skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> * does that make companies overstaffed or just mismanaged?*

My guess is "undercompeted", though I'd hope there is a better word.

If an organization has a large and secure revenue stream whether is works on improving output or not, it will focus inward, on making life better for the insiders, not the customers.
I had a similar reaction. It's pretty rare that you want someone to be surprised by what you have to say in a big meeting like that. Ideally, the goal of a large meeting like that is to say, "I've collected the data, we've had different workstreams look at the data, and having spoken to all of you, we've all agreed on X."

> People talk shit about office politics

Right... there are good ways to go about politics, and not-good ways. I think many of us see the not-good ways.
I don't have the skills to change jobs and I have some home life restrictions too. At this point I'd rather just quiet quit.
It was not very smart to gamble with customer money.
The nightmares are part of a (slow and painful) processing of PTSD
events. Suppressing them may not be helpful and actually just kick the
can down the road. The benefits of an interrupting device would only
make sense in an extended longitudinal study crossed against a group
who fully grieved, undertook guided introspection, had their stories
heard, and received intimate talk-therapy or similar psychological
support.
> When a driver or cyclists breaks the law, it is not necessarily unsafe.

Sure, but I would argue that law breaking is good proxy for unsafe behaviour. And rates of law breaking are similar between drivers and cyclists, so to say that doesn’t demonstrate that cyclists don’t behave more unsafely than drivers would require you believe that driver rule breaking is somehow inherently safer (on average) than cyclist rule breaking.

> What hassle? You're implying details that aren't there. It wouldn't be difficult at all to require online training/testing for a low fee. This is already done commonly with boating licenses and us low cost and easy. And yes, kids get boater certificates too. Based on the data, they are the cycling age group that would most benefit from the knowledge in the training/test.

What percentage of children have a boater licence? What percentage of children have a bike? Do you think those numbers are even vaguely comparable? The barrier to entry for boating is very high regardless of licensing, that is not true of biking.

Schools are quite capable of running bike training courses without a licensing scheme. Just like they’re quite capable of teaching any other subject. If you want to advocate for better bike training in schools, then I’m right there with you, I just don’t see how licensing helps with that endeavour.

> How so? The data I posted about UK cycling accidents shows about 52% involve a factor on cyclists end. If these people are at risk, then we should attempt to get this number down to zero.

Where have you linked this? Additionally licensing should focus on ensuring that people can’t engage in an activity that endangers others with a demonstration of capability, not just endanger themselves. Otherwise we’ll need licensing for every human activity. I argue that cycling doesn’t substantially endanger anyone except the biker, and that there are plenty of other everyday activities that endanger people more than cycling, which aren’t licensed.

> "If there was data, rather than hysteria,"
No hysteria here, just data.

You haven’t provided the data I'm afraid. Certainly not data demonstrating the risk of unlicensed cyclists to non-cyclists.
Nightware would likely come after you for patent infringement[0][1]. In 18-years, if this is effective, hopefully it becomes a common feature, and won't even require a doctor's prescription.

[0] https://patents.justia.com/patent/10765831

[1] https://patents.justia.com/assignee/nightware-inc
> have you thought that maybe this is not the reason at all why they want this ? maybe they have a scanner somewhere that works better with the landscape format ? some regulation to comply with ?

Sure, which is why asking "why?" is so crucial. Or are you suggesting they try to comply to some regulatory requirement without actually knowing that they're doing so or what regulation must be complied with, so they can actually confirm compliance? Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
It’s a disaster for any long running processes and most Serverless offerings cap the execution time to 15 minutes
I've ran chsh on top of a (virtual) Guix(SD) installation. It was rather nice but is still _not_ a lisp machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk
LibraryThing
I don't believe there's enough data in the original comment to assume that the market prevented them from being able to fulfill their living working with physics. It said they could make more money running a restaurant. If that it is the case they could not earn a living at all, and it's due to discrimination, which I asked about, then I agree it's not good. But if it's the case they could make a living in physics but chose to instead open a restaurant due to making a better living that way, then yes I think it's good.
I see your point and I agree.

At the same time I’d say this bigger picture is directly contributing to the secrecy and dishonesty within the firm.

Not only the client is not aware what they actually want and are getting; it looks like the firm is not fully aware what they’re delivering either.

I guess dealing with clients who are wrong may be a risky business.
Thank you, found the article!
Is there any proof of this? This is also a strange comment as the article says they’re doing trials to prove efficacy.

