My horror story of Ticketmaster; I recently bought standing-room-only tickets on short notice (<1wk) for an event near me, declining the additional fee to be able to refund my tickets. After more discussion with the others I was going with, I bought seated tickets instead through SeatGeek. Understanding I declined the ability to refund, I attempted to sell my tickets, but their system kept encountering an internal error preventing me from selling the tickets.
I reached out to support for assistance, and after several days of wasted time and run-around, they finally sent my issue to their engineering team saying they'd get back to me in 5 business days. Keep in mind I said I bought these tickets a week before the event, and they'd already wasted a few days giving me the run-around, functionally meaning I wouldn't be able to sell my tickets.
I attempted to charge back the purchase since they did not provide what I paid for (tickets I could sell), and they fought me and won somehow.
So thanks Ticketmaster, for sucking me out of hundreds of dollars for nothing more than bytes in your database that I couldn't do anything with. I hope they go bankrupt.
For anyone who is in my shoes and hasn't used Ticketmaster yet and might be tempted to give them a chance thinking all of these horror stories are just unlucky people- don't. I was naive to think that all of those companies with bad reputations are just the loud minority but Ticketmaster is the only one I've had the misfortune of finding out is seriously awful. Use SeatGeek or countless other platforms instead. Gun to my head to use Ticketmaster again I'd probably take the lead instead.
Even after reading the article I'm a bit confused as to how $250mm is even enough to play ball in this industry, a single EUV lithography machine can cost more than their entire funding already. I'd be curious to know their plan to work around the significant investment required to even enter this market, as I doubt $250mm is really enough to develop anything rivaling the results of Nvidia or others.
PPV Sales can't be compared to Super Bowl viewership numbers, considering there's a pretty significant difference between watching something included with your existing TV subscription versus paying another $50+ to watch a one-night event. I'm not trying to argue that boxing matches are necessarily on the same level of viewership as the Super Bowl, but you can't compare them directly like that. I'm also not arguing that boxing could sell out NFL stadiums over multi-week spans, I'm directly arguing the point that "there aren't enough boxing fans in the US to fill an entire NFL stadium", which is completely false.
> there aren't enough boxing fans in the US to fill a single NFL stadium, much less 16 a week.
Do you have any proof for this at all? The most anticipated boxing matches usually get over a million pay-per-view buys, not including the tickets sold for the actual arenas.
> There is nothing stopping us from doing the same thing.
However achieving property rights for the land needed for the project is a much bigger issue in the US than in China, where I doubt they receive much dissidence from people affected due to their infrastructure improvements.
I mean there are more maladies that affect the colon and rectum than just colon cancer, so I expect colo-rectal surgeons will survive, if with a decline in positions.
Sure, if an idea was entirely unique and revolutionary, but wanting to build the umpteenth CRM SaaS startup is not. Nobody in regards to technology ever pays anybody for ideas, they pay them for their ability to execute or sell/market those ideas. The "famous labs" you describe but don't name are _labs_, and the innovation that came out of them was a result of people with ideas and the ability to execute.
From my experience previously looking for a non-technical founder, I've run into a lot of people who think they're the second coming of Steve Jobs or something like that and so in turn try to hardball in equity and other negotiations despite having no leverage at all, which just makes them look like a fool. An idea is worth essentially $0 without any ability to execute it. The fact that equity points are a big concern should be a glaring red flag to stay away.
Stocks are not completely nondeterministic games of chance, which is why most people who hold properly diversified stock portfolios have seen long-term growth instead of loss. That's probably why people don't call it gambling.
I am a bit surprised that the DOJ is going after them but it seems like a necessary continuation of the changes that came about as a result of the EU action in this regard. I generally believe free markets are usually a positive thing but in Apple's case, much akin to Standard Oil, I think there becomes a point where the government has to take action to protect consumers, as we're seeing here. I'll be interested to see whether or not this actually ends up forcing any change stateside or if it's another pointless and toothless act of grandstanding for political purposes.
Not that you're incorrect in all cases, but generally speaking, you do get what you pay for. SWEs who are charging $500/hr can charge $500/hr due to significant domain knowledge or overall experience, and as such their opinions and work are _worth_ that amount per hour to the market. SWEs who are charging $9/hr are either selling themselves extremely short, lack experience, or operate in an organization that doesn't allow them to negotiate their rate (in which case they should move to a new organization) and thus most likely generate lower quality results. To imply there's no relationship between the hourly rate and the quality of work is to pretend that there's no underlying reason why certain SWEs can charge premium hourly rates.
Perhaps this comment is about to be an example of the classic "why not just rebuild XYZ technology to solve a simple problem already solved 100 times?" trope among engineers, but having used Hugo and a few other markdown-based documentation builders like this, why not just build a react site and build it to static HTML[0]? I think this is the approach I'll take in the future, it always seems like just as much if not more work to learn some new SSG framework and build components for it, and seems much more complicated to add complex functionality than the usual HTML/CSS/JS we're all familiar with. If anybody has taken this approach before, I'd be curious to know your reasoning on why and/or why not this is a good idea.
Simply put, if he's not carrying his weight and doesn't seem passionate, kick him off of the project and return to doing whatever duties you assigned to him yourself. He clearly doesn't care much about it, and from experience in a very similar situation, no amount of speeches will impact his motivation in any long-term way. You're simply opening yourself up to more disappointment and frustration, not to mention potential ownership issues by continuing to allow him to come along for the ride. As harsh as it sounds, this is why people don't go into business with friends, unless you are completely fine with that friendship not lasting on the other side.
