skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> so why not head to the source and cut off the cancer at the root?

For me, easy consumability. I use Chromium Embedded Framework, I don't actually put the hard work into building and maintaining an API myself. I'd love a similar effort for Gecko (there was effort at one time, but nothing of late IIRC).
No it's a people thing. People want a scape goat and McKinsey delivers those by the billable hour. Especially in near government institutions.

Firing is somewhat more expensive, but if you want to close a location it is just an X million more not anything really complicated. Bigger chance the employees will be organized and fight in court, but in reality if management wants you out you will be.

The consultants are for the people who stay. You fire some group A, then you fire your consultations then group remain feels "Safe" again, when the bad consultants are gone.
The Day Without News
Nope, from his second item on the list, I’d say you missed his point.

“ The Recovery of Youth, or at least some of the Marks of it, as new Teeth, new Hair colour’d as in youth.”
It would be nice if we could find a way to work remotely without being isolated.

I believe that lots of synchronous video communication is key here.
>Cannot she ask them to pay for a taxi then?

This is pretty amazing delusion.
also they mentioned she and her bf lived with his parents, and they both paid for the rent.
It's funny that here on HN, we see this constant narrative of "only one browser" like, which browser is objectively the best, and thus the only one that will be used.

People in HN comments frequently talk about "switching" to a different browser, as if it were true that you could only have one browser installed at a time, which is laughably false.

Is there an OS setting for a default? Sure, but that setting is inconsequential, since many shallow shortcuts to both browsers are readily created, and equally accessible. Furthermore, many HN users profess a deep mastery of command line expertise, explaining how effortless it is to use the console in a terminal window and pour shell commands from their finger tips. Surely, it would be just as easy to enter the name of one browser or the other, or both, alternative arbitrarily, as needed.

The false narrative of loyalty to a browser is beyond silly, when you can just use all of them, and most people frequently do exactly that.

So, what does it mean when we see, over and over again, nameless, faceless users boiling to the surface to broadcast a deep emotional investment in a browser?

I think it means there are a lot of liars. People presenting themselves in a disingenuous manner.

Sometimes I do get asked by regular less technical people, what my general tendency is, and I tell them it doesn't matter, this all bullshit, and the cards are stacked against you. The default settings are designed to reveal your identity as unique, JavaScript is forced when it need not be, and an emphasis on the perfection of CSS graphical representation is overburdened and counterproductive.

Differences among browsers are superficial, and we haven't seen anything truly new since 2004. That last new thing was tabs, and since then, the mass migration has been to mobile deviced where options and real estate are limited, forcing the adoption of apps, locked into the OS of the device vendor's choosing (apple or google).

Sure, we use laptops, but browsers don't really matter anymore. Gaming rigs and work stations? Who cares?

Our future has been stolen from us, and we are lie to about it every day.

Stop arguing about browsers. It's absurd and untrue to claim that the browser is what will save us.

All important things happen on the server side, and that is where we are ruined.
To me, AMP is annoying because it means I have to make two extra clicks to get the real site to load.
For me Black Friday and Cyber Monday really didn't have many deals. The Chromebooks I was looking at are all cheaper now than those days. Amazon devices really were discounted heavily though.
Ban cars
Please, reread the Off-Topic carefully but before that, read the On-Topic paragraph:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Author here, happy to answer any questions or for any feedback!
Just a few statements here:

Your form of texting while driving was likely safer than the alternatives.

Your form of texting while driving was less safe than not texting.

Do not text and drive.

There are plenty of people who have texted without incident, that doesn't reflect a particular merit to the way you texted it's just simple statistics. If you touch an electric stove top hot enough to boil water you'll be burned, but if you touch it a short while after turning it on you may be burned. Texting and driving is not an instant guarantee of an accident so don't mistake your luck for skill.
The most powerful tool in any union is a strike, but McDonalds is okay with that now, and won't be bringing in any scabs to replace those who are gone. They will be replaced by machines and the consumers are going to see a value-add.
Yes, that's a great one. But now I have a brain teaser stuck in my head: Imagine you have a multi-tenant system like they describe, but for each customer A, B, C they have users A1, A2, A3, B1 etc.

You need ordered delivery of messages, but only at user level (if all messages needed to be ordered you could not do this sharding type setup). Is there a way to apply shuffle sharding while maintaining user-level ordering guarantees?
If your credit card is massive: https://store.avantek.co.uk/arm-servers.html — both Ampere and Marvell (Cavium) are available.

As a normal person, you're mostly stuck with SolidRun's offerings if you want something that's affordable but serious (i.e. can run PCIe devices).

