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Ask HN: Projects You Thought Were Cool but Failed Miserably – What Happened?
Hey HN community, I’m here to spark a discussion on a topic that, I believe, many of us have encountered but might not often talk about: projects that we were excited about and believed in, but that ended up failing miserably after release. To kick things off, I want to share my own experience with …
How Certain Algorithms to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed – The Markup
In order to understand what’s wrong with governments relying too heavily on data and algorithms, let’s go back to the forests of 18th-century Prussia. As James Scott wrote in his book Seeing Like a State, governments in the former German state primarily viewed forests as a way to extract revenue. So when they did surveys …
We’ve been watching a failed star turn into a giant planet
Enlarge / Image of the AB Aurigae system, with details of the object shown at the right. On some levels, forming stars and planets is simple: They form where there’s more stuff. So, while the raw material for a star may be a diffuse cloud of gas, the distribution of that gas isn’t entirely even. …
How “delivering happiness” failed Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh
In the 2000s and early 2010s, journalists, academics, and business leaders from all over the world visited the Las Vegas headquarters of the online shoe and clothing retailer Zappos. The company had become famous for a zany workplace culture centered around “delivering happiness” to customers and employees. “Over time, we keep expanding the vision, and …
Tesla Failed to Oversee Elon Musk’s Tweets, SEC Argued in Letters
WASHINGTON—Securities regulators told Tesla Inc. TSLA -0.21% last year that Chief Executive Elon Musk’s use of Twitter had twice violated a court-ordered policy requiring his tweets to be preapproved by company lawyers, according to records obtained by The Wall Street Journal. Tesla and the Securities and Exchange Commission settled an enforcement action in 2018 alleging …
Audit using unproven technology developed by ‘failed inventor’ Jovan Pulitzer
Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election are being examined and recounted by contractors hired by the Arizona State Senate at Veterans Memorial Coliseum. In doing so, they are using unproven technology that claims it can identify counterfeit ballots. There have been no credible claims that any ballots in Arizona or elsewhere were …
Why Warren Buffett’s health care project Haven failed
Haven, the joint venture of three of the largest companies in America — Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B), Amazon (AMZN) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM) — once threatened to disrupt the health care system of the U.S. But less than three years later, it unceremoniously fizzled out in February. Other than a press release from Haven at …
Contact tracing: The technology worked, but the implementation failed
Sometimes, getting the technology right is not even half the battle. Here’s the story of one “successful failure.” Image: iStock/http://www.fotogestoeber.de At TechRepublic, we’ve published lots of articles about the technology of contract tracing and the apps that could make it simple. The idea was straightforward and imminently logical: if someone caught the virus and you …
‘It’s just plain awful’: 70 West Virginia health care facilities failed to report COVID-19 deaths, governor says
The governor said 168 deaths related to COVID-19 went previously unreported by hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities and hospices by: John Lynch, WTRF, Nexstar Media Wire Posted: Mar 10, 2021 / 09:04 PM EST / Updated: Mar 10, 2021 / 09:04 PM EST CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WTRF) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced Wednesday …
Failed response to Capitol riot shows deep divide over police use of force
The reckoning of American police entered a new chapter this week with the televised spectacle of federal security agents overrun by a mob of armed far-right extremists storming the Capitol. On its face, the siege was a failure of planning: The U.S. Capitol Police, who deal with all sorts of protests and demonstrations year-round, did …
