skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are people here who say that the consultants are too expensive and are often needed by decision makers to tick a box. But many forget how this demand is created. In a startup, things have to happen fast, some technical debt is unavoidable or the lesser evil. So everything is carrying on, people are hired, many management layers are integrated with what I would call human resources debt( managers covers their own, the top level does not know what is happening at the bottom) and suddenly, the demand for an external consultant is created. This is the price you pay for the fast growth and overlooking the little obstacles. Now the top level management will send a corporate detective aka consultant because he does not trust the management layers, they want a neutral party review and a suggestion to fix it, because nobody else did. Makes sense to me and yes, this forum is very capitalism minded, a 100 usd haircut is fine, first impression and all.
Short term? None, since they're production constrained. Long term, reputation is king.
> They make proposals on various aspects of life in China. Those proposals aren't official policies.
> BBC should really have done a better job here.

The BBC has been flogging SJW agendas for a while now. Even though they're a state organ they need clicks just like anyone else -- and this gets traffic.

Mix in some good ole China xenophobia and voila, one of the most active posts on HN.

The formula works.
> 20-something haircut's ostensible work

I read your comment as "I am so emotionally invested in this caricature that I cannot tolerate hearing it humanized. The caricature must stand, or I lose something."

I know very little about McKinsey, but I don't think that the haircut of their consultants tells me very much.
Here in California tests are $150 if you want to pay yourself (say because you're curious, or require a negative test to travel), or paid 100% by insurance (so no out of pocket costs) if you have symptoms and are referred to a test by your doctor.

The issue at hand in the article is the amount being charged to insurance companies for the latter - due to lobbying and obscure regulations (which the article points out the Trump administration attempted to overcome), it is not uncommon for medical providers to charge insurance companies exorbitant amounts for services, and also charge them for unnecessary services.
Generally speaking censorship by a government needs to be pretty poorly done at best. Taking out the bulk of the usage of Signal is easy, removing it completely is hard. Much better to apply minimum cost and effort where it counts most.
API level control of storefront, cart, checkout, receipt
Incredible checkout control
High performance, out of the box
BYO own best of breed tools (content, search, payments etc)
Their website explains it better https://commercejs.com/
PSA: Make sure to get collars for your cats that either detach under load or, perhaps best, have an elastic segment that lets them slip it off if it catches.

A couple months ago my friend found his cat dead after her collar caught while jumping over the fence. Poor little baby beast. :/ I look at my fun-loving critter basking in the sun as I write this and it breaks my heart to imagine her suffering like my friend's poor cat did.

Example of a collar with elastic segment: https://amazon.com/dp/B07P8V374M
Apparently there is a 1 year lock-up period for the sponsors & directors during a SPAC [1]

Which I guess means it's harder for e.g Social Capital to do a pump & dump (in the case of Clover they couldn't sell until June 2021 at the earliest)

[1] https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2018/07/06/special-purpose-a...
Mike from Humanloop here - if you're interested in active learning we'll be around on this thread, also we're looking for fullstack SW engineers and ML engineers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25992607
I bet you Airtags will be put on every cat and dog since it's likely they'll be picked up by everyone's iPhones, not just the owner's.
<rant>

Yes, because the immediate value and pending sales numbers are the only metrics that matter. Reputation, repeat business, and the company health beyond the existing sales pipeline appear to mean nothing anymore.

</rant>
I think some people can beat ETFs by pick and choose stocks, assuming they know what they are doing and get lucky. For me the biggest problem with this approach is that it becomes a job. Maybe not a full time job, but you end up spending non-trivial amount on this. If you really enjoy it then it's OK. But for many people it takes over other important hings in their life (their job, family, etc). You need to decide if it's worth it.
I didn't ask where that came from. Somebody must have copied that floppy...
I can see your point and it makes sense. Counterpoint, if I had answered "depends on the metrics you choose but Tesla was first to market" or "depends on the metrics you choose but Tesla has the greatest miles driven" do you think the reaction would be the same?
Going outside my current views and reading other viewpoints, especially "A Random Walk Down Wall Street." Also, after taxes and fees, my returns (if I made money) weren't that great. So I decided to try long term strategy and found it to be a lot better for my well being.
People used to consider it a major milestone for their car to hit 100,000 miles. It wouldn't be particularly surprising if you needed your engine or transmission rebuilt before that point. American cars didn't even have 6-digit odometers for a long time. These days, your average inexpensive sedan will hit 100,000 miles with nothing but oil changes (every 10,000 miles instead of every 3,000 like it used to be), a couple sets of tires, and some new brake pads.

