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New comment by alexpetralia in "Getting a Cease and Desist from Waffle House"

alexpetralia — Wed, 28 May 2025 16:01:43 +0000

The issue is moreso that they exclusively control their brand, and by letting someone else - who doesn't work for them and need not listen to them - control part of that, they are indirectly loosening control of their brand and narrative. They probably do not want the additional headache of buying this product, onboarding it, managing it, etc. The easiest but unfortunate solution here, to limit risk and liability, is to shut it down.

A Guide for Future Managers

alexpetralia — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:02:48 +0000

Article URL: https://alexpetralia.com/2025/04/03/a-guide-for-future-managers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43630815

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New comment by alexpetralia in "USDA fired officials working on bird flu, now trying to rehire them"

alexpetralia — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 04:32:22 +0000

This is exactly what "small government" and "big business" means

New comment by alexpetralia in "75K federal workers accepted 'deferred resignation' offer"

alexpetralia — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:56:21 +0000

I think that, on the contrary, government contracts will increase. There will be increased privatization of government services. These services cannot cease, but they will cease to be performed by the government. I imagine government contractors like Palantir will actually do quite well. A smaller government is good for business due to privatization, but perhaps more often bad for people subject to those businesses with less government oversight.

New comment by alexpetralia in "Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review (2021)"

alexpetralia — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:06:52 +0000

I have reflected on a good definition of causality and would be curious if anyone has thoughts or critiques of it. I am repasting part of my essay below. (https://alexpetralia.com/2023/02/25/statistics-only-gives-co...)

Can we nevertheless extract causality from correlation?

I would argue that, theoretically, we cannot. Practically speaking, however, we frequently settle for “very, very convincing correlations” as indicative of causation. A correlation may be persuasively described as causation if three conditions are met:

Completeness: The association itself (R²) is 100%. When we observe X, we always observe Y.

No bias: The association between X and Y is not affected by a third, omitted variable, Z.

Temporality: X temporally precedes Y.

New comment by alexpetralia in "Is Atlas Shrugged the New Vibe?"

alexpetralia — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 18:52:27 +0000

I find this nicely captures the difference between "rationality" and "reasonableness". A system can be rational but rest on unreasonable assumptions; a system may not be entirely rational but at least can have reasonable assumptions.

New comment by alexpetralia in "Ask HN: How do you improve your writing?"

alexpetralia — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 15:07:31 +0000

Aha, Chekhov's coffee as well it seems!

New comment by alexpetralia in "Technical debt vs. technical assets: What's the difference?"

alexpetralia — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 04:04:57 +0000

Technical debt is a former technical asset without its owner.

New comment by alexpetralia in "Our brains create mental "chapters" with new event segmentation study"

alexpetralia — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:08:28 +0000

Also called the fabula and syzuhet!

New comment by alexpetralia in "FTC to launch investigation into Microsoft's cloud business"

alexpetralia — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:36:54 +0000

Actually Matt Gaetz, who will likely be her boss, calls himself a "Khanservative" in support of her

New comment by alexpetralia in "Moving Off Heroku, Slowly"

alexpetralia — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 22:50:56 +0000

What used to be the "Oracle Effect" has now become the "Salesforce Effect".

New comment by alexpetralia in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)"

alexpetralia — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 14:44:59 +0000

iCapital | Analytics Engineering Manager | Full-Time | NYC (on-site) | 150k-190k+

iCapital is powering the world’s alternative investment marketplace. Our financial technology platform has transformed how advisors, wealth management firms, asset managers, and banks evaluate and recommend bespoke public and private market strategies for their high-net-worth clients. iCapital services approximately $179 billion in global client assets invested in 1,445 funds, as of January 2024.

This role involves both management and individual contribution. You will be expected to work with various department leads (e.g. sales, marketing, finance, product, operations), understand their pain points and business processes, and ultimately develop data-driven solutions to solve their needs.

The actual outputs of our work can be: clean and well-governed data models, management dashboards, exploratory/statistical data analyses (with attendant recommendations), documentation, machine learning models, or data apps.

On the technical side, you will interface with our data stack of Airbyte, Snowflake, dbt, Prefect, Python, Tableau and SageMaker (among others). On the business side, you will work with our sales, marketing, operations, product and finance teams to drive top-line growth metrics (e.g. sales, usage, conversion).

The base salary range for this role is $150,000 to $190,000 (plus equity options and bonus). Employees in this role will work in the office four days, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday.

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/icapitalnetwork/jobs/770517...

(If you apply to this job through HN, please note that in the application!)

New comment by alexpetralia in "My Time Working at Stripe"

alexpetralia — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 13:25:57 +0000

Bingo.

New comment by alexpetralia in "Ask HN: Is it wrong to use my personal laptop for work?"

alexpetralia — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 02:34:14 +0000

If you have a doubt about the right thing to do insofar as the company is concerned, you should ask the company. The fact that you asked HN first suggests that you already know the answer.

New comment by alexpetralia in "Reflections on Palantir"

alexpetralia — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:32:53 +0000

"End-to-end data engineering and analytics" is quite a bold claim from a single service provider.

Here is the link for anyone interested: https://www.palantir.com/platforms/foundry/ and a YouTube explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGGRCTTjLfQ

Given you've used it, just how self-service is it? To me this seems like such a large claim that - if it's doable - I'm surprised there are not more competitors in the "vertically integrated data providers" space.

New comment by alexpetralia in "Boeing to Sell at Least $10B in Shares to Plug Cash Drain"

alexpetralia — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 22:24:51 +0000

Perhaps due to inflation?

New comment by alexpetralia in "Practices of Reliable Software Design"

alexpetralia — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 11:19:29 +0000

Interestingly this is exactly how I've come to define truth/correctness: https://alexpetralia.com/2023/01/25/how-do-we-know-if-data-i...

New comment by alexpetralia in "OpenAI and Anthropic Revenue Breakdown"

alexpetralia — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 13:49:36 +0000

Focus on the data centers, and the inputs into them (the really boring ones).

New comment by alexpetralia in "Jerry Neumann: Resignation Letter"

alexpetralia — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 02:58:04 +0000

Get involved in local politics, Jerry! It's a satisfying way to impact your local community, and they almost always can use some help.

New comment by alexpetralia in "China's chip capabilities just 3 years behind TSMC, teardown shows"

alexpetralia — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 02:37:57 +0000

If you want to learn more about this amazing process, I recommend "Material World" by Ed Conway!