skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> be kind to people facing layoffs. Losing your job is awful in the best of circumstances; going through it in such a public and charged situation must be emotionally grueling. Be kind.

At the beginning of covid, I got laid off from a company the day after I accepted a new job at a different company. I had a meeting with my boss to put in my two weeks in the afternoon, but I woke up to an 9am meeting with our CTO where our entire team was let go. Since I got let go instead of quitting I got severance and health care for a few months and was able to file for unemployment, which allowed me to take 6 weeks in between jobs instead of the 2 I was planning.

It was literally the best possible scenario I can think of for getting laid off and it still fucking hurt to be let go.

Seriously, please remember be kind to the people going through this.
I'm not super familiar with Bootstrappers Breakfast but it seems like it would be pretty self selecting. I think tech can be a bit of a bubble, and he could just as well be talking about the owner of the local jet-ski dealership.

There is a massive audience for "grindset" content that has imo has very little curiosity to it outside of ways of acquiring wealth, I think that may be some level of evidence for his argument.

Even more anecdotally, when I scroll LinkedIn I constantly see extremely successful people making posts that massively simplify complex and interesting topics into painfully one-dimensional problems with easy answers. Some of that is definitely politically driven but either way its those people that I thought of while reading the piece.
Oh, cool!

And yeah, licenses can be challenging and frustrating, especially the first time you release a major project.

I am really super excited by the idea of embedded Datalog in Rust. I sometimes run into situations where I need something that fits in that awkward gap between SQL and Prolog. I want more expressiveness, better composability, and better graph support than SQL. But I also want finite-sized results that I can materialize in bounded time.

There has been some very neat work with incrementally-updated Datalog in the Rust community. For example, I think Datafrog is really neat: https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2018... But it's great to see more cool projects in this space, so thank you.
In this thread: numerous people who have "almost" been hit – that is, not hit. A cyclist thought they had room to pass you, and you thought they didn't, and they were right. We must not-do something about this terrible not-problem.
They did find some victims - they told a cisgender woman that she had prostate cancer, despite not having a prostate. Think there were some other pregnancy and miscarriage scares.

But I have to wonder how often Quest screws up there tests, like if you wanted to find people upset about a mistake Quest made, you could probably find some.
I'm not sure what's more depressing, that they didn't think that someone exfiltrating the data was an issue as long as they didn't lose it, or the fact that even if customer data was stolen, they probably were correct that there wouldn't be any ramifications for the negligence.
There is no meaning in dreams. For many people, it (seems to) repeat memories, and not in a consistent or logical manner. It doesn't tell anything about the future, and doesn't include wise lessons about the past. It's an almost random side effect of the brain.

> We must not make so many serious mistakes and we must confront evil.

True, but healthy sleep is needed to make sound judgement, and I find this application pretty impressive.
Yea - could someone shed some light on this? What would the FDA have to do with an app like this? What risk to the public could an app like this pose?

“We had to get an independent security audit and submit it for FDA clearance”

Security audit is probably a good thing. Maybe they need FDA clearance for doctors to prescribe the usage of an app? That just seems ridiculous to me, but also right up the FDA's alley.
Right, that page says "All CPU source code is available under the simple BSD3 open source license, and NVIDIA GPU binaries are included at no cost." So only the CPU code is now Open Source.

Also, if you are building a game, wouldn't you want it to work on AMD GPU's too?
To avoid the spectacle of a coin flip (also, I don't carry coins!), I do the geeky thing:

- Take the first printed word I see
- Sum the letters' ordinal positions ("ramen" == 18+1+13+5+14 == 51)
- Calculate modulus X for one of X choices (51 mod 3 == 0)
- Select option index Y, ordered visually, geographically, temporally, or alphabetically as appropriate, sometimes in reverse to be ornery (["alice", "bob", "eve"][0] == "alice")

And Alice is the winner.

...

If I'm with another person who also can't decide, I skip the first two steps by asking them for a random number between 1 and (a random two digit number).

Then I just tell them whatever my secret preference was all along, and we watch the good movie together happily.

Kidding about that last part. All movies suck.
There's a term that's useful here: active listening. If they are fearful for their job, express concern and ask them to tell the story:

"Oh no, that's terrible! Why are you fearful, are you all right?"

and you remain active by asking follow-up questions. For example to plug gaps in the story:

"Wow! Did your manager say that to your face? Or was it hearsay through that one co-worker?"

and so on. Expressing emotions is also perfectly fine:

"I feel bad. Wish I could do something for you."

I'd only interject long enough to get them talking again. If they need your help they'll have asked it by now :)
That's fantastic - I just spent 8 months bringing a health-tech startup to market, and the amount of random vendors who have managed to position themselves as a "must have" by building a single API and charging $30k/year for it is insane.
At first glance this doesn't appear to be a competitor to Epic. Their customers would be the software vendors who sell products to Epic customers, not Epic customers themselves. Am I wrong about that?

