skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article it seems that they don't provide tech support neither to doctors, nor patients. And wrangling legacy systems in the field still may be worked out for much less money.

The real problem is that requirements are written in such a way that very few (in this particular case just ONE) companies can satisfy, so essentially there's no competition - exactly a kind of situation which lets to pump up prices.

And if you asking yourself are those requirements really benefit users, or specifically created for money to go to, you know, "right hands" - you're probably asking the right question.
From time to time I am trying to crawl government procurement portals for projects, and dropping the idea after a couple of hours again and again: only proposal, initial negotiation and documentation will probably require several people full time, this is even before any project movements..
Mind that, this it's the system where you're bidding for months for a project, and even if you have won and was good at delivery, you will be doing all the rounds for the next one again. So governments, sort of meaning to drive the price down via tenders, in reality are paying for all the losing bids too, and paying a lot.
These kind of articles concern me.

Not because what they expose, but what they incite.

I am very concerned that instead of strengthening legal path for defamation, politicians will take the easy (and favored) path of government control of speech.

Do not misunderstand, I am not even remotely suggesting that somehow we need to protect such behavior. What I am suggesting is that the laymen will demand blood, and the easiest and most vocal way to do it is government, or agents of the government (in this case large internet content controlling organizations) will restrict speech. That is already fraught with political vengeance and revenge.

Find the culprits. Prosecute & punish. Force large internet content companies to scrub.

We can demand to force sites to pop up about cookies. Certainly we can demand that with a single quick request "to be forgotten".

(Mark my words - if this gets legs, it will be the speech control, and the control will be handed to companies or quasi-government agencies, made of companies.)
I think Wayland compositors is a better option for it. That's where all the modern Linux desktop development happens these days.
> Internet Explorer has less than a 2% market share in the US

This is true but if you are a Government agency in a Country of 300M+ people, that 2% is still several hundred thousands users, who are calling your tech support etc. etc.

If this was a private app then it would be different, IMHO Government websites have accessibility concerns that the rest of us can ignore.
What would those policies be?

Why do you assume I am nazi or nazi like? Sorry, that’s very disgusting of you.

What part about my being are you trying to draw attention to. Stop bullying people.
>It’s pretty amazing that after all these years there is so little malware on Linux and in foss.

There's plenty of malware in Linux; it's just never called malware. I'm generally more wary of installing random software on a Linux box than I am on my personal macOS machine.

When I ssh into a customer's machine to discover a bitcoin miner that is definition of malware; and there have been plenty of exploits that involve shodan style scans that take advantage of server software with poor defaults.
No, this is not cynical enough.

Even the part you mentioned: 'wrangling data for legacy systems' does not cost that much, it's still a small piece of the pie.

The 'bulk of it' goes to sales, BD, marketing, profits, layers of excess management, specialist consultants, accountants and lawyers.

This contract is an example of 'modern world graft'.

Healtchare.gov cost $1-2 Billion and it was also a mess until Google Engineers came in to save it.

Software is not like Construction where the costs can at least be well estimated and you don't need geniuses.

It's frankly very depressing and this kind of graft and stupidity is all over the system.

There are actually not that many people who are both: 1) technically/project competent enough to figure it out and 2) have enough gravitas on the business side to make proper bids. Partly that's the fault of government.

To be fair, it's also bad buyers who change requirements all over the place and throw projects in dispensary often for what are ultimately political reasons.

It's a real failure of leadership.
I'm late returning to the party. I was twittering and saw the post again and came back to this to post. Yes, iCircuit is the one I was originally wanting to post here. It looks amazing. It's clear a ridiculous amount of work went into it. If they decide to make an Android version, I'm on it.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/icircuit-3d/id1539977373
This is pretty much what I've learned doing 5+ years of big enterprise consulting (though not government).

If the hardest / longest part of any project requires domain knowledge and personal relationships, then why are you outsourcing that part?

