skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know someone who used to work in sales at Weight Watchers. They said that WW found success in compliance by zeroing out the points for fruit and/or vegetables. Apparently clients were spending their points on other things before the change, and not getting ANY fruit or veg before the change. Stated that this phenomenon was regional; e.g. Californians tended to make room for fruit and veg in their point budget.

I personally find most fruit juice so acidic that I only drink it with a big meal.
Start by banning words like "upskill" and "learnings"
In comparison, a certain "microblogging" platform has over 7500 while making no money or net positive value to society.
> Are you suggesting that crypto is to blame for inflation? how would that work?

No. The only claim is that crypto is sleeping in the bed it made, bedfellows included.
It's really frustrating to get downvoted for this.

I know it sound new age and all, but it’s tested, there is research papers on it.

It’s also very easy to test: two cages of mices one with infrared, the other without. Take blood sample and measure inflammation markers.

Then you can correlate inflammation markers with various diseases and get an idea of the magnitude of the effect.

I guess it was the same with vitamin-D, people must have think that plants use the sun, humans don’t.
The CEO letter is meaningless, but the severance and departing benefits look pretty generous at least. A nice little cushion while they look for new jobs. I've certainly seen much worse.
I was just reading about them in the Levine article on Bloomberg. I want to make a joke about NFT containers but it’s beating a dead horse.
Yeah, if I were one of FTX's regulators, I would be fascinated to meet with him. Or any other big-name crypto person. Assuming they're brave enough to set foot on US territory at all, that is.
That's the thing about discrimination. It happens in small moments like this that add together toward career sabotage. It's always hard to prove on an individual basis because nobody writes down a plan to discriminate against specific employees and the initial response is always to blame the person experiencing it.
My long-time mentor had a spin on the idea: "The day you start a new role/job/position, look for and start training your replacement".

The core notion is similar: it's not good for you OR your team/company/client, if you are a single-point-of-failure, irreplaceable contributor. And my mentor's spin puts a "selfish" take on it which allows some people to ingest it better - you'll never be able to take the next opportunity, if you have not left behind a working system for your current role.

note: none of this is to say that ageism doesn't exist or that toxic / misguided work cultures don't exist. By all accounts, I would not personally want to work in an Elon Musk company, though I understand those that do. But if I have a super-high performer who is THE ONLY person who can move the needle on a number of high-value projects and is working 70hrs a week to accomplish that... that is a MASSIVE risk to the team and company, and needs to be addressed somehow.
Will just focus on Uber, but I don't agree with this at all.

I actually agree with both of you! If I'm evaluating Doordash and the Uber Eats services, I think the OP is completely correct that the world would be better off without them.

If I'm evaluating Uber the ride sharing service, I think you are completely correct that it has improved ride service dramatically.
What about it? Your question seems to leave it very open-ended.
> School systems are DESIGNED to protect bullies and subjugate the bullied. In America, they are prisons.

Most US public schools and low-rate private schools are like this. If your children are in an ultra-competitive public or private school however, the bullies are tossed out, the schools confident in the 100% ironclad certainty there is another family literally grateful for the opportunity to place their child in the new opening within 24 hours. The student body goes through cycles of forgetting this until a new bully is expelled, then the bullying simmers down to much more subtle forms.

In the ultra-competitive private boarding schools, the kind of over the top physical bullying you hear about in public schools is nearly non-existent because they will expel on far lower thresholds for bullying.

But yes, if your children are in US public school or you are a child in a US public school, generally speaking fighting back regardless of the zero tolerance consequences tends to stop the bullying better than going through toothless school policies. Bullies tend to prefer soft targets over porcupines. If you are being bullied and choose to fight back though, then go in at a location with adults to intervene quickly nearby expecting to get hurt and lose (in the sense the bully has the physical upper hand), but never defeated (in the sense you and the bully have to be separated before you stop). If it is a group doing the bullying, go for the leader.

The US public school systems' bullying problem won't stop until the bullies' parents know that they have a no-recourse, no-litigation-overturning consequence to bullying that sees their precious no-fault snowflake expelled to "lower class" schooling if they run out their options.
I'd love to see some examples of your diagrams. Are they all hand-written or do you use online tools for them? I do quite a bit of graph diagramming but not for detailed planning of implementation. Best example I've seen along those lines are the xState tools for state charts (https://stately.ai/viz).
Yes, the bus factor was high but:

>> I hadn’t even been told that people were being hired, nor was I invited to sit in on interviews—though I was the most qualified to discern candidates’ qualifications and experience.

This has become one of my favorite things to do with my experience, and I've helped hire some great people. To keep him out of this process was a terrible decision.

I don't think it was age discrimination so much as politics and empire building.

