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Further context: In Brazil since we have universal health care provided by the government, generally speaking non outsourced or contractors becomes public servants.

The issue is: Public service in Brazil is expensive and is virtually impossible to fire anyone. On top of that the cost of public service has second order effects in the public balance sheet for the municipalities plus it has a huge burden in the public retirement system.

Not saying that is right or wrong, but this is very common in the Brazilian heath system.

Not Indian and not personally affective. I came from a society quite similar in terms of cultural e socio-economical background with India and maybe there’s a missing point.

I got your point and you’re right in terms of worship philanthropic people with a lot of money.

However, there’s one aspect that is overlooked when a person that helped and/or serves as reference for a bunch of people that is the “emotional gratitude” or “sense of reference” that those people has in some peoples mind and no matter how much of objective and maybe correct post-mortem criticism will change people’s mind.

At the limit, any public figure can, with little scrutiny, be framed as bad.

One example from my country: Ayrton Senna (deceased F1 Driver) even being a millionaire, coming from a very privileged background in 80s in a country that used to have at least 40% of its people below the poverty line.

Even not doing (during life) objectively nothing for poor people, a lot of folks (me included) consider the guy as a reference, in some cases as a hero. When he died a lot of folks felt that they lost their “hero” and actually he had a state funeral that no other Brazilian will ever have again [1].

My point is that there’s more nuance and layers around that topic when someone with a lot of money dies, and there’s no right or wrong since we’re al humans.

[1] - https://youtu.be/j79qnfHODPk?feature=shared

> 2. In general, this is just an indication that YC is not the quality filter it once was. It seems they are more interested in founders online following (the founders are both YouTubers with significant channel sizes) than they are about the business itself.

I noticed same thing with the latest batches (2019+) where founders sometimes with only a welcome page in the site, an e-mail list, and a blog going to Linkedin and doing a lot of self-promoting to generate steam in the company instead to deliver something good.

I used to buy books personal development, management and productivity books and a very sad transition in that space in the last 15 years is that most of the time the author needs to used a lot of anecdotes and make a narrative instead to do directly do the point.

I used to call that as a "Talebnization" of business/management writing that everyone uses more or less the same format to convey a idea: - Some random quote to support the point

- 1 paragraph with the point

- 1 or 2 anecdotes or researched case about the point

- Some broad cherry-picked statistic to bring some rigor

- A success case due to the point

- Closing thoughts without any counterpoint, critique, or presence of any downside in the main point of the chapter.

Do that for 20 chapters and you have a book.

As an ex-Blinkist I think the work here it's quite impressive.

From what I found based in some titles that I have read in the past and in comparison with Blinkist:

- The summaries here feels that has more "meat in the bone" in terms of bring complex ideas and have more bullet points

- Maybe it's about the prompting, but the language used you can definitely know that is generated by an LLM

- Having the direct quotes from the book after an initial definition of the theme of a chapter it's good

- The whole experience with the LLM kicking in on the fly, makes the whole experience quite bad; maybe you should consider have that pre-stored in some place

Honestly, I think your product it's 85% of theirs (and this is not something bad).

The pricing USD 79 for a lifetime it's OK, but without giving some kind of access or even make some library available it's quite hard to see someone paying for a library that you do not know the books that is in there.

From the legal perspective, I think you might be in some hot water since some publishers can dispute the fair use due to the fact that you're monetizing part of their content.

Two interesting things that I noticed from the betting industry:

1) In Brazil there's an entire industry of athlete's from lower divisions and agents that sells transient results that is taken in consideration in the bets.

For instance, number of corner kicks, number of fouls, yellow cards and so on. It's hard to trace it back the intention and there's a player from the National Team being investigated due to betting patterns [1].

With 80% of players earning less than USD 300 [2] when someone have the offer to take USD 10000 to receive 3 yellow cards in 5 games, it's hard to say no for those guys.

2) The problem that I see with the regulation is that not only in the sporting and social aspects (that is bad) but the money laundering and the lack of tracing in the money that goes in bet houses.

For instance, Germany has some regulation around the topic [3] but the reality if you go in some Tipico or some small bet house you can carry EUR 10000 and bet in anything, no questions asked; that's the reason why a lot of people around the world come to Germany for sports betting [4].

Anecdotally speaking, an old colleague used to manage some players in Brazilian 3rd division and he had some connections with folks in places like Germany. Before the game he already knew the bets and then just told to the players what needs to be done (e.g. I want a penalty kick after 80min, or a yellow card before 70 minutes) and after the bet being payed the agent just passed the money to the players (more or less 30%).

