skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot to unpack here, but the general gist is that McKinsey is overpaid for mediocre services. It's hard to argue against that, and McK in particular does have some insanely unjustifiable rates, but I do think the author has a bit of a misunderstanding of why consultancies are hired in the first place.

To be clear, when a consultancy like McK puts a 23 year old analyst on a project, the $50k/week bill isn't just paying for the knowledge in the analyst's head. The analyst is really just a vehicle to deliver the expertise of the actually-experienced consultants and knowledgebase of the entire firm. The experienced consultants don't have the time to sit and write out the powerpoint deck, so instead they throw as much knowledge as they can at the analyst and the analyst is the one who synthesizes it into something digestable by the customer. Is it worth $50k/week? Fuck no. But it is at least worth recognizing that you are getting more expertise than a sole bachelor's degree.

Second, as someone who has both worked as a consultant at major companies like McK and worked on the other side of the table, and as someone who has long despised the consulting profession because of its overpriced bullshit, I think the author would be surprised at how effective even a measly 23 year old can be. As a consultant, it would drive me insane that my company was billing me out at $700/hr to help implement an IT system when all I was actually doing was reading and regurgitating the software's documentation and making sure that the client didn't ignore it. Surely the client could do this themselves and save the $700/hr, right?

It took me a long time to realize that the answer to this question was actually no. The typical HNer will probably be surprised (and saddened, if you're like me) to realize that the average corporate worker bee is in fact not competent enough to do the most basic tasks, such as refer to documentation, without hand-holding. It is an unfortunate reality that sometimes a well-educated and well-vetted 23 year old analyst can do things much better than an 20-year industry veteran. Companies do know this, and this is what they are paying for, much to the chagrin of the rest of us.

As a last note, the author mentions the possibility of just hiring an IT professional to do the work instead of hiring a consultant. This is something I also see come up a lot in consulting discussions. The reason this isn't done is because hiring an employee full-time brings on a lot of risk to the hiring company. It can take months to hire someone, many more months to train them, and then if they don't perform up to snuff, it can take years to build up a case to fire them, all the whole they are sitting on your payroll taking up budget. A consultant, on the other hand, can be hired in a day, trained in a week, and if needed, can be fired in a minute. You pay a premium for the agility to hire and fire them quickly, but that's the entire point.
> The PinePhone will likely be preferable to most LineageOS phones

IMO an android app runtme would be essential for any of these efforts to be comparable to Lineage. Anybody working on that?
A few speculative hypotheses for consideration:

1. Ultraviolence: An extremely violent cultural ritual developed that resulted in a much higher rate of fatality for participants. Then, the genetically predisposed to warlike behaviour would be killed off systematically before breeding. This would have the additional effect of clearing outgroup humanoids in the area.

2. Gender Roles: Male sexual selection for females focused on cooperation attributes -- or aesthetic attributes like the facial ones associated in the paper.

3. Cooperative warfare: Cooperative traits allowed for better outgroup warfare

4. BBQ Theory of Human Evolution: Cooperative traits allowed for better big-game hunting. Mammoth barbecues attracted mating prospects from large areas, resulting in the rapid sexual-selection effect of amplifying cooperative genes
... ok so they have an unverified claim of apoptosis too? Yikes, that just makes it worse!
Do You Trust Jeff Bezos with Your Life?
Yes but you and I and the royal We of hackernews are aware of the issues. Further research is not required. So how are We reacting to it with our actions? Continuing to give amazon gobs of money & data?
Yes, because Cloudflare isn't telling me that it's coming from them. However, that's already a lost battle.
The advantage could be in eliminating the jobs of the mom & pop drycleaners and the rent they pay for the space. That's surplus that could be captured by a dry-cleaning app delivery service, assuming that the cost of transportation isn't greater than the cost of rent. In dense urban areas, where rent is expensive but you could hit up several customers on one trip, that might be a valid assumption. Particularly if you have someone good at logistics programming the app's backend, and a pool of inexpensive labor for drivers.
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> opinions of a dozen random jurors

The jurors are not random. The prosecution will dismiss jurors until they find enough totalitarian, axe-to-grind morons as is necessary to convict.
“AWS realized customers want one platform to deploy apps to multiple targets”
Most major browsers, including Firefox, intend to disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 early next year. It's possible that LukaD is using a developer release which is previewing this change.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/10/15/removing-old-ve...

https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/modernizing-transpor...

https://webkit.org/blog/8462/deprecation-of-legacy-tls-1-0-a...
I'm pretty sure I know who you're talking about (we don't have that many users right now) and she's pretty awesome! She is one of our first users, very active on the site and even contacted us a few times through it :)
Are you sure? The raw IO benchmarks presented in the article are higher in all dimensions for the M6g vs M5, so if IO was the bottleneck on the M5 I'd expect the M6g to move ahead.
Thank God for PBS NewsHour. Some the best, most professional (exhibiting neutrality, just the facts) journalists we have.
This is in the 600,000 years ago range, though, versus the 50k associated with language
Despite the tracking, I'd suggest allowing google fonts, it's not that much different than other CDN content (assuming you're only using the CSS).
Didn't Google get into trouble for putting their own shopping results above other search results? It seems like Amazon should seriously be penalized for this. It's completely anticompetitive.
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The first computer chip with a trillion transistors
You'd need to get your business listed on the GSA's schedule of approved contractors (see https://www.gsa.gov/buying-selling/purchasing-programs/gsa-s...).

