skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we hadn’t even received all of the specifications from the customer that we would need to complete the project

> And then one of them said “It would be career limiting if the client were to hear this.”

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

The author interprets that they were threatened. But really, for whom would it be career limiting? Perhaps I'm being too charitable, but the manager could also be read to be making a statement of fact about the perception of their own performance. The author says there's already a project plan and a project manager, and the plan is clearly incomplete and the project manager was not aware for an extended period. Someone's career probably _should_ be limited.

But the larger question is, did any of this matter? If the customer is not engaged enough to make clear what they want, is there perhaps an equal amount of dysfunction on the customer side? If they really wanted something delivered, wouldn't they be trying to deliver clear requirements as soon as possible? Or perhaps someone on the customer side is able to get promoted off of being the point person for a 2 year $60M contract before it finishes? Or someone is able to use the slowness and expense of the contracting firm to argue for building an in-house development team?
Some people thrive on their work and on problem solving. Not every employer is this malicious or incompetent.

Given the necessity of work, I would rather enjoy my work and excel at it than sluff off.
Very cool and impressive work! One question I have is how you think about handling custom data fields. FHIR has the `extension` attribute on all DomainResources that allows you to store any non-standard information, but building code and value sets to properly map this data can be cumbersome and time-consuming.

Do you have any happier/easier paths for extending the core data model to handle custom data?
The interface is designed so that a 10-12 year old can write music-making code with little guidance. I have anecdotal evidence that it's quite good for that purpose.
Cynically I almost wonder if one of her reasons for having kids was to play into exactly this line of thinking. She knew prison time was a possibility, and she made her choice.
> Two years later, the client canceled the two-years-late project before it ever launched. They ate a $60M loss.

Sounds like that might be half the problem: the firm with the contract had tens of millions of reasons (dollars) not to do honest product/project management.

(The other half is that product/project management is hard.)
I filter out the ads - so they definitely fail to optimize showing ads for me.
Global Economic Report – Nov 2022 [pdf]
Seems like nothing new, classic "attention economy" stuff we've all known for years now. I wondered why they wrote the article, but then I saw the plug at the bottom -

This article is an ad.
Show HN: Pet Portrait AI – Custom Pet Portraits
The eye-opening results scientists found when they studied bug splats on cars
Interesting just 6 weeks ago the news was that FTX was buying Voyager Digital’s assets for 1.4 billion dollar after winning a bankruptcy auction. In July the news was that FTX provided BlockFi with a $400 million line of credit and an option to buy the company for 240 million.[1][2] Now the crypto bailout savior is being bailed out?

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/27/bankrupt-crypto-lender-voyag...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/01/ftx-us-deal-with-troubled-...
On your website, you say "Also, we NEVER record any of your personal data".
Could you explain this piece of code from your extension then? :

else if (request.type === "removeTab") {
chrome.tabs.get(
parseInt(request.tabId),
function(tab) {
if (chrome.runtime.id === PROD_EXTENSION_ID) {
registerAnalytics(database, {
type: "registerAnalyticsEvent",
analyticsType: "closed_tab",
meta: {
url: tab.url
}
})
}
}

I hope I'm wrong but this looks like the URL of each tab that a user closes or "hides" before a meeting is sent to your analytics database.
> though perhaps not criminally so

But this is a criminal case
They were running a handful of tests on their proprietary machines. They were also diluting blood samples and running them on off-the-shelf machines. (cf. WSJ, the Dropout podcast)
As other people said, usually a lot of assets are illiquid in 24 hours. You can say I have money to buy this house, but if I ask you for the money the next 24 hours, most people will say they need more time to liquidate.

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?

Edit/to commenters below:
I understand there are emotions, but that's simply how things work. As other fellow commenters noted, banks do not keep or even promise they do keep your money($) under their "mattress."

Say you deposited in EUR. The exchange and everyone borrows in USD, so your EUR become USD -- no way out of it. EUR goes down, and then there is a bank run. Even if as the bank were irresponsible and kept 100% liquid, they can not serve everyone 1:1 in 24h. Nobody can give you that guarantee, besides your local grocery store. We are thinking these things at the wrong scale.

We are not trying to shift blame away from FTX -- already the whole relationship was sketchy. But claims about keeping 100% USD with a 24h cashout in a worldwide scale is not something on the table right now. I get worried when people feel comfortable believing those statements.
That MVP is either dealing with a VERY large environment or is just flat out wrong (I've never seen a farm with that many databases, and I've worked multi-TB farms).
I think you may have gotten whooshed by the joke - both "eigenvector" and "gedankenexperiment" are mashups of a German word and an English word
+1 That's a great book.
Dubstep, not to be confused with dubstep, which sounds substantially different.
"I read Playboy, but only for the interviews"
I think this makes sense. Assuming MAGMA is the new FAANG, my experience inside the majority of them agrees.