[1] - https://onefootball.com/de/news/fa-want-to-ban-lucas-paqueta...

[2] - https://g1.globo.com/trabalho-e-carreira/noticia/2022/12/04/...

[3] - https://cms.law/en/int/expert-guides/cms-expert-guide-to-onl...

[4] - https://n1info.rs/biznis/fatf-nemacka-raj-za-pranje-novca-go...

> Unfortunately most of the game-changing tech isn’t going to be low capex moving forward.

I agree with the assumption, but I believe that the difference is that in the last 10 years you could have some scrappy machines or free-tier machines in any public cloud provider and have an MVP ready to show it only using software.

For Military Tech/Deep Tech there's no way to do that since the intensity of capital its so high that even if someone trust you to deliver something and write a 500K check the burn rate will kill your company in 6 months; plus all procurement process for it if you going to sell it to any western government.

For instance: I was working in a product to monitor military excercise/disguised build-ups via mixture of aerial images and probing and talking with one innovation branch of a european miitary they told that even if I came up with a finished product I need to pass to several procurement approvals and it could take at least 4 years; and in the meantime I could not even offer that to other places.

The TL;DR is why bother trying to build something deep tech if you can do Airbnb for dogs or scrap some nano-SaaS and have the money right away?

I used to subscribe to general news magazines, and of course there's some obvious reasons for it: - Competition for attention - Emerging miche magazines - Conservatism of investigative reportage - Shorter news cycles due to social media - Journalism becoming partisan - Opinion pieces and narrative building instead of histories

As a reader, I am more than satisfied with the current state of niche magazines (e.g., guitar, drones, motosports, and lifestyle), where the access to the internet in those places became some kind of meta-curation on interesting topics.

For the general magazines, I feel bad about how this trend is going. For instance, in South America, magazines used to cross-communicate with some points of society (Class A, B, and a bit of C), and the rest of the society (Class D and E) used to have some of this work downstream via night news.

Another thing is that wristleblowers knew that the enditorial support in magazines is way higher than in TV news channels, since the latter used to be more compliant with some of the power systems.

Back in the day, it would be impossible for any TV news editor to ignore any history from the magazines (that in this time was upstream), and the lifeblood of this kind of vehicle was to denounce corruption of the government, investigative reportage, and obvious discussions related to societal trends. The sad thing is that only the latter is happening.

Not a moralistic take, but one issue that interests me is the second-order impacts associated with the long tail of producers in OF who do not make a career from it.

With traditional adult entertainment, creators are aware of the social ramifications (e.g., social stigma, familial ostracism, difficulty dealing with the future, and so on), and there is a decent theoretical economic framework to measure that.

I am not sure if there's the same this new army of "civilians" joining OF, let alone the additional toll it will take on the creators in terms of social ostracism, future prospects, future opportunities, and mental health.

That a pet peeve that I have regarding corporate scientific communication nowadays: a clearly limited study with a conflated conclusion that dilutes the whole debate.

Now what happens: people that already have their visions around “AI-bad” will cite and spread that headline along several talking points, and most of the great public even knows those methodological flaws.

My general curiosity on this topic is has someone thought about the second-order effects around it? Either positive or negative. For the taxation side sounds good but for me it's hard to understand the negativity around this by the people who will pay for it.

Honest question: For the people not intending to "build a business on top of an open source library" but only intending to do something like "I just need this library to solve an issue in my work job" it's not simple to not touch it at all?

I had read a lot of conversations, and to be honest it's quite confusing for me the risk acceptance to have AGPL code in my codebase.

> I can't imagine why people use Airflow these days. You lose out on a lot of other Airflow functionality because it all assumes you have your business logic embedded within DAGs.

As an old Airflow user, I can relate with that.

The contributors are great and the speed of the new features and fixes are great also.

I see two main issues with Airflow: (i) the lack of good interoperability with a cloud native stack, specifically with the k8s operators, that sounds quite hackish and (ii) lack of a better version control in the DAGs in way that we can have actually real lineage.

The point is that for most of the veterans in ~ETL~ Data Engineering in Cloud Native stacks, we just want to send a cli command or a Make command to a container to execute the thing that we want.

Apache Airflow does that, but as most of the things in the Python ecosystem at the time that you have a great UI (not confuse with UX) become way easier to embed business logic in the DAGs and have your application embedded with Airflow logic.

