skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they got 100 million or sometimes a billion to pay consultants they also got one or two million to pay for some senior developers to work there for a year or two and to be the interface dealing with the consulting company.

If I had to do such a project I would hire first a small team of 3 developers or so and task them to try to develop the system by themselves, as huge as it might be.

The point will be not to come up with a product but rather with in house understanding of what is needed to develop such a system, what are the difficulties, the various requirements, the risks, everything.

After a year or two of doing that you will usually find that you probably don't need half of what you thought you need, other 25% are already built and working and the rest you can outsource but with much better understanding of what you need and how to specify it so some accenture will not be able to screw you over.
I’m consistently impressed by the new forms of denialism about the ongoing disaster of a pandemic response in the US (of which pointing at the death rate discrepancy was a recent, popular genre). I understand that people are fundamentally irrational, but now that many countries have gotten the disease to a manageable state, so much psychic energy in this country seems devoted to denying the validity of their approaches and coming up with new reasons why it won’t actually be so bad here, contrary to all evidence.
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could &c
Panic sellers always have that problem tho, regardless of the source of panic
That's very competitive with the Raspberry Pi version (which I also was considering).
My thoughts exactly when my girlfriend had to apply for benefits. The UX is awful, it’s difficult to tell where you are on the page or what you should be looking at. On and on...
It remains end to end encrypted due the fact you have to use ProtonMail's desktop bridge.
Is believe MacDonald's China its owned by China, they sold all their assets a few years ago because their business model is largely real estate and you can only lease hold land for 99 years in China.
This is a pretty significant release:

* Integrated OpenGPG E2EE (fully realized in a future 78.2 release)

* Significant UI improvements

* Integration of calendars and tasks

* Dark mode (though I actually don't get why a GTK application should do this; well-behaved GTK integration should respect dark GTK themes already)
On windows 10, I have dark mode enabled system wide, but I struggle with most third party dark modes, the contrasts between components is not thought out enough - or in the case of email, styled html emails sometimes don't work on a dark background

Is it possible to turn off the dark mode in thunderbird when the os system wide dark mode is enabled
Isn't it possible that quotes have simply been rediscovered many times?

There are billions of people on earth, and we all have witty things to say. And inspirational quotes don't carry much information, so many people are bound to say the same thing, especially if you consider the meaning instead of the literal formulation.

The same thing happens with jokes, especially puns. For example, try making a joke on someone's name. Even if you just made it up, there is a high chance that the person in question have already heard it.
Just barely functioning usually meets the requirements. Few had passion for making something they would be proud of.
That's $750k for two years, which is paltry when you consider that your average senior engineer salary is likely to be in the range of 150k+ per year because of how much the major players offer and you also don't get funding for Phase III. A small team of engineers and QA will eat up that award quickly. This is without factoring in other things your company needs to navigate the government labyrinth, healthcare and more if you aim for commercialization.

If you and your team are willing to be underpaid relative to other companies and deal with the risk that working on government contracts entails a smaller contracting company might survive for a few years.
I wasn't at all making a comment on bad things done by other countries. The topic of "bad things that countries do" is a bit too broad to tackle in a single comment.
I don't think the law was a deterrent to 9/11 te'rists.
> Mars is to Earth what soap bubbles for data storage are to a hard drive.

I had already +1'd you here but literally lol'd here.

Seriously though, I have no idea why you are being downvoted; this is a pretty insightful comment. I guess your first sentence hit too close to home.
A war from hacked Tweets? What would these tweets say? “Premier Xi’s wife is ugly?” I mean Trump already tweets totally insane things regularly. “Rocket man” etc. what could joe Biden, bill gates or anyone possibly say on Twitter to start a war or even lead to some such mass death incident. Even “irresponsible” state actors like Iran would use intelligence channels to confirm things. Even the taliban doesn’t actually act irrationally. Maybe we need to agree to disagree here?
>They may have sold 100 contracts for something that looks vaguely similar, but there will be zero continuity between the team or the code.

There is such a thing as institutional knowledge, and if there is any benefit of a consulting company like Deloitte, it's that. You might not be getting the exact same developer that worked on the last project, but other than for small niche areas, there is going to be an entire bench of consultants that have nearly identical experience, and also have an entire library of past deliverables, training material, etc to quickly get up to speed.

And I can personally attest that these companies re-use the fuck out of any and all code, documentation etc they can. It's practically company motto that no matter how much a client insists they are a special snowflake that requires brand new, custom made designs, they certainly are not. No matter how much you think your pet project hasn't been done before, I can almost guarantee that it has, multiple times, and they are probably just going to take the deliverable from the last time they delivered it, Ctrl+F/replace the previous client's name with yours, and send it over to you. For better or worse, that's where the consistency comes from.

