the ANES data to develop a tutorial series on How to Analyze Data. The dataset is super interesting, very topical, and a very high quality source of data on US political opinions. As part of exploratory analy
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Show HN: Exploratory Analysis with the 2020 American National Election Studies(czep.net)
1 points by czep 5y ago|1 comments
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by czep 6y ago
I flirted with this world in the mid 90s. The workload is intentionally set well beyond what one person can reasonably handle. It is designed to force you to a level of hyper-efficiency without compromising accuracy. But the primary functi
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by czep 6y ago
> no three-hundred-and-sixty degree reviews, no stack ranking, no OKRs, no skip-levels, no numerical grades Sign me up now! This is so refreshing I would happily take the pay cut to be rid of the toxic by-products of cutthroat review cul
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by czep 6y ago
As long as data science remains subservient to Product, the inevitable result is cherry picking and post hoc rationalizing of some PM's intuition. To blame is the "embedded" model in which DS works within (and takes directio
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Show HN: Stasis, a simple static site generator with deployment to S3/CloudFront(github.com)
49 points by czep 6y ago|29 comments
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by czep 6y ago
Radio altimeters are mainly used during landing. Presumably, you'd always be landing in friendly territory, so the threat of malicious interference would need to be very close to a base to be effective.
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by czep 6y ago
The author makes some thoughtful points, but I'd like to address part of the quote from Sam Altman: > It's not entirely clear to me why working hard has become a Bad Thing in certain parts of the US. I am shocked because this s
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Ask HN: Liberal seeking conservative pen pal for good faith debate
20 points by czep 6y ago|28 comments
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by czep 6y ago
You raise an interesting point and I upvoted because of it. Our democracy should be able to withstand this attack, yes. Having to resort to censorship would very clearly fuel the attackers. At the same time, there's an awful lot at s
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by czep 6y ago
> Those four states bypassed thier legislatures in order to change their election laws. When these special measures were enacted in March to accommodate voting during a pandemic, ample time was given for public comment and legal challeng
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by czep 6y ago
Managers are structurally disincented to help underperformers because they serve a more effective role as a scapegoat. Stack ranking culture has created a system in which every team must have at least one person who can be justifiably allo
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by czep 6y ago
Provocations aside, I think my comment reflects a growing backlash against SV startup culture that needs to be heard. Just yesterday a YC company posted this in their job descriptions: "Understands the commitment required in an early-s
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by czep 6y ago
The proper title should be "The Truth about being a YC product". The startup mystique that YC perpetuates is designed to convince very smart people to work extremely hard on a small chance of becoming rich. They become a product i
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by czep 6y ago
I'm not afraid of death because I'm a solipsist. But you should be afraid of my death, because when I die all of you will disappear! That joke and singing along to Monty Python's Bright Side of Life is usually enough to snap
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by czep 6y ago
> what is genuinely new and what is a rehash. I struggled with this in grad school, as it often felt I was rereading the same material in multiple journals, and the examples of my successful peers appeared to me to be the same paper with
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How employers are using tech tools to keep a close watch on their remote workers(cnbc.com)
2 points by czep 6y ago|0 comments
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Dancing Mania(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by czep 7y ago|0 comments
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by czep 7y ago
Finding an attenuated strain that spreads as easily but is less deadly does sound like our best hope. Such a strain would "crowd out" the deadly strain, effectively blocking it from causing harm. If life was a Star Trek episode,
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by czep 7y ago
> Do one layoff, but much much deeper than seems correct. Is this what "leadership" is all about: just transfer all the pain you're having onto the employees who have been doing all the hard work to build your vanity compa
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by czep 7y ago
Math: 30% drop means going from 100 to 70. Now to get back up to 100, you need a 43% gain (30/70).
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Out of Nowhere (Teleport)(reddit.com)
1 points by czep 7y ago|0 comments
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by czep 7y ago
That certainly explains why I'm so forgetful.
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by czep 7y ago
It's actually exceedingly difficult. The family registry, koseki, is steeped in a thousand years of tradition. You can't simply walk into the nearest city ward office and fill out a form. There are also restrictions on the kinds
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Ask HN: Have you ever managed someone paid more than you?
13 points by czep 7y ago|15 comments
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Ask HN: What to do when your side project is more fun than your job?
31 points by czep 7y ago|20 comments
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by czep 7y ago
> Why did you think everyone was saying the "Oracle database is predatory", that makes no sense. A case could be made that the database itself is predatory, insofar as Oracle encourages use of non-standard functions that make m
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by czep 7y ago
In traditional industries, experience built up connections, and older workers would be hired for their "Rolodex" to bring in the money. In tech as an IC, proving the value of experience is much more subtle. In my day to day work,
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by czep 8y ago
Always roll up your window when driving past the archery range.
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by czep 8y ago
I saw a sign on the highway advertising productivity software for your commute! The fact that someone finds a market need for people to work while they're driving is a sign we really jumped the shark at some point.

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