Everyone knows that there is 1 or 2 golden goose teams supporting the entire rest of the company (iPhone, Facebook Ads, Google Search Ads). But smart people also know that one terrible quarter for any of those and the house of cards comes down.

So 90% of the employees are concerned year-round with goose-hunting. Maybe once or twice a decade they find one.
Bloomberg Terminal costs $20,000 per user per year.
Try version control an app full of Lambda functions. Try moving cloud provider with provider specific Lambda functions.
Yep, it was FTX.
If the cable was a uniform material of something like loop woven kevlar and molded into a refractory composite of carbon, it should be tough enough.
EDIT: No
Airplanes. Seriously I don't know of any other technology that feels as magical to me as that feeling when an airplane leaves the ground.
> The costs associated with widespread everyday masking are severe. You even quoted the ones that I'd mentioned earlier.

Yes, and stated that they are, for the most part, not actually costs.

Masks don't cause accessibility problems, they don't cause child development issues, they don't cause social strife when consistently warn and enforced, and they don't cause abusive policing (police don't enforce mask mandates anywhere in the US, and consistently were one of the least compliant groups!).

You can't keep lying about these supposedly "severe" costs when anyone with eyes can see that they're made up. I mean you can, but it's your credibility lost.
There is a spectrum between full principled rebellion and complete acquiescence to a shit project.

As the OP said, he was absolved. He (she?) couldn't stand the idea of incompetence or lack of communication/recognition of the fire in the room. Once the boss said "let it burn", their sanity was confirmed and they left the room.
Well animals can hear sounds at frequencies that we can't, so the cutoff shouldn't be when we can detect something. But in that case, do we set a cutoff on the lowest/highest frequencies that we know some animal can hear? Then we might discover something later that increases the range, what do we do then? It just makes more sense to generalize sound past what's actually audible, in my opinion at least.
Formal Informal Languages
tl;dr version: The FBI has been up to all the same sorts of abuses and incompetence as large, minimally-supervised security/law enforcement agencies have been up to for the past ~5,000 years. Laughably naive and under-resourced reform attempts - "we'll write a great-sounding new rule on this piece of paper, and loudly announce that they have to follow it, and this magical piece of paper will fix all the problems!" had done about as little good as any experienced grown-up would expect.

Bluntly put, don't expect it to get substantially better, no matter what nice new rules are written on magical pieces of paper. Organizations like the FBI default to crudely upholding the social hierarchies which feed them, in ways which appeal emotionally to organizations' members. Most higher-ups in those social hierarchies know how to enjoy the benefits of that behavior - while conveniently overlooking the dirtier details. Further down the social hierarchies, there are plenty of "Santa Claus fans" - really Wanting To Believe that their FBI / CIA / police / etc. are paragons of morality and competence - who react poorly to messengers bearing bad news.

Vs. savvy advocates of real oversight and reform, with the the skills, resources, and attention spans to make that happen & stick? Those are less common than Elvis impersonators in Putin's personal security detail.
While I understand the cancer risks, it's foolhardy to ignore the positive impact asbestos had for construction businesses in terms of affordability and convenience of installation.
Is it possible that Facebook's feed is not as good at that supposed goal as it is at getting people to scroll endlessly?

I've stopped using Facebook and Instagram in the last few years, so I can only speak from observing friends and family on those platforms... but I mostly left them because my friends and family didn't post. Once my feed became 90% ads and reshared posts from strangers, I left.

Maybe your definition of "posting and interacting" is different from the author's.

And on the subject of "every nasty trick [to] keep you scrolling": that includes, for instance, making it incredibly difficult to delete your account.
Seriously, give it a try. You can't navigate to the delete page through the UI -- the only way to get there is to somehow find a link to the delete page URL. Facebook repeatedly asks you if you're "absolutely sure" you want to leave. They show you a slideshow of friends and family who "won't be able to contact you" if you leave. Then they make you wait 30 days (with no login attempts) to actually delete the account.

Seems pretty nasty to me.
> They are moving between traffic in the next lane and the cyclist. Lanes simply don't have room for an automobile and half of another one.

No, they are blocking the next lane. Lanes are sized to hold a single automobile. Half of an automobile will clearly block another automobile from filling that space. This is not lane-splitting. When a bicyclist rides between two automobiles in adjacent lanes, that is lane-splitting. An automobile that does what you characterized as lane-splitting is simply performing a passing maneuver. Legally speaking, at least in FL, you don't even have to fully move over to a passing lane when passing a bicycle, you simply need to ensure 3ft of clearance. Again, not lane-splitting, passing. My "half-assed passing maneuver" statement is just my personal opinion that you should perform a normal passing maneuver and go totally into the other lane for the safety of the bicyclist, even if it's not legally required.