There is also a tech-bro factor at play here. I saw this while working at a supplier to another Elon company. They get these 23 year-olds that think they can do anything (them getting hired by XYZ Corp is proof right?) and then they do silly things or don't understand the basics. Hey but when they eventually figure stuff out they can claim a few miles range improvement on that car as their own fabulous innovation!
How do you go from timestamp to identifying someone?

~Every HTTP response has a Date field with a second-resolution timestamp that might be unique. Are you equally concerned about that?
I remember it was possible to import your own maps in the demo... by just copying your own city over the demo one.
Indeed, I'm talking about what I philosophically believe should be (Georgism)

You're right, those are all legitimate issues that would have to be addressed carefully. A key part of that would be redistribution of the revenues to the people.
This is a bit unfair. The author never claimed it would make them a 10x engineer.

Learning almost anything is useful in some capacity. Is everything you learn equally important? Maybe, maybe not, but you never know in advance how things might end up useful.

Of all the things one can study, math seems to be a pretty safe bet in terms of ROI.
Literally none of those three parties are forced to do business with doordash.
Musk did it better
Exactly. They could have the same functionality and privacy characteristics if they simply kept a cookie that incremented each time the site was visited. The fact that they didn't go this route suggests this is more about finding a way to track unique visitors when cookies are disabled. They are deliberately subverting the user's desire to not be tracked and spinning it as a privacy win.
I find it amazing that they still find people with these requirements.
Yes, redundancy is a good thing. On the other hand, addressing it for an older employee after an injury makes their motivations sound suspect. Would they have treated a younger employee in similar circumstances the same way (because, yes, younger people do get injured)? For that matter, why didn't they have redundancy built into an important role from the outset (making it policy would reduce the likelihood of ageist behaviour)?
> a leveraged bet and a very common vehicle in traditional finance

Former options market maker here. Taking leveraged, directional risk with options is textbook reckless trading. That Robinhood found people to swing options and crypto is not representative of traditional finance.
I thought coffee suppressed appetite too.
hmm, the failings of current monetary, credit and securities/markets systems are very well known to anybody who is not captured. To my knowledge cryptocurrency is not the answer to any of these problems.

There is no intrinsic reason why the financial system could not be organized and, where required, regulated with the same (in)competency or transparency or checks-and-balances as any other domain of equal importance. To accept this can't be done is to imply that the particular parasite class benefiting from the status-quo is more of a parasite than others. This doesn't feel to be the case. In the scheme of things there are worse leeches, some in plain sight.

The naivete and total inadequacy of cryptocurrency as an alternative financial system is exploding right as we speak. While it had (maybe) some limited use signalling to the status-quo that "they should behave - or else" - see e.g. CBDC, the exploitation and betrayal of countless individuals with fake promises will ultimately only further entrench the notion that there is no alternative to the parasites. That is sad.

It all loops back to building trust networks and enticing individuals to participate because they will be better of and not screwed by insiders. This cannot be enforced magically by numerical algorithms and blockchains. It is a contract by and for humans.
Doesn't look like they asked him if he was interested. They just cut them out of the process entirely in what could look like constructive dismissal.
Avoid companies where the CEO has multiple families and doesn't spend time with any of them.
>But how can we do better? At the end of the day, dieting is just hard. Unhealthy food is delicious, and choosing healthier options and eating less in general requires a good bit of willpower.

Healthy food also tastes delicious. And while changing one's diet - or any habit - requires willpower, if one has healthy standards set early in life it is not that difficult to continue with them or pick them back up.

One commonality between diets as different as a vegan one or all beef one is the emphasis on eating real food rather than processed garbage.

However I think the idea that there is something present environmentally that is causing a systemic issue should not be discounted. People in the 70s did not eat particularly healthy. They liked to watch tv, had Doritos and snack cakes, were just as lazy, and did not have any more willpower, discipline, or education than people do now.
Because the holiday applies additional pressure to consume. You outlined it yourself.
Also, this is very much what works for me. I love to think in "structure" and patterns, and category theory diagrams and the way concepts are formulated brings me "joy", if that makes sense. It resonates with my cognition in the way say, common lisp, does, and that makes it quite fun and enjoyable.

Does it for everybody? Most certainly not.
I hate this because I want to order take out, which DoorDash doesn't need to be involved in. A ton of restaurants around me no longer take phone orders and so my only options if I want take out is to walk up, order, and wait. Or just suck it up and pay. I mostly take the former (gives you a chance to go grab a six pack).
The former I believe
> I cannot enjoy the suffering of my children or the torture and murder of the innocent because "they can happen" which I'd be required to do in this so called "enlightenment." What you're describing is pure selfishness and taking pleasure in evil. That's horrific.