Of course, if it breaks, it's full of all these complex little systems that let modern cars run for hundreds of thousands of miles at 40mpg, and you'll need to pull in a professional, but they break a LOT less frequently.
If you haven't, Sqitch[1] is a great tool.

[1] https://sqitch.org
From TFA:

> The patients who went to one of these drive-through testing sites had no chance of knowing what charges they would face beforehand.

This is just stupid. There are similar stories about the cost of going to the ER. If all health care providers were required to be transparent about pricing up front, then there might be some possibility for people to shop around.
"Have you seen my butthole? Look at my butthole! Let me turn around so you can get a better view of my butthole!" — Every cat ever.
What exactly do they get fined for? I recognize this sort of upselling is sleazy, but I'm curious about the wording of laws that make it a fineable offense.
the difference is that boomers have lived through more than one market cycle and we know an inevitable "correction/crash" is coming. The wise will take action in advance (e.g. move to cash positions) to lock in gains, then repurchase at what feels like the worst point of doom & gloom. A 50% loss needs a 100% gain to recover... Plus inflation. Factor in opportunity cost and it might be closer to 120%.

The first and last lesson in investing is DON'T LOSE MONEY.

Sadly, many have to learn firsthand that markets don't grow to the sky forever.
This will bounce back. What happened is that you have a large percentage of people who chose not to advance their computer skills. Instead they "mastered Microsoft Office suite" for a bullet point on a resume and were presented the internet as a suite of websites. These people are our peers.

However as more and more people are taught about coding and networking we will see a demise in the size of the former and the embrace of the open web again. They will be advertised the web as a platform for networking services and products.

Of course this all will take place by stopping Google and other corporations from monopolizing the web with help from our locked-in peers. ;)
Folks seem to be fighting about which way is "best" to play the stock market. Boomer ETFs and Index funds with regular deposits vs buying individual stocks vs day trading vs WSB YOLO plays.

I think there's a place for all of them. I've been okay dumping money into index funds, but my best "play" ever was buying 5 shares of AAPL a few years ago. That ~$500 is now up over $2k. If you have the capital, there's room for all 3. Boomer investing to stay safe and have an EF and build your retirement nest egg. Buying individual stocks that you like with a smaller percentage. Maybe a small amount of "fun money" for day trading/YOLO.

Everything in moderation, including moderation and all that.
Super frustrating, particularly in light of doctors upclaiming for covid tests such as (but not restricted to) this guy:

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry...
oh I completely agree, but you don't see the gains for a very long time so for some people gambling is a way to quickly escape the trap.
Not to mention that dumping "big data" amounts of stuff into any system and running complex search and sort computations on them is still a complexity theoretically hard problem.

SQL or dedicated graph DB won't save anyone from coughing up the resources.

Sure, it's easy to look at SQL and see the big ugly hundred line queries, but they would be hundred line code for graph DBs too.

It's not a big surprise that FB for example for a few years just treated everything that stored data as a fast NAND store with some compaction algorithm on top plus a fancy API. SQL is that. (There was a great talk about this but I haven't managed to find it :/ )
Five Uncomfortable Truths about Automotive Cybersecurity
Enron and Valeant are two of the most significant examples of corporate malfeasance over the past 20 years; McKinsey or its partners were directly involved in both.

That's not cherry-picking.
The Wolves of Dogecoin: Inside the Underground Crypto Hustle
PCs with a javascript console, GCC and Word-Excel (if not LibreOffice or just a browser) also start at 350€.

It’s for pupils. People who will make tomorrow’s world. We don’t want to give them a read-only world.
Decent.com raised their $10M Series A over Zoom
Boston Dynamics trains Spot the robot dog to charge itself
Git XL A free and open-source local Git extension
This tool allow to make diff over Excel files, so VBA code changes can be compared other history in a meaningful manner.

Also check a way to extract and track the vba code with a Git hook using https://www.xltrail.com/blog/auto-export-vba-commit-hook
I'm not sure what you mean. How does that substantiate the parent's derisiveness...?

