skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep such a list in Roam, and usually neglect to pluck things from it. But it's more that when I go to add something and it's already there or has some relation to something already there (e.g. same author), I'll often give it more attention immediately. It's not the best system, but I suspect it's better than never writing it down :)

(This perhaps a bit of an ADHD-specific tactic)
> Isaac... felt that the underlying problem was WebAgency’s difficulty scaling down their workflows to fit TinyPilot’s budget. Their typical client has a retainer in the range of $20-40k per month.

I think Isaac nailed it. It's just a different mindset between providing a full-service development group and doing a focused update of a site for a small business (very small... one might say "tiny" :)

But I think this was foreseeable by the agency, and they should have considered very carefully whether they could achieve what their client wanted before accepting the work (or gotten the client to buy into a larger scope up-front).

BTW, these TinyPilot devices are very cool. I did a pikvm build to try something, but if I needed something like this for a real use, I'd probably get a TinyPilot.
The problem is that there's a limited amount of total information available to candidates looking for company reviews, so (in my opinion) it's still wise to consider Glassdoor a useful source, with the caveat that it shouldn't be blindly trusted. It still gives useful signal.
> We’d never discussed custom illustrations, but it seemed like a small amount of work, so I let it go.

> “To be clear, the project is still a rebranding and not a redesign, right?” I asked.

It's a very interesting post, but when I read quotes like the above, it seems like such a strange way to deal with an agency you have hired to perform work for you. Think about if this was about a remodeling job for your house instead of a website. If you saw the workers suddenly start repainting a different room or redoing the trim when it wasn't in scope would you "just let it go"?
"...a law that required a landowner to sell to a not-for-profit at the market rate if they were selling and they couldn't be outbid by a private buyer"

Why would a law be required for this? Wouldn't the landowner just naturally be willing to sell to the not-for-profit entity if they were willing to pay as much or more than someone else?

I have to suspect that this is really about forcing the landowner to sell at less than market rate, with some sort of camouflage to conceal that that's what's happening.
^ This person gets it.
The "overton window" in American politics is narrow enough that we essentially have a de facto uniparty, that agrees on everything except what matters. About 40% of the country is Independent but we pretend that either of these parties represent us. Then we fight about which party is worse. I can't see any other way that this could have happened after the introduction of fiat currency and endless war budgets financed by fiat. Eisenhower was right about the Military Industrial Complex.
No I’m not saying that at all.

I’m saying there’s plenty wrong with it, but the thing that would take the LONGEST to fix is Azure B2C, because that’s a whole beast in itself and is tightly coupled with all of the other MS products from Windows to Minecraft, to many many thousands of Web Apps that were unfortunate enough to have used it.

As a user who has multiple Microsoft accounts (due to years of contracting), I can’t log in to teams.

Edit: Teams has lots of problems, fixing AD/B2C is by far the hardest because it is a legacy pile of garbage used in thousands of production apps
Very cool!

I'm signed up for notification in my village and a nearby town. On a mostly-rural island, 3km circle isn't quite big enough.
It sounds a whole lot like you’ve never been inside a US prison.
This makes a lot of sense, I feel like this is more of a management issue, it should be the responsibility of the manager to keep everyone working on what is initially planned.
To my understanding, they've since whored themselves out to Apple and Pfizer as a tech tax haven.
To a certain degree, yes. Agreed that it's funny and ironic. But also from an overall software-engineering and developer-experience perspective, this isn't the worst outcome...
>My line of thinking is that takes the power away from the individual.

Takes the power away from Apple you mean.

If Apple cares that much about privacy, as opposed to their bottom line under the guise of caring, then they can implement additional controls into the OS layer that will help users control or even anonymize/randomize their data when running third-party apps.
That's fair; I probably could have just replied directly to the parent you were replying to rather than to you.
Back in the 90s I worked in a shared linux office environment. Sometimes people would leave themselves logged in, so of course it was your duty to mess with them if you found such an egregious security violation.