I work for an Epic customer and I'm struggling to envision my organization purchasing something like this.
Maybe not state of the art but I was very impressed by Assassin's creed origins.
An entirely separate and unrelated issue which is very poor justification for murder.
> It is actually irresponsible to the users (risk management wise) to be keeping all that cash in hand 24/7. The easiest bad case example: are you keeping all your savings under your mattress?

"We never block withdrawls" is the new "We don't crash ever" as seen in the Facebook movie.

If you are in the crypto exchange business you gotta do both actually. Don't crash the website and don't suspend withdrawls ever.
Federal sentencing is pretty straightforward - they use a chart that looks like "times tables" from 5th grade math class and just add up all of the points associated with the crimes she was convicted of. Holmes is far more likely to do 20+ years than 18 months.

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/substantial-sentence-likel...
> You're basically monopolizing a person's time, and expressing explicit disinterest in their perspective. Using complaint as a coping mechanism is a fundamentally selfish thing to do[1]

Yep, and allowing other person to do all this to you is definitely spoiling. At the same time, a possibility and ability to spoil someone you love - is one of the biggest pleasures in life.

(I’ve shown the video to my wife. She said: “See, you could have done much worse”)
Yup, here's the HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33464494
It's on one side of the bell curve but still a reasonably common size in ERP space. Not all of those projects are successful, but not all of them are failures either.

(FWIW, my 2 cents - ERP project can succeed or fail on many key levers, including the approach (are we taking it as the business-transformation project that it is, or trying to treat it as a simple IT project); having a suitable client champion and involved/engaged/competent client team; clear goals, priorities and business requirements; explicit responsibilities and deliverables; and of course the competence & experience of the implementation/system integrator - not just on the development side, but on the functional, business transformation, project management, and most important client relationship management side.)
Oh yeah. The product I worked on in the past went this way. We had a mature product that I said we probably needed to rewrite and modernize to handle any additional increase in volume or integrations with other systems. I left the team due to mostly politics. A year later, half my old subdivision was laid off and the project went to a contractor.

Funny enough, they're about 2 years behind schedule.

At least they took my advice about modernizing...
Another alternative: you can send notifications to your phone through text messages. Text messages are compatible with email, usually in the form of <number>@<special-provider-url>.
You could have kept collecting your share of that $60M they were committed to burning

You cared too much, bet you wont do that again
Sorry for the ELI5, checked the Reddit link also. Any immediate implications of this?
But will Bloomberg pay to keep it's own blue check?

https://twitter.com/bloomberg
> (c) we hadn’t even received all of the specifications from the customer that we would need to complete the project.

To me that smells of incompetence on both the customer and local company. At that point the project might be entirely unsalvageable.
Vanilla Rails Is Plenty
I'm glad a big government supporter such as SBF is out of crypto leadership. Crypto is an anarchist experiment and it should remain that way
Most people (the layman discussing and planning to regulate companies like FB) consider interacting as part of scrolling, you’re being pedantic and “actually”ing here. The fact you worked on these algorithms is hilariously telling.
Like sending a dabbler in the Tibetan Buddhist arts and all-around good lawman and lover of pie and coffee, an acerbic but hyper-competent coroner (and follower of Dr. King's philosophy of non-violence), and a nearly-deaf but very supportive chief, out to help the local named-after-a-President Sheriff solve the murder of a beloved-by-the-community young woman, through application of science and various mystical techniques.
> "About Us - COMMENTARY is America’s premier monthly magazine of opinion and a pivotal voice in American intellectual life. Since its inception in 1945, and increasingly after it emerged as the flagship of neoconservatism in the 1970s, the magazine has been consistently engaged with several large, interrelated questions: the fate of democracy and of democratic ideas in a world threatened by totalitarian ideologies; the state of American and Western security; the future of the Jews, Judaism, and Jewish culture in Israel, the United States, and around the world; and the preservation of high culture in an age of political correctness and the collapse of critical standards." https://www.commentary.org/about/

Which isn't reason to ignore the article, but does seem reason to treat the publisher as explicitly opinionated.
Sure! Firebase (https://firebase.google.com/) is what’s known as a Backend-as-a-Service platform. Offers a bunch of server-side services (including database storage, authentication, serverless edge functions, and image/media storage, etc.) hosted in the cloud and accessible via API. That way, application developers can focus on the user-facing experience, and use a standard platform for their backend.

Medplum expands on this concept by adding tools specific to digital health, such as a FHIR data schema for interoperability, EHR integration, and SMART App launching for embedding applications inside legacy EHRs
Which game play possibility?

