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It isn't, really :). And 'samhw raises some good points. So let me follow up.

> but there's no reason why you can't exit a company and leave it in good hands, with a viable long-term plan. In fact, most founders will be incentivised to do exactly that.

That's not what "exit" means in startup vernacular. An "exit" is the part where you and your investors get rich. This is usually achieved through the company going public, or getting acquired by another one. Both cases are almost inevitably bad for existing users/customers. Going public usually means the company is subject to the whims of stock market players. Acquires usually means the company gets scrapped for parts (usually for people, knowhow, patents, and/or user data). Either way, the founders and investors got their reward - so they don't really have a reason to care about what happens with the business afterwards.

Now the problem is, getting to an exit isn't a sure thing - but it's something that can be optimized for. Optimizing for it eventually puts the company in a situation, where they have to diminish or even offer negative value to users - through e.g. bait&switch payment models, dropping useful features, vendor lock-in, UX dark patterns - in order to improve the main metric that increases the chance of successful exit: growth.

So when you see founders explicitly talking about and planning for an exit, what this means is that they already demonstrate they'll put making the company attractive to would-be acquirers ahead of offering actual value to the users/customers. And to be clear, it's worth reminding: marketing has a better marginal ROI than providing value, so just because customers seem to be flocking to a company, doesn't mean the company is offering a good deal. They may be just good at "growth hacking".

The worst case is obvious fraud (Theranos, uBeam), but the second worst case is what I referred to in another comment as "legal pump&dump" - companies who focus almost entirely on growth hacking while providing minimal value, in hopes they'll get acquired before everyone figures out the whole thing is bullshit.

> the only way to run a company responsibly is to intend to personally be at the helm until you drop dead

Of course not :). Another way would be to not take VC funding, focus on providing a good service for as long as you feel like, and eventually pass the business on, sell it, or shut down.

The way I see it, just taking VC funding - taking the Faustian bargain - makes you an "exit risk". One way to assuage the fears of users would be to make some legally-binding promises about the future of the company, but nobody ever does that. In time, as more non-tech people finally figure out how startups work, maybe that'll change.
> However, we could be in a situation where we have understood our behaviors down to particle level, and I would still have no idea how you perceive colors.

I do not see how this is possible. If you can perfectly simulate me you can perfectly simulate any response I will give to any question about how I experience red. Moreover you will have better idea than I do because you could also simulate how my experiences of red will change with time as I gain more experience from seeing red or anything else really.
There is a financial incentive, maybe not for the manufacturer but certainly for the people involved in schemes like these:

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/28/covid-telehealth-hydroxy...
In entire fairness, nothing we usually work on costs thousands of dollars per kilogram to send somebody to fix it, either.
I would have preferred if it didn't have a camera at all.
You’re saying a foldable tablet fitting in your pocket would be good for you? Then why call folding a gimmick at the beginning? The iPhone was called a gimmick when it was new. Same with the iPad, less so but still with the Apple Watch.
I feel that if I could be 100% certain every dime went to pay for exceptionally talented students to study, full time, for free or to upgrade facilities, I would be less disgruntled.

I don't think that its possible to be even 90% certain of this with our current financial technologies
>There is some irony in the US gov objecting to Tether's methods. While the USD is backed by what exactly?

It's backed by the obligation to repay roughly $50 trillion (private plus public debt). I honestly don't get how people misunderstand the new system. The money system is quite simple. Money is just the liquid portion of credit and credit has value because a debtor has obligated himself to accept credit as payment.

A business isn't accepting USD because it has faith in the USD, it's because it is in debt and needs to earn the money back by providing goods and services or alternatively it needs the money to buy products and services from other companies that are in debt.

The way tether is run is quite strange. It's not a bank so people expect it to have a reasonable amount of cash reserves or alternatively they expect tether to declare that they do not intend to hold cash reserves and that holding tethers has a completely different risk profile than holding USD which also means it would have its own exchange rate vs USD instead of 1:1.

>Meanwhile, the 1 trillion dollar platinum coin is being proposed

That's just a hack to get around a self imposed debt ceiling. Everyone knows it's stupid. Blame the bigger idiots in congress that want it to be necessary.
I think this is very unlikely to significantly explain what we’ve seen. It’s much more likely just the natural result of artificial immunity waning much more rapidly than naturally acquired. As well as the fact that natural immunity involves exposure to the whole virus and therefore much broader types of epitopes for the immune system to “learn”.
I just only added features that IMO would make a healthier social network. It's different problem how to implement in a way to avoid people try to game it. Maybe it's not even possible and only utopia.
This looks neat and I appreciate how clear they are about expectation setting. With that said it's disappointing to see only Bluetooth 4.1. A lot of modern devices rely on features from 5.0 either for low power usage, or bi-directional high quality audio.