Once we found one logged in and decided to add 'yes' as the last line of his bash login.

That day we learned, via an angry phone call, that you can't Ctrl^C out of 'yes' via a remote shell. Today after reading this I'm assuming it's because of the way it floods the buffer.

Poor guy had to call the one dude with root access to fix it for him.
-Public subsidies come from public expenses. If you are already importing more than exporting, you will have a public deficit. Public deficit are not allowed beyond a limit. So, if you are already a successful export economy, you have the resources to invest, otherwise you don't.

-It's a common market, so not import taxes are allowed. That means that any new industry will have to compete with developed companies already established.

-Public companies are encourage to be privatized, so, you can't keep an industrial base that it's not, for now, competitive.

-The result is desindustrialization. Then those desindustrialized countries are accused of not being competitive.

-In some cases, at the European level they realize that they are losing the strategic edge to other blocks, and some kind of program at the federal level is created. Like the current thing with the chips. Of course this programs never will result of giving the edge to one of the PIGS.
JWST FAQ still says

Q: "Will micrometeoroids damage the beryllium mirror?"

A: "We tested beryllium discs for micrometeoroids using test facilities in the US and showed the micrometeoroids have negligible effects on the beryllium. Cryogenic beryllium mirrors have been flown in space exposed to micrometeoroids without problems. The Spitzer Space Telescope, launched in 2003, has a beryllium primary mirror. All of Webb's systems are designed to survive micrometeoroid impacts."

https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/faq.html
> Then again, I can't imagine doctors would be happy with the AWS Management Console experience...

I can assure you health care professionals in the US deal with far, far worse IT situations. It’s very unfortunate.
1. While category growth likely won't hold over the next couple of years, there were ~350M PCs sold in 2021, most of which were notebooks. Apple has <10% share, and ASP is >$700, even including ultra-cheap Chromebooks for Edu. [0]

2. The Framework Laptop is our first product, but not our last one. We see the same problems across consumer electronics, and we're excited about our product roadmap to address them!

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/pc-sales-hit-350-million-u...
Yeah I sort of rolled my eyes at all the logo redesigns (especially as these seem to have come first in the process) but it seems Author was fine with it. It’s an impressive read because Author (and Isaac to some degree) seem quite even keeled in dealing with everything.
May be a bit unfair, but to me this looks like a gun taped to a robot. Not really impressive except for the shock value on the internet. More aesthetics than function or anything revolutionary.
Very cool, have always wondered when there’d be a “Plaid for healthcare data”. Looking forward to playing around with the product.

Also, great to see you’re encrypting sensitive data with Evervault!

[Disclosure: founder of Evervault here]
While I agree with your assessment given the available data you shared, I have to wonder if we really have to spend that much?

From what I understand it's hard to separate how much of that spend is effective vs. how much of it is "bad money" tied up in modern forestry cargo cult practices carried over from the last 100 year.

With the increasing frequency of megafires in the Western United States (and other locations around the world) the discussion has shifted to reconsidering if the existing paradigm of prioritizing fire prevention over active fire management (planned burns, building code improvements, etc.) is in our best interests.

For example:

https://www.ctif.org/news/modern-forestry-practices-may-be-p...

http://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/?forum-post=preven...
Ericsson Completes Acquisition of Vonage
Sometime ago here I posited that America was business friendly because you could decide to simply not pay a company you weren’t satisfied with and usually have no consequence. This is exactly a scenario where that would be useful.
This has nothing to do with Axie Infinity, and nothing to do with changing the core gameplay.

Mitigating the absurd fees and limitations of app store purchases would be one significant win for game publishers and gamers.
Isn't it because they are optimized for energy efficiency, and the more external display the more Watt you need (20W/display)?

