skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number of situations where this applies is pretty small though in employment % though, and probably shrinking.

I'm curious what you work on. Most things boutique enough to eventually present a "fixed product" today are also usually high-end enough for someone to be doing 24/7 support.
The data rules worth $40k a day
> and I'm reminded of them each birthday.

Wait, people actually fill in their real birthday to sites that have no reason to ask for it other than putting up some kind of show that they are keeping out minors?
You can probably afford to pay for all medical costs, out of pocket, now that you stopped buying at Wholefoods...
> >Will you build a bridge that’s inexpensive, but will have to be replaced in 25 years, or will you spend twice the money for more concrete and more steel to make it last for 50?

> Of course the second (which is what is actually usually done) the issue being that in real world after 50/60/70/80 years the bridge won't be replaced/repaired .

Was just relating this story to someone else the other day. As a kid, there was a lot of roadworks around us. Due to cold weather and hot summer, roads were constantly developing seams/buckles and potholes. This was often chalked up to 'unions bad - cheap materials - etc'. Newspapers would run 'investigations' every few years, etc.

I think the road folks often did poor jobs of explaining decisions, and maybe it was literally always just "cheapest bid".

But I look back at a road that was bad for years - it was repaved at least 3 x over a 10 year period I remember. THEN... it was expanded from 2 and 3 lane road to 6 lane. The land was there on both sides, and it had been in planning for probably 10+ years. Knowing the road will be torn up less than 10 years in the future, I can understand "just use cheapest patching for now" because it will get thrown away 3 years from now.

However, that was never something that ever seemed to get across in news 'investigations'. Note, I'm going back to the 80s and 90s in my head, and I was younger - there may have been some info I missed, but even as I grew in to an adult... little hard info seemed to make it out to the general public.
Exactly. I doubt it was malice, I mostly suspect an agency used to large clients with no experience or methodology with small ones. A lot of what was set up for his website was stuff that only makes sense if the project is huge.

Let's say you want to set up a framework and it takes you XL amount of hours. That XL amount of hours is worth it if the website has 15,000 products and 75 pages of content. But if there's only one product and two pages, it's not worth it.

Same goes for the management time that crept into the budget. 20k extra on a 1 million contract is nothing and I would say expected. But on a 7k project? That's huge.

If the company has a lot of internal processing in between each step, it eats up a lot of the budget. Daily stand-up meetings, agile rituals, pull requests, handover to a QA department and bug fix rounds. Again, this makes sense for a large project but not for a small one.

Most companies that are used to a formula that works will not change for one customer.

If I had a metaphor, it would be this: If you want to travel 1500 kilometres, it makes sense to take a train. Boarding will be slow and the train will start out slow. But overall, you win. On the other hand, if you're only traveling 500 meters, it's a bit of a stretch. It is better to take a truck or a car.

The problem here is that the company was a train and promised safe travel to the next station 500 meters away. Were they being malicious? I doubt it, they probably made the train trip safe. They probably don't know the details of trucking and didn't recommend it.

Should they have recommended going with a smaller company? Maybe. But I don't know if I would consider that malicious. If anything, they should have been more transparent about their internal methodologies and ways of working so that the client could have properly consented to what he was getting into.
There are brokers for IT consultants.

I don’t know any where you live, but it is a thing. They’ll connect you to clients and my experience is that nobody throws leetcode interviews at consultants.

If you are willing to work full time you can also join a consultancy and they’ll find you something to do.
I hate to be blunt but you got scammed. Of course hindsight is 20/20 but I feel like you're approaching this the wrong way if your first reaction was to schedule a call with the scammer and amicably discuss where things went wrong.

My first instinct, would be to amicably discuss reimbursement of at least parts of the bill, which in my experience an honest agency would consider especially when they outright admit (hopefully in writing) that the work and management of the project was subpar. And in the event that this doesn't work, I'd explore my legal options.
Neither this rebranding, nor the redesign work you got is worth 46k.

Also the only mention of a contract I could find was at the end when discussing termination. It's one of the conclusions you drew, but it's crazy that the scope, deliverables and timetable were not clearly defined, especially if you are paying upfront.

Anyway props to you for publishing this, it's very useful knowledge.
Absolutely!

https://www.landtrustalliance.org/what-you-can-do/conserve-y...
Most folks outside the USA (where I live) that I've worked with / spoken to say that we're completely insane and it's embarrassing that we allow the incredible amount of gun violence that we do. All my coworkers overseas think it's unreal and really intolerable that we allow the level of gun violence that we do.

People need to quit embarrassing themselves trying to somehow reason away why the USA is an outlier via some kind of cope metric. It's the guns.
What kind of expertise is needed for you guys to have a trackpoint in the keyboard?