It seems fine for a general productivity device, but not for things like video conferencing, or media consumption, which I guess aligns with their inability to support DRM.
> the frustration is knowing someone, tucked away on a private network, has already done this.

Hard agree. I know this person and have been this person before.

I've toyed with the idea of writing a book of Nomad recipes and tips, I wonder if anyone would read it?

Also, watch this space, helm for Nomad may be coming soon: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad-pack
I’ve been getting this vibe too lately.

But I can’t tell if my interests are changing or I’m seeing less interesting stuff.
On first watch, without knowing the structure of the show, it was harder to follow his train of thought and felt uncomfortable at moments.

On second watch, it was much funnier and his larger point was easier to grasp.

Oddly, I would give it a higher rating after the 2nd watch than after the 1st.

In my experience, that's usually a sign that it will have more staying power than his other specials which only required one viewing to fully appreciate. I can tell more thought went into constructing this special.
I think doing things for the first time is still something you can get better at. Although you're working on brand new problems all the time, you can still improve at skills like digesting the problem, splitting it into subproblems, designing systems, faster implementations and testing.
In fact I don't know anyone in my close or more distant friend circles who haven't abbandonned facebook in one way or another. I am puzzled by facebook still being the centre of attention (for this, control of news, influence on elections, influence on vaccination).
I have no idea what the neighbourhood of a neutron star is like, nor what the effects of such intense fields might be. This is theoretical physics and cosmology. I'm not competent even to speculate.

Yes, I get the "induction motor" idea. With fields and voltages that intense, I guess just about anything becomes conductive.

[Edit] I don't know whether those field strengths are consistent with atoms continuing to be atoms - I guess there must be some range beyond which a thing like a planet could maintain its integrity. But (guessing wildly) I would expect there to be a region around a neutron star within which it is impossible for atoms to exist.
No doubt in some aspects. Business logic may be great most of the times when it is out of the database.
However, the theory cannot be applied to numerous legacy applications and also while migrating them all to PostgreSQL.
For the guys I would recommend and a company I think is reputable? I’ll front the $10k myself.

In fact, for anyone I would really recommend, and for a company like Google who I don’t think would be capricious, I’d do $100k. I want the money to be 3x though since this money will count as income and I can’t deduct the first bit, it’s just not worth it if I have to put in 1x and then get back 2x which is taxed at 48% meaning I start with x and end with 1.04x. That’s a 4% return? Not enough.

The problem is that the employer can’t afford my recommendation.

At $100k in, $300k out (which is $150k out, 50% gains) sure, I’ll play this game easy. But no less than that.
I get that you have to now. my point is that you shouldn't have to. lot of it could be abstracted. the more that is abstracted then the lower the barrier for newcomers.
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We have been with stripe for over 2 years and on Sept 2, they shut us down without explanation. We tried to reach them and their help and call button have been disabled. We are a small online gym and since they shut us down, its been impossible to reach someone for help.
Since then we have not been able to generate any revenue so we have lost thousands of dollars. We have employees that depend on us and not being to generate any income has been a tremendous burden.
We decided to move to another payment partner and Stripe has still not sent us the file with our customer data so we can move on.
What else do we have to do for the file migration? We have done and provided everything you requested and we have not heard from your technician and you are not responding to emails.

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I know a few male nurses, and it's still a profession where men are somewhat looked down upon. There's nothing about nursing that is gender-specific (except that being large & strong is an asset at times). But for some reason, a male nurse is seen as someone who wasn't good enough to be a doctor.
I'm more surprised that anyone still holds Tether, unless they're stuck with it. The company has been caught in lies several times before, it's not as if a $41M fine will turn them honest.
CS should be a lot more theoretical degree - rather than engineering in my opinion. I'll take NP-complete Automata theory, algorithms, game theory, philosophy discussions over "class, inheritance, OOP vs functional wars, engineering process" yawn fests anyday.
This trope of "if you were just skilled enough" needs to die. Things cost money. They cost money to maintain and evolve. If a solution requires exceptionally high skill that means it is very expensive and pushes employees to their limits. Meaning it is not a healthy technological solution.

It's funny how the article goes on about "If managers were just good enough". But the problem is managers face real world constraints. They can't just give us unlimited resources to live out our complex ego-driven tech fantasies.
Totally agree. Men and women's brains work differently, and therefore have vastly different interests.