If you build a laptop, why optimize it for many external displays, that doesn't make sense, i want it to be optimized for laptop use, wich is what they did
As a designer & developer myself, I agree, the rebranding and new bootstrap template would take a week to deliver at most for ONE person. I'd charge ~$2,000 USD for something like this (30 hours at $75/hr).
Kairos and Materion commission molten salt purification plant
America has a lot more leverage over the EU now. I doubt it will be smooth sailing.
For the population in general, no, probably not. Especially not for basic primary and preventative care.

But it's also a matter of perspective. As someone that is privileged enough to shop for improved healthcare quality and access, I've jumped from an old-school cash-basis solo practitioner, to One Medical, to Forward, to about the highest end concierge practice available in my metro region. Every time I've increased my spending, the quality of care and accessibility has generally increased. One Medical and Forward were still improvements over what I'd had access to previously even though I chose to move on and pay more money elsewhere for an improved experience.
"Let the Flowers Bloom!" [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
> real jobs?

If someone’s paying you then it’s a real job.
I'd just say there are two sides to every story, and we've only heard one, vaguely. I'm not saying the architect guy was definitely right or justified, but, having seen various workplace conflicts, I'm not going to automatically condemn him or the company based on the OP's version of the story only.
>The agency is not your buddy

I was a consultant for a while and this is true. We usually had one or two empty suits per project that survived by getting buddy buddy with the clients. It was kind of a symbiotic relationship with the superstar devs. The superstars did nearly all the work and the buddy buddy devs helped keep the clients happy. But ultimately you're paying a lot of money for someone to be your buddy.
I've picked up a lot of pitchforks for YouTube channels before. I do this because I want YouTube to improve and I value the creators' intentions to educate, entertain, inform through the platform.

This time, I am not so sure. I'm gonna leave the pitchfork at home. I think YouTube might be getting it right more than they used to.

Do let us know if Github ever has a problem with your project, and next time don't be so obtuse.
Original source:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/three-charged-first-eve...
It's one thing to factor in employee overhead -- whether it's "20% time" or vacation time or healthcare or just plain inefficiency -- into your pricing model. It's another thing entirely to take a client's contracted hours to pay for something they never asked for -- repeatedly, even when asked to stop. It's both a difference in degree and in expectations between paying for a monthly service vs paying for billable hours. If you're an agency and your dev went wild doing random stuff, you don't pass that on to the client (unless you're an unethical outfit like this one), you eat the costs and talk to the dev about better structuring their work.

There's also a pretty big difference between spending a LITTLE extra time on a side project vs not even finishing the actual project because your side project became the main focus. This is probably OK: "Hey, here's that finished logo you asked for. By the way, we had plenty of extra hours left, so I spent an hour on this new design mockup... doesn't it fit in much better with the new logo? What do you think, should we consider expanding the project scope to pursue this, or drop it if you don't like this direction?"

That's not what this agency did. They were more like "Ohhhhh yeah we still haven't had time to finish your logo. We need a few more months while we figure stuff out internally. Sorry, you're just not a high priority for us. But hey, one of our designers took half your hours and made this, check it out! Yeah, I know it's not what you wanted, but the logo person is busy. But check it out anyway! C'mon! By the way, if you paid us more, maybe we'd take you more seriously." What bullshit, lol... =/
Yeah, so possibly a bad office manager too.

I would be too if I were a science genius.
i know here on hacker news we tend to see everything from the technical perspective and that means bitcoin isn't very interesting. But, try and see things from a financial perspective.

the value proposition of crypto has nothing to with decentralization. Bitcoin isn't about Bitcoin. The reason bitcoin is valuable has more to do with what's happening with governments and fiat currencies than anything about crypto or bitcoin. Ask anyone, why they got into bitcoin, ask any company that got into holding bitcoin instead of cash: they'll tell you: It basically boils down to "I lost faith in fiat".