I run a MACCHIATObin as a desktop with FreeBSD, it's fine, great open source UEFI-ACPI firmware (upstream EDK2), generic ECAM PCIe works (with a quirk but still), but it's not a powerful system. Four A72 cores, single DDR4 channel. It's basically a rather-old-ultrabook level of performance.

Then there's their new thing with the NXP LX2160A 16-core dual-channel chip — there was a loooot of doubt about whether they could achieve good ACPI support on that SoC. But recently NXP have pushed a commit that introduces a generic description of the PCIe controller to the ACPI tables..
If only she had the time to do meal prep, outside of the four hours a day she takes to commute.
The Great CEO Within
> It’s 8 p.m. and my scheduled shift is over, but they asked me to stay later

> The bus stops running at 10 p.m. on Sunday, but McDonald's asked me to stay until close at 1 a.m. They asked me to stay because they need my help.

Thats not a job, that's an abusive relationship.
I've had that happen before when visiting some music news sites in iOS safari. Seemed like some sort of malevolent cookie, as it started when I would go to a particular site and persisted until I cleared browser data.
These questions like "why doesn't she simply x or y" make me sad. The person in the article is poor, not dumb.

She likely can't move. It's expensive to move, no matter who you are, and since she has two jobs, it seems like she's going to spend a lot of time on the bus no matter what.

She definitely can't demand McDonald's pay for a taxi, or she can ask, be turned down, and have her hours cut for next week. They'll cut her hours if she just leaves at the end of her shift, and they ask her to stay.

She's already doing something that could ultimately have a positive material impact on her life, organizing with her coworkers. It's just that the many interlocking systems around her life all work against her; bad public transit, bad pay for physically exhausting work, and having to fight so hard for something as basic as a union at her workplace.

This is a situation that calls for compassion, understanding, and working alongside her to change the systems that keep her in this situation, not suggesting "why doesn't she".
Maybe it means "not with the usual latancy of a REST app" in this context. In a prevoius life I did systems that ran on microcontrollers. Back then even having an OS would disqualify you from getting to claim "real time". Everything ran on the interrupts.
Likely the first computer game to get randomised was Pac-Man. The original Pac-Man boards were deterministic enough that it was possible to memorise and follow a pre-planned route through the game https://archive.org/details/How_To_Beat_The_Video_Games/page... . Apparently this was addressed by an official Pac-Man Update Kit.
4% of total retail sales, yes, but for online sales, it’s over 37%.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-13/emarketer...
I think once we're to the level of criticizing talking, a behavior that has been concurrent with driving the whole time driving has existed, we're close to demonizing devices [0] rather than poor behavior.

I don't see a problem with talking to close friends, holding the phone to my ear with one arm, on a highway in low traffic conditions (eg long drives at night). But any time I come up on a situation (passing a meandering car, heavy traffic passing me, construction zone, car stopped in breakdown lane [1]), I abruptly say "hold on", and take the phone away from my head. I probably laid the foundations for this behavior driving stick (where you want your second arm back to be able to shift etc). Most situations I also take the vehicle out of cruise control so that keeping speed has to be done with intent.

I can see the temptation to make the opposite choice - assume that everything will be fine, keeping some attention on the conversation. Meaning that if something unexpected occurs, I wouldn't be fully primed to deal and the problems multiply.

But I admit that this is all modulo the same bias of personal perception that makes many people think it's fine to stare at their phone half the time while driving. So perhaps data would disagree with me. But it takes more nuanced data than a simplistic division between "talking on phone" and "not talking on phone".

[0] There is a small possibility here that the DSP involved in making mobile calls sound reasonable only changes perception and still requires much more brainpower to process the audio.

[1] And because it doesn't seem universal: if someone - anyone - is stopped in the breakdown lane, move to the left even if you aren't in the right lane, to facilitate people in the right lane also moving over. The less "serious" a situation on the side of the road looks, the more likely it is that said people are amateurs unaccustomed to being pedestrians near the highway.
I used DDG as the primary search engine in the past and relied a lot on bangs (!s, !g). I'm currently trying the new search from Cliqz (https://beta.cliqz.com), which is similar as it also supports some of the bangs, but I find the search results better than DDG, especially for German searches. It is still work in progress though. Spell correction, for example, is not good yet in cliqz.
> If the answer to fight for $15/hr or is the answer to go back to school, apply to more jobs, and/or go into a trade? Honest question.

Seems to me the goal should be to get a wage where you can afford to go back to school. I don't think it's fair to argue that the kiosks are replacing the cashiers only because they want a $15/hr wage - that's coming whether they want to or not. The only thing that the cashier can do is do their best to collect the resources right now to get out of that situation, and one of those is more earnings.
Honestly I think the solution is emigration.