Right. You won't enjoy those things. You just won't add additional unnecessary suffering.
Buddhism doesn't teach to enjoy the terrible things about the world, nor to ignore them by some kind of numbness. The whole point is that there is an additional layer of suffering that is entirely optional. This is what they refer to as Dukkha in the "Four Noble Truths".

> Which is total detachment from other people too and their needs and for making the external world better since any attempt to do so would be admitting that things in the external world can really be bad. That's not a recipe for happiness, it's a recipe for total loneliness and, if seriously adopted by enough people, societal collapse. We're a social species, demonstrably. Buddhism as you describe it appears to be a rejection of the real evils in the world, passions, charity, and society.
>"Bliss" built on the enjoyment of evil is infinitely worse than mere numbness.

I think your parents' comments admit of more charitable readings.
What does "heavily encrypted" even mean?
> Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (doing all the exercises is key).

I tried this, but got stuck on the first exercise that had you prove some mathematical thing. I concluded that I was too stupid for the book.
> As someone with a maths degree, yet who admittedly hasn't looked into category theory beyond some basic notions, I still don't quite understand why anyone would want to learn category theory before e.g. abstract algebra

Because people think “category theory” means “abstract math” in general, due to cargo-culting in and around the Haskell community.
What else could it possibly be about?
Any news on what the other side of the deal is? When I was laid of from Twitter in 2017, all of the benefits were contingent on signing a long document that included a non-disparagement clause.
I don't agree with Richard Stallman's political or social views but he was right all along when it came to being wary of software not having the user's best interests in mind.
Yes, but not your identity.
Somehow completely mistook the gist of what I was saying.

> "Bliss" built on the enjoyment of evil is infinitely worse than mere numbness.

It's a common misconception that you would be happy BECAUSE people are suffering around you. The goal is to separate the content of your experience from your ability to experience. Therefore you are in a natural state of bliss REGARDLESS of any external circumstance.

You can absolutely notice the suffering of others and it comes with a deep sense of compassion when you do. Since you understand that everyone shares in the same potential and that the suffering is caused by them not being able to see that, you are more effective at helping because you don't get caught up in the trip. The best way to help others is to show them the way out of that suffering, to give people the tools to also realize their potential.

The maxim in this kind of buddhism is to better yourself to be of most benefit to ALL sentient beings.

But yeah, if you are actually interested, it is best done through practice. Meditation has incredibly improved my experience of the world and made me more effective at dealing with difficult situations because I can have the distance to observe emotions as they appear and decide whether to use the energy they inherently express or let them fade back to where they came from without acting clumsily.
It is a tiny tiny minority of people for sure.
One can argue it was OP's mistake to not hire a few people himself, train them and delegate part of his responsibilities to them. This way he would have the management position he desired, he wouldn't have to work such long hours, taking a medical leave would not be a big problem, etc. Instead he left the responsibly to build a team to someone else and not that surprisingly was left out of the loop.
Another term for this is typestate analysis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typestate_analysis
I feel that a lot of my colleagues use "git push" as a backup mechanism, but GitLab actually supports that workflow via `git push -o ci.skip` to distinguish between "yes, just back up my commits" versus "ok, I'm really ready to test them". I'm aware of the commit-message hack used by other CI systems, but I much prefer that out-of-band mechanic

They have a ton of other handy toys, even if the syntax is ... Very Git :-( https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/push_options.html#pu... I suggested a feature-request to add `git push -o gitlab.help`: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/359267 as well as showing the CLI equivalent for the web workflow:

CI variables: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/359268

MR: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/359269
And yet still can't turn a profit, it's really amazing.

It would be one thing if I were sitting here going, "Well that makes sense you can't deliver a $12 hamburger for $10" but every time I use DoorDash it's "Somehow this $12 hamburger is listed as $18 and when I went to check out with service fees and tip it's going to be $40..."
Satellites are being built, rockets are launching and the laser system is operational.

Seems like they made it work, with or without the guy. Though I imagine it would of been a lot smoother if he had helped those engineers in their new roles.

And yes you can build great relationships in a fast paced environment with very senior and very junior engineers thrown into the ring together.
> Much B2B is done on price by inquiry. The three columns and 'best value!' is a very modern thing.

Yeah. That is the biggest cultural difference between "suit tech" and "t-shirt tech" - the old boomer-generation suits love personal connections and dealings of any kind, while the modern generation prefers efficiency and getting their work done without pseudo-social bullshit.
I'll come back with 'they can't do shit about the website'
> and what I consider descent coffee

I have good news! All coffee descends as you pour it :)
well, i guess after the pandemic, all of the fake websites for local eateries that didn't have websites have been made (so that doordash owns the search and orders even if the user thought they were ordering directly), so that's a department no longer needed. /s
The technical architects, solution architects and business analysists couldn't care less about what a worshiped book says about the UNIX philosophy.