There's been a huge 50 year bond bubble brewing and 100 year government bubble brewing where govt uses larger and larger amounts of GDP with ever larger debts. The explosion of debt is insane. Ask any financial professional, and they'll tell you with all that leverage in the system, there absolutely WILL be a deleveraging. The govts of the world will NOT be able to meet all their obligations. They can't raise taxes and they can't cut spending. That means, they must default on their currency (this is basically just a huge huge tax on anyone who's holding cash or bonds, even if inflation only stays at 10%, that 100K tax per year on anyone holding a million dollars). And when the Dollar and all the other fiats of the world go bust, you're only going to want to hold 3 asset classes: Equities, Real estate and commodities (gold and bitcoin). Real estate is hard to execute and not scalable at all. Gold, can't be held outside an IRA. So, what does that leave? just Equities and Bitcoin. and anyone that wants any diversification is going to need some bitcoin. one by one sooner or later, everyone is going to come to this conclusion, it's just a matter of time. the future will be one where a 60/40 portfolio is not 60 stock/40 bonds but 60 stock/40 bitcoin.

Bitcoin isn't attractive. On the titanic, do you think, anyone wants to get onto a rickety row boat with no seaworthiness whatsoever? While the music is still playing and party is going, no one gets on board. But, when it becomes clear that the titanic is sinking, everyone's rushing to get onboard. and when Fiat sinks, there's really only a few liferafs: equities, real estate, gold and bitcoin.
Thing I've observed about pretending to work most of the time: no one notices that you're pretending to work. I still get raises, no one has a long chat with me about my future with the company, nothing.

This strongly suggests that the company just really doesn't expect much out of me for what they're paying, so why should I give them anything more? It's bad enough I have to give them 40 hours (plus commute) of my week when I can apparently get done what they want done in a fraction of that.

Is this laziness, if the alternative is essentially doing extra work for free?
Not exactly the same, because with the US Dollar, every bank can be ordered to freeze your assets.

This may be considered a feature, but the same is true for the Ruble, or the Real. Having assets on the blockchain means you self-custody them in a more portable way (similar to cash), while still having them in a digital form.
I would much rather curtail government power than corporate power. I can much easier get away from a corporation than a government. Government has a "monopoly on violence". They can take away my rights much easier than corporations.
> fast-fail (the first check constraint violated would bubble the error upward) rather than slow-fail (collect all invalid fields and return the collection of errors, which IME is more common on average web forms or api requests)

...
> Has a more ergonomic approach to validation-error collection been developed other than writing a large function to iterate the new record fieldwise against the schema?

Thats an interesting problem that makes sense in the context of form validation.

re: have the ergonomics improved -> no

but you could hack that behavior together like this:

```

create or replace function handle_errors(errors text[])

returns bool

language plpgsql

as $$

begin

if errors = array[]::text[] then

return true;

end if;

raise exception using errcode='22000', message=(select string_agg(x, ', ') from unnest(errors) v(x));

end;

$$;

create table account(

id int primary key,

email text,

first_name text

check (

handle_errors(

array[]::text[]

|| case when email is null then 'email must not be empty' else null end

|| case when first_name is null then 'first_name must not be empty' else null end

)

)

);

insert into account(id, email, first_name)

values (1, null, null);

-- ERROR: email must not be empty, first_name must not be empty

```

not that I'd recommend it :)
Hard-pressed to think of any company I'd trust less with my medical records. Maybe Google.
You are aware that Christian morals and ethics explicitly were sources of inspiration, energy, and direction for the country's founding--both as an event and its documents--right? You are aware that those principles are largely responsible for you being able to freely type your message on Hacker News, right?
The amounts in these insider trading schemes always seem small to me. $750k per person? If I had advance knowledge of all Coinbase listing announcements I'm pretty sure I could make more than that!
I love what you are doing here!