I will never bash Airflow since I got a lot of money in consulting migrating from and to it, but the general feeling of working on a daily basis for almost 7 years made me realize the sad reality around orquestrators. In the past, those used to be kind of the bedrock technology that you would never want to migrate, but today, due to this feature bloat and lack of vision, I started to see orquestrators as disposable as Java Script frameworks.

> A study published in the Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management in June found that describing a product as using AI lowers a customer’s intention to buy it.

For the ones interested in the actual study instead the headline, this is the link for the original paper:

Paper page: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19368623.2024.2...

PDF: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/19368623.2024.2...

As someone who saw the DoJ and some European regulation authorities in the 90s it is bonkers to see how Apple operates ruthlessly in their ecosystem and how the regulators are sleeping in the wheel about how harmful this company is to the creativity industry (e.g. indie games, creators, etc).

> “a kind of back and forth, pushing the boundaries to figure out where the lines sit”

I noticed the same change related to Parenting Etiquette.

I came from a not-so-strict family in the 80s and 90s, and I recall as a kid several small things, such as being on time for dinner, not screaming in the supermarket, never touching anything in other people's houses, asking permission for almost everything, and so on. And this was more or less the unwritten law in my demographic.

At a very young age, it was almost like we knew that we could or not, and in the latter case, we could just ask an adult.

Fast forward: being a parent myself, I found myself struggling a lot with other parents who did not stimulate some kind of etiquette and how some kids are being softly excluded or slightly ostracized without knowing it.

One example is aggressiveness and hitting other kids. I participate in a circle of parents (approximately . 5 families, 13 kids, more or less in the same age). One of those kids started to be more aggressive, even with the toddlers and most of the parents did not want to say anything to the kid and for his parents. One week later, we went to another gathering and my partner mentioned that one of the families were not invited due to its kid.

> but they're a magnet for uninformed speculation

That’s why I carefully placed my lack of inside knowledge and the word “imagine” before I made my statement.

From the outside seems that the aviation industry has a lot of care for security and opportunistic continuous enhancement as a high stakes/high consequence industry in comparison with SWE that most of the time does not have the same philosophy.

> This is why I think these articles shouldn't be submitted. People who know how these things work don't click because they know it's just the media sensationalizing the routine

That’s why here in HN those stories should be posted; not only for the wide range of people in terms of skills that we have here but it contributes with an informed debate and/or ideas exchange.

If there’s a silver lining in all events that is happening with Boeing, definitely will be the adjacent fixes and data collected around potential problems and of course the time given to solve those issues.

I do not have and insight on how that industry work, but I imagine several stealth patching, design philosophies receiving on field data, and a lot of learning due to those incidents.

> I don't want to live in a world which is controlled unilaterally, and intransparently by a group of people who assume they have a full picture of the situation and assume they understand moral completely

I have thought about this topic for a while at the time that I worked with Law data (e.g. Family Law and Military Law), and I just came to the conclusion that several societal institutions and it's agents are inherently intransparent, even in situations where some "illusionist transparency" (there's transparency, but the magician deviates your attention to another side) is given (e.g. judiciary system, under-the-table political agreements, etc.).

That's one of the reasons I would like to have a more algorithmic society with human in the loop calling the final shots and placing the rationale on top. An algorithm will have human and institutional biases but in some sort, you can explain part of it and fine-tune it; a human making the final call on top of a given option would need to explain and rationally explain its decision. At best a human actor will use logic and make the right call, at worst it will transparently expose the biases of the individual.

> There’s now overwhelming evidence of how destructive the new tech can be. Just look at the metrics. The more people are plugged in, the higher are their rates of depression, suicidal tendencies, self-harm, mental illness, and other alarming indicators.

I think that is important to see the effects of a hyper-connected society from a public health standpoint, but I do not buy that kind of cynic argument, because it's shaped without any nuance that is it hard to take the writer as a serious person. Background and ecological factors affect the way that we see technology.

I came from a scarcity world and digital technology was the entry point for my community to be more affluent, and intellectually free and make education more accessible; on the other side currently, I live in a hyper-post-scarcity society that sees technology as a threat from the democracy perspective and in terms of privacy.

> That’s especially true because our leaders—political, business, or otherwise—are letting us down. For whatever reason, they refuse to notice what the creepy billionaires (who by pure coincidence are also huge campaign donors) are up to.

That's the main issue that I have with this whole tech fear argument: most of those are completely out of touch with the current state of affairs on how society and the political system work.

In the post-scarcity society in which I live, people are more concerned about immigration, inflation, and societal return over their taxes (especially the working class). Of course, governments can work in parallel on several things but capping any random billionaire tech company won't change that reality and most of the times it hijacks the whole debate around more important things.