I don't care if it's not a core competency / something you can do. Make it one.
>Would the person holding that last 1 share have suddenly 100% of Apple?

Yes!
First, let me say I do think I interpreted that article's data incorrectly as the US at .81 Gini coeficient, when in reality its probably closer to ~.45. Medieval Europe was closer to 40, but definitely not the magnitude I took from my initial source.

There are several ways to look at inequality. The most simplistic way to so do is looking at relative wealthy by decile and comparing the ratio between the top and bottom. In feudal society, everybody was relatively poor, and the wealth gap may be on the order of 10-100X. In modern times, that ratio may be far larger and under a certain definition that would be mean higher inequality. I'll concede that this approach fails to capture the practical experience of the haves and have-nots over time, and having our's hit all-time highs isn't immoral if there is some baseline of sufficiency at the bottom. It also doesn't account for social mobility, which we exceptional at.

Still, we live in a novel time where orders of magnitude of wealth that haven't existed before. It is hard to fathom, and calls into question what is and isn't a de-facto privilege of enjoying.

I found this article which offers some more nuanced approaches to measuring inequality in different societies than Gini.
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5388/1/MPRA_paper_5388.pdf
But mobile networking should not be a service in the labor-cost-predominating sense. That said, I'm very glad to see others citing Phenomenal World :),
How do we know it was a bailout? Maybe they just raised extra money to take advantage of a volatile market.
So the police should make sure not to trample on tiranga while controlling a rioting mob?

Shooting tear gas is worse than shooting bullets?

Let’s not get into what was agreed upon. For that just look at the list of broken promises provided by the police and it’s crystal clear what these people wanted to achieve.
Word on the street has that Melvin is down 80% YTD, some other L/S funds 20-30%.
>I've been to many countries, and in most of them you cannot character asassinate anybody by randomly calling guy's workplace and telling "guy A is a dreaded pedophile!,"

I don't think she did that. What she did (post tons of negative stuff online) did have negative effects when people applied for jobs:

> A relative of one lawyer said she spent months applying for jobs in 2019 without getting any offers. The woman, who asked not to be named because she feared Ms. Atas, said her bills piled up. She worried she might lose her home. Then she decided to apply for jobs using her maiden name, under which she hadn’t been attacked. She quickly lined up three interviews and two offers.

When applying for a job, the resume screeners don't know much about you, so they rely on what they find online. With coworkers who actually know you, they don't need to rely on stuff online.
Your point stands, but a nitpick - don't forget overhead. You should roughly double engineer salary to cover overhead, so it's 146 engs at 150k (still good), or 75 engs at 300.

Either way, the deal should be possible.
I look at red tape / internal rules and policies as proofreading code for genetic replication.

On one hand, you limit (beneficial) mutation.

On the other hand, you limit (harmful) mutation.

An organization usually doesn't scale past a certain size without stabilizing its ability to copy itself. For better and worse.
Yeah the field identification guide cited [1] is better, although disappointingly monochrome

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/25616219
In terms of similarity with RDNA, you mean large cache memory which can store bigger matrixes?
https://twitter.com/Razi4all/status/1354054590958862336?s=19

https://twitter.com/Nitesh_singh773/status/13540774444545392...

https://twitter.com/VinayDi61732460/status/13553694558035763...

https://twitter.com/IAmGMishra/status/1353985125550223361?s=...

https://twitter.com/jyotimishra2476/status/13539934891350179...

You Modi Godi Bhakats are wishing to teach Sikhs a lesson, by repeating 1984 & Godhra, burning & teaching lesson. I thought you are on HN, most probably not being paid Rs 2 by BJP per post. These tweet links are only by one search on Twitter Indira Gandhi. & Many of these have photos of Modi, Savarkar & such. You stop just repeating what Dalal media is feeding you, Fox news equivalent from India.

& Stop conveniently not answering my points, but twisting & gas lighting.