>Cut the project budget to 10% but spend it 10 times. Make 10 smaller firms compete to make the thing and you will get what you need.

Now this is a way to end up with an absolute clusterfuck of a project. You absolutely do not want to do this. Not only will you end up with 10 disorganized, disconnected projects that are each only 1/10th of the feature set you asked for, you're going to have to hire 10x the amount of people to oversee these 10 consulting companies (you'll probably have to hire an 11th consulting company just to PMO the other 10), and your entire project is going to turn into ruthless backstabbing as each of the 10 consulting companies try to sabotage each other or steal credit. It's not going to be some "friendly competition" where they all inspire each other to be better or some fantasy like that.

Since leaving B4, I've been in several situations where the client had the same mentality you do (well, with ~4-5 consulting companies rather than 10). It always, always was a colossal failure and in one situation directly led to the project buyer getting canned. In another situation, they ended up cancelling the contract with the various smaller companies and ended up just hiring a single larger consulting company to come in and clean up the mess, anyway.
Thanks for this post. I used to be a textbook example of "sedentary, indoor, sleep-deprived, socially-isolated, fast-food-laden" and somehow bumbled into improvement on all those fronts the hard way, one by one. Better eating, a more action-oriented outlook, exercise, and socializing with people changed my life massively and I am now very stable, and even optimistic despite the state of the world.

Sleep has taken a back seat since having kids, but not for lack of trying, and I have every confidence that a few years from now it will be in fine form again.

My difficulty now is to try to get my wife to go on a similar journey of improvement. She eats well, but ruminates, doesn't exercise, works in a windowless office or leaves the curtains closed when working from home, avoids people, and sleeps terribly. She'll even lament these things, knowing they're a problem, but my encouragement (or nagging, let's be realistic) to try to improve these things falls on deaf ears. There's always some excuse, always some reason why it can't be now, why it can't be scheduled for soon, why it's not going to happen. Books I've bought her on the topic sit unread, gift cards for yoga classes go unused.

If you know of any resources for someone to try to help someone else improve without falling into the pitfalls I keep falling into, time and again, I'd appreciate it.
India's moon mission budget ($145 million) was 11 cents per Indian person (1.353 billion).

It was 0.02% of a single year's expenditure ($725 billion) by the Indian federal government-- spread out over multiple years.

It amounted to approximately 0.005% of India's GDP ($2.7 trillion).

And the money spent didn't disappear it went into infrastructure, manufacturing, and other mostly domestic pockets.

The only money that disappeared from the economy was the value of the fuel burned and materials not returned to earth from space.

Those 11 cents per person (well, let's call it 10 because the value of the craft on the moon in pieces) are floating around the economy, ready to be spent on water supplies.
No, numbness is how some people experience it. Depressed mood (i.e. sadness) is how others may experience it. According to the DSM you must experience one of those two things as well as several more (lack of concentration, anxiety, etc.) for an actual diagnosis of depression.

https://www.psycom.net/depression-definition-dsm-5-diagnosti...
Managing Overconfidence: Can it be done?
glitchin'
> INFI is a proprietary steel and heat-treat protocol developed by Busse Combat Knife Co.

https://www.bussecombat.com/about-our-steel-infi/
“Destructive”, regardless how minor, should be intentional or at the very least conscious. This is one of the various reasons why serious audio processing is done as 32 bit float: no (practical) risk of unexpected overflows.
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Blackmail yes, totally possible. I’m specifically addressing war though.
It's not buying hamburgers that's the problem. It's the company itself giving China a bit of control over itself even outside the borders of China. It allows China to impose it's authoritarian actions outside of China.
I'm not defending consultancies here - working at one would be my own personal hell on earth.

But when charge-out rates are so much higher than salaries, this is because their value is in the customer relationships and sales pipeline, not technical competence.

It's far, far easier to replace technical talent than to replace customers.
1 billion dollars later healthcare.gov almost works good.

Sure I need to click the same 14 screens just to get to the Health insurance options screen, and sure any time I open a URL on page 4 and hit back, it takes me to the top of page 1....

But government healthcare would surely not run into issues that seem to trouble every other government service. (Can I post /s or does that delete your post?)
I think a lot of us have been neglecting our health. Side projects get even harder to balance when you take your health into account. Everyone needs to exercise as well. It's hard to find a balance.
This is pretty neat -- is there any way to extend this to tree transformations to make this a tool for refactoring?
From someone who is self taught and learned C as a second language, is teaching rust at this stage a great idea? there is a lot of news about rust lately and it very much seems like people are seeing rust as a hammer and the world as nails.
> This is some Atlas Shrugged level nonsense

Have you met humans before? Like, the humans that perpetrated the countless wars throughout history? Slavery, the holocaust? You think that animus has been exterminated or something?