An electric car isn't really a lower impact solution for a large amount of the US population. From what I'm able to find, the lowest priced EV (Chevy Bolt) starts around $27k currently[0], whereas the cheapest gas car (Nissan Versa) starts at $17k[1]. This is without even accounting for the larger difference in the used car market, cost of installing a level 2 EV charger (which is another $1k-$2.5k[2], which is necessary for anybody who does any significant amount of traveling in a single day), or the 25% higher insurance premiums for EVs[3]. All said the difference between the two options is a pretty significant difference for most of the population who are already struggling because of the significant inflation rates experienced in recent years[4].
Without being an expert in these matters it could be that while the earnings were good they may have already been "priced in"[0], so if the earnings weren't quite as high as expected or particular areas of revenue have contracted unexpectedly[1] then it could cause the price to move downwards. It could also be a result of larger market fluctuations, as a lot of larger F100 companies have also gone down by a similar amount today[2]. Any one of these factors or a combination of them together is likely the cause of the stock price movement seen today.
Unfortunately no I didn't read the article you linked, I still don't see how this device collects any additional data over what is already available for other devices in the Apple ecosystem. Anybody who has used a Mac, iPhone, or iPad has had HD cameras pointed at them.
To clarify, my point with this comment and my first one was never that data collection (and as far as I can tell mass surveillance as well to you?) was okay, rather that I don't see how this device captures any more data on a wearer than the other devices they likely own.
What types of data exactly are you implying that this device may capture that would be any more extreme than the data which would be captured by any other existing Apple device? I would think the Apple Watch alone has the ability to capture more data about habits and personal information than the Apple Vision Pro possibly could, considering its countless additional sensors on top of its existing ecosystem integration with the iPhone.
As somebody else suggested just a share link would be a good way to allow sharing. Alternatively, for either a share link or as just a way to keep the state in the URL, I'd recommend B64 encoding the data as opposed to just directly escaping it. URLs have a maximum length (forgot off the top of my head, may be 1024 or something), so storing large stringified objects usually results in issues as opposed to just encoding it. It also makes for a more logical URL structure of fundingsimulator.com/{b64}. This is if you wanted to keep the URL as the single source of truth on the state, otherwise you could keep state internally which can be initialized by optional URL state (structured as stated before), and then just encode it and put it in a URL which is copied to clipboard when a share button is clicked.
Does OTC status affect the process by which a product gets approved by the FDA, or only dictate the means by which it can be distributed? I'm unfamiliar with the distinction, but if it means these types of products are easier for consumers to get access to then it's certainly great news. Certainly, non-implant hearing aids shouldn't have to jump through the same number of hoops as more conventional medical devices.
Not that I'm particularly knowledgable on the subject but I find this a little hard to believe. I'd expect any first-world country around the world to have a reasonable demand and means to afford a product of this nature. The US obviously isn't the only country with access to 21st century medical devices of this sort?
The US is probably the worst launch market. The FDA regulates hearing aids so any new product would have to go through the FDA validation process, which is expensive.
Edit: I may have misread your comment, my apologies! I'm only loosely familiar with the US regulation on this matter and completely unfamiliar with other countries' regulations but I'd find it hard to believe there's any country more expensive to launch in for a medical device than the US, so for the OP I'd agree with you that the US should probably be a later market to target.
A bit presumptive but the answer to that is likely ads. Unless they try the whole premium subscription model like Twitter (X) and realize nobody cares that much to pay $5/mo for social media.
Cost of entry is immense. As with anything medical or food and drug related, there are large (and expensive) obstacles to hurdle before any product can enter the market. It's a rather difficult market to get into without a large amount of capital at your disposal.
This may be a difference in learning preference, but I've always found the easiest way for me to learn about new topics was to jump into them directly. Supplemental reading could certainly help of course, so I apologize that I have nothing to provide in that area, but if you're interested in it I'd recommend just jumping in with simple projects and learning on your own from there- with assistance from just searching around for fundamentals on google. I hate to be the quote person, but I think this one fits perfectly; "The best time to plant a tree was 100 years ago, but the second best time is now" or "A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step". Ignoring the cliche quotes, I'd just say the best thing you can do is dive in without any direct guidance and navigate the unknowns yourself. At the end of the day, starting off in the wrong direction is better than not starting at all. Good luck on your adventure!
This may be a bad take but I'm always a bit surprised at how difficult it seems to be for people to host something that can take an influx of traffic. Are auto-scaling servers futuristic technology or something? Just about everything besides on-prem servers should have auto-scaling abilities, so why does it still seem so common for this type of thing to happen? I can't help but laugh at the irony when a software engineer's blog crashes from the HN hug of death.
It's incredible how many Rust packages are just wrappers around C++ implementations. That being said, as a weekend rustacean (I hate saying it but couldn't resist the urge) and current user of tch-rs (a rust PyTorch C++ wrapper) I'm glad somebody out there is writing the interfaces to allow more functionality in Rust. It's probably a good thing that C++ is so established since it allows these types of packages to come to fruition without the leg work of an actual re-implementation of the same logic in Rust from scratch.
McNeel is not a public company. Public companies are driven towards prioritizing revenue and growth much more than private companies because growth is a shared goal of all shareholders. I suppose it could be said that companies with outside PE or VC funding would also prioritize growth, but that would be in the same vein of getting to an exit or IPO rather than just making the stock go up.