There are places in the world where you can make a living without any particular skill set, but I don’t think the US, or any other first-world country, should really be among them.

The US needs immigration reform to bring more high-skilled people into the country, but it also needs emigration reform to find new homes for people who can’t necessarily make a reasonable living in a first-world country.
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That's a tall order.
This entirely misses the forest for the trees. And granted the author's bias gets in the way of his attempt to point out that forest. Their bias aligns with mine, but with less editorialization IMO the following would be more clear:

It's not that the work is or isn't valuable, or where that value is. It's that McKinsey charges 72% more than a competitor for the same consulting, and that there's a massive perverse incentive for public servants in charge of awarding contracts to pick the most expensive one.

From the article, bias left in:

Back in August, I noted that McKinsey’s competitor, the Boston Consulting Group, charges the government $33,063.75/week for the time of a recent college grad to work as a contractor. Not to be outdone, McKinsey’s pricing is much much higher, with one McKinsey “business analyst” - someone with an undergraduate degree and no experience - lent to the government priced out at $56,707/week, or $2,948,764/year.

...

And this gets to the second reason why McKinsey can charge so much, which has to do less with McKinsey and more with an incentive to overpay more generally. It’s more likely something called the ‘Industrial Funding Fee,’ or IFF. The GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service gets a cut of whatever certain contractors spend using the GSA’s schedule, and this cut is the IFF. The IFF is priced at .75% of the total amount of a government contract. In the case of McKinsey, since 2006, “FAS has realized $7.2 million in Industrial Funding Fee revenue.”

...

Does McKinsey do a good job? The answer is that it’s probably no better or worse than anyone else. I’m sure there are times when McKinsey is quite helpful, but it’s in all probability vastly overpriced for what it is, which is basically a group of smart people who know how to use powerpoint presentations and speak in soothing tones. You can just go through news clippings and find areas McKinsey did cookie cutter nonsense. For instance, McKinsey helped ruin an IT implementation for intelligence services. In the immigration story, MacDougall shows that the consulting firm encouraged ICE to give less food and medical care to detainees. That’s cruelty, not efficiency.
Wouldn't one enjoy some benefits from being proven right?
I'ts going that way though. ARM NAS server board with ECC RAM:
https://shop.kobol.io/products/helios4-full-kit-2gb-ecc-3rd-...
McKinsey does flat fees. The flat fees are driven by a rate card estimate, but there's no marginal cost to an extra hour... fwiw
Before I had a programmer job when i was younger, i completely 100% empathize with her in having those types of thankless jobs and constantly being tired. I can't imagine being trapped in that going forward. I bootstrapped my situation but I had a nice parents, a middle-class upbringing and a decent school to start everything, and a knack for programming... but I know/met so many who do not have this leg up in whatever they do in those experiences and have to continue that scraping by. This is why I lean toward UBI. I know both people who really want to succeed but are stuck from so many things or even people that will never try. It is what it is and is only getting worse with automation. I feel sorry for people that have not experienced these things that insist of the work ethic being the answer and are blind to reality.
Selenium can also snapshot pages.
Most people have a better experience. You were unlucky, but it's easy to fix if you care to specify a location. I doubt that those apps are as fast as my site for the specific purpose of looking up current air quality at your location, but if you are happy with them then by all means continue to use them.
The echo is a way for you to buy stuff from them - so that's where the advantage is for Amazon.

It's like saying "I got a really good deal on a billboard for my house." and all it does is show ads for someone else.
Good info! According to that thread they've fixed the issue I ran into years ago when I was working offline for months before steam refused to run at all without authenticating. I'm not sure I buy that it was a bug exactly, but even if it was it just goes to show you never know what will go wrong without a cracked backup.
A single website owning 4% of retail sales is immense.

Also, is that 4% by number of items sold, or by total sale value as a fraction of total market transaction value?
Good point. This will probably force more companies to experiment remote work.
When I saw the title, I saw this misery before me where recruiters serve up people like the author to companies looking for ‘realtime system engineers’ just because people put keywords on their linked in and have blog posts which look insightful etc. We all have our skills, but realtime system engineering is not an easy one. Replacing that with something websockets would be better imho.
From the article mentioned in your quote:

>A hundred community members’ lived-experience recounted through anecdotes and other qualitative methods is often dismissed as poor data, whereas a “white paper” is accepted as valid.

That's a little more measured way of making the same point, and in my opinion they hit the nail on the head. Note "white paper" referring this time to a technical brief, not race.