All I wish is Modi dictator goes away back to Gujrat if they want, people vote him out. Anybody who thinks about people, is not extremist, not lier, not fake, should be voted in. Not rahul gandi, not Kamal nath.
Yep! I can never find them, but there were even World War style anti-australian propaganda posters depicting Australians as white supremacist monsters coming to take over NZ. I don't know who they were distributed by at the time and I can never get a Google search to turn anything up.
This is an interesting analysis, I'm wondering where the disagreements are coming from.
Yeah the current issues with Japan are more intrinsic than anything else (inability to innovate, etc)
Knew a guy who joined Deloitte. Was called star performer when he was focused on beating others down instead of the work at hand. You hire careerists, you get wall street brokers for every job, including existentially challenging ones.
Did they stop registering SIMs to Aadhaar card number? You're telling me they can't track Kashmiri SIMs outside of J & K?
Of course, we don't know for sure. But it's strange to sell off future revenue shares for capital today when you can simply double-down using leverage.. unless they ran into their margin limit.
I think you're expecting too much. Is google supposed to give away triple A titles along with free rackspace just so they can let you play games?
Just reading a little more, the aforementioned guide was published in 1993, so that explains the black and white photographs somewhat.
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I do, I've had that on right from when I created this account.
You could also load the webbased element client in Chrome and use Matrix in Chrome. In theory at least, not sure how it holds up on mobile but you can definitely use it in Chrome desktop browser.
How is barely 86 years ago be considered archeology?
Am I Methuselah that have to be studied, poked, and prodded?
>Where did you get that from? I really think the opposite is true.

Have you ever worked in a factory, on a farm, etc. on bottom level positions ? Most people would take the money and do nothing without blinking. Hell even a bunch of my college friends would skip years of their life playing games and acquiring 0 life experience if someone gave them this option the only thing that forced them to go out in the world was existential need (as demonstrated by two guys I know who are well off and their parents allowed them to do nothing - one guy has 0 days working experience at 30, he was a top tier COD gamer)
Why not? Care to elaborate your thoughts?
Replying here as I can’t reply below. What is that? A show of sick fucks wishing people dead? What is your point? You can find those everyday on Twitter. Why are you trying to paint this disgusting picture based on that?
This. Gov contracting is a rare, specialized skill. That's why the same big companies keep getting big contracts over and over. If you're a company without these skills you have no chance at landing one of the giant contracts. The CYA and auditing requirements are too insane to even write the proposal without a full-time staff of contracting specialists and a long track record of prior contracting.

(As a new contractor you might be able to get a small-money contract from e.g. the SBIR but those max out at roughly $100K.)
I'm reminded of a guy that used to go on Leo Laporte's podcast and had a program or joined a program where Silicon Valley tech people join government entities to make their tech and websites better. I'm sure they took massive paycuts to do this but they felt it was their duty, like military service. This guy and others like him are true heroes and patriots to me.
Main value of why she/her family is successful:

First, they "apply themselves with [intense] enthusiasm and energy."

Second: they "define with extraordinary realism their area of special competence and act decisively on all matters within it."

Third: they "ignore even the most enticing propositions failing outside of that area of special competence."

Finally: they "unfailingly behave in a high-grade manner with everyone they deal with."
Partner in auto-insurance startup here:

Nothing you've said is correct. The insurance industry doesn't determine fault based on minute linguistic decisions like this.

This change is mostly driven by public health and govt orgs.
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It bewilders me that a reasonable, libertarian view like this is getting flagged on here. Some folks must be shills with nothing much better to do than defending the sv corporate echo chamber.
Even 10 years ago most techies were pretty hands off and fair minded.
I've been analyzing this myself. Generally, I'm not convinced.

WSB had millions of people join the subreddit in the past week (~5m). If each held an average of 5 shares, that'd be 25m shares. There are only 69.75M shares outstanding.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GME/key-statistics?p=GME

There are 46.89M shares in float (i.e. are readily available).