> "At this stage, a technical defect is assumed to be the cause of the fire." Certainly! Here's the revised text:

One overlooked aspect of the infrastructure here in Berlin is the subpar implementation of regulations related to fire safety in the old/legacy buildings.

In comparison with some places in America (US, South America), where fire extinguishers and fire combat apparatus are present in several places, including residential buildings, the engineering and architecture in Berlin do not consider these aspects.

For instance, when I visited the Axel Springer building, I noticed that there were no fire extinguishers on the entire floor, and the evacuation exits did not have fire-resistant doors and push mechanisms. Additionally, some exit doors were locked or inactive.

Ruby with Rails. Just read the full article about him.

Sure was the creator and I got that. But from what I heard his positions and part of the "community" not liking his ideas, what prevented someone to do a fork, let's say Ruby on Trails, and get a more community driven approach?

> These guys don't earn jack shit, even if they win small Futures/Challengers. Taxes, equipment, travel, etc.. adds up quickly. Forget about coaching at that level.

100% agree on this.

I do not know in particular with Tennis but the same is true in MMA also. When I used to do blogging/reporting about MMA I talked with a prominent fighter about the economics of being an UFC fighter.

In a nutshell:He was about to participate of an card event [1] and in case of victory he would take home USD 22-24K and he explained that whole preparation would be USD 29-32K.

The costs were: - Flights (himself and his team with 2 trainers) - Sparring (if you need to do the camp in USA, probably we will have at least 3 sparring partners) - Special Medicine/Supplement (since the Nevada State Athletic Commission had some specific requirements in terms of anti-doping he could not have all normal supplements/medicine) - His agent - Pre-Camp / Camp (For instance if you're grappler and you will face a striker you will need to adjust your training accordingly) - Post-Fight doctors (general scanning and treatment in case of some severe injury)

After that I was so shocked about how that economics did not make any sense, and he explained to me that the whole thing in UFC is just to build his brand and bring more students to his gym, and prepare his own gym for camp to other fighters.

I have absolute respect for the rest of 99% in any sport because its a very tough business and its very different from what we see in TV.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_on_Fox:_Lawler_vs._Brown

Ruby folks maybe this is a silly question, but why DHH it’s still relevant in the ruby ~community~ user group?

I work with Python since 2009 and I just discovered the name of the guy that created it 2 years ago.

A lot of great takes in this thread, but let me give more perspective being a MLE/MLOps Engineer myself around the math.

For me mathematics and statistics represent (a) unemployment insurance since it give me a lot of transitivity around roles in the space,(b) give me a good toolbox to talk as an equal with DS, and (c) for all implementation made by the Research Engineers/Data Scientists I can chime in and give insights and avoid waste of time and resources.

One example: When BERT was released (ca. 2018) I was working in a place where several Research Engineers and DSs wanted to use it in production for text classification.

The issue was that architecturally BERT was suboptimal due to a process called masking [1] that increases significantly the training time and the inference time was not so great. The alternative that I gave at that time was to use a mechanism called "Bag fo Tricks" [2] which its a very efficient modification of Bag of Words, but knowing math (and being on top of the literature) saved me from implementing something that would be inherently inefficient. Without having it it's hard to push back on DS/ResEng.

[1] - https://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/97310/what-i... [2] - https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01759

Some years ago I lost my device and I got in first place the experience on how I was dependent of those cloud services for almost everything since email until my photographs.

Fast forward I made exactly that: I got another cloud provider and I started to sync to another 2 physical local devices one with by-sync (remote to device and device to remote) and another one only local to remote on top of a local NAS and hard drive.

10+ years of usage of Slack and I noticed that the written communication style today is better than before but I wonder about how folks in MSTeams are doing.

When I was working with Slack I felt that most of the communication had more depth and broadnesses and after transition to MSTeams I personally feel that the whole chatter decreased significantly and folks are more prone to start a call than to “Create a Post” with title and write down.

A competitor of Instagram, Twitter and TikTok for short videos does that also

More than fair and forces a more real and deep skin in the game for those more hawkish around defend their own land.

::marginally-related:: For the US folks, how you feel with this kind of discrepancy around people hawkish around military involvement but not directly having that kind of skin in the game?

In some point in past I was living in Wyoming and saw all the poles around the main avenue with a lot of young military folks in KIA/MIA pictures as some way of remembrance and at the same time guys in talking heads show asking for more military personnel in the same conflict.

(PS: No horse in the race in this current conflict).