skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Shouldn't startups' leanness be a big advantage in the current market?
I'm starting to see more mass layoffs in small startups (high percentage relative to their size), some of them seemed very healthy/mature until recently

In general, I expected startups to be more immune in the current market due to their leanness and being “dead weight”-free in theory
I'm happy for you that you aren't mad, as there is no reason to wear the burden of anger in your life. At a young age I had pericarditis (idiopathic), which developed into both myocarditis and pericarditis. I've now had pericarditis off and on for over 10 years now and hope that it never comes back for your child.

"I think I can say we are not happy about not having been provided with all of the information before he got his shot."

You pretty much hit the nail on the head here and is my biggest gripe about this whole fiasco.

I'm not sure about your situation now, but if this disease recurs and you feel like your kid's heart doctor has no idea what they are talking about, I recommend either Mayo Clinic or Cleveland Clinic. I don't have Facebook, but I've been told there are many support groups for this disease as well there.

Good luck to you, and my prayers go out to you and your family.
As an aside, check out the 30 minute documentary "Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MGjFKs9bnU) about the end of the linotype era. I'm amazed at the engineering that went into linotype printing.
Attacking mathematics and science is part of the playbook for collectivists. Objective truth is the enemy of propaganda. Propaganda is the means to control belief, which is required to control behavior, which is required to centralize control of economic activity (people's behavior) and redistribute resources.

Therefore the idea of the existence of objective truth (2+2=4) must destroyed and subverted in order for the "goodfact" to be swallowed.

I just finished The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek, and he lays this out fairly well as a strategy of totalitarian regimes, or groups with totalitarian impulses. (Chapter 11, I believe)
> Others have embraced the fact that letters are included in the list of emojis, and more than 100 people have apparently coordinated to attempt to write out the chancellor’s name, “Hunt”, underneath the post. Unusually, however, every one of them seems to have made the same typing error, accidentally spelling out a vulgarity instead.
Yup, the fact it chimes in at a lower confidence reduces the negative effects of any false positive. It needs to be very confident to start applying braking, but it also primes your brakes before that so if you slam on the brakes from the chime it gets them to 100% instantly.
Is that true of other investments? My understanding is that someone who invests regularly in the stock market is likely ahead over a long period of time even if the market just crashed.
I think it’s easier to get away with when it’s not formally endorsed
An investment is when you have a reasonable expectation of return. Bonds are an investment because the average bond pays out more than it costs. The same is true of the average share. That is because these instruments produce value by making capital available to people who need it.

By this definition, BTC is NOT an investment. Neither is Gold or land (unless you rent it) or commodities. Buying those things is just "speculation". Speculating is fine. It can be useful for the market. You might even make money.

But please please, stop reffering to these things as "investments". They're not investments any more than my buying a hamburger.
sure. /s
Different wrapper for the same underlying techniques. Might be good to write some papers, but in my opinion, very unlikely to have any impact in practice.
There are worse situations.

Government-run, "socialized" health care (especially with unionized staff) is one example.

As a monopoly, government has no financial or other incentives to provide efficient and quality service. If more money is needed/wanted, it's simply taken from taxpayers.

Even worse, there are no real consequences or accountability for poor performance from any of the participants involved.

We end up with bloated health care organizations that deliver slow and ineffective treatment at a massive cost to society at large.

If the government-run health care system employees are unionized, it's even worse. The unions involved will effectively become political entities, doing everything in their power to block or impede any kind of meaningful reform or optimization of a broken (but beneficial to them) health care system.

It gets even worse when the government-run health care system, despite imposing a massive tax burden on taxpayers, doesn't even cover common procedures or treatments (dental, vision, prescriptions, and so on). So those already paying into this "socialized" system often end up needing some sort of costly private insurance, often offered through an employer, or they have to pay out-of-pocket.

What's described above is what we find with the various provincial government-run health care systems in Canada.

Canadian patients who can afford to do so will usually seek treatment at a private provider in the US or elsewhere. It may be expensive, but at least those patients tend to get effective treatment in a timely manner, which is something that's extremely rare with Canada's various "socialized" health care systems.
And if someone is following you too closely, but the lane to your left is clear, so it is in your interest to absorb the slack from someone in front of you turning because you can swerve left if they do something unexpected?

I don't think anyone would complain about these systems if they had all of the context and made good decisions. But it is a problem when either humans or automated systems stand on the brakes based solely on what is in front, without regard for sides or rear.

