skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As has been pointed out, if the authors knew what they were talking about they would have said "inaudible"; nevertheless, the article is still bogus at best. Fans of Orphx wear motion capture and the it appears the tracks with lower frequecies (lower like a regular rhythmic kick drum or bassline, perhaps?) caused fans more pleasure & dancing when questioned post concert. I found the whole article utter twaddle. Two places that I have experienced being bombarded with very loud and continuous VLFs (their terminology), and not regular rhytmic VLFs, is at a Sunn O))) gig and another at an experiemnt along the lines of a infamous Guantanamo correctional facility. I can tell you no one was dancing at either.
We use Lambda to handle lots of scale-out tasks & extensions to AWS services too - it works really well for this.

For example:

- resizing images - we can do a size per lambda all in parallel. This means we can process images quickly (with minimal latency) without having to have loads of slack memory & CPU on our backends

- queue processing - we have an app that needs to copy files from user provided URLs to S3. We do this by dumping them in a SQS queue and having a lambda fire for each queue item. Means we can do lots in parallel without filling up an EC2/fargate instance’s network port

- dynamically processing images using Lambda@Edge & Cloudfront - similar to my first one, but on the fly when requested, instead of ahead of time
Sometimes they offer to cover withdrawal fees too. Still it seems like they should be making money hand over fist.
Had the same thing happen except with AWS architects.

If you can stomach the vendor lock-in then it might not be so bad.
That’s worse, than few days ago among crypto-whales it was already common knowledge, and they were pulling out. It’s common people who ended up losing on this.

So much about decentralization and unregulated market
Booting any form of computer. It's a miracle each time, and taken for granted that it works every time too. I used to have machines that failed to boot, usually due to plain wear and tear, but I get a new device roughly every ~5 years so it's a non-issue now.
or "regular people"?
She was hot. That's what it boils down to.

When you consider her (mostly old male) investors, especially that pervert Bill Clinton, they weren't charmed by her stilted personality or her bizarre sanpaku eyes. They were thinking with the little head.
Why is it ridiculous for a medical device to be reviewed by the governmental agency whose remit includes reviewing medical devices?
Public Guides: next-generation EDI implementation guides
Goodbye to local development experience. New architect hire suggesting big changes does not have anything else to do to justify their excistence.

Some Async use cases is great but large scale apps becomes clusterfuck. Experience: we made a whole feature on AWS lambda. Sucked. 2 years later its a spring app in a container now.
Hm... You know what they say about assumptions, but it seems like a good idea to me.
Elon Musk, Under Financial Pressure, Pushes to Make Money from Twitter
Seems like a recipe for creating snowflakes. People should just grow a thicker skin and move on with their lives instead of taking offense and getting depressed that someone told them "just"
When I saw that he was using that as the claimed origin of his wealth I wrote him off as an almost certain fraud.
This is a great comment. It takes a lot of humility to admit you were wrong, and it sounds like it was a great learning experience.
The only people worse at knowing what the customer wants than management/sales is the customers themselves.

It's really strange the first time you experience it.
Would it be legal (and, different question, do you think it would be ethical) in a case like this to quit and go to the client company proposing advice on how to negotiate to avoid the $60M loss?
A role of advisor to let them know they need to get their shit together (and provide the required specs) and to guide themto ask for incremental delivery.
As far as I can tell such a consultancy is easily worth $1M/year or more, given its potential effectiveness.
hah, we used to volunteer at pax together
It's not just the multi-instance aspect, the problem is that Mastodon is trying to look like Twitter. Twitter will always win at the Twitter experience. There's no reason to switch away for normal people.
> The author’s premise is that most high achieving inventors, creatives etc are not successful because of high level of specialisation

This makes sense to me from a range of perspectives. A simple example of this --too simple, yes-- is when I hired an EE out of Intel. I was looking for someone to take on a range of responsibilities. He claimed he could do what I needed. After hiring him I started to realize he had been "creative" in the profile he painted for me. It turns out he had only worked on power supplies at Intel. And by that I don't mean full product cycle. He designed them. On paper. Never even ordered a single part. Never laid out a PCB, etc. It was bad. I ended-up having to be "Professor Martin" and teaching him a bunch of stuff. Not a good outcome. Great guy, just didn't work out in the end.

In sharp contrast to this, I worked with people in the motion picture industry who were nothing less than amazing. One guy had a degree in music, he had studied to be an opera singer. He self-taught software and hardware development, mechanics and all kinds of other things. He ended-up building and owning on of the most well-known visual and special effects companies in Hollywood. The people he hired had similar eclectic backgrounds.