There's a vocal minority of people (I count myself in) that really, really like trackpoints and would love to have a Framework laptop with this kind of pointing device. I think it would be more productive (or perhaps its wishful thinking on my part) for you people to say something like "we need to shave x mm from the Thinkpad one to match or requirement" or "we need x dollar to hire someone / to let our product engineer spend y amount of time on this project.

(and I'm of course ignoring the dozen or so patents that probably prevent you to implement this... but I really really like trackpoints)
>I’m not trying to bash the agency here

He should be trying to do so.
David Brooks: I Was Wrong About Capitalism
Looks like HTMX already has something like this, just client-side. https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-select/

That's probably safer in some ways than filtering server side.
The second sentence belies the exact reason they wouldn't release a roadmap - they want you to buy now since it's the present, not possibly later if you know more information.
Your "B" summary left out how I then pointed to a paper giving an overview of those accuracy numbers, across a range of methods.

What's the error rate in telling if a traffic light is red or green? My own experience says it's very low. Even for people who are color-blind (due to the standardized orientation of the lights, and choice of a blueish-green that's easier for red-green colorblind people to recognize).

What's the error rate in assigning gender based on skeletal remains using the approach mentioned in the article? That appears to be 5-15% -- high enough that the article should have used a qualifier like "It is usually possible" or "It is often possible".

Even the 5% error rate "acceptable in forensic setting" is far higher than the error rate in your traffic light example.
> If you're not concerned about monetization and discovery…

"If you don't want your video to be found…"
Chess = Pain?
Ok fine, we're in a depression. But it's the millennials' fault.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/15/millennials-are-to-blame-for...
As someone who has worked at a content agency for a decade, let me just say: I feel really bad that this happened to you, and that scope creep is real.

I almost feel like you needed to ask for three separate things: A brand identity, a marketing strategy refresh, and then (finally) a website redesign. That all three were combined into one process likely caused this problem to drag on. The agency had its problems, but to be honest to me as someone who is familiar with this space, it sounds like they were combining a lot of disciplines into one project without considering that it would have been better to chew smaller bites.

There are times where you do need to bend the rules. At the beginning of the pandemic I sort of broke protocol to get a COVID-19 landing page on a client’s site online because I knew that it would take weeks done the normal way and possibly would have led us to charge the client for something that a skilled designer only needed a couple of hours to build in WordPress. While the landing page wasn’t perfect, it held up for nearly a year, and showed that we were taking things seriously at a time we needed to. A lot of agencies aren’t wired for doing right beyond billable hours, so be mindful of the risks.

Either way, I feel bad that you paid so much for a site that looks way better but doesn’t feel like $46k worth of work.
If you scroll down below the ordering section, you'll see an EPROM containing:

"The Diskless Elf/OS ROM by Mike Riley gives you a taste of everything! It has Tiny BASIC, FORTH, Lisp, VTL2, a monitor, simulator, and a mini-editor/assembler. It can also upload/download files in XMODEM format to use your PC as its "disk". All in a single 32k ROM!"

That EPROM can be ordered for $5.

There's a link to Riley's site. The Lisp interpreter I found there is a 2600 line file of fully commented asm.

Edit: this is, after all, a 64K computer kit, usually 32K RAM 32K ROM, but it could be 64K RAM, if you toggle in a minimum bootloader each time, like they did in the old days.

You can do a lot with 64K.

For comparison, the original Arduino Uno had only 2K RAM and was announced about six months after this kit came out.
A few weeks later, WebAgency called a meeting to share updates, but they hadn’t made any progress on the logo or branding. Instead, they spent the whole meeting showing me design ideas for the website.

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

I'm sure the quote isn't verbatim from your meeting with, but I'm guessing your tone with them was similar. It sounds like you were speaking to them like you're both working at the same company, for the same boss, which isn't the right tone, IMO.

You hired these people, so you should really be talking to them like you're the boss. Basically, dictate where their work is going. If it sounds like they're going off-track, that's your money they're wasting, so tell them, "This doesn't look like what I asked for.
Is there any incentive to prevent a reviewer from just entering a pseudonym instead of their real name? It would be amusing if after the court order all the company received was "Test User was the one who wrote this review".
Has anyone else noticed that OneMedical doesn't do full blood tests during yearly screenings anymore? My girlfriend had to beg for a vitamin d test last time she went (they said she didn't need one because she looked healthy, and when she got her results it said she was low on vitamin d), and last time I went they only screened me for cholesterol because I told them I wasn't vegan anymore and that I've developed a taco bell habit.
And even if you do talk to a real person, it still might not get something done.