Being "on the schedule" means you've already been pre-vetted and deemed a legitimate vendor by the GSA. For government agencies, doing business with a contractor on the GSA schedule lets them skip a whole bunch of approvals and paperwork that they'd otherwise have to do if they just pulled in a vendor off the street.

Getting on the schedule can be a long and bureaucratic process, but once you're on it you have a privileged position when it comes to winning government business. So if you want to sell to the Feds, you really want to be on that schedule.
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As every online broker races to "free" and "no-commission trading", ask yourself this question. How much money are they making off of your assets? And how are they making it? And why aren't they sharing it with you?

These companies have been making money off your assets since their inception. Do you think they all of a sudden are changing their business models to make less money? These are finance people who have learned to squeeze every penny out of you. That's not changing. They can't engineer that out of their business.

But we can and we have. And we're going to give a lot our revenue back to our members because "IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO!"

This is a financial revolution. Help us put your interests first, not ours.

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US politics can usually be summarized as the Evil Party versus the Stupid Party, and it isn't always clear which is which.

Candidate A: Openly racist and homophobic. Annoyingly pious. Secretly gay. Claimed to no longer have any association with the Klan after the investigative journalist published that one article. Inherited money; pretends to be a farmer/rancher. Leaves teaser religious tracts that look like money in lieu of tips.

Candidate B: Policy proposals completely divorced from reality. No primary-sponsored legislation has ever passed. Secretly a roofie-rapist. Does insider trading on privileged information. Incumbent in the safest district in the state. Habitual drunk driver, though never convicted.

That's just what you get (eventually) with winner-take-all, first-past-the-post elections. Even in states where the minority party essentially never wins, the party leadership can still be corrupt as Hell, and no decent person can hold their breath long enough to avoid the stench of it.
Wow, I’ve never even heard of zero trust until now. Thanks for sharing!
What I took from it is that although it looks like it must be corruption, it is simply incompetence.
Apostrophe raises $6M to let you see a dermatologist from your phone
You basically can't trust a word he says or cites.

He mostly cites the IPCC and climate scientists. Or are you saying those sources aren't trustworthy?

I read the article. Every word of it is true. It can be summed up as:

Lots of people, especially teenagers, are starting to suffer mental health problems because they think the world is about to end. The world isn't about to end, this is a lie. The people claiming it is are mostly making it up, or misquoting other people, or in one case a journalist misheard "eight billion" as "a billion" and other comedies of errors. It's important that people understand what climate science really says before a teenager does something they can't come back from.
>The point about forcing everyone to be remote is great if you can make it work, but it will eliminate a lot of employees who can't work remotely. I know remote work is a hot topic, but in my experience only a small fraction of employees can be very effective in remote-only roles.

It's both effectiveness and preferences. I was just having this conversation a couple of days ago with someone whose company location is basically out of space. I asked why more people don't just work remotely. (Many already do; the company is generally remote friendly.)

His response was basically that there are a lot of employees, especially younger ones, who would probably up and quit if they were told they had to work out of their homes. Most of the people who haven't already gone remote either have to be in the same office or want to for whatever reason; this is in an area where housing is fairly reasonable and commutes are fairly modest.

Leaving aside that I started work at a time when communication tools were much more limiting than today, I still can't really imagine working from my apartment during the early years of my career.
In the Anglo-American world "class" has a connotation of social standing and cultural position; probably because of the quasi-feudal meaning of "class" in the British isles (something you're born into). So few people in North America consider themselves "working class" for that reason.

However in the classic socialist sense of the world, or in other parts of the world, "working class" often just means "work for someone else."

And in that definition even I, an overpaid Google employee, am "working class"
You can count the whole world's proprietary implementers of cellular tech on one hand. Compared to the rest of the phone, the rest of the phone is insignificant.
As a PM, I don't think remote can work for me. Any PMs who work remotely? Curious to your thoughts.
My concern about this is that with the failure of Qualcomm Centriq, there is no industry standard/affordable/easy to buy ARM based server platform ordinary persons and small/medium sized businesses can acquire.