> I personally agree with lane splitting for single track vehicles like pedal and motorcyclists

I find any lane-splitting, legal or not, to be incredibly foolish. The level of risk taken on when you feel the need to purposefully put yourself between two very large moving metal objects that have unpredictable behaviour and very little safety clearance is just too high. As evidenced in this thread already, riding a two-wheeled vehicle in automobile traffic is already risky enough, why the hell would you want to increase that risk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane_splitting
This is a really interesting point. What I'm seeing is that infix lends itself to chunking subterm "nouns" of the whole expression, where prefix/function is "verb oriented" and feels more like trying to remembering a series of dance steps rattled off by an instructor who knows them and can't remember what it's like to be a newbie.

I don't know how much of this is not being used to "dancing" but being entirely used to dealing trees of infix terms.
I haven't met as many as you have, but the ones I have worked for have mostly been bored trust-fund kids whose only motivation is to have something to brag about.
Well, take a look at emails linked in this submission - Apple used iMessage to keep users on inferior platform and succeeded in the US :-)

Honestly this "iPhone is objectively better" narrative of some commenters is facepalm worthy.
You seem to have mis-read the article: it is not blaming the death of the manual transmission on EVs, it is connecting a sudden resurgence in the interest in manual transmissions on EVs (so like, the exact opposite).
Lets you define queries over some data set declaratively, and instead of recomputing the query over the entire data set every time you want an updated answer, it uses Differential Dataflow <https://github.com/frankmcsherry/differential-dataflow> to efficiently(^1) calculate the new results by updating the results of the previous query execution in response to new updates to the data set.

^1: I'm not an expert on Differential Dataflow, so I don't know what "efficiently" means in this context, other than "should be faster than running the query from scratch."
I guess the proper response to that is to slap them in the face?
you may store data as property graphs or triples, but when you do a query, you always get back relations

Can you elaborate on this? in datomic you can get back hierarchical data
I don't think there's a firehose alternative for Mastodon. There's the generic stream API (https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/timelines/streaming/) which should contain all public posts but that will only reflect the local timeline.

The general public API also has a "fetch posts since ID <x>" call but in practice you'll only be able to fetch 400 posts at most based on the docs I can find.

There are tools like this: https://github.com/cscape/mastodon-firehose which you can use to combine multiple stream endpoints. That tool probably comes closest if you provide it with enough servers to monitor.
>If you need three or more "s to be part of your content, you just use more "s on the outside. The beginning and end just have to match:

This particular form of raw strings would seem to have the problem that you can't start the raw string with a double-quote character. ie if you want:

Console.WriteLine(???);

... to print:

"Hello world"

... you can't write:

Console.WriteLine(""""Hello world"""");

... because that'll print:

Hello world

I suppose the workaround is:

Console.WriteLine("""
"Hello world"
""");
prison for the rest of her life

LOL, she's looking at what, an 18 month sentence? Of which she'll serve maybe half?
Yes in the long term. People who post are more likely to be retained for a long time for a lot of reasons, partially because they are more likely to receive feedback on their posts and the feedback keeps them engaged.

The ultimate long term goal of Facebook is to get everyone to use VR. The shorter term goal (3-5 years) is to get people to keep coming back to Facebook and enjoying it.
You can even call them in IG, but I've heard several people say they would find it highly insulting to get a call via Instagram.
Yeah, people attack Meta engineers for no reason. I wish you nothing but the best.

BTW, here is a cool game for you to take your mind off things, please enjoy thoroughly:

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

Edit: please note before above reply was edited to 'No' it literally said that what I wrote is 'pretty much accurate'.
At Sun Microsystems this notion was so common that there was a TLA for it:

CLM = "career limiting move"
Hi HN,

My name is Eno - today I'm launching Pet Portrait AI. We generate 40 custom pet portraits using deep learning (Stable Diffusion + Dreambooth) in a variety of styles. The pictures come in standard (1024x1024) and high resolution (2048x2048). The photos are great for social media, posters, custom gifts, etc.

In the backend, when you upload your photos we fine-tune a custom model based on stable diffusion (right now the 1.5 runwayML weights) using the dream booth technique. We then generate over 100 different images which we filter down to 40 quality images. We are doing this filtering by hand for now, in order to ensure order quality - but in the future we'd like to build a custom classifier which can pick up our "eye for quality" and automatically select the best generations.