I am actually working on something similar with Shepherd.com :)

I ask authors to recommend 5 books around a topic, theme, or mood. For example, here is one that Steven Pinker did on Rationality: https://shepherd.com/best-books/rationality

Then I use NLP to identify Wikipedia topics around the book. And, use that to connect it to topics in order to make it a fun process to find your next book online. I am hoping to use Wikidata to build some really cool connections as we get going.

What I also get from this is how books are connected to each other using human data. So that author 1 thinks that book 1 is similar in some way to 2, 3, 4, and 5. I use those inputs to power the new recommendation system I am launching next month. And, a few months after that a "books like" feature that will use that same data. And, then toward Winter I'll integrate book genre data into that.

I am bootstrapped so we are rate limited on dev time :)

In early 2023 I will add user accounts and a custom book recommendation newsletter based on what readers like in terms of genres, topics, books, and authors. And, once I have that user account I will slowly be moving to collecting readers 3 favorite books of the year. And, then using that data to identify your "Book DNA" and match you to other readers.

Slowly but surely :)

Email me at ben@shepherd.com if you would like to chat or have any ideas.
The Limits of Game Theory
It's really not that simple IMO.

If you look at the earlier mockups, they were just as good if not better. I also think they chose the wrong logo from the earlier mocks.

If you are smaller team/org/business, I'd highly recommend just move as quickly as possible with the agency. Less opportunity for scope creep from them and let the creatives rock and roll. They will, without a doubt, want the project done as fast as possible. They will also produce the same work in 1 vs vs 2 vs vs 3 months.

If you are bigger team/org/business, usually you are buying the "process" or "experience". So it's all mute and a team thing.

If you are looking for both, you'll fail like they did here.
If it's not possible to sell to a private buyer, how is it possible to determine a "market rate"? There would be no market.
Many other economists agree. Those that disagree should explain the last 30 years of Japan to all of us.

If after a pandemic, an energetic crisis, a global politic crisis and a war in Europe, the explanation for inflation is "public debt", maybe there is some bias there to be examined.
no, just some notes of mine. the main thing to learn is that everything that's on the page or not, and how it's there adds to meaning. Added a visual guide showing some examples of how to apply principles...

https://i.ibb.co/5L6VSbF/Web-1920-1.png
What kinds of tasks have you used APL for?
In the early 2000s I was a professional day trader and Knight was a market-making firm. EVERY single person I dealt with was an absolute crook, happy to break rules and do disgustingly horrible things to enrich themselves, because they were truly incompetent traders.
90% of Russia's economy is controlled by 200 people.

This is where the right wing wants to take the USA.
Full agree. I'd have been okay if this telescope cost us $50bn
In NYC property taxes are almost certainly the least relevant issue. In NYC there is a tremendous amount of political friction around new high-rise construction.
> Abortion, for example, is an economic issue. Allowing women to control their reproduction is, by far, the most effective way to combat poverty. A child costs over $250,000 to raise on average, and that's the type of burden that keeps people in poverty. Abortion rights have strong support among the wealthy; this is not a case of the "elites" dividing the working class, it's the working class that supports regressive policies.

Meanwhile, just 29% of folks who primarily speak Spanish at home, and 41% of first generation Hispanic immigrants, think abortion should be legal. If Democrats want to be the party of telling working class Hispanics that their views are “regressive” and the most important problem is that they can’t or won’t abort enough of their babies, that’s a dream come true for the GOP.

Bonus points for “[a]bortion rights have strong support among the wealthy.” The attack ads write themselves. “Wall Street bankers and Silicon Valley engineers think that their maids and gardeners are having too many kids and should abort more of them.”
With the difference that it's not a markup language, and it doesn't have those pesky namespaces.
I guess, should you stop feeding it a steady stream of keys, signals, and flashes, it ... dies due to lack of care, just as a tamagotchi :(

With this number of radios, does it need to be FCC certified?

As a side note, in some of the promo images, the battery gauge is at 52% (or 73%), yet its icon shows a full battery... I guess it's fixed in the real implementation.