I do believe these systems are a net win. But they have rough edges that at least cause a lot of near-accidents because they don't behave the way drivers expect each other to.
... and California Prop. 8 passed by a majority of voters in 2008.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Proposition_8
Yes. And seed round valuations are still high enough to get off the ground with a solid group of a dozen people. Some have no chance at PMF and can't raise because investor confidence is low. As always, good companies with conservative spend will be most likely to survive.
Like Saul Tigh on Galactica: the XO
This one should just be a type-check & compile time error with red squiggles all over the editor.
theserchfoundation.org They reportedly have a YouTube channel with long boring videos about their silly stuff.
This is definitely not an extremely serious backcountry device, but for someone (like me) that is a casual hiker and skier, it was the primary reason I bought an iPhone 14 Pro.

It's very easy in the US West to get out of cell service very quickly - at that point, even just throwing an ankle or tripping can put you at the mercy of your hiking companion or random strangers on the trail. If you're going somewhere less traveled, this is just a nice thing to have in your pocket.

This feature isn't going to save you after you've been buried in an avalanche, but it's going to get search and rescue to carry you out when you're 10 miles from the parking lot. Worth the cost.
I did a similar experiment in about 2005 using a small iRiver iFP [1] and reached the same conclusion.

It needed a physical "Something interesting just happened" button that could be annotated later. At the time, creating custom hardware as well as the entire software/service stack was more than I was willing to bite off.

The iFP is tiny, roughly a 4" long by 1.5-2" cylinder. It easily covered a full day, the silence detection worked great, and quality was fine when used in a pocket or on a belt. Basically, the stuff that I expected to be difficult was already solved.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRiver_iFP_series, https://www.cnet.com/reviews/iriver-ifp-790-digital-player-r...
It probably varies by state, but people I know who've rear ended someone else have said that no one is interested in how it happened. The cops didn't care, and the insurance didn't care. The rule is it's your responsibility to maintain a safe distance.

So sure - the guy in front of you may have been extremely reckless, but no one involved is even going to want to hear that narrative.
> Seeing news like this makes me sad initially because it feels like every "decent" tech company out there (Mozilla, Wikipedia come to mind) keeps getting sucked into culture wars that distract from their core missions.

Do you know if there is a good write-up anywhere of exactly why these organisations keep getting captured by this ideology?

It feels like it just came out of nowhere and took over, and we are all expected to agree with the whole thing, otherwise we are labelled as bigoted, evil, etc.

I know it's associated with being politically on the left, but personally, as a left-winger in a more traditional (class-based, economic) sense, I am baffled as to how it's been quietly switched to all this woke gibberish. I certainly didn't see it coming.
> team decided to have a shared on-call rotation. They would cross-train. Each team makes a procedure book that covers any first-on-the-scene tasks for most alerts and issues.

Shared on-call is a section I strongly disagree with. Shared on-call erodes the very same boundaries that provided value in the first place. You could say it's a lesser and necessary evil, but you should at least be open about it.

Procedure book is a naive "sounds good, doesn't work" solution. Why don't you "solve" the on-call problem completely by outsourcing it to a $15/hour worker if you have these amazing playbooks?

This approach naturally leads to bloated playbooks. It's very similar to trying to solve all of the architectural issues by "writing good documentation". Never works.

On-call is typically a company-wide policy, and those are at odds with smaller independent teams.

The right answer is giving those teams more independence: they figure out how to solve their on-call themselves. Maybe playbooks is the answer for them. Or they have people who are still online after work hours and they don't mind being semi-oncall. Or maybe all their issues are not critical and 24/7 on-call is not necessary.

Smaller teams benefit from independence, don't ruin it via company-wide policies.
1) "I told you so."
2) "Yeah, but you just wait and see - It'll be different a year or two from now"

Crypto bulls and bears oscillate between 1/2, as the market turns hot/cold. Gizmodo is very clearly selling confirmation to the anti-crypto crowd currently looking for narratives to support their use of statement 1).

Anyone who is hyper-confident in either direction is usually wrong.
Even better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP2DK4pEYS4
This reminds me of the auto-correction feature on my insulin pump. Insulin dosage can be seen like braking: a certain brake pressure/duration decreases velocity over a period of time, and a specific amount of insulin decreases blood glucose over a period of time. My problem with the feature has been similar - it steps on the brakes too soon when I don’t need or expect it to. It can be adjusted, but in braking terms, one can adjust the pressure but not when it brakes. While this is touted as a cutting edge feature and many people like it, I had to turn it off.
I’ve been using Fedora since release ~30 on desktop and laptop, previously a Debian user for like 15 years.

I think it switched cause I wanted Wayland and more recent Gnome at the time. Everything more or less always seems to work without issue, I’ve done upgrades, swapped out hardware over the years and never had any show-stopping bugs.

More recently I became a package maintainer and it’s been an excellent process, from the documentation to the community. I used to be weary of RPM and the “dependency hell” but it’s not really a thing anymore.