> Currently, NightWare is prescribed to 400 patients in the US, 98 percent of whom are active-duty military or veterans. A new study in the peer-reviewed Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that participants who used NightWare at least 50 percent of the time had significantly better self-reported sleep quality compared to participants not using NightWare.
“The results of our first published clinical trial demonstrate NightWare’s efficacy, and Apple technology is a critical part of that,” says Hannah, NightWare’s CEO. “NightWare benefits from so many of the singular features of the Apple ecosystem — the hardware and design of Apple Watch, the quality control standards, the ease of software integration and deployment — it all comes together to create a system that is changing lives.”
I've personally done this exact thing. If the project is underestimated, there isn't always a solution. I worked on a smaller project for an agency where I was the tech director. Meaning I had a direct line to clients and account managers at all times as well as authority over the execution. I raised flags when the contract was drafted that it was vague and optimistic, but it got signed anyway. I did a prioritization and forecasting exercise to keep scope in check and set milestones for client obligations that would roadblock us. We could see in real time how far off we were and I reminded everyone at every turn. The account team who sold the project were not involved in execution. I back-channeled to our CTO that they messed this up and we have no hope of delivering on budget. We ended blowing the budget by a mile, the ones that sold the project said the team didn't execute and I got let go. As far as I can tell, I did everything right and still lost. My biggest regret is that instead of insinuating the account team were at fault, I should have yelled it at them.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33520624 -- Binance acquire FTX

And another https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33520585
I thought this aversion was just my own insecurities.

I once had a manager that used to start every ask with this.

I finally shared with him that every time he throws the word "just" into an ask, it seems to minimize the actual work required to get X done. He acknowledged that he understood that things don't JUST happen, and to his credit, I want to say he stopped using can we just as his lead in.

It be became.

Can "we"

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https://pastebin.com/raw/Vccu1vff
Oh, indeed. But funded by and subverted by isn't the same thing.
Oh yeah, just wanted to provide some necessary context for those reading our links. I'm not sure I'd put the case that Australian elections are overall counted particularly fast, they do seem to be well resourced though.
this is an interesting technique. it sounds a bit difficult, but i will give it a try.
Your take is exactly what is wrong with the culture. An existential problem is not a problem because you didn't sell it correctly. You first need to "massage" the individuals to create some kind of coalition. A coalition willing to accept basic facts or responsibility.

If a CEO were to be a fly on the wall in this room and overhear it all, they ought to fire every single manager in the room. Quite obviously they are willing to bury important facts.

I'm well familiar with these "career limiting" types. I once was in a similar position, on an architectural board dropping a few truth bombs. One of the leaders of the many political kingdoms said to me in private: please know that I think that you're 100% right, but I can't commit to that in public or writing.

These people gladly tank a company for as long as they keep their hands clean.

Middle management games. If your company grows to the size as to have middle management, for god's sake split it up.
Exactly, it's bizarre to read about the wildcat banking era in the US and why the Fed was created while simultaneously looking around at the rate of mainstream crypto scams and institutional failures nowadays.

The Fed sure isn't without its issues, but it was created to solve the exact problems that we're now seeing proliferate via the crypto space.
If it's important you'll find the time. I used to exercise during WFH meetings. If I don't need to talk then I can do squats or burpees or something while listening.
Are people at Bootstrappers Breakfast's the median entrepreneur? I assume this is a tech thing, which already makes them significantly rarer (More to entrepreneurship than tech) and then they're bootstrapping and also self-selecting to go to this event.
I suddenly feel the urge to spread a crackpot theory that the pyramids of Giza are really the remnants of a range of dragon’s teeth protecting against giant forgotten-ancient-civilization tanks.
Figma – Music in FigJam
As BTC likely goes back to 3k, more exchanges will fail. I'll stick with boring index funds. People are always looking for lifehacks or shortcuts to get rich. Almost never works unless you're early. Odds are you are not.
Fractional reserve in the context of banking is completely different because the FDIC backstops runs and the Fed backstops the FDIC.

Nobody backstops FTX or any other crypto exchange so its better described here as 'the yolo lifestyle'.

A modern day bank run in traditional finance is functionally impossible* (up to the FDIC insurance limits, and often higher in practice - there were no imposed limits at WaMu for instance).
> That may very well be true, but you don't get to just make up outcomes because one group is more powerful than another. The prosecution just failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she was guilty of defrauding patients.

Arguably, court procedures and standards of evidence are also made up and prioritize certain powerful groups over others.

Which isn't to say that we shouldn't have rules, I'm just not sure appealing to the rules invalidates a claim that the outcome was unjust.
Yeah that is a pretty laughable theory that has been thoroughly debunked. Not that it really needs serious debunking in the first place with the most basic knowledge of world history.

