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Doesn't this fundamentally misunderstand the Pareto principle? The 80% and 20% of causes in standard examples don't refer to portions of a sequential effort, but rather slices of c…

I think the "repulsive attitude" I'm referring to is shouting "Just grow a thick skin!" to someone who is saying that they're suffering from abuse. In some cases, the suffering is …

OP replied to my comment and I now see that it makes sense as an observation. The narrative I was referring to is something that I see common in discussions surrounding abuse; "the…

Perhaps I replied to the wrong comment then. Sorry for being confrontational.

Unfortunately HN is no longer a place where you can assume good faith observations when something like that is said. OP's words play into toxic narratives that need to be called ou…

You might be correct but it still stands that nothing is added to the discourse by just telling people to grow a thick skin. It's a repulsive attitude and I had to call that out.

"hey reminder that" does make a difference, but that difference is invisible because it's exclusively in the form of incidents that did not happen. Remember that everyone reading t…

Many public figures have social media and PR teams to help deal with stuff like this, you really expect that every individual out there should just grow a thick skin as culture is …

Perhaps this is the obvious comment, but I really hope that something that employs technology like this can get off the ground and become a services company. The ideas about democr…

https://youtu.be/hph9OeKjg3w -- here's a video about this about a research effort to accomplish precisely this.

I once attempted to make something like ProxySwitchy for DNS[1], but I didn't work on it long enough to get off the ground. This article made me think about it again. Is there actu…

This is awesome! I really wonder if GPs will see an uptick in usage in the future, I've seen a lot of interest in them lately. Also, thanks for including the source so they can be …

As imperfect measures as they are, statistical significance measures like the p-value are more epistemologically sound than any arbitrary rule of thumb-threshold on the size of the…

> The fragment synthesis procedure uses a powerful, but computationally expensive, algebraic rewrite-based search algorithm to identify non-trivial compositions of blocks. The perf…

Ideally you'd be able to accurately gauge your progress without having intense negative emotions attached to it. Certainly it shouldn't undercut a person's feeling of validity in t…

That's true, I don't even remember the ending to Snow Crash which I read some ~6 years ago. The unraveling premise that comes about in the ~3rd quarter of the book is what stuck wi…

Tangent, but Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson[1] is a good novel that touches on WWII cryptography topics really well, going decently mathematically deep into the mechanics of how …

For what it's worth, Dr. Robert Sapolsky, who wrote one of the books that this article draws on, has a fascinating set of lectures, free online, from his Human Behavioral Biology c…

Key caveat here is that it only works on AMD cards currently.

I'm definitely not as savvy - can you expound on how the decisions that Ballmer and Muglia made paved the way for Nadella's success?

This kind of writing makes me upset. * It's really self-important. Not only is it selling you on a particular strategy for attaining success, it also tries to sell success in thing…

What's scary about Googling for specific ML questions beginning to look like googling some Windows problems? This kind of dichotomy already exists between people who interact with …

This is really concise, thanks! Removes a lot of the mysticism that is all too present in mathematics writing for laypeople (this explanation is just as understandable).

Theoretical physics is sporadically coming back into my mind again after a lot of time learning CS and Stats. I'm wondering now, is the goal of theoretical physics sort of like the…

I don't think the password managers do, for master passwords. So if you ever consider it, you can set your master password to a strong one generated here and let the pw manager gen…