No matter how much I tried to get my daughter into "boy stuff", she would just want the pink pretty things, even from a very young age.

Growing up she spent most of her time with her male cousins, so it's not like she wasn't exposed to lots of boy's toys.

Not that I mind get being into girly things... In fact it is pretty awesome :)
This is true a lot of places though. The minute people finish high school or post secondary they leave.

I guess the difference is most people are moving from smaller places to cities for work and Calgary in theory should be a city where people would want to stay.
I got all set up with a Pi-clone cluster and then K3s decided that an extra 100MB of memory savings was not worth maintaining a separate implementation of part of the services.

On a 16GB machine that's not a big deal. On a 2GB machine that's a significant fraction of your disk cache, for a very slow disk. On a 1GB machine that's just make or break.

ETA: And you may think that these toys don't matter, but people have to learn and buy-in somewhere, and the fact of the matter is that I have production services right now that mostly need bandwidth, not CPU or memory, and once I tune them to the most appropriate AWS instance for that workload, the Kubernetes overhead would become the plurality of resource usage on these boxes (if I were using k8s, which we are not at present). K8s only scales by getting into bin packing, where this latency-sensitive service runs with substantially more potentially noisy neighbors.
> While fintech has traditionally been default local — most banks are driven by country-specific regulations, infrastructure, and consumer payment preferences — many global companies are now adding financial services.

This is not true at all. Regulations that span multiple countries like the EU's MIFID I (2007) have been around for a long time. Even institutions in countries outside these markets would need to comply when they want to participate in the market. One of the companies I worked for previously has been licensing financial software (including those implementing national and international regulations) for decades to financial institutions across world, and they were not alone in their market. Going global is nothing new in this industry. Neither is open source. QuickFIX, for example, is two decades old.
Why would there, you haven't searched for anything. Even ASP.NET isn't terrible enough to send over the entire freaking database when just loading the form.
Regardless of the numbers, how do you explain the unprecedented strain on healthcare systems? When was the last time hospitals requested refrigerated trucks for storing bodies?[1] When was the last time that states had to ration care under crisis standards?[2]

[1]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-arizona-coronavirus-death...

[2]https://healthandwelfare.idaho.gov/news/idaho-expands-crisis...
And many people (reasonably IMO) also observe that, more or less uniquely outside of the arts, CS (or programming really) at the university level often seems to assume prior background. It's not a hard prerequisite but programs at better universities that I've seen don't seem to be designed for people who go into college and decide to dip their toe into CS for more or less the first time. The evidence is that the percentage of women in CS programs started declining pretty much in line with home computing and gaming started to become common.
There is also the fact that many of the traditional jobs that required a standard BS have become over saturated lower the pay for those jobs. While at the same time the push by public schools to send every child to univeristy meant skilled trades suffered from low talent pool driving up wages in those markets.

This is a re-balance, and honestly employers need to be look at their positions that traditional they want a degree for, middle management, some IT roles, and other "information worker" roles to take a hard look if those positions really do need a degree. I suspect no...
> How does bigness harm consumers in this case?

It's up to the book to make that case. My point is that the issues you describe (misinformation, polarization, engagement baiting, objectionable content) are not mentioned among the problems that trust-busting is meant to solve. Other problems are mentioned.
Which is a side effect of educated workers demanding higher wages. Trickle down is purposely built into the political economy.

Carmack was recently highlighted for saying it’s easier to educate a doer than motivate the educated.

Frankly that almost feels like a nice of way of saying less educated have questionable negotiating skills.

I can be busy collecting fractions of cents or lazy and earn more in an office doing data entry, not unstopping toilets.

History has shown us a whole lot of those “get er done” programmers and projects just made fragile messes we had to babysit later.

If we’re busy “doing” we aren’t negotiating social progress. The goal isn’t perfect mind control, just to persuade folks to move along.
> People will go on a vacation and then meter out the pictures from it over months to appear like they're on perpetual vacations. I don't mind people apologizing for those.

I've noticed this increasingly. It's sorta bizarre?
I guess it happens. But if you really want to harass a celebrity, can't you just follow them to their house?
It's never a problem. Until it is.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure there's no such thing as a "high trust" society.
Yes, though he got plenty of immediate public feedback with his first rant. Then chose to ignore it all and escalate/double-down.
> Of course, all the work will go to fixing the "females are only 25% in engineering," and whatever effort is spent fixing "females are...76% in public administration" will round down to zero.