Same sort of people also came up with that line of thinking when first making contact with the Japanese:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese-Jewish_common_ancestr...

Some folks just really want to be one of the lost tribes of Israel. Incidentally and unsurprisingly given you know, history, the actual people of Israel do not find this flattering at all.
Ah I see... so you weren't really interested in why he picked this example.
Simply because an Health Plan is willing to pay 10x - 100x more than a consumer is willing to pay.
An apple is Maryland.
This may be true for older Apple Watches, but it's not true for the latest Apple Watch. I get 3 days of battery life on regular usage, and a full charge only takes about an hour. Throwing it on the charger while I take a shower or wash dishes is enough to keep it topped off.
Why did it suddenly climb prior to crashing?
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It’s only ambiguous if you haven’t been exposed to corporatese. It’s as ambiguous as the phrase “as per my last email”. He was directly told he was done getting promotions/raises if that information ever made it to the client
Then stop politicising it.

By the way the part you cut out your quote was not meant as an accusation. Just to juxtapose how ludicrous jumping to the conclusion you did was.

Occams Razor favours my explanation in the following paragraph.
If it is prescription they can charge medicare and or the VA, if it was just a gadget or licensable piece of technology the profit margins are likely lower.

PS - Not justifying, just explaining the business model.
I think the confusion is, if their job is to execute a $60M contract successfully, and you tell them that it’s going to require an extra 12 months, you’re almost literally telling them they aren’t doing their job. Because arguably they weren’t. Their job was to guide the project successfully, which they didn’t do.

In a situation like that, you can recover, but it requires tact. The end of this story was that they left the company. An alternate ending is that they may have been let go.

If they’re paying you to work on a doomed project, you have to work on it, or change it. And if you want to change it, political maneuvering is necessary.
You may as well say "if everybody jumped off a bridge at the same time...."

How many bank runs have there been in 2022 in the developed world?

The reason people don't try to pull their money out all at once is because their deposits are insured, because their bank pays into an insurance pool.
The Finals is an Unreal based game, not Rust, you can see the Unreal logo on their homepage:
https://www.reachthefinals.com/

They have a Rust game:
https://medium.com/embarkstudios/embarks-creative-playground...

Which maybe be using their PhysX bindings but it's not The Finals
Given the architecture of commercial UNIXes, and the plethora of options in every command, hardly.
That was part of the argument for right-on-red, but given that both of these frequently kill people, and rampant deaths-by-car are a powerful disincentive to walk or bike, I don't think the math works out in favor of this argument.
As an aside, it's been interesting to see the impact drones has had in the war. Reconnaissance, blowing up non-tank vehicles, bombing trenches and suicide bombers.

Maybe tanks will still have a place in warfare, but I doubt they'll be as ubiquitous as before?
The crux of the issue is that it that the west is adamant their way of thinking, their lifestyle and changes to social dynamics is the benchmark of morality for the rest of the world. If a country or a group of people do not agree with a concept, then they are labelled backwards, barbaric and "problematic".

This is a very very narrow way of thinking as morality is not set and owned by the western sphere. Certainly influential but ultimately there is no compulsion in anyone adopting subjective morality.

E.g We see dogs as pets. Some east Asian countries in rural areas see it as food. Who is right and who is wrong? Would it be fair to call them evil and in need of reformation? Why should they? The life they lead is according to their standards. They are certainly in no need of ideological colonisation.

Even the charter for international civil rights is a subjective document of morality which can be changed at will as "morality" changes (for better or for worse). A country not abiding by your social concept of "rights" does not make it immoral nor wrong.

You rights and wrongs have been derived from your family, your education and society. But combining these together in no way shape or form gives authority to dictate morality to people in other societies. Why can't they say the same thing about you?

(I know people will absolutely detest what I am going to say, but hear my thoughts).

The only way objective morality that can be set is by the one who created mankind. (Yes I am talking about theology). This is a rational viewpoint to hold. On a (limited) human level, the manufacturer has full competency and understanding of their products. Rights and wrongs. Do's and don'ts.

This is the morality that humans should submit themselves to. Not at the whims and desires of self, individuals and societies.

Define problematic. According to who and what authority? And follow up question, why should we submit to that authority?

(This is not an attack on you, just a conversation starter)
Just so you know:

The "What it does" section, with the buttons "Movement", "Rotation", etc. The behaviour of those buttons is not very intuitive. press and hold is hardly the first action someone thinks of when seeing those buttons. Instead they'll click them. They'll see some weird small movement in the corresponding square, if anything (In the last 2, nothing happens if you just click).