On January 15 2021 61.78M shares were shorted. This is matched here:

https://shortsqueeze.com/?symbol=GME&submit=Short+Quote%E2%8...

At that point WSB started piling on and millions of shares went into call options and / or were purchased - by retail investors OR people who frequented WSB.

Remember, hedge fund managers and what not also visit and contribute to WSB. There is absolutely no reason to assume a given institution isn't also in on this (and effectively collaborating).

Anyway, how much of it is institutional? I'm unsure, honestly doesn't matter.

By January 15 the float started being purchased and prices were rising. The short sellers started losing money and the hedge funds holding short positions likely expected things to reverse course, as a quick pump-and-dump.

That didn't happen. All the remaining float was then bought up by millions of retail investors; raising prices. Sure some of the hedge funds also sold during this point, but retail inexplicably kept buying (keeping prices high).

They also aren't going to sell for anything less than $1000+ and IT IS NOT ABOUT THE MONEY. Some may never sell:

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6omry/an_o...

What does this mean? The short sellers double down hoping to wait it out.

Does this work? Maybe. After robinhood forced the sell off, we're going to see peoples transferred funds hit monday and tuesday. This is a middle finger to the hedge funds to these people. We're going to see the price go up... idk ho much, I'm guessing thousands.

People will surely sell, but if retail continues to hold (or buy at $200), the short sellers are still suck spending billions on interest and will eventually pay out. Sellers have little reason to sell for anything less than $10,000 or something crazy.

Now, did the short sellers get out? I'm not sure, but given how much everyone is freaking out - I am not so sure. I know "hedge fund bros". My bet is they are still holding or doubling down and it's about to get real very fast.
Pulling a tiranga from tractor, & rolling it, & then trampling it over while nothing else is going on, is I think bad. Police Brutality, as a scare tactic will always fire back on dictator's face.
Wait! If there was a sane set of APIs and data interchange formats that was standard across the whole system, development would be the simplest part.

It's because they have to shoehorn their solution into a morass of garbage software, that this turned into such a complex task.

The real answer is to dump ALL these huge contractors, and their 'solutions', and make something new and better, with proper engineers directing the process.

Imagine if Deloitte had been contracted to 'invent' the Internet...
A lot of successful artists are very conscious of perservation and archival concerns. It's not just that basic professional level art materials are very deliberately marketed as archival quality: it's a fashion these days to paint on metal surfaces, either sheets of copper, or aluminum composites like Dibond, used by sign painters. Dibond is two sheets of aluminum sandwiching a 2mm layer of polyethylene.

What these surfaces have in common is that they're dimensionally stable: they don't change in size depending on temperature or humidity, and they're chemically impervious to the ground layer. Oil paints can degrade linen canvas over time as the oil seeps into the fibers and oxidizes.

After your dead, no one comes back for you. Instead, your most visible legacy in this world slowly falls apart, changing color, getting brittle, and looking decrepit before it falls apart. Artists aren't invulnerable to vanity.
You seem to be conflating the issue back to the usual axis of islamaphobia. So why aren’t marital rape laws not enacted in India?

Or for that matter how come there was such a furor when the court decided that all Hindu pilgrims regardless of gender could visit Sabarimala?

Do note - the vast majority of Indian laws have moved progressively despite political pressures. The divorce laws in India were regularly opposed by political parties for example - including the BJP.

Any progressive movement in laws have been by your vilified liberals. The only reason triple talaq is on the BJP radar is because it dovetails with their happy topic of islam bashing.

> https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/bjp-leaders-express-di...

Laws in America and the west did not recognize gay marriage, until the idea carried enough cultural weight for it to be enacted.

India on the other hand, is a combination of modernity and medievalism (gotra). The progressive work in our courts and laws is precisely because Ambedkar and a slew of people fought for it.

Otherwise our laws would be far more basic than you would like to believe.