GamersNexus got one of their videos age-restricted, mailed with people high up in the YouTube Partner Program tree, and was not able to get the video fixed until some viewers who work at Google were aware of it and did manual internal escalation [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOGUV1bsjtQ&t=67s
Async ≠ concurrent, and should not be tracked in the type system
This company doesn't understand public relations. Rather than countering bad PR with good PR, they decided to double down, cutting off their nose to spite their face.
There are only two, and one of them is owned by the same person that owns Rocky.
Charity can more than help those who fall through the cracks. Th Charity of individuals, nonprofits and private companies that realize investing in helping people will help their brand.

Think of all the money that is wasted in todays system. Its not a lack of money,its how its badly spent and all the red tape in between. Much more efficient to let individuals manage it than a burocracy based on forced taxation which leads to a lack of accountability as poor performance still gets funding.
I've always been of the view that oil and coal were too valuable, too energy-dense a finite resource, to waste, but should be kept in reserve for if/when we really need that kind of energy density. On a local scale: I'd rather use solar on my rooftop, but don't mind having a diesel generator when the power goes out.

Other uses for oil and coal besides. Coking coal for steel production, oil for plastics, etc.
I personally preferred The Better Angels of our Nature [0] as a deeper look focusing on the assorted statistics. Enlightenment Now recycles a lot of it and summarizes. There's some minor updates as well.

[0] https://stevenpinker.com/publications/better-angels-our-natu...
"But despite all the missteps and stress, the results might justify all the pain. I expected the new website to increase sales by 10-20%, but it’s been closer to 40%."

Should have put this in the beginning of the article.

As for all the issues mentioned in the article, trust me on this, it's always like this. I've been that "small client" hiring externals at all tiers: mechanical turk, freelancers, agencies.

You ask for A but get B. You agree on a timeline but none are respected. You can put your foot down but that does absolutely nothing, they don't need you. You're more like a hobby on the side.
TinyPilot: KVM over IP Control any computer remotely
I suspect it comes down to the difference between the two questions (a) Whether SSRI"s a/d meds work (b) Why/How they work.

Clearly these things help many people.
But not everyone and may even be harmful in some cases. Why, now that we don't seem to have really high quality answers on.
We used a design agency as well for one of our product logos. Come to find out, they just ripped off the Noun Project svgs, added some color, and called it a day. A lot of the agencies I’ve seen typically have enough templates already so it’s to the point now that you just fill in some blanks, choose a color palette, add relevant graphics and you’re done.
They're hot fries.

Warm greasy potatoes with a bit of crunch are always good.

In 30 minutes? Not good fries.
One example is not a market, one example is the need for legislation.
I am looking for some part time work. I have a good amount of TS experience in different contexts -- can I get in touch with you all?
Of course, every iteration of technological revolution will bring us better tools - and probably just like how we are wondering about nuclear age in the current information age, the future scientists will wonder why and how we reached the means we are dealing with now.
That's what I thought to. But it seems Zuru isn't satisfied with mere removal of the review, or didn't want to pay for it. They're trying to unmask the ex-employee so they can sue him personally in New Zealand. They don't just want the review gone, they want the reviewer ruined.
That is already how it works in many areas where many providers have been brought under one roof. For example, a pediatric group my kids go to has a designated pediatrician, but in the event of an acute illness, you get to see whichever pediatrician is available.

For my wife and I, we signed up with a primary care physician that is employed by the same company that owns the hospital we want to go to. They employ all sorts of doctors and labs and can easily see medical records between them. We also chose our pediatrician group because they use Epic and integrate with hospital which also uses Epic and so medical records for the whole family are instantly available for all doctors at the hospital in case of emergency.

When one of my kids has some blood in stool as an infant, and we had to go see a pediatric GI specialist, we could go see one employed by the same company at a special children’s hospital, and they had east access to all of the same records my kid’s pediatrician was seeing.

And, of course, because the whole healthcare provider company that operates the hospital and employs the doctors is covered by BCBS, we do not have to worry about checking for out of network providers.
I believe when the entire global economy is wholly dependent on a single resource (oil) and that resource experiences even the slightest disturbance, whatever you believe is the cause of it, the most likely outcome is a global recession.
50 basis points is 1/100th of a percentage point (pp), not a percentage (%).
Al Alcorn's Original Hand-Drawn Schematic for Pong
> a billion requests a day

... that supposed to be good ? it's 11600 requests per second... for reference Seastar (a C++ framework) reaches 7M requests per second (https://seastar.io/http-performance/)
That is a problem of immanent domain and lobby. Remove that and private reserves work perfectly fine.
> C'mon, even setting aside the fact that the victim here walks away with a giant pile of money

Money is a medium of exchange. There are items that are literally not for sale, and the excuse of "but they got money!!!!" is completely unacceptable as a replacement.

How are you going to value the writing on the walls of the home my neighbor from her now-deceased son?

How are you going to value the 6 (six!) graves of the dogs she's buried in her back yard, Each with a custom stone statue.