It was very interesting and revealing. This experience definitely opened my eyes and mind and, honestly, made me less of an elitist dick when hiring people. I could not care less what degrees someone brings through the door. I have learned this has no relationship whatsoever with creativity and raw job performance. What you are looking for is the ability to learn and what they have done in the last n years. That's it. A non-asshole who is driven to learn difficult things can run circles around almost any degree. Frankly, part of it might be that they have to in order to survive.

Of course, there are regulated industries where you have to hire degrees due to liability exposure. Medical is an simple example of this. Self driving cars might be another. If you sued and the lawyers discover critical staff doesn't have university degrees it could be a royal mess (or, at the very least, cost a ton more money to defend technical decisions).

In other words, there's an industry-dependent bias that might favor one or the other.
If you're still being paid like a mid-level dev after 10 years, you owe it to yourself to look for a new job and get a massive pay raise.

My original plan was to stay 3 years at my first company, and then change jobs for a raise. I ended up staying 5 because they gave me great raises for the first 3... And then screwed me on 2 years, at which point I knew I should have left at 3 after all.

After that it gets murkier, but in general if you aren't seeing really nice pay raises every 3 years, you can get it by changing companies.
Anti-depressants don't wane like that. They stay in your bloodstream at fairly steady levels all day.
I hope MLB umpires continue to wear the FTX logo plastered all over their uniforms for the coming years.
From a former tanker I know: This has proved that poorly driven and commanded tanks are vulnerable.

The Russians are really bad at doing the things necessary to protect themselves. They're all buttoned up. There are a ton of pictures where they're essentially ambushed while in parade formation, rather than how you'd be on a road in a hostile area.
again, getting sidetracked by making things personal.

You would not be upset, unless deep down you also agree this was true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q225u-qGpas
How about a friendly bet then, I'll donate $10 to the charity of your choice if her sentence is under 15 years and you can donate $10 to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (https://www.lls.org/) if it's over 3 years?
I wonder if it's possible to extract the totally-not-an-app
I usually charge my watch while sleeping and grab it in the morning along with my phone, but I'd assume a second watch would work? It's an expensive route with the watch, but it's a solution in many other spaces. My wireless headset, for example, has a replaceable, rechargeable battery.

For best results, you'd want to use a single charger, and to always put the alternate on immediately.

That said, the watch can notify when charged, which might be a better first step. The settings for that live in the sleep settings, of all places, but might be worth a shot?
Ask HN: Are there any ways to avoid conditional logic?
sitting here at work staring at about 30 lines of conditional logic.

got me thinking, is there a design paradigm that will avoid conditionals all together and yet achieve the same thing? Using java and SQL if it makes any difference.
True...somewhat. But read a detailed history of the Battle of France. And compare the command performance of the B.E.F. (under General John Vereker, Lord Gort) with the command performance of General Maurice Gamelin (C-in-C of the French Armed Forces) and the next tier or two of French generals under him.

For Lord Gort - it wasn't his country, he'd only been appointed to command the B.E.F. the prior September, and he'd been shuffled through a lot of different jobs in the prior decade. (Including time spent in China and India - hardly useful experience for WWII in Europe.) Still, Gort and his immediate subordinates got their sh*t together, moved fast and made good decisions in very new, chaotic, and challenging circumstances, and did extremely well.

For Gamelin & Co. - it was their country, defending it against a German invasion had been their d*mn-obvious Job # 1 since at least the German invasion of the Rhineland (March 1936), and they'd been building the Maginot line since 1930. Yet their performance in the event was laughably slow and weak even by the 1914 standards of French General Joseph Gallieni. (Who had been recalled from retirement, was in obvious poor health, and had served most of his career in French overseas colonies.)
The medical malpractice part is the purview of the FDA, and they did gave her and Theranos plenty of light slaps on the wrist for their transgressions over the years. Things only really got serious when the Waltons, Rupert Murdoch, Betsy DeVos, Larry Elison & co. lost money and convinced the DoJ to get involved.
The thing about Higham is that he's sort of a one-man Wikipedia of linear algebra. Many of the terms that he uses also have their own pages that (eventually) break the concepts down into comprehensible terms.

See https://nhigham.com/index-of-what-is-articles/ for a useful listing. Or, in an alternative form, https://github.com/higham/what-is . Notice that if you go all the way back up the rabbit hole you'll find user-friendly articles like "What is a matrix?" that clearly define the terms used farther down.