I like picking the right tool for the job, and so far Fedora has worked out well in this regard, but Ubuntu, MacOS, Windows, etc all have their place.
I think it depends on the circumstances what you should do. Such as whether the client has a real budget. Honestly for me it is relatively trivial to find clients with shoestring budgets versus adequate ones.

But ideally you set things up ahead of time by finding a client with a decent sized budget and then charging by the week. The billing increment is one week.

Then just make sure to have regular delivery or discussions as often as possible with the client. They should see the deliverables progressing, even if it's just the architectural details being worked out at first. They should be judging based on useful things obviously happening and being explained or being able to use the next version rather than just looking at hours to try to guess whether they are getting a good deal or something.

For me, we will see how it goes. Right now I have a weekly billing client who I am a bit worried I will have to replace because things in this niche are so dead right now. But there were a few other projects I may be able to pick up. I am definitely going to try to find one that can afford a week or two though because realistically all of the projects have gone on for more than two weeks so far, generally speaking more like 2-8 weeks each.

When it's going to almost certainly take a month to complete a project, trying to get out of an extra hour every day or something is a questionable strategy because it's a significant investment anyway, and the biggest risk really is most projects just not delivering usable software at all, which means all of that money gets wasted.
I agree, but looking at the actual food eaten, it doesn't seem to line up.
The three great virtues of a parent: Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris.

-- almost Larry Wall
I do think that we need to pick one or the other approach, and not mix them, as mixing them at engineer's discretion just opens to unforeseeable outcomes, e.g. Engineer making the choice without understanding the implications or the code evolving to be sensitive from non-sensitive over time.
If you want to understand you could have a look at any of the stories about Trump, about anything he's been accused of over the years. Take note of the difference in language used, the choice of words etc.

Well, that's different, because in Trump's case it was obvious he did it all. After all, the NYT told us. Or at least, they heavily implied it, even though nothing was proven. Waaaait a minute.
I've got a 2020 Subaru Crosstrek and:

1. Forward collision alarm goes off falsely sometimes, but never the actual braking

2. Rear collision braking is usually fine as well, but since it doesn't realize grass/bushes aren't solid it feels a little more intense in those situations.

It really feels like you're just driving recklessly.
Yes. So am I allowed to use Stripe for this?
Ok, but servers are a small minority of their expenses. They pay 6 million a year in donation processing fees, 88 million in wages and benefits, 12 million in operating expenses, 16 million in professional services (presumably contract work), and 3 million in depreciating assets.

All told their expenses are 145 million a year, of which 10% is "awards and grants".

Focusing on the server costs is like saying an engineer only writes code. It takes much much more than servers to make a site.
I have recording turned on on my phone. Usually it records 6 hours at a time, so it is annoying that I have to manually restart recording.
Another annoying thing is that it will pause the recording when I pick up a call.

Why Google decided to block call recording is beyond me. In the past when I was able to record calls it saved me a lot of trouble - for instance when insurance company lied to me over the phone about the product I could confront them about it and get my money back. I wish I could be able to record calls with my relatives as well.
Call recording is legal in my country.
Some people would say that the VPE has the luxury to care more about inwards topics whilst the CTO tends to focus outwards.

Different strokes for different folks.
> Yep. That's always held true.

No, it's always true in zero sum games. The stock market is not zero sum. Beating the stock market is, which is why most investors don't beat the stock market. But that's different from losing principal in even nominal terms.
There are obviously people out there that are deep experts on radio, signals, propagation, antennas, etc. That's not me, but I know enough about it to appreciate that this is completely amazing.
What network are they using exactly
in my experience almost all dealers take personal checks, they can get the car or money back from you pretty easily if there is a problem with the check
You’ve been diagnosed with $ILLNESS - for treatment, Amazon recommends “WOOGOOLOO Medicinal Syrup All Cure No Melamine safe for Pets and all age Children”
Nobody is going to protect you from stuff like that. You just gotta practice good online hygiene and don't run random software or extensions. Much of it is adware or malware. If they don't have a paid plan or are sponsored by a huge company, you are the product and spying is their business plan.
I've set up my Garmin devices to ignore phone calls and texts from the phone during workouts.

As an FYI, if you have an iPhone, you can set a "Fitness" focus mode that turns on automatically when a workout is started. From there, you can specify which contacts can pop a notification during workouts (or none at all). I let my wife and my parents get through.

But, like you, not that I'd use a phone as a bike computer to begin with.
No they don’t. Period. We’ll be a healthier society once we get past the idea that you can, well, own ideas.
I disagree.

Consumption is important, but so is culture. Interaction is a big deal to many people. Look at the dynamics related to notifications, for example. People check in, desire the feedback, that interaction, and they seek more of it, form connections around it, and more.
Thanks, I'll check local shops. They are probably more familiar with the road and equipment needed.
That reminded me of donating to WP this year. Done.

I don't care what their fundraisings are, I just know that they deserve a donation now and then.