Also, Ikea path isn't actually unicursal, there are shortcuts (famously hard to spot but otherwise accessible for all shoppers).
What if it would have worsened it? Or had unwanted side effects? That you call it an "app" doesn't mean it cannot affect your health, to state the obvious. And that's regulated territory, and with good reason.
The story of Mel has its own wiki page, and Mel is identified as Melvin Kaye. There's even a picture of him in the sources!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel
Using the Bell as Modern Notification
I was in a band called Good Clean Fun. In 2000 we played in Dundee, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. Definitely a small scene, but we had a GREAT time.
> "It's also orders of magnitude harder to make an inaccessible product accessible than it is to build it in an accessible way in the first place"

I see so many developers these days make this mistake not only with accessibility, but also with security ("We'll make it secure once it works"; and then it never happens for whatever reason, and by the time it becomes of critical importance it'd take a near complete re-write to "make it secure"), or cross-platforming ("We'll port it to other platforms after we complete the Windows version"; and then down the road they discover they've built on top of a ton of Windows-only middleware and support libraries, painting themselves into a Windows-only corner they cannot escape without a near total re-write). Planning / thinking ahead is a super-important part of the design stage for pretty much any but the simplest of software.
I'd be happy to if they were open to it. The network effect means that that's not going to happen any time soon though. It's also not the only feature that matters to me, though. Also, their stories are brand new, so likely not at feature parity yet.
> be kind and respectful

He seems to be calling out Twitter specifically, but is anybody really being otherwise there? I mean - I can understand (and will gleefully participate in) the schadenfreude of seeing the self-righteous Twitter censors being forced to find actual work commensurate with their marginal value to human civilization, but he seems to be talking about the rank-and-file types who carry pages and write product documentation.
Indian government planning??? Have you ever even been to India?
The slashdot piece just links to the real article:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/08/binance-signs-letter-of-in...

> Zhao (pictured above) said Binance reached the decision after FTX asked the crypto behemoth for help. “To protect users, we signed a non-binding LOI, intending to fully acquire FTX and help cover the liquidity crunch. We will be conducting a full DD in the coming days,” he said in a tweet.

This appears to be an admission of running a fractional reserve. Otherwise where could a "liquidity crunch" come from.

Hilariously, this is the origin story of Bitcoin. Can't trust banks. Create electronic cash. Users are clueless about what to do with the cryptographic material needed to secure electronic cash. Users park funds at exchange. Exchange operator is a criminal who embezzles the money away, or an incompetent boob who just loses it. Exchange freezes withdrawals, temporarily at first, while continuing to accept deposits. Mayhem ensues. Rinse and repeat.

The entire FTX team belongs behind bars. The VC team that backed this hair-brained venture deserves everything coming to them.
I like double-entry bookkeeping as much as the next guy. But your proposal isn't double-entry (which requires every ledger entry to net out to zero), it's more akin to aerospace/NASA style reduntant control systems where you have independent implementations that must agree with each other for their output to be propagated.

Redundant control is a great system if you need to provide realtime output with high correctness requirements (though for this of course three implementations is better than two as you can discard one faulty output and continue with the quorum output).

In elections, we don't need to provide real-time control; in the happy path the random audits don't add an unreasonable delay, and when they do find a discrepancy we're fine to wait a week or two if needed for a full hand count.

Another reason why banking/accounting is a poor analogy: in banking, you don't have anonymity requirements. Each transaction is tied out to a known individual (even more granular than that really); you can do double-entry bookkeeping because you know which accounts to debit and credit for each transaction, and maintain the accounting invariant that all accounts sum to zero. In voting, we have strict anonymity requirements, so there's no equivalent "debit Alice's account of a vote, and credit Candidate Bob's account" operation, and there is no equivalent to "netting the voting accounts to zero" that I can see.

Another way of thinking about this is the RLA is simply a different approach to provide your second implementation of a vote tallying machine. It's an implementation that uses manual (human) counting, and for pragmatic cost/time reasons doesn't count every vote, just enough votes to get statistical confidence that the result is correct. And, if you have two machine implementations, who's to say that everyone will trust one of them? You still need to solve "trusting trust" for each one, and while it's harder to subvert two systems, there's no reason it's impossible. Whereas I think it's a lot easier to produce a human-powered vote counting system that is transparent and trustable by virtue of its simplicity.

Down the road I'd be happy to put a second vote tallying machine in place to provide better assurance of the initial counts (and I'd love to stop using closed-source private implementations), but I think it's important to be pragmatic here and focus on the best ROI steps, and I think implementing RLAs and abolishing DREs are two of the very-high ROI items we should be focusing on first. Adding RLAs to all states would be a much better improvement than adding a second open-source machine tabulator to all states.
> careers/jobs were just a necessary evil because it's almost impossible to survive without money

I don’t think this is incompatible with caring about your career.

