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by orzig 4y ago
When I pay for one artist’s output, there likely were nine others who tried and failed in a similar style. It’s like how drug companies have to try nine different drugs (actually many more) before the stars align around one which is safe an
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This feels like the endless debate about whether America is forever tainted by the sins of its founding fathers. I’m pro-American because I believe in its stated values. Moreover, I believe that despite original and continuing failures to p
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by orzig 4y ago
This is a great example of a concrete use case. It is well known that tutors are far more effective than generalized learning, and everybody’s anecdotal experience is that immersion is the best way to learn a language (suggesting that the i
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by orzig 4y ago
Try to think about less like self promotion, and more like ensuring the users who would benefit from your work know that it exists.
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Huge improvement in my marriage. Thank goodness I started on it before 2020 because we about to go through a lot of challenges together!
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Everything else for the manager might prioritize culturally, like getting the team to move to a new tech, integrating across geographies, or hitting some big corporate level goal
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Yes but my manager makes it an absolute top priority. It takes a lot of work and other managers who were basically OK but balancing priorities ultimately let that safety get off the rails.
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I will just throw in some counter anecdata: in my little corner of the US, people are at least as nice as they were before.
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by orzig 4y ago
I've been blessedly free of chronic illness myself, and found The Deep Places to be a good window into the shortfalls of the medical response (including being written off as nuts), even by someone who should have a tremendous amount of
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> "He's self interested" OK, but is he right?
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I worked at a big company which did a full agile transformation, including full-time, agile coaches. I imagine everyone hired afterwords hated agile for the very real swirl the process caused, but those of us who’d been there before know it
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by orzig 4y ago
it doesn't give a complete answer, but we might as well start by referencing pg's words himself: https://genius.com/Paul-graham-sam-altman-for-president-anno...
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by orzig 4y ago
There must be a good enough programmer at your work, try to get as many pole requests reviewed by them as possible, and make clear that you are eager to learn. Unless they are totally burned out, I bet they will be thrilled to pass on their
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by orzig 4y ago
About to hit the 5 year anniversary of being told I need an urgent root canal. Fortunately, buying a softer toothbrush fixed the issue - I would have paid them $1,000 to get that recommendation a few weeks earlier!
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A keyboard tray, that attached to my desk, I never realized how many of my frustrations were just the slightly awkward ergonomics of my keyboard being a few inches too high
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by orzig 4y ago
The only reason they offered you the job is to generate cash for their own company! It only feels like a gray area If you plan on leaving in less than two years, many people would even say less than one.
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Ask HN: Best way to backup a 5 minute movie for 50 years?
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To exercise, I got a personal coach (virtually, it was the height of the pandemic). She was actually pretty terrible at her job, and the reason I am telling you this is that it still helped tremendously . Part of the reason I had procrasti
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by orzig 4y ago
Here's a detailed example that can probably be done on your own machine: https://www.kaggle.com/code/maksimeren/covid-19-literature-c... For an API, I should definitely mention HuggingFace too! https:/&
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Time for a longer reply: > Are there any recommended resources (Books/blogs/courses/etc.) I should look into? Million dollar consultant is a ridiculous book, but shocked me out of being too far on the other end of the spe
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I guarantee that whatever challenges you are facing, they are not because of your lack of credentials. I strongly suspect they are also not because of a lack of intelligence. I again GUARANTEE you are not mentally defective in an IQ sense.
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by orzig 4y ago
You seem to be making a more general point about Noah Smith. I’ve never been a follower per se but generally nodded my head when coming across his takes. I’m game to update my priors on that, can you share some evidence?
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Once you have made it text, TF/IDF for themes. Depending on your AWS familiarity, you can use some out of the box pre-trained algorithms for a pretty low price
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I have 1 million thoughts but not a lot of time right now, the one thing I would say with confidence is that you will find in your early engagements through existing professional contacts (people in control of a budget; managers or owners),
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by orzig 4y ago
I haven’t filtered through all the jobs here, but it seems perfect for continuing your search: https://www.climatetechlist.com/ More generally: https://www.probablygood.org/
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I am with you on this, though I am in a minority at work. An underappreciated benefit is that you are signaling to the reader, when they first see the variable, that it will only be used briefly. That helps them ration their attention. The
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People tend to think about monopolies in terms of single companies, but they're more commonly a systemic thing. Housing: Most voters are homeowners, with the shared incentive to increase the price of housing in their town through restr
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I don’t know if it’s enough, but the first thing I do when joining a new organization is aggressively cut down on notifications, both using the N app, preferences, and the operating system preferences. The next thing I do is set expectation
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I think it’s a command, for HN to ask something. Does anyone have HN’s number?
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I have never used it, and only spent five minutes at a time in virtual reality, so I’m truly on the fence here. But zoom calls have a huge advantage that you do not need to spend 15 to 60 minutes to see a person, and I could imagine virtual

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