In this government we already instituted laws to persecute minorities. Imagine where we would be if it weren’t for the years of work by your hated “liberals”.
Do you need 240hz for a story-driven game? Will Final Fantasy 15 be better if it's that smooth?
It's not clear if the laws do "adversly" affect interest of all farmers. The laws target APMC's monopsony which has been already diluted by many states, which means that farmers are not totally dependent on APMC. Hence in many areas farmers are largely indifferent and in certain are clearly supporting the laws[1]. In Punjab and Haryana, the mandatory procurement by FCI(regardless of the demand) and the APMC system works to its maximum efficiency[2]. Hence the large scale support there.

1. https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/who-are-shetkari...

2. https://m.economictimes.com/news/economy/agriculture/how-ind...
It would be more convincing if you cited some of those studies
Here's an example I learned on Friday:

If money is left over, apply to the next available item via (logic).

Unless money is sent twice, for two separate sub-items on the same item, in which case if the first amount is insufficient to cover the entirety of the first sub-item, the excess (if any) from the second amount, after being applied to the second sub-item, must be applied to the remainder of the first sub-item.

There are legal ramifications of doing the first way, without the second. And only the actual in-the-trenches people were able to tell us about the second.

Using outsourced process documentation is @&$&ing useless.
I don't understand how banning beef has anything to do with Indian women being treated as chattel.

You can prevent the latter without dictating my food habits. Also, if you're so intent on saving the cow, why is India still the world's largest exporter of beef? Because banning exports of beef will hurt the corporate masters who fund the BJP.
All who are NOT Muslim. Its on I think 3rd page of the CAA bill.
I don't know why this got downvoted. Sorry it took so long to respond to. Since it's stale, I'll keep it brief.

Like I said, I was working from notes. I reread his piece carefully. I don't find Taibbi's defense very persuasive; for instance, I think if you read his piece, it's pretty clear that he's suggesting that PE firms put up pennies on the dollar, and that they were in some manner culpable for the first dotcom bubble and for the 2008 crisis. I also think that even when Taibbi is "right", what he's mostly doing is hyperventilating over banal side-issues that aren't the real problem. I read his writing about downside protection for PE deals and wonder what he'd say about liquidation preferences.

But either way: I concede the point that Taibbi's LBO writing is mostly notable because Dan Primack took the time to write a takedown. It's not as bad as his NYC parking meter writing, or his Obama bailout writing, or, god help us, his writing on dark pools and HFT.

On the other hand: being (mostly) directionally right about LBOs is kind of a lay-up? Like, it was the plot of Wall Street.
It is not a tech problem, it is a people problem.
I honestly want to have a map of that overlays homes and apartments with Internet connection speed and main Internet nodes/routers/datacenters. If remote work is a big part of the future, then prioritizing optimal Internet connection parameters as a part of a moving decision seems rational.
It is rather simple.

China and India are rivals. China fuels these anti-governments protests by using small political parties on the field, 50 cent army on the internet and surrounding narrative in the media.
Not BJP fanatic, but as I see these laws. These are pro-farmer and anti-madis laws.

There was monopolies of mandis(farmer are restricted only to sell here) now government allows them to make contract or sell anywhere.

I wrote posts on it : https://iamamitmurari.medium.com/farm-laws-farmer-issues-and...
Unless your job is pointless - you quitting your job to take care of your mother is a net loss for the economy and again makes things less accessible for everyone - nursing homes are an optimisation.

It sounds nice to give people the option but your argument is exactly why substantial UBI is a dangerous concept.
> 2022 FIFA World Cup, more than 4,000 migrant workers will die in workplace accidents on FIFA projects before the event takes place.

This is clearly made up.

So if you want to believe they are slave states you have to ask why do they need fake statements like this.

Also why are they slave states just because the workers are next door. There's no moral difference for us using their oil or buying shoes or seafood from Asia.
Even if rich people only abuse their power at the same frequency as poor people, the fact is that rich people have more power to abuse.