How are Chamath/Musk so obviously wrong?
Not really. It sounds like someone does research on financial regulation or a technical bureaucrat who works in related agencies, not a national top government official.
>You spelled consultants wrong :P

I assume that was intentional.
There are some people who can beat the market.

Vanguard owes it's success as much to John Neff, who ran the Vanguard Windsor Fund and consistently out performed the S&P500 by ~3% a year for almost thirty years, as it does to John Bogle, who founded Vanguard and popularized index investing.

However, there are very few people who can do this over a long period of time, which (fees and taxes aside) is one of the main reasons for going with index funds.
>Half of them seem like products/companies.

So? Products/companies can have profound impact, societal and cultural, be taken for granted, and it can be unimaginable that they didn't exist just 10 or 20 or 25 years ago.

For example: Wikipedia, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Uber, Spotify, iOS and Android, didn't exist 20 years ago.

Today they're a huge part of western (if not global) everyday life. That's part of the purpose of the list - to note how common everyday words/things we have almost forgotten ever being without are quite recent additions to our lives.

(Eno's list is not even about words not existing entirely. It's about them not being the focus of some much attention, in the media, the news, politics, everyday life etc).

This is one of my favorite webcomics on the subject:

https://abstrusegoose.com/572
It doesn't matter if it's bullshit, it matters if people that can move the markets will trade on it.
Question: a majority of software environments will take on individuals without traditional qualifications, throw a dozen books' exam sections at them, and keep those who can hack it.

I just realized industrial automation sounds really interesting. What would my chances be for someone who never got the chance to study math?

(Basically in 1998 it was illegal to change schools in Australia regardless of how much of an eyebrow-raising situation you might've been in. Had to homeschool, without any resources. Only realized ~20 years on just how much opportunity I'll never get back.)

(Heh, I'm pretty much expecting the only obvious possible answer at this point, I was just curious if the answer is "yeah no" or "it depends".)
https://www.dlapiper.com/en/us/insights/publications/2018/10...
Fortunately you only need repeaters every 80 km or so, so you'd only need a bit over a hundred repeaters across the 9000 km span.

Repeaters aren't terrible expensive, so they only add a few million to the total cost.
As far as I know, Iran is much too open an society to actually prevent its citizens from knowing anything in particular.

That's not to say it's a free society or that censorship doesn't exist there, just that it's not the sort of regime that is particularly good at it.

If I had to guess, Iranian expats would be a likely set of people to start up proxy servers for their family and friends back home.
Sure the DVD and HDMi encryption keys are now public, but I doubt a long-enough encryption key will necessarily be cracked.
This is a 4x10, 3rd shift schedule which is pretty normal for factory/warehouse jobs.
The adage that "the stock market always goes up" has been true for decades but there's nothing inherently true about that. A Ponzi scheme can also go up for decades as long as there's growth. It's when there are contractions that it pops.

Anytime someone invests in "the stock market" they're doing this: creating growth without underlying value. And it might work out -- and it has for decades so far -- but that doesn't mean it makes sense or will continue that way forever.
Most of Jeff Lindsay's stuff is worth checking out. He also started dokku and coined the term webhook.
Why would ordering more doses help?
If Waymo is at 0 then normalizing by miles driven doesn't really matter...
Fraud is already illegal, so we just need better enforcement mechanisms. For now, insurance companies are turning a blind eye, but once they are out of the spotlight, they would be less hesitant to resume denying claims involving fraud, and the user would be stuck with the bill.
As the Stanley Milgram experiments show, most people will do horrible things to others when they can tell themselves that someone else is responsible

Turns out this isn't accurate. See https://theconversation.com/milgram-was-wrong-we-dont-obey-a...

But as my detective work in the Yale Archives has revealed, in the filmed version of the experiment 65% of participants disobeyed. Yet Milgram edited his film to show the opposite: that two-thirds will do as they’re told.
The US Army would do it, sure.

The FDA works in a whole other way.
20 year olds out of university know nothing about business, management, finance or the economy. The financial system and economy are in a constant state of flux, everything they teach in university is already outdated 10 years before you even start the degree.
As for economics, most of what they teach has nothing to do with the real economy; just some phony models with fancy math which bear absolutely no relationship to the actual current state of the economy.
Any executive who can benefit from the advice of a 20 year old shouldn't be in a leadership position in the first place.
What's the purpose of signal