Hacker News: stanrivers

New comment by stanrivers in "What is going on right now?"

stanrivers — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:11:01 +0000

I’m scared for what happens ten years from now when none of the junior folk ever learned to write code themselves and now think they are senior engineers…

Sabotaging Your Workplace

stanrivers — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:08:55 +0000

Article URL: https://butwhatfor.substack.com/p/simple-sabotage-field-manual

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44984212

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

CrowdStrike's CEO Has Known Failure–But Never Like This

stanrivers — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 01:20:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/crowdstrikes-ceo-george-kurtz-failure-global-tech-outage-microsoft-windows-07d27a4a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41083809

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by stanrivers in "U.S. Home Prices Hit Record in June"

stanrivers — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 02:50:47 +0000

> There's a prediction for every outcome

Have never heard this phrase - stealing it!

U.S. Home Prices Hit Record in June

stanrivers — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 03:47:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/u-s-home-prices-hit-record-in-june-for-second-consecutive-month-cbe00c76

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41053442

Points: 22

# Comments: 6

New comment by stanrivers in "Peer review is essential for science. Unfortunately, it's broken"

stanrivers — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 13:23:34 +0000

I guess… how do we get people paid for reviewing? It’s an interesting point that the incentives are not helping us here.

New comment by stanrivers in "The invention of blue and purple pigments in ancient times (2006)"

stanrivers — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 02:33:31 +0000

Oh interesting - is this in any way related to why the Israel flag went with blue?

Increasing Returns and the New World of Business

stanrivers — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 05:31:57 +0000

Article URL: https://hbr.org/1996/07/increasing-returns-and-the-new-world-of-business

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39366849

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How to grow old well, with Cicero

stanrivers — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 12:10:07 +0000

Article URL: https://historyinvestor.com/p/grow-old-well-old-age-cicero

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39343942

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by stanrivers in "Scientific journal publishers and editors say they are being offered bribes"

stanrivers — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:55:52 +0000

“ It's to the point where every journal publisher and every editor will tell you, if they're being honest, that they have been and are continually being offered bribes. I would be very suspicious if someone tried to act shocked at the question, as if they'd never heard of such a thing. This is the state of scientific publishing in the 2020s, and we have to realize it. What we don't have to do is accept it.”

Well… then start reporting it with names publicly and to authorities…

New comment by stanrivers in "Alaska CEO: We found many loose bolts on our Max planes"

stanrivers — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:54:12 +0000

I think this accountability is a good point… if someone told me absent any other information that a company had the issues Boeing has been having, then I would assume they get shut down or forced into a restructured management with hugely increased regulatory oversight.

Charlie Munger – Feeling Like a Victim Is Perfectly Disastrous

stanrivers — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 21:27:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.butwhatfor.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-facing-adversity-charlie-munger

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38451543

Points: 165

# Comments: 230

New comment by stanrivers in "Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools"

stanrivers — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 12:10:13 +0000

I think there is something very different about handwriting than typing. Like, listen to a lecture and write notes on a pad, and then go to the lecture the next day and type them on a computer.

Then, wait a week, and take a test without reviewing anything.

My money, based on my experience, is on you better remembering the handwritten notes. I think this is because you cannot write as fast as you type, so you have to hear, think about what is important, and summarize when handwriting. When typing, you can get almost all the words someone says typed out. So you switch to "hear-to-type" mode without thinking.

So, I think it is important for learning to have that skill. I think it is better in the real world too, for some use cases. If I am in a meeting with a counterparty, I take hand written notes. I rarely look at the notes after. Why? I remember what we talked about.

I used to bring a computer and type out notes - and I still do if I need perfect information to reference later - but when I do that, my notes take the place of my memory.

It seems more efficient to handwrite my notes and have my memory be my memory instead.

The Missing Piece Meets the Big O

stanrivers — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 12:05:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.butwhatfor.com/p/shel-silverstein-missing-piece-meets-big-o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37479798

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by stanrivers in "Poverty is linked to poorer brain development but reading can help counteract it"

stanrivers — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 18:13:28 +0000

The other thing that is important about reading beyond brain development is the learning of lessons / history / culture. I can't remember who the quote is from, but something like "He who does not read lives but one life. He who reads can live thousands."

There is also something about forming your own identity that is important too - like understanding history tells you something about who you are and who you can become. Stealing from David McCullough [1]:

"History is philosophy taught with examples... First of all we have to get across the idea that we have to know who we were if we’re to know who we are and where we’re headed."

"The Greeks said that character is destiny, and the more I read and understand of history, the more convinced I am that they were right... It is not in the still calm of life or the repose of a pacific station that great characters are formed."

And so reading is much more than just developing skills around reading and focus, it is about learning and growing as an individual.

[1] https://www.butwhatfor.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-knowing-histor...