Imagining that we're all going to be cooperative do-gooders because we all hang out on HN and love open source is the "Atlas Shrugged level nonsense." It'll be a mad house.
> There would be nothing suspicious about a few such trades.

Not on it's own, and not if you're starting the investigation with a large pool of trade data

But if you have 5, 10 or even 100 suspects from various forums and then join in any trading data along with a time window of opening/closing trades you very quickly end up with a suspect, a search warrant, an indictment, etc.
> I'll start my own one-man firm first.

It's a shame there isn't a cheap turn-key way to do this right now. That could go a long way to unbundle these mega-consultants.

Company-creation-as-a-service (CCaaS) with shell-company-in-offshore-tax-haven (SCiOTH) and automatic-tax-minimization-as-a-service (ATMaaS) would go a long way to help the average small company reduce their expenses and to coax Congress into actually fixing tax loopholes which currently primarily help only the corps which are scummy enough to take advantage of these extreme tax-minimization techniques.
Compiler Explorer now supports linking with some of the libraries
Online forum offered accounts for sale - before hack tore through Twitter
The article explains that this recall is in response to a 2019 European rule change.
https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Pear/pull/27#issuecomment-6...
I don't understand the nostalgia for these planes. I see a big plane and I think "cattle car." There's nothing nice about sitting in the middle section of a huge wide-body plane, far from the luggage bin, far from the window, and with the prospect of climbing over several people or waking them up so you can go to the bathroom. It takes a long time to board and deplane them.

Moreover, as a passenger I want point-to-point air service at a convenient time. This is possible with smaller airplanes. Big plane requires funneling passengers to some big gateway airport so they can fill the gigantic plane. That requires spending time in airports. Not interested.

If the nostalgia is that there's something elite about a big plane: Gordon Gekko didn't fly around in a 747.

There's a reason these planes are obsolete. Planes like the 737 have democratized air travel and made it affordable for everyone. That's a much bigger achievement than the 747 will ever be. And I'll take the convenient frequent long-distance service that narrow-body planes offer (US mainland to Hawaii on a 737? Amazing!) over a 747 any day. A curving staircase on an airplane just doesn't scream "cool" to me.
Unidentified Federal Law Enforcement Detaining Protestors Without Explanation
These have been going on for years and Twitter has never managed to put a stop to them. What happen on Wednesday seemed an inevitable escalation.

It doesn't help that Twitter's own CEO legitimises and normalises "twitter giveaway bonanza" tweets with his own Square Cash giveaways.
Assuming you don’t have a 1500–2000 metre heavy aircraft runway in your backyard, it’s the shipping costs that would likely kill you.
Not steel, but I was impressed to learn about the physics of obsidian knives produced during the Mayan civilization:

> When skillfully worked, the edges of prismatic blade made from obsidian can reach the molecular level, i.e., the material has a cutting edge that is only one molecule thick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsidian_use_in_Mesoamerica#ci...
I was an intern there almost 10 years ago. Apparently my job was to generate billable hours, because I wasn't given any work and when I asked for some I got a 700-page document to read.

After some nagging I was told to do the same thing one freshly minted consultant who was two years older than me was doing. She was clueless so I did both my part and hers.

The most sad/hilarious situation I had there though was when I bumped into my friend from university in the cafeteria, who was also an intern, but in a different company, and during our conversation it turned out that while I was doing essentially nothing and still got paid, he was working his ass off for free.

In hindsight I think his time was much better spent, but I really needed the money so I didn't complain.
The problem is collateral damage. It's rare that writing garbage to an entire 64-byte (not bit!) cache line will go unnoticed -- in most applications, chances are good that there'll be at least one pointer in there that'll be corrupted.
The article says ODD is normally treated with therapy.
The upper deck is a little confined - there's less headroom and no space to add additional amenities. Using the nose for first class gives a greater feeling of space and there's more room for self-service bar facilities.
There's an evil part of me that thinks we should do something like this to most men.

It's well known that testosterone increases aggression. We neuter most male mammals that humans have to interact with because they're too dangerous otherwise. It stands to reason that chemically castrating male humans would also make them a lot less dangerous. If we could bring down male crime levels to that of women, it would eliminate the majority of all violent crime.

Of course, we'd need some uncastrated men for reproduction and jobs that require a lot of physical strength. But in the developed world, that would probably be a small percentage.

Some women might find men less attractive that way... but I think others would like a guy who's more sensitive, has less male-pattern baldness, and has to put in an equal amount of work to orgasms.