What's more, in the following section "No programming", the example shown says explicitly "click here" and explains that the blue rectangle "will be rotated 35º clockwise when the user clicks the trigger". "clicks" is even bolded. And yet, if you simply click it, it will only rotate a few degrees and return back instantly. Again, you need to press and hold for it to rotate completely.

I'd suggest either changing the wording or adding an explanation to tell the user to press and hold, or changing the behaviour of the examples to actually trigger on click.
This comment is whatever middlebrow dismissal would be, but for basic facts of U.S. law. As per the Food, Drug, and Cosmetics act of 1938, we have 21 U.S. Code §321[1]:

(1) The term “device” (except when used in paragraph (n) of this section and in sections 331(i), 343(f), 352(c), and 362(c) of this title) means an instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent, or other similar or related article, including any component, part, or accessory, which is

> (A) recognized in the official National Formulary, or the United States Pharmacopeia, or any supplement to them,

> (B) intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, in man or other animals, or

> (C) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals, and which does not achieve its primary intended purposes through chemical action within or on the body of man or other animals and which is not dependent upon being metabolized for the achievement of its primary intended purposes. The term “device” does not include software functions excluded pursuant to section 360j(o) of this title.

The developer of the device themselves clearly understands that this "vibrating watch" qualifies as a medical device.

[1] - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/321
A tiny company could help the government bypass browser security
I’ve learned in my career to have no concern for the big picture as I will have another job before it is my problem.

Let the building burn down. Let the fires burn. By the time the fire reaches where I sit, I’ll be gone.
Until someone comes up with a better solution for cross border payments ($150T market), I don't think bitcoin/crypto will go away
The conclusion I've come to in crypto over the last decade is that it is interesting. I love the idea of small purchases at food trucks with it as an alternative to credit card fees for small business.

On the other hand I don't see why crypto needs to go up in value or how that actually helps anyone except people that got in early.
I use VSCode right now, with lots of little extensions to do stuff like lint my code, format my code, color my code, highlight TODO and FIXME comments, 3-way merges, debugging with conditional breakpoints and watches and stuff, etc.

How do I get started using Emacs, if I wanted to use this awesome-sounding tool, while still being friendly to the fact that I have to get stuff done and still need the tools I mentioned above? (Also, how to have my cake and eat it, too.) I am sure the Emacs community has built everything under the sun, but is it as easy to setup and easy to find as VSCode?

I really want to know how I can transition from using VSCode to Emacs, because I'm starting to realize that VSCode is always going to be a "product" of a BigCo and will continue to add anti-features, tracking, and other stuff that I don't want. I'm also starting to realize that I want to be a bit more strict about my open source software usage, and try to support communities rather than coprorations.
Are the tank traps also getting smaller as the result of shrinkflation? The 200g to 170g change in Toblerone bars is the first example in the Wikipedia article:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkflation
Why? Schools seem to produce very mixed results. For example school shooters are kids who were sent to school so they could be with their peers.
This feels like an extinction-level event for crypto. If they survive, I guess Coinbase will be the King because they are very conservative so they really won't run into any of these liquidity issues that these other companies are finding themselves in.

The biggest thing is that they no longer need to worry about competing on price because people know they will get their money back from Coinbase, I imagine.
Private messaging is one of the primary use cases for E2E encryption in the entire tech industry.
No disagreement here, induction has way better power transfer to the food than electric resistance heating. I was only comparing resistance heating with gas.
It works. You just don't have to hold forever.
And where does the "likely" part come from?
Agile is great for running execution teams and gives you real-time feedback on progress, but if you have a contract with fixed scope and timeline, you're just boxed in. Agile requires flexibility on time and/or scope and it's not amenable to a services contract unless you have a very trusting customer.
Twitter is just microblogs.
Yeah, that was probably a setup for failure.

It's not unlikely to think that management already knew what you found out before your report. they just used stalling tactics.

In the end you did the right thing to leave the project. These projects are commonly referred to as "death march projects" [Yourdon, Edward] and you should learn to identify them before joining.

I learned about CLMs early in my career: career limiting moves. It is something you need to avoid. Pick you battles and try to avoid imploding of frustration when things are becoming really bad. Just make sure you CYA and do basic stakeholder management to protect your reputation and skillset.
Likely zero if FTX is not liquid enough to process withdrawals.
Well...a lot of them will probably be eaten by the internet trolls, and end up as Morlocks themselves.
I never did get used to running make on my config files.

Or the pain of somebody on the team routinely editing the output files without making the changes on the config files, and never knowing whether it'll work the same when you're done.