Oh, didn’t know that. Doesn’t Eli Lilly have a competitor?
They do. It's called Mounjaro.
Readit NewsFredej commented on Ozempic will disrupt big tobacco, candy companies, and alcohol brands curingaddiction.substack.... · Posted by u/robertn702
> Money is not the issue - getting access to production lines is
You don’t think having the heft of the U.S. government behind one of those parties will help with that access?
What I'm trying to say is that the supply is constrained, not the demand. And the supply of factories themselves are constrained as well. So they need to build more factories, which they are doing at an impressive pace. And for building factories it's similarly not the land or the money or the red tape that's the issue. It's the time to build a factory that's the limiting factor.
The govt has already subsidized production through investing in research they've leveraged.
I mean sort of, maybe. It's a danish company, that's already the largest contributor to research, also from a grant perspective. The Novo Nordisk Foundation is supplying research grants at like 5 times of the size of the danish government. And that's without taking into account the grants and research done by Novo Nordisk, the company itself.
> Why would the price come down before they can supply current demand?
Because in exchange they could unlock a bulk order from e.g. the U.S. government. That in turn could unlock economies of scale that let them price competitors out of the market.
They are literally buying up as many factories as they are allowed to do. Money is not the issue - getting access to production lines is.
Fredej commented on Warning from OpenAI leaders helped trigger Sam Altman's ouster washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/c5karl
>Joanne Jang, who works in products at OpenAI, tweeted that no influence had been at play. “The google doc broke so people texted each other at 2-2:30 am begging people with write access to type their name.”
Also, this line seems self-contradictory. There was no influence, but people were "begging" others to sign?
They were begging others to sign _for them_. It's not contradictory :)
I love hackathons. But what is described in the article indeed sounds horrible.
At my job, we have a hackathon once a year. You are free to decide if you want to join. It is during work-hours and you can work on anything you want, provided it is somewhat company related. That, however, is a very wide umbrella. Like, someone made a "lego-gun" for automatically plugging USBs in and out. It also helps that we're hardware company, so the ideas can be a bit more high-flying sometimes. Snacks and drinks are served during the day.
After work-hours, there would be a lightning round of presentations to management, and we would vote for different categories. After that, pizza and beer.
Now, it's expanded a bit, and people said they didn't like sticking around after working hours. So it's one day of building and one day of presentations. Both are completely voluntary, but are usually a lot of fun.
I'd never do it on a weekend, and I'd only stick around after hours for a social event.
Fredej commented on Tell HN: Sometimes you don't realise how bad something is until you leave · Posted by u/Goleniewski
It's still company time. You don't get to play video games. The draining part is pretending to work.
It's not like you get a private office and nobody ever sees you. You have to go the weekly meetings and tell them about how much you worked on X which you didn't.
If you could convince the company to make you a part of a mini skunkworks team with the freedom to do anything as long as it benefits the company then I don't think anyone would object to it from a mental health perspective.
> mini skunkworks team with the freedom to do anything as long as it benefits the company
This is my lived reality right now. It's not necessarily super fun in the long run. It can get draining to work on new thing after new thing, only for it to get shut down because it doesn't _quite_ fit the company strategy or they can't find anywhere internally to anchor it.
Plenty of good ideas have died that way.
That said, I think it also heavily depends on the company. If the work you're doing is directly feeding into the development pipeline, it sounds like fucking heaven. Mine, however, is not.
Fredej commented on Tell HN: Sometimes you don't realise how bad something is until you leave · Posted by u/Goleniewski
Man, to stumble upon this, at this time in my life, of all times.
I literally just sent an email to HR, talking about how my new boss is horrible - I've only had him for 2 months and now I'm home on sick leave from stress.
I'm hoping he gets the boot - still in his trial period, even! But truth be told, the experience burned me so much that I think I'll just leave for something different.
I can definitely relate to having the mental snot beat out of you. I began to doubt my own skills, because I basically haven't been allowed to do anything technical since late November.
Yesterday, I had an interview with the CTO of a super exciting, fast growing company with an awesome product. The interview was scheduled for 1 hour, but we went 2.5 hours because there was just so much interesting stuff to talk about. I felt like I was myself again. I still got it baby!
What I guess I'm saying is, I can relate, it's fucking tough, and it's fucking awesome that you've moved on! Congratulations. Now make sure you heal.
Fredej commented on C23 Implications for C Libraries gustedt.gitlabpages.inria... · Posted by u/ingve
Uh, not to be That Guy, but what did you expect? Just compare K&R [1] and Stroustrup (any edition) [2] next to each other, and you will get a pretty strong hint of C being a smaller language. That's kind of the point, or it used to feel like it was anyhow.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language
I mean, it's not that I didn't expect changes or didn't expect the language to be smaller - it's just that there definitely things that I would want to bring with me over to C. One thing I really like is RAII - that I can ensure that things are cleaned up in a known, once-defined fashion and I don't have to worry about it everywhere I use a given object. I also generally like using early returns, which is somewhat more complicated with C, as I may need to have more cleanup code around. It can be somewhat mitigated by coding more functionaly and input the necessary parameters to a function, so I can have a different function just doing allocation and deallocation. But still, it's more verbose.
`defer` would to some degree solve that issue.
Similarly, I've been missing nullptr, just for the expressiveness. I like that C23 now includes it :)