My perspective is that I am very fortunate to have a job as a software developer, and that someday my luck may run out (bad economy, unexpected expenses, decreased demand for my skills, etc). My goal isn’t to be rich and live in luxury, my goal is to insulate myself from bad luck.

So at least for now, I would like to “advance my career” (especially since I’m in an entry-level role), just to give myself a bit of extra security.
And the Do Not Go Gentle novels by Mark Millstorm.
If you take other people’s money by promising you will be keeping their money under your mattress, yes, you should keep all that money under the mattress or you’ll be behind bars for fraud.
> Sure, if you're developing a SaaS you can stay on top of .NET versions but it's definitely causing friction for enterprise and slow moving regulated software.

You have a point, but I'd call out that migrating to newer releases can and often is trouble-free.

A couple of months ago I worked on a .NET Core 2 web service that was put on cold storage for a few years, and all it took to migrate it to .NET Core 6 was a few version number bumps and a rebuilding the project.

YMMV of course, but LTS shelf life might not be a deal breaker.
Great! Politicians should be actively producing videos to sell what they are doing and to collect accolades for their successes.
How is a prop crypto firm a bank? Laughable
Position Statement for the 2022 W3C Tag Election
Only solve one new problem at a time
This story reminds me of https://despair.com/products/consulting.

Also law 23 from https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html seems appropriate: The schedule you develop will seem like a complete work of fiction up until the time your customer fires you for not meeting it.
I worked on the same teams as you in nearly overlapping time periods and I add support to what you say.

FB is (or was, before I quit) driven by getting contributing users to contribute more.

We knew a million "tricks" to get people to be hooked on scrolling or watching ads. We did not use them, because we had already done a million experiments to know that people hate that shit, and quit. Interactions with friends is what drives use of social media, as it should be.

The trouble is, Facebook is so deep underwater PR-wise and user-content-quality-wise (in America at least, India still loves it), that subconscious evaluations of which app to open are facing very strong headwinds now.
> NightWare is a digital therapeutic system that works in conjunction with Apple Watch and iPhone to disrupt nightmares related to post-traumatic stress disorder.1 Available by prescription only, it’s also the first and only digital therapeutic developed specifically to treat nightmares that is cleared by the FDA.2 NightWare uses information from the Apple Watch heart rate sensor, accelerometer, and gyroscope to detect a nightmare and then disrupt it through haptic feedback, generating gentle pulses on the wrist that gradually increase until the user is roused from the nightmare, but not from sleep.

This needs to be protected by prescription so that people don't have vibrating wrists? WTF
Oh dang, just last week I started working on my own version of this [0]. Quite fun to hack on! Been thinking about what could be done to really differentiate.

Anyways, it's amazing that this is free! Very clean, very well done... bravo :)

[0] https://www.booper.dev/
More than 50% of all major crop yields are using GMO plants.
I do the right thing and care about my projects.

But make no mistake my family and I come first. If a doomed project is not my fault and I can’t fix it…. I’m still taking that paycheck and finishing tasks….
Shopify Q3 2022 Earnings Review: hiding behind revenue growth
Oh, to be fair I should mention that it was an internal system. External threat actors were not a major concern. However, we had trading desk developers with access to the prd system and their own development space. The major concern in my mind is an absent minded copy/paste of a drop table, maybe a disgruntled employee.
> One person briefed on the fundraising blitz said what started as a $1bn ask was looking more like $5bn-$6bn by midday.
> The article doesn’t mention skin colour

Which is why the article picture is so confusing and misleading. Why not show some bones? Why not show the researcher? It's intended to mislead...
caveat emptor...
I’m aware that “do your own research” is a common phrase among people who want to believe that “9/11 was an inside job” or whatever (also Hi Mom).

I meant it in the more nuanced sense of trying to actually do research. A layperson who wants to be informed has to start somewhere, and when the stakes are as high as with global public health, I think it behooves the person in the street to try to at least read the abstracts of some papers, try to identify experts on both sides of a controversy, and be aware that credentials are no guarantee of reasonability.

Shockley played a big role in the transistor, IIRC got the Nobel, and later spent years advocating for racist eugenicist horseshit: credentials are a good guideline, but they can’t be blindly trusted.

I really wish the medical community just agreed about all this stuff: then my job would be easy, do what they say.

Unfortunately you seem to get one group of MD/PhD people saying those other MD/PhD people are cranks, we’re the “real” scientific consensus. This does not make it easy for the well-intentioned layperson.
This is the best question to present to them and the business.
I have a lot of people I like to talk to where I'm not close enough for 1:1 communication to make sense. Most of my FB usage is talking with these not-especially-close friends about whatever we're interested in.

Not that different from talking here, except that my FB friends (and especially my FB friends with FB's learned weighting of how interested I am in what each posts) are on average more likely to be interested in the same things I am and have more similar preferences around conversational norms.