It's great that Amazon has ARM based stuff, but it's something proprietary they're purchasing in large quantities from a manufacturer they have a very close relationship with. Undoubtedly the physical hypervisor platform and motherboard these things are running on is something totally bespoke and designed to Amazon's unique requirements.

I can't pull out my visa card and go buy a (atx, microatx, mini-itx) format motherboard for an ARM CPU, the CPU itself, RAM, etc, and build a system to run debian, centos, RHEL, ubuntu whatever on.

This means that, sure, you can get an EC2 ARM based server, but it's something you can't physically own and you'll be paying cloud based service rates forever if you want to keep running it. There are some categories of business and government entities where not having things on-premises, or fully owning and controlling the hypervisor all the way down to the bare metal, is a non starter.

If the ARM platform Amazon is buying becomes truly price/performance competitive with a single/dual socket xeon or threadripper/epyc, it also gives a possible competitive advantage to Amazon over any medium-sized cloud based VM provider out there currently selling (xen, kvm) based VMs on x86-64 hypervisors.

Based on what's available on the market right now I see no signs of there being a viable hardware-purchasing alternative to Intel or AMD based motherboards and CPUs.
I think you did follow! I was talking about housing costs, not the rest of living costs, because in general housing is (a) your biggest expense and (b) most tied to the region you're in.

Sure: gasoline, utilities, and groceries are certainly more expensive here in Santa Clara than they would be if I was still living in Tampa, Florida. But the difference is much smaller in magnitude than the difference in housing costs, and the absolute amount of money that I'm spending on those things is also less. (e.g., I pay around $3.60 a gallon in gas right now; in Tampa it's around $2.40/gal, which is a pretty astounding difference objectively, but it's not eight times less. if I drove 15,000 miles a year in a car that got just 30 mpg, I'd pay about $50 a month more here.

In general, everything else follows similarly. If the $30K number you produced is "stuff Person A spends on non-housing costs," in practice Person B, even in the most expensive area, isn't spending anywhere close to $240K on the same things. It's extremely unlikely they're spending anywhere close to $60K on the same things.
They weren't trying to imprison him, they were trying to gather evidence of who murdered Jane, which would result in imprisoning that person.

Jane's killer was in a strange circumstance. So was Jane, what with being murdered and all. The unconventional means of getting a confession were not immoral or unethical at all, IMO, and the courts certainly agreed they were admissible.
If it was an issue that could be fixed "in a few days" why wouldn't they simply fix the issue and then release the phone? Or are you suggesting that not being able to make phone calls on a phone is something that slipped through their testing? It has been a "few days" since their announcement and of course this "bug" hasn't been fixed. It seems less like a bug and more like a major design flaw/hurdle.
Simon Sinek has never actually led anything and is basically someone who is an expert at marketing himself. His advice doesn’t say anything new and is usually extremely banal.

He’s the classic example of fake it till you make it in modern America. A guy who makes flashy viral videos, has zero actual experience of leading organizations or teams, yet someone has acquired some guru like reputation at a genius leader.
Does anyone know why Amazon engineers always seem to write so well? Any time I read technical content from Amazon, I am struck by how clear and concise it is.
Because no such baseband module exists.
I'm really glad this is public now, really good experience-driven (often straight from major post-mortems) recommendations here.
Had a lot of experience with McKinsey doing projects at my company at different levels I’ve been in throughout it the years. When it’s highly technical things like implementing a new technology you know nothing about or a new manufacturing footprint that is tangible to perform, they do good work. Anything “Strategic” or fluffy I find a waste of time. They are excellent salespeople and do a lot to calm the C-suite but I rarely see these fluffy items driving employee happiness or the bottom line after spending millions.
Overpacking: A Common Webpacker Mistake – Rossta.net
Looks like
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21712280 got more traction.
I forced myself to use DDG for about 3 months as my main search engine... nearly 2/3 of the time when searching for technical queries I'd have to fall back to Google... I just switched back... I may give Bing a similar try though, I really like the UI tweaks the Chromium based Edge has done.
I remember looking at the original HTML5 spec and going, there is no way lower power / low bandwidth / high latency devices will be able to handle this efficiently. Nevertheless, we moved fast and broke things, ratified the HTML5 spec and paved the cowpaths without a second thought to language or efficiency.

Somewhere along the line, things came full circle. HTML was slow again, so we needed a new new way to efficiently render content, thus AMP was born.
Idk. When I talked to an application engineer that used to manufacture passive CTLEs, they used a microscope, file, and VNA on each one.
> The problem is no matter what custom flavor of Android you run, you are still running an OS made by an ad company designed from the ground up to spy on you.

