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"Can you clarify what you mean by interface?" is the right answer

Hey – hope you see this, wasn't sure another way to reach out. You left a comment ~10 years ago on an HN post about a breathing exercise. I discovered it, tried it, and since used breathing exercises to regulate an otherwise problematic amount of stress.

Thank you for that.

I think the problem with those is that they lack understanding author mentions:

But it’s really important that one person on the project has an end-to-end understanding of the whole thing: how it hangs together technically, and what product or business purpose it serves.

The reason people hate specialized roles of scrum masters/delivery leads is that they often lack the E2E understanding and therefor are inadequate owners.

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Yeah, too hard to figure out what the problem is here – might be all these women lying to ruin his life. Better do nothing about it until we're sure.

2011

A woman alleges that she was sexually assaulted by Alejandro Ramirez at a chess camp in 2011, when she was 15 years old. (WSJ)

Jennifer Shahade alleges that she was assaulted by Ramirez for the first time in 2011. (Lichess)

2014

Jennifer Shahade alleges that Ramirez assaulted her for a second time in 2014.

Claire Grothe alleges that in 2014 she was assaulted by Ramirez at a reception organized by STLCC, and that the incident (and Ramirez’s response to it) led to her leaving her job at the World Chess Hall of Fame later that year. (WSJ)

2015

A woman who was underage at the time alleges that Ramirez encouraged her to drink alcohol, attempted to have sex with her, and initiated oral sex without her consent. (WSJ)

2016

A woman alleges that in 2016, when she was underage, she was warned by STLCC employees to not allow herself to be alone with Ramirez. (WSJ)

2017

A young player’s mother says that in 2017 she alerted top US Chess officials to Ramirez’s behavior, and overheard STLCC staff make jokes about his interest in young women. (WSJ)

2019

A woman alleges that in 2019 she was sexually assaulted by Timur Gareyev while walking to her car from a hotel where a US Chess sanctioned tournament is taking place (in which Gareyev was playing). She submitted a complaint to US Chess shortly afterwards. The US Chess ethics committee declined to accept jurisdiction of the matter, as the alleged incident had occurred outside the hotel, and therefore (in the committee’s view) it could not be “directly connected” to the chess tournament. No action was taken against Gareyev. (Lichess)

Another woman alleges that at a different US Chess sponsored tournament in 2019, Gareyev grabbed her and kissed her against her will. (Lichess)

2021

In January 2021, Jennifer Shahade informed STLCC and US Chess of a case involving an alleged victim (of Ramirez) who said she was 15 years old at the time of the first alleged incident. She urged US Chess and STLCC to act against Ramirez. (Lichess)

you don't go to YC to be "monitoring for hobbyists"

stock prices are proxy for perception of company. that perception matters in different ways for those that don't have a ticker (founder prestige, fundraising, hiring, etc)

Yet... with how fast this is selling, there is literally no way that folks know it is an amazing game ahead of time.

Advanced copies to reviewers, gameplay footage, developer commentary, etc...

But the lessons to learn from how fast and well this is selling is as much about the power of franchise as it is anything about this particular game/system.

There are plenty of popular franchises that release games that don't sell well.

when the site first got a surge of users from hacker news, there was one poster in particular who came to the site, registered a bunch of offensive, racist usernames and proceeded to post and create threads that were just full of dumb slurs. this was definitely a learning experience because i had to act quickly, so i tried a bunch of different methods to get rid of him.

it's sad that people like this exist in the world. what could possibly motivate someone to spend their time doing this?

A light hearted, unplanned and unadvertised naka-carlsen bullet match can attract a lot of viewers.

I'd bet a 20 game rapid series over 4 days between naka-carlsen would attract more viewers than the world championship.

Bungie is seeking damages against false claims: https://www.engadget.com/bungie-sues-destiny-2-youtuber-lord...

FWIW, my profile is still set to non-visible, so it's not a universal change.

(this is a guess, I don't work at twitter)

December: VP approves initiative

January: PM assigned for initial research, weekly iterations on a product spec defining what considerations need to be accounted for

February: Engineering lead assigned and starts to scope out technical implications on various datastores, weekly meeting with teams affected to see what's possible/what implications will be

March: Engineering team established/actual work starts

April: Proof of concept ready, comms start

When designing a game, "The game is fun," is a shitty razor because it doesn't tell you how to prioritize or make trade-offs

coming from countless hours of playing games and near zero hours making them, I'm curious why "this game is fun" doesn't help you make tradeoffs. I feel like concentrating on the game being fun would help avoid repetitive mechanics that would be tiresome or tedious (inventory management), frequent non-skippable dialogue, etc. Why is that not the case?

you can make guesses that you know won't be the correct answer but eliminate the other choices (i.e. don't include 2, 8, or 1 in your guesses)

any way to increase odds of being selected for early access?

not OP, but been in NYC for over 5 years and there's no shortage of interesting opportunities in tech

how's this compare to datadog synthetics? https://docs.datadoghq.com/synthetics/

It's like this for all levels of SWE as well based on my experience

If there's an alien eating predator starving for resources, sure.

this doesn't scale to any reasonably sized project or company

I'm not sure what you mean, could you clarify? Having a stateful component render something different based on a prop change is core to react. Using the key property "resets" the component by rendering a new one, but just because you use state doesn't mean you can't change props.

a coherent strategy for keeping state and having the UI respond to changes in state

The vaccine is the fastest vaccine EVER approved.

This is because it's received the most private and public funding of any vaccine, ever, in history. Not because safety hurdles were removed.

We have ZERO long-term data as to what it does.

We have 30 years of mRNA studies and research, and at this point, ~billions of case studies that show no negative effects over the course of 1+ years.

But I UNDERSTAND why people are hesitant.

84% of unvaccinated people said their decision against immunization wouldn’t change if the vaccines had no side effects ([source](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/10/cnbc-poll-shows-very-little-...)). Also, "Higher county uninsured rates and poverty rates are associated with lower vaccination rates." and "vaccination rates are lower in counties that voted for Trump compared to those that voted for Biden" ([source](https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/vaccina...)).

This isn't a debate among intellectuals about impact of mRNA generated spike proteins like you're framing it. It's an idealogical divide among those who properly evaluate risk of long covid vs. vaccination and low income conspiracy theorists.

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U.S. brings the software, China brings the hardware, EU brings the regulation.

One thing I've thought about – how much harm did the Chrome team do by adding default outlines to focused elements? Although well intentioned, I think making it the default for all users resulted in pretty much every website adding "outline: 0" to their css: https://www.google.com/search?q=chrome+remove+blue+border, which ultimately harmed the ecosystem for keyboard only users.

There are some folks doing great work here, although I agree on the overall sentiment. Ryan Florence is one name that comes to mind: https://reach.tech

I assume he'd be arrested as a fugitive

What we do know here at least is that a four day work week implemented as it was in the experiment did not result in negative or neutral effects.

We don't know that, though. Maybe sales would've increase 10x with a 5-day work week and the 4-day week hurt significantly.