(Also, they employ more than 500 people, and this is consistent with their donations volume, so I don't think they are burning money for nothing.)
Amazon did it for themselves first.
Well, the alternative is that other phones don't have it.

So I think this is an advantage. If, lets say, it costs 4.99 a year, I think a good percentage of people would do that (me included, even though I'm not an iPhone user).
At least the Netherlands is phasing out 2G and 3G, although you can still use them until 2025 depending on your provider. I suppose this is the same in at least several other European countries.
What an odd case.

> RCMP Inspector David Beaudoin said that Mr Wang used his position at Hydro-Quebec to conduct research for a Chinese university and other researcher centres.
He allegedly published scientific articles and submitted patents in "association [with] this foreign actor rather than with Hydro-Quebec", he said.

So the guy very publicly used privileged information to benefit a third party, without his current employer's consent.

Doesn't sound much like state sponsored espionage, to be honest.
"I'm only one car-length away and still going 40 MPH. Another half-second and they'll be gone,"

These numbers must be wrong, and are terribly unsafe.

Just off the top of my head, that's like travelling 60fps for .5 seconds is 30 feet, which exceeds 1 car length, even for my truck.
> this critique more or less applies to real money as well

Currency is transparent about being negative sum per se. It's not designed to be held for long term, it's designed to create positive externalities by enabling trade. (The value-holding form of the U.S. dollar is the Treasury.)
They could they just don't. You could use npm, you could use SwiftPM. There is no tie to the cocoapods infra really - they just use it because that was there.
That's bad driver assist, not a bad premise. My car will fight you a little, but it always gives me control when I insist.

Wrt. black ice, if there's a stopped car in front of you, black ice or no you want to try to stop.
Unfortunately, compile time has no way of knowing what SQL code will return. Even if we wrote a somewhat intelligent parser that can introspect the database schema (as I have several times), there is still the possibility that the schema will evolve while the previously valid code is deployed, which brings back to the original question.
What's ugly about it? Genuinely interested.
2 car lengths? So like, 250 milliseconds at 40 miles per hour?
It's typical in calorie tracking that people start the day strong, but then forget or lose will to track later in the day. Ideally days without a full record should be excluded; I'm assuming that's just not happening here.
Doing anything too much or too little is bad. The devil is in the details. Twitter hot takes don't help.
You're mixing up two things: 1. How well do individual traders (people) perform? 2. How well do most investments perform?

The majority of people in the stock market do lose, because it's psychologically hard to buy and hold. A common outcome is to hold for years in a 401k and then panic sell at a big dip, or family emergency. Another is to buy hot stocks on peak years (word of mouth) and then lose (happening right now).

The same is true in cryptocurrency. If all you did was DCA buy and hold bitcoin over the past 3-8 years you are doing just fine.

I am also not equating stocks and cryptocurrency. Stocks give you a right to cash flow and coins do not. However, similar psychological challenges hinder all investors.
I wonder where this data comes from? I was hoping I could search around for who returns

"status",
"spid",
"total ported spid",
"port date",
"ratecenter",
"state",
"lata",
"clli",
"creation date",
"fraud risk",
"is textable",
"lrn",
"spid name",
"ocn name",
"ocn",
"ocn type",
"nn id",
"nn description",
"nn type",
"cnam",
"lnp history",
"number"

But no dice.
Just a nurse, this is true. I’ve been running a vaccine clinic. Very few to none are putting in adverse events to the proper place, there are competing data banks to report adverse reactions to (many of which are black boxes, data goes in and nothing comes out), doctors are dismissive, and in the few cases they do admit x,y,z caused by vaccine it is documented lightly.
> illustrating exactly what our business was, and have that sent back to CFTC.

Could it be that they were collecting data from you to build models for future analysis? Instead of paying people to research companies, and enter data into a system, force 20% of all companies to provide this data regardless of suspicions of wrongdoing?

There's that saying "looks like a duck, quacks like a duck." Maybe they start from the position "I don't know what a duck looks like, or what it sounds like. I think you're a duck. What do you look like? What do you sound like?"

That's just a guess. I have experience working elsewhere in the federal government. They often just throw darts at the wall to prove they are doing their job. New management will take over a department, and want to demonstrate change of some kind. Don't try to attach any rational thought to these actions.
Reducing the odds of getting rear-ended by absorbing the slack of a conservative following distance rather than braking to maintain the same following distance from 35 to 20 mph.
I assume you could use a prediction market; someone must be offering odds.
> Apple is TSMC's largest single customer, but they're only ~25% of their revenue.

Consider that Apple is also 25% of total assets of Berkshire (around 250$B), so it's not much of a surprise that Berkshire is going into the main manufacturer of the biggest stock they have - hence the strong linking between the wto.