I really dig Higham's pedagogic style, in case it's not obvious.
Seems like it makes the problem worse because you are then tied to a specific version at time of publishing and need to republish to get any framework patches.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/runt...
An example of capitalism gone wrong when you have to get a prescription and health insurance just to download a vibrator app.
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Crypto? This is nothing but a good old bank run.
ByteDance launches a raft of public cloud services, Volcano Engine (2021)
Is it a good time to get into it now though? I would've thought InfoSec roles are first on the chopping block when budgets get squeezed in a tech downturn.
There was clear evidence that she had personally defrauded investors. The evidence for individual patients and personal culpability was much less direct.

Prosecutors went with what they could easily prove.
> P.S. Making general comments about "math notation" is pretty dishonest argument. The math I studied was all commutative diagrams and blobs to represent manifolds; very little "infix operators" as far as I could tell. Mathematicians in general are flexible with notation (and definitions!) and will normally default to whatever is the loose consensus in their field :)

It is exactly the point of what you are answering: mathematicians too use a flexible, ad-hoc notation. Presumably it is better for them. I don't see how it is dishonest, I find it quiet on point.

I guess it needs less ink/chalk, and gives more visual clue about the structure and the content of the equation, than a more uniform, lisp like notation would.
You can at least partially trade width with depth, that is, making a speaker narrower but design it so that the cone can travel farther and move the same air volume, but it also have drawbacks, and thicker speakers are also harder to accomodate.
FWIW, the only argument I was making (not speaking for OP) is that this specific observation of "80% of my students want to be social media influencers" is a weak indicator that TikTok (really, every social media platform) is creating difficulties for today's teenagers. There are other strong indicators that this is the case.

> 80% of my students want to be social media influencers when they grow up (despite having very poor social skills), and the other 20% have never given it any thought.

The numbers are made up, so I wouldn't expect that there's significance in the spread. My point is that the the teacher almost exclusively sees two groups: one who takes the option in vogue, and one who hasn't thought about it. To me, this suggests that something approaching 100% of their students have given this little to no thought, which jives with my experience at that age.

I think we'd agree that this is a minor point and doesn't really take away from the conclusion drawn in the tweet.
Ah I think I misread. Thanks!
> nothing but a good old bank run

Exchanges aren't subject to bank runs. If an exchange (or even broker) cries run, they were taking novel risks.
The message is a "content warning", which is also useful as a spoiler alert or just a way to shrink a long message to avoid cluttering the timeline of people who aren't interested. Click "show more" after each one to expand it.
Yeah, I don't think that example works very well.

The "just" isn't diminishing the problem, it's diminishing the debugging step. And that debugging step is legitimately simple.

There's definite room for improvement. The sentence is better if we either remove "just" or change it to "let's start by just scanning". But it's not the same problem as the overall article is describing.
Heroku's new low cost plans
Nope, corporations are not in alignmetn with communism (an economic concept). But parent is talking about marxism (sociology), and this is essentially correct. This is rebranded class struggle, with easily recognizable details like division between opressed and rulers, up to and including self-criticism. Only vocabulary changed.
> How do you find one?

Find an itch, and scratch it. Find something that gratifies your creative urges. This could be anything. For me it's mostly computer related things. I have several private side projects that I hack away on in my free time, and have no plans to publish them on GitHub just for validation and praise. Although I'm not ruling out releasing it publicly. If the project could help more people other than just me, it could be time to host it publicly it on GitHub.
JPGs/PNGs are not making the web any better either. We still use them. SVGs are slightly better. They have readable content and don't pixelate. Plus they react.

Reminds me of the dreamweaver slicer days.
> 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.

Joseph Smith and Jesus would like to have a word with you. /s
Here is where the blogger loses me "Finally, we made our primary recommendation, which was to slip the project 12 months to cover the newly-discovered work, and provide margin for any additional remaining work."

They should have tried to identify wasteful work that could be trimmed so as to deliver something to the customer.

The managers were probably thinking, what, there is unplanned, untracked make-work going on in the project, and these guys just want it to be added to the schedule, and even look for more?

> I’d met my responsibility to the company – and the company had threatened me as a result.

That is not clear. The manager could have just been expressing the fact that if the confidential, internal problems from the meeting were to leak out to the customer, the customer might walk away. He could have been referring to his own career, or careers in general.

However, if that manager was insinuating that unless staff are reminded not to, like a bunch of children, they are going to go to customers, or the public, and squawk about problems discussed in an internal meeting, then that was actually quite insulting, and betraying mistrust.