On the enterprise mines, the minions do what they say.
Birthday paradox means that will be far lower.
No, they are truncating the timestamp to the day. So all visitors to the site on a specific day get the same initial timestamp.
Either way - does it seem like a clear cut case of age discrimination? The same thing happens to young people regularly.

I see your point. Though I would say delegation doesn't always have to imply senior-junior reporting structure. Giving work that had "your name on it" to your peers is something we have to be comfortable with. But if you do it well it tends to turn into that by nature.
This is part of why I quit my privacy focused analytics start-up years ago. I won’t name it directly, but it was one of the first and is still going strong (although not really open-source anymore).

People kept asking for cookieless tracking but with another way of identifying returning visitors that was always worse from a privacy standpoint. Cookies can be controlled by the client, anything stored on the server can not.

Honestly, cookies are pretty nice, it’s the law around this that sucks. Tricks that attempt to bypass the laws will surely only work for a limited time, at least I hope they will…
Is there a video file I can test? I have Xiaomi phone.
The evolution of dep-check: align-deps
I get jumpy around Scott but he is a working psychiatrist and good about citing his sources.
Because it's not called a cookie, eg. in the UK we have biscuits which are therefore not subject to the GDPR.

It's not tracking users, it's just a special user-identifying operation.
It is an automatic script from their playbook to invoke whataboutism.
I think it depends on what kind of technical writing.
Are you interested in creating technical content for the outside world or content for internal consumption only. Do these individuals have strength in regular comms but trying to balance a technical voice - or more broadly need work in logic and rhetoric and writing in general?
This and https://diataxis.fr are about all the training you need. Beyond that you just need to organizationally commit to improving your docs. You yourself need to be the leader to keep reminding and explaining to stakeholders why it's important. Or else entropy will get you just like anything else in life.

A good concrete milestone is to create a spreadsheet of doc coverage. The rows are your key use cases and the columns are "tutorial", "guide", "explanation", "reference" (see Diataxis). Take a snapshot of your starting state. And then take a snapshot of your ending state (hopefully with more doc coverage for all your key use cases. It's a nice and clear story to tell to stakeholders. Explain the 4 Diataxis doc types to your stakeholders (basically just repeat the message on the Diataxis homepage). Most people intuitively get it and agree right away. And then you show them the before and after. "We started here and now our docs are much more comprehensive and here's a detailed breakdown to help convince."

I am a professional technical writer (edit: removed my current role because this is supposed to be my anon macro investing account... facepalm)
A long position in an option can't be down more than 100%.

The only commonly traded way to lose more than you started with are futures (not available on most retail platforms) and CFDs (not legal in many markets, including the USA).
Maybe he isn't a good manager?
I loved the book. I hope they do better than they did with johnny mnemonic
Many journalists today seem more interested in increasing their Twitter followers than being accountable.
Building a CLI Application with Oclif
I wouldn't use Blue Origin as a counter example, Bezos is doing about as well with that as Musk is with The Boring Company.

There are several other new space companies I think are interesting, including SpinLaunch, Relativity Space, and Rocket Lab.
For some reason every layoff press release on HN gets the "The CEO takes responsability but doesn't actually" comments.

I'm not sure what people expect, "I will whip myself once for every employee I had to layoff to atone for overhiring during one of the biggest market bull run"?

It's especially weird considering that DoorDash is probably the company that had the best reason to overhire during a pandemic where delivery apps where being used a lot more than usual.
different CEO back then.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/technology/ceo-kraken-cry...

It looks like hn changed the link as well. the original link had more info about their past statements. https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/30/kraken-cuts-30-...
You could have 300 like FTX and have completely inadequate financial controls.
New to the Web Platform in November
What does "Why Telegram" describe if not their mission?
Thank you for your response and insight
I wouldn't mind office space being turned into living space (though I've seen some claims here that it's not easy).
> You know how the corners of your mouth are turned down (looking miserable)

That's just my normal face. When I focus, my eyebrows bunch up and I am told I scare people.
I fully agree with this comment, and should clarify that I don’t mean one should ignore the environment they’re in and just expect the org to magically bend to their will.

But I’ve worked with two very different types of folks:

1. Those who understand the game, hate it, but do their best to work within it.

2. Those who love, embrace, perpetuate the most problematic elements of said game.

To me, playing the game is the latter.

Operating within the game is the former.

There are some lines I’ll never cross. But that doesn’t mean I won’t work within a challenging environment when necessary.