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I don't think it's that weird. In a boom cycle, it's not a great use of resources to try to really tighten up the manger/report ratios because the size of the org because the slack…

> I’m looking for AI that can do things other than make capitalism more efficient at parting people from their money. I think you're really under-estimating the positive, human val…

I'm working on integrating AI into a product right now: IMO you want to look at what's happening now as more a shift in cost to develop and maintain - which itself is going to crea…

IMO you want to distinguish between advice that is tactical and short term or strategic and long term. The best tactical advice tends to from people who were recently in a very sim…

> I really wanted some hard research on this, but I know it's a hard one. I think we'll have to settle for judgment calls. I tried going through some of the research we have on dev…

Pre-pandemic, why would you risk testing out an unknown style of work and management that almost no one had experience with? Now there's a significant portion of the labor market t…

Talking to lots of middle and upper management, the primary complaints I hear are hard to measure - poorer communication, less alignment, less innovation, etc. None of this reduces…

> US spending per student is among the highest in the world by a large margin It is high, but not exceptionally high[0]. It is then worth remembering that the US overcounts spendin…

> If I'm looking for a thing, and shown lists of things that match what I'm looking for, it's at least consensual behavior. An argument I find compelling here is as follows: someti…

> then I remember a comparison on HN about how booking.com is O(50) people and Airbnb is O(2000) total One thing to ask yourself - is the company chasing growth? A company like Air…

> I've never heard of a tariff that is based on embodied carbon, percentage of slave labor that went into production of the good, or so on. The inherent assumption here is that a t…

> In this scenario that would drop his TDEE to 2395 calories per day. This is what naive calculations say, this is not what a DEXA scan says. His body is actively reducing calorie …

I think you misunderstand the failure mode. How do you measure calories out? Is that number static? How does it change over time? My father is obese, and has been for many years. A…

Retail not hiring people like you before the downturn as well. Your resume now signals "white collar upper-middle class" and retail will assume: - You'll still be looking for work …

The OP is wrong, log levels are very valuable if you leverage them. Here's a classic problem as an illustration: The storage cost of your logs is really prohibitive. You would like…

This actually touches on one of SV's durable advantages in the software world: the realization that if you want good software your engineers must be involved in the requirements ga…

Very similar in nature yes - we had a few rather spectacular results using only techniques from the 80s and earlier. A lot of the revolution is coming from material scientists doin…

Previously worked on the intersection of ML and Material Science (specifically batteries). I think the link to osium-ai[0] tells the story pretty well. Material science is plagued …

I think this is the parent comment's complaint, no? Go back a decade and the rate of improvement in phones meant there was reason to be buying a new one every year (just like compu…

Two things have made startups significantly less attractive than they were in the 90s: 1. A substantial fraction of successful exits are now acquisitions. If you have ever been a p…

One of the great UX features of printing is that it is a quick way to have an auditable form of state over time. I look at states 1-n, compare and contrast, which my debuggers don'…

> I'd say only half the parents will actually try to keep their kids safe online Ok, so is our answer then to abandon safety for the remaining 50% of families? Do we think that's f…

This is just as lazy a take as the UK government though. Many societal problems would be trivial if you could get perfect compliance from the population. You can't, so if you're in…

Sure, it is entirely possible to get screwed over with no recourse. That said, my lived experience is that most of the time people in high growth orgs think they're being unfairly …

I agree with this directionally but think you're a little over-pessimistic. First, IME it suffices to join an organization poised for rapid growth. This can still happen in large t…