It occurs to me that they’re the same problem, since a woman who goes into engineering probably doesn’t end up going into public administration. So you only need fix one of them, and the other follows. And it’s no particular surprise that people find engineering more interesting to talk about.
You might also want to consider one of the simpler pre-packaged solutions for small k8s on premise clusters (like k3s)
Absolutely, no argument there. It seems the answer will be weird whatever it is.
It used to be impossible to link to specific page in a SPA without using hashes in the URL, but this problem has been solved years ago, and all modern browsers support it.
Thanks for sharing this looks really interesting. I wonder what it would look like with collaborative users
Same reason why prices went way up before MTGOX collapsed. People have "assets" in Bitfinex that they can't cash out for something with real value except by buying crypto and hoping it gets transferred out before reserves are depleted. They can't cash out actual fiat. So fiat prices on the failed exchange go up up up until the legit regulated exchanges eventually decouple and then the house of cards comes down.
you're not wrong that it would be preferable to have tubes that didn't need plasticizers, but generally water isn't going to sit in the tubing in a soda fountain or whatever for that long. Prolonged periods give a lot longer time for chemicals to leech, there is a "rate" component here, and the natural flow of liquid also means there is a larger volume of liquid involved, diluting things out.

which isn't to say that it isn't a problem either, but in relative terms here, what I'm saying is that water that sits in a plastic Nalgene bottle for a couple days probably is more concerning to me than water that passes through a few feet of plastic tubing inside a vending machine and never sits still for more than 10 or 15 minutes.

Although of course I suppose given the plastic tubes are more flexible than a hard plastic nalgene bottle, they may also have higher levels of plasticizers...
This is insanely predatory, between this and that "skip the interview" app I've completely lost all faith in Y Combinator. I don't know how people are allowed to propose such villainous ideas, let alone conceive of one. My only mental recourse is assuming that you're either completely blind to the actual needs of people with ADHD, or you came at this from a money-first perspective.
I'll take a stab at this:

The societal pressure placed on men to earn enough to be a provider or at least earn more than their partners causes men to assign a higher weight to ROI when evaluating pursuing higher education.

Anecdata: I have no degree, my company will pay for me to get anything up to the PhD level - I have little interest in this because I don't see it increasing my earning potential vs investing the same amount of time in progressing my career or looking for a new job.

EDIT: I have a second conjecture too now that I think of it - increased levels of education and career progression for women puts a sort of "floor" on whether getting an education is worth it all for some men since even after investing the effort they're at or below the income levels of their potential partners. I don't know enough about the effect income disparity has on partner selection to put much stock in this but maybe it's a thing?
I think you're missing the point of my comments. I know neither enough of CL nor Rust to make a comment on the performance (I have less than ~1000 lines of experience in either and have only built the smallest of toy projects in either language).

This is my original sentiment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28842546

mst stated that the author explicitly called out the Rust code as suboptimal. That is a misreading of the original text, which was referring to a previous iteration. The author (and you) clearly does not think the current Rust code is suboptimal.
> https://soundcloud.com/deivid-dos-santos-fernandes/8-2-insti...

song lyrics :D
Facebook accused of 'fanning ethnic violence' in Ethiopian civil war
I felt the implication of your original comment was "store brands are functionally the same as name brands", and wanted to clarify that was not necessarily the case. Apologies if I misunderstood.
That's not what I said at all, and you're purposefully trying to put words there that aren't.

We should be aiming for close to equal results, and trying to understand why we aren't getting those.

I never said how one should achieve equal results on both the input and output. I just said that's the more realistic goal. I even say that it's not going to be exact.

The point is to analyze, and come up with well formed opinions based on data. If a certain demographic is dropping out at a higher rate, maybe it's worth understanding why?

Are they simply not as good? Do they have societal pressures from their homes? Do they face harassment from other majority demographics? Do they have other factors like lack of health support?

There's many factors that play into it. We need the data to understand the discrepancy, and then to start understanding why that discrepancy exists.
It’s Not You. It’s Them. On Hacking and Responsible Disclosure
I am sure the law sees the difference. Intent is what makes the difference between a murder charge and the death penalty, and supervision with a suspended sentence for manslaughter, when you hit a person driving drunk.

Page 346 was an accident - your intent was to read Your data. In viewing Further pages, as the OP stated for the explicit purpose of viewing other people's confidential medical data, the intent is a crime. It's the same thing as walking up to someone's desk in an office you're allowed to be in, and looking through their files.