This was a really fun service to build out, all feedback welcome!
Which ad filters block facebook ads? IIRC a few years ago they had a surprisingly robust ad-blocker-blocker technique, using a crazy stacked div strategy to hide ad text.
Having a goal of using the product we make more isn't inherently evil, so why would anyone write about it that way.
"200+ person project" being contracted. I can't imagine any successful big software (assuming) projects like this not done in-house. Anyone seen any?
> And yes, bicycle lanes increase traffic congestion for cars. A bicycle lane is one less lane that vehicles can use.

Counterintuitively reducing lanes doesn’t generally increase congestion, it normally lowers it. Equally adding lanes also doesn’t decrease congestion, instead it frequently increases.

Of course there are situations where this doesn’t hold true, but for most cities today it does. Ultimately adding lanes just creates more capacity for traffic, it doesn’t increase flow rate, because the bottlenecks at junctions etc cause congestion long before the width of the road does. Making a road wider won’t change that.

Add a cycle lane does improve things for drivers. By making it possible for people to cycle rather than drive (cyclist don’t spring from nowhere) you reduce the number of cars on the road. A cycle lane can move substantially more people than a single lane of traffic. In most cities building out good cycle infrastructure, the cycles lanes move substantially more people per hour at rush hour than the car lanes ever have. Every single one of those bikes being one less car in car lanes.

The net effect of the above is that adding cycle lanes, and making cycling safe and attractive creates a net increase in available road space for those that must drive.
https://dirtybubblemedia.substack.com/p/is-alameda-research-...
Two notes:

skilled workers for a proprietary platform should learn that they work against their interests since anything they create is bound to the owner so instead of creating technical value they'll keep reinventing the wheel a company after another with small differences between them since all of those are interested only in trapping users inside their service model. As a result preferred workers are those with less skill who knowing that accept limited compensation and being treated like human-robots;

the lesson users should learn about proprietary platform is that they are at the mercy of the platform so NOTHING done with it should have a value since it might change or vanish overnight.

The juice of this note is simple: IT MUST BE FLOSS, services must be open protocols anyone can implement and keep up not tied to any company or developer in particular. That's is.

Beside that the sole comparison I see with the French Revolution is the fact revolutionaries / innovators in both cases are betrayed by those who led/hire them and in both cases such cohort of people allow betrayers to betray them.
When people my age were kids, many of them wanted to be movie stars. I'd agree that this doesn't necessarily indicate a problem.

I was going to make a joke about how I wanted to be a ninja when I was a kid, and how clearly unlikely that is, but as an adult I do actually commonly see job openings for ninjas. (Okay, I guess it's actually a joke anyway, just not the one I thought of initially.)
Hopefully they grow to the point where they can have some geopolitical retribution from colonialism
Zoom is adding email and calendar features to take on other workspace platforms
> to get you to engage in interactions

> like commenting and liking

But also, like blocking.

So if you block someone for posting something you really hate, you will see more posts that are like that post you really hated.
Some more background: the companies were engaged in fighting over regulations, and on a personal basis between the 2 CEOs. It went down to really childish levels at some point.

But one thing is undeniable: SBF (FTX CEO) was trying to weaponize US regulation against his biggest rival CZ (Binance CEO). CZ retaliated by selling the FTT token, exposed the fact FTX was over-leveraged, and took over.

This is, as the kids on Twitter say, the embodiment of the old "F#$k around, find out".

Along the way every FTX client who couldn't withdraw, and every crypto user losing value got screwed - but why should these 2 characters care? The space just became more centralized, and whatever smidge of trust was left after the Celsius debacle has evaporated.
I think they're more seen as "buffer states" that you can quickly sacrifice on the altar of the Board of Directors to show that you're serious about cost-cutting. While not hurting your core staff at all.
The first time I ever took MDMA was in Fabric many years ago. John Digweed was playing. I will never forget the sound and the feeling of that dance floor.
Somewhat related incredibly interesting reading:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33474889
The product mentioned in this post, Haven, seems very much like a self-hosted (optionally cloud-hosted, for a fee) 2010-era Facebook to me.

The distributed nature suggests that it won't go down the Facebook path.
The I-Ching
Congrats for inventing the most expensive pen in the world.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cashandcashequivalents....

> Cash and cash equivalents refers to the line item on the balance sheet that reports the value of a company's assets that are cash or can be converted into cash immediately.

> Cash equivalents include bank accounts and marketable securities such as commercial paper and short-term government bonds.

> Cash equivalents should have maturities of three months or less.

Don't know specifics on FTX/Alameda but this is probably normal to a degree for banks/brokers or just any regular business?