Some men would probably experience gender dysphoria, but I'm sure they could experiment with dosages to find a sweet spot that would be tolerable, and there are anti-androgens that can be taken without estrogen or with a very low dose of it. Also, if some cis people got gender dysphoria, maybe they'd finally start taking trans people seriously.

Obviously, this would be wrong for the same reason as eugenics... but I can't manage to dismiss the thought that it would be a good idea on a practical level.
What Is Wrong with Communism?
After my workday, I used to (the habit is broken and I'm trying to restore it) go for a good, hard workout. Initially runs, later I added BJJ and wrestling. These completely reset my mind by the end of them. I'm focused on something not work, not technical. When I'm done I feel physically exhausted, but usually just need water, a meal, and a 30-minute rest to be mentally ready to go again.

Also, don't commit to it daily, but commit to it more days than not. When I was really keeping up the gym habit, I had 2 1/2 social nights a week (Monday, Wednesday, sometimes Friday). I'd usually have time to bring a book to read or a notebook to write in between the gym and the social obligations. It helped that I lived near my gym in a downtown area near where I usually met people, I had a ton of time freed up not commuting.
There'd been rumor of a Turkish Airlines's order for A380 for so long but it never happened. Etihad and Qatar each operate a tiny fleet. In fact A380 seems to only work for Emirates. So it doesn't really make sense for hub and spoke airlines either.

It isn't a dumb idea. It's a marvelous machine. But it isn't viable commercially and Airbus let prestige cloud their judgement. Doesn't help that they fucked up the service introduction, causing a two year delay and probably extra billions.
https://apnews.com/1d11254092294cde89b787494f7bc1b9

> Two Fort Wayne police officers were seriously injured during a training session on the lateral vascular neck restraint, a doctor who evaluated the men said Thursday.

> Dr. Bill Smock, police surgeon at the Louisville Metro Police Department in Kentucky, said he traveled to Fort Wayne to examine the officers Tuesday after he was contacted by the Allen County prosecutor’s office.

> Smock said both officers suffered serious injuries and that one officer’s family is calling his injuries a stroke. The officers were injured Monday, Smock said.
More specifically, IIRC the claim was that he's using the data as an excuse, instead of adjusting the data so the ML algorithm gets the desired un-biased result.

My understanding was that it was mostly coming from activists that don't really understand how AI/ML works.
There is a massive asymmetry to the two parties here. I'm not sure the consultants are malicious, but they enable the moral hazard of the worst of these types of contracts.
This. It almost seems like a proof of concept for someone selling services to a bigger player, using the Bitcoin angle as a smokescreen.

Something like this right before the election or after could wreak havoc if targeted to the right accounts. I imagine certain state sponsors would pay handsomely for that.
Robin Hood is actually quite aligned with American values. Standing up to, or outright rejecting unjust laws/taxation was a major factor in the birth of the country. It also embraces aspects of the American psyche that value the act and social contribution of the subversive. always had a place near and dear to the American cultural heart, in spite of what the law and order crowd would have you believe.

It has, however, aged poorly, as the arm of the law has lengthened, the voice of the town crier become nigh-unignorable, and the medium of the truly successful in the sense of magnitude of value extracted vs. value provided by has become far harder to assail since it is generally a private individual doing it instead of an authority figure.

Then again, timea are a changin'.
Jetbrains IntelliJ. I use it for html, JS, CSS, Vue, node.js, Python, Java, SQL, etc. I’ve tried visual studio and some other IDEs, but find intellij to be superior in every way.
The Royal Melbourne hospital in Australia is using pulse oximeters to manage COVID positive patients in their own homes. The program was setup in March this year to manage a large number of patients remotely (cost/safety).

The patients take their own measurements with a pulse oximeter and digital thermometer (both off the shelf consumer items). The person is prompted via SMS and submit their vitals via website. A software system orchestrates all of this and alerts patients and clinicians to anyone with worrying numbers.

This keeps beds free at the hospital, but still gets the small percentage of patients back to hospital that get really sick.

It also does all the other boring monitoring and administrative work needed when you're checking up on lots of real people.

Full disclosure. I worked on this project. A version has been open sourced and if you're a hospital or other medical service you're welcome to use our work. We're publishing improvements as we go.
https://github.com/rmhcovid/txtmon

https://www.thermh.org.au/news/royal-melbourne-hospital-impl...

Using simple standalone devices and a low-coding platform already in use by hospitals (REDCap) the whole project was crash-built in a couple of weeks and is saving lives. That platform has many shortcomings (messier even than Excel), but there's various medical/privacy rules that make more traditional development unattractive for quickly prototyping. It's been a rewarding project to work on despite many frustrations.
geeethanks
That comment is a perfect example of what I love about HN; a polite tangential discussion about abbreviations unearthing a wholly unexpected connection to a clever technical hack. Thank you for sharing! :)