Of course it will be career limiting to blab confidential info and lose customers, even under the best of circumstances.

Doing that is being stupidly honest, because maybe solutions can be found to deliver, and save the deal; if you blab to the customers, then you could be flushing away the opportunity.
> They claim to be an exchange, not a bank

They're liars. They are literally banks with all of the drawbacks and none of the benefits. They do fractional reserve banking with user deposits.
I don't think hiring some certified Agile gurus and reshuffling all the teams in the middle of the project would have improved the chances of delivery.
My friends with the newer watches/chargers say that they throw it on the charger when they get up to hit the shower in the morning and its mostly charged by the time they're ready to head out to work.
Career and climbing the corporate ladder are orthogonal. For example, I don't care about climbing the corporate ladder but I do care very much about my career progression because it defines what job opportunities I get to choose from in the future and better career progression allows me more freedom to choose only the ones that are likely to be fun. (Unlike many here, I actually enjoy my profession.)
The LGPL's boundary between your application and the licensed library requires that the end user have some way of substituting the LGPL library. So if your project is not at least source-available enough for the end user to recompile it with a modified version of the LGPL library, you're going to have a hard time meeting that requirement with static linking. More common is to just dynamically link to the LGPL library, which provides the substitution mechanism by its very nature.
> careers/jobs were just a necessary evil because it's almost impossible to survive without money

> Once you have a family, debt, obligations it does matter. Health care too.

Health care is obviously the elephant in the room. But generally, you'll find that people like this have structured their life in a way that allows them to have this attitude toward their career.

We in the tech industry are particularly blessed in our ability to do this. (perhaps less so in the Bay Area)
There are plenty of fish in the sea. Change jobs and see if that helps. It might remedy the burnout as well.
Indeed. In the end, tax evasion is what brought down Al Capone.
Thank you for this.

Honestly, your first line is enough. You can wake up later, you can start drinking earlier, or you can do both. I'm sure a lot of people do better with a more structured, social workday -- it's easier to not feel bad about something if you don't have to try to hide it.
They aren't brokerages, they're banks pretending to be exchanges. They do fractional reserve banking with user deposits.
It's embarrassing that FIFA created this situation, but it's far more embarrassing that a few countries didn't get together years ago and reject the whole idea of a World Cup in Qatar. It would only have taken a few top nations from Europe and South America.

Threaten to withdraw from FIFA if the tournament doesn't get cancelled. There's nothing magical about FIFA, it's defined entirely by its membership. It could have been done, and it just wasn't even tried.
> Veterans find relief from nightmares with NightWare and Apple Watch

... nightmares caused by the price of Apple hardware. /s
In my religion, proselytizing is looked down on. And I am personally against it :)

I don’t give advice unless I’m asked.
Russia installs ‘dragon’s teeth’ barriers to slow advance of Ukrainian forces
I'm not a project management expert, but isn't this basically why Agile was created so that incremental/iterative progress can be more easily delivered? Like hearing this part is insane to me:

> I was hired on as an individual contributor maybe 15 months before the project was to be delivered to the customer

I can't imagine trying to deliver a project of this size all at once and so far into the future. I also find it hard to believe that individual parts couldn't be reprioritized to ship first, rather than the all-or-nothing take of "we need 9 more months".
Thiel insinuated that half of twitter employees consumed according to this tweet, which I found surprising. I assume they have some data or hunch about it + some exaggeration. https://twitter.com/teddyschleifer/status/158860158856569241...
It's way more complicated than "just downloading an app". Considering it's a medical treatment, they currently ship it as an appliance (for various reasons).

You are not getting a prescription for an app, you are getting an MDM'd device that ONLY runs the Nightmare application.

You would know this if you read the article.
You can get a similar effect with a floating or semi-floating floor and a huge sub hanging from the ceiling. You have to tune it though.

If you are on the Bay Area, The Great Northern had a setup like that on the hallway at the entrance before the main floor. They use VOID for their soundsystem but I don't think that particular part of the setup is COTS.
I've been at companies like this, and learned from peers that you had to write "CYA" (cover yourself) documents. But, I also learned learned that these documents should never skip levels of middle management, so that intermediaries have time to bury or re-frame the news.
Granted, “it would be career limiting” is an ambiguous statement. We can reasonably assume that the story as written omits various context clues, additional communications, body language, and other ensuing events that gave the author a more complete understanding of what the manager meant when they said that.
Pluto is the best notebook system I've used, and development is very rapid so it's getting better all the time.
What kind of InfoSec role were you doing? I sometimes find team dynamics too draining :)