LineageOS and GrapheneOS are based on AOSP, which is an open source project not really "made by an ad company". I agree with your latter point about supporting their hardware and typically buy used phones/computer for that same reason.
I don't think the police took the wrong approach. It was just fueled by what the suspect said. If he would have went in and said "sorry, I just don't feel comfortable talking to you without a lawyer." There would have been no harm. The detective likely would have checked the alibi (ensuring he was at the hotel), relied on the fire investigator's report, and closed the case. But, giving the police more information is only giving them more to explore. Now they may want to look at his financials, did he recently update his insurance, what other debts does he have, are there any weird calls/communications to others, did he purchase anything suspicious, did he conduct any research about arson, etc - and that takes time.
Installed Firefox in my new machine and never looked back. Before I used Chrome, Yandex, Vivaldi and Opera. Only miss Yandex much superior native start page;
This worked out for you great and there's no reason to feel guilty about it. I on the other hand choose to look at things differently. I spend 45 minutes on a buss to and from work and am eager to utilize the time for myself. I read, I draw and meditate. Another aspect that works out is living in a more peaceful neighborhood, nothing like the craziness in Manhattan. But, yes, sometimes the trade off is worth the money.
This is coming right on time (I'm looking at various screenshot differs for a 3D tool application (shaders, etc.)) - http://im.snibgo.com/phashthresh.htm
I run my own DNSSEC-validating DNS server for my whole local network (also on the road with DNS over TLS on my phone) using Pi-Hole (DHCP service + blocking ads) and unbound (local recursive DNS resolver that validates DNSSEC). I do DoT using nginx.
So basically any Unix can run a resolver and virutally any OS can profit from it !
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2008/03/most-positive-bignum/
Most non IT people I know, use Chrome because "one day it was just there". Installed through some freeware program where they forgot to uncheck a box.

Yeah...people are not that smart.
71? amazing
The FCC approved baseband chips run closed source software and do not have documentation for writing your own.

So you need to reverse engineer the chip, write your own software for it, and reflash it. But after reflashing it will no longer be FCC approved because some of the FCC requirements were implemented in software. So it will need to go through the FCC approval process again which can be very expensive.

The alternative would be to create your own chip from scratch but that is even more expensive.
Amazon isn't a search company, so I think it's a little different case.

Also, if I call a Ford dealer and ask them for their best deals, why would I expect them to tell me about Toyotas?
Yeah, I feel like there's a light slap coming Amazon's way for this. It's too blatantly anti-competitive.

It should probably be more punitive than it will be, but that doesn't seem to be the way our governments are going these days.
Sounds like the episode of Black Mirror "Be Right Back":

> The episode tells the story of Martha (Hayley Atwell), a young woman whose boyfriend Ash Starmer (Domhnall Gleeson) is killed in a car accident. As she mourns him, she discovers that technology now allows her to communicate with an artificial intelligence imitating Ash, and reluctantly decides to try it.
To some extent, yeah...
Great list. I started using Firefly to track my finances back in October. Loving it so far.
I was a technical project management consultant for a long time. The value that most orgs get from a consultant isn't really in the advice the consultant gives them, it's the political cover to make changes they knew they should make all along, but didn't have the social capital or the focus to make those changes until they had a person in a chair across from them.
Thanks for the compliment. :-) The UI components would always remain open-source.

We offer a hosted search service at appbase.io which funds this and have very recently started offering it more broadly as a managed platform for any ElasticSearch upstream. It offers a better search development experience, out-of-the-box search/click analytics and more fine-grained security features: https://medium.appbase.io/appbase-io-clusters-a-supercharged....
The reason you'd want to select text is to select text... same inside a text field disabled or not as outside a form field. Unless you think they should just disable all text outside an active form field?
Amazon has a very strong written culture (search for 1 pagers and 6 pagers). To be effective at higher levels in any role you need to be good at it.
Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying
Why is this supposed to be interesting? You could run defaultless BGP4 on your Linux box if you wanted to badly enough. The question is "what end-user operating system already does this?".
I agree closing cases faster would be seen as favorable.
Does anyone use Dagster in production? Specifically how would it compare to other options like Airflow?
The former CTO of Purism itself recommends the PinePhone instead:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zlatan-T...
But the question is if it was meant to be real ban or just piece of paper to make the voters feel good. There is evidence pointing to the second possibility - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_jail . Also the failure to prosecute perpetrators or compensate the victims...
That's already in practice - there are dozens of competing think tanks that churn out pretty deep critiques of legislation before it comes up for a vote. Whether for better or worse instead of the legislation being edited accordingly the criticisms are usually dismissed as "Republican/Democrat talking points".
> and of course this "bug" hasn't been fixed

You can hear call audio if you use CI images since a few days ago already. Last rough edges are being sorted out right now before finally packaging it all into PureOS.
BlackRock’s Mark Wiseman terminated for not disclosing personal relationship