Qualitative research methods are vital, especially for nonprofits serving real communities of people, but often not taken seriously and eschewed in favor of studies by consultants and professional researchers. It's the difference between an organization working with people as subjects, or as partners. And for a community-based nonprofit that difference is everything.
I disagree, as soon as driverless cars exist being able to manually drive a car becomes a luxury and shifts from a right[1] to a privilege - when that happens unsafe driving violations should immediately revoke that right and we could quickly up the volume of self-driving cars. AI driving assistance might be the missing puzzle piece here, once it'd mature we can start forcing people on to it and once folks are on it then we can start banning full manuals and forcing full automation as we will have upped driver predictability.
According to Census demographic trends, in the next couple decades, half of America’s population will live in just eight states. The half that is whiter, older, more rural, and more conservative, will be spread across the other 42 states. That’s 84 senators for them, and 16 senators for the other half of America- This is why.
This more than anything is a good example of self-driving cars actually increasing safety in the net even if there will be loss of life from algorithm failures. Self-driving cars can be put in situations they don't understand but they don't lose focus, don't drive angry, etc.
Having just come from seeing Black Friday sales: is it actually 2k, or is it “2k” with regular sales making it the actual price (which we will see before Christmas)?
Concise, yet so powerful. Thanks for sharing
One of the best services a supermarket can have is: free-policy when you have to wait > 2 people.

They do it with human cashier's and are insanely popular and low-cost.

No one truelly cares about self-service, it's just hype.

( Personal opinion)
Has cost-effective density improvements stalled?

The last really significant announcement out of the main Tesla university research group was in cycles lifetime.

The suggested range of many Tesla forthcoming models (truck, roadster2) seem to assume a chemistry improvement, as well as other future announcements by less experienced (in EV) manufacturers.

I personally speculate that the Nurburgring Model S prototype beat the Porsche using a substantially lighter battery to get its 20 second advantage, but I have no confirmation on that.
It's amazing how fast we went from "talking on or looking at your cell-phone in public for any length of time, or frequently, is something only self-important dicks do", to the point that we could use such behavior as universally-understood shorthand in fiction for "this character is a self-important dick", to its being totally normal. I'm pretty sure the gap was bridged in about five years. Crazy.

I remain skeptical that the switch from "the Internet exists at some physical locations, you must go to one to use the Internet" to "the Internet exists at all physical locations all of the time" was anywhere near being a net (haha) gain for our collective wellbeing.
Let’s hope at the same time we are building up a corresponding recycling infrastructure and products to be recycled easily. Otherwise I am afraid we are building up another trash problem.
McDonald's around me have already replaced cashiers with kiosks

Here, too. But usually half of them are broken in one way or another, like the touch screen doesn't respond or the receipt printer is out of paper, or something I saw in a TV commercial isn't in the menu structure, or the pricing isn't the same as in an ad, etc... These are things a cashier is still needed for.

As an aside, I find it curious that my local McD only got the kiosks maybe two years ago, but I used them in Germany almost 20 years ago. They are fantastic for when you can't speak the local language.

Edit:

Is the answer to fight for $15/hr or is the answer to go back to school, apply to more jobs, and/or go into a trade?

The vast majority of McD cashiers I see are in no position to go back to school or change jobs. They're too old, low-skilled, physically constrained, or low-education to do that.

I work in an organization that deals with the poor a lot. If you're 50 years old and only have a fifth-grade education and need to survive, you don't have the time to go to school. You're probably working two or three jobs just to have a place to live.
DeepMind Co-Founder Mustafa Suleyman Switches to Google
With renewables knocking on 1 cent/kwh at utility scale, retail prices will go down, and the majority of the cost will be storage and transmission. You might expect prices to be higher at night (the reverse of now), as more of the light vehicle fleet moves to EVs and everyone charges their cars at night (unless you can incentivize workplace charging, when the sun is shining).
> Obviously you can still be awesome at that and not have gone to an Ivy League school, that goes without saying.

One can also graduate from an Ivy and definitely not have these skills.

Although one might think that these folks are not consultants at McKinsey, I humbly suggest that this is incorrect — there are plenty of folks who McKinsey brings in for their social capital and/or social skills. Certain athletes and certain folks who know how to socialize with a given class of clients are just as valuable as the grinders, perhaps more so since the “face” of the organization leads to sales and client retention.
> She says she plans to work for as long as possible, trying to provide for her baby. As part time employees, we don’t get health insurance or paid sick days.

And the cycle repeats. I know it's a cold, impersonal take, but when life sucks, having a child is going to make it worse and most likely just lead to a new generation of suffering.

As much as a $15 minimum wage might help, even at $12 in Colorado, McDonald's already has touchscreen machines you can order from instead of at the counter - which might already not be manned all the time (it seems that now they often have a single person taking orders at the front counter and the drive through). So I'm skeptical if $15 minimum wage would work. It might work for the hospital job, at least the margin's there are higher and they are less able to automate the job away.