How are you going to value that she's memorized her current home layout, so that large cataract in her right eye doesn't bug her as much when she's in the familiar layout?

How do you value the extra time and expense it would take her to find a new home, given she's wheelchair bound?

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and your "new plan" is devolving into trying to add all sort of extra conditions and rules around this - which gets us right back to: implement this and people will literally try to kill you.
Unrelated to the website discussion, the last link showing it is still negative profits after spectacular revenue increases is scary. This looks like a great product at a great price point, with solid sales, how are you not in the black yet?!
btw, even if I disagree, I don't think your comments should be dv'd. part of productive dialogue
Here's an interesting approach using rules: https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/soft-deletion-with-postg...
> I think that people can be really productive during that week.

There are some really special people with horizons till their office wall. Of course this is a huge benefit but it is also where it starts. Benefits like this allow for crunch time in times of need. If there is a constant time of need there is no need for extra work.
so the question is, is it really that hard to start from scratch?

You could have the top tier upwork freelancers for 60-100 USD per hour

fully dedicated to your project

Would it really be more expensive than a spaghetti touched by 10+ people at an agency?
Amazon to acquire One Medical
>I don't think the promise of Bitcoin was ever that there would be no exchanges, only that no one would be beholden to any given provider. As long as you can pick up your keys and seamlessly start trading on a different exchange, that part of the crypto world is not centralized.

Can't you see this defeats the whole purpose though? By this logic, traditional banks are also decentralized because you can also take your money out and go to a different bank. The word "decentralized" has no meaning in crypto parlance, it means whatever the speaker wants it to mean at any given time. And at least banks are FDIC insured, when a crypto exchange loses all your money then you can't really pick up your keys again because everything is just gone.
If you are salaried in the US there is no clock. You can't have company time if the company explicitly isn't buying a set period of time. Firms tend to be unclear on this until it comes time for you to work outside of your 9-5 then they are quite clear on the concept.
Sure they don't, but they also do not last for eternity (without maintenance or repairs).

The theme is more about whether to build "massive" (and expensive) more lasting structures or build more economical but less lasting structures and how to properly evaluate the expected lifetime of these structures.

We know empirically that many (reinforced concrete) structures built 70/80 years ago (some even less than that) start showing a number of issues (that often require "heavy" repairs) besides the few that made it to the news.

We don't have that many examples of earlier constructions of this kind (pre-stressed concrete is relatively recent as a technology), but we do know that in many countries a large number of bridges were built in the '60's and '70's so they are nearing the time they will reach the age we already found to be critical.
Can anyone give an anecdote about how costly (time and money) it is to pursue legal options in this kind of situation? I hate net-negative strategies, but (anec)data would be really helpful to many of us in the future.
Did this chain of posters happen to watch a Curious Droid video recently? If you haven't, give the channel a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhITTxeAWDk
I think I found them, might be heartbeat

[link redacted]
How about a non-profit alternative?
Bernanke on the Great Depression: "Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve. I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again."

https://www.federalreserve.gov/BOARDDOCS/SPEECHES/2002/20021...
If it could take prompts ala Dall-E I'd like to read "a sequel to C.S. Lewis's "The Last Battle" co-authored by Friedrich Nietzsche and JK Rowling." You could make a lot of mischief with new religious texts as well. The Quran demands a sequel!
I had my first TrackPoint contact when I joined IBM. They gave me a ThinkPad 755CD. They still owned the PC Division. There was no touchpad, so it took me about 30~60 minutes to get used to the trackpoint (maybe less). Since them I have had countless ThinkPads, personal and at work, an I always disable the touchpad entirely. I am sure that if most people had to use the trackpoint, they won't want to go back.
Pace of Atmospheric CO₂ Accumulation Falls to Great Recession Levels
And then in proper fashion, put the acquired under management of the in house team, so the acquired can be told how they are doing it wrong.
Yes I'm aware, and yes it's 'public' in the sense that all Python methods are but my point was that it is not meant to be called directly. The whole argument as to whether or not this is a superior mechanism was exactly the cause of heated debate the first time around and something I was keen to avoid here!
Or the cartoon/toy franchise
> I don’t want Christian fundamentalists to be in power

America is as religious, in terms of percentage of people praying daily, as Bangladesh: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/05/01/with-high-l.... That includes core Democrat constituencies, like Black people. 76% of Black Protestants, who overwhelmingly vote Democrat, think the Bible should have at least some influence on US laws: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/13/half-of-ame....

Most atheists and agnostics are Democrats, but they're a pretty niche constituency within the party.
In my opinion, you're not paying $175 for a good looking page. You're paying that premium for an expertise in what will convert, how to build a funnel, and what to measure. I can pay a guy $60/hr in India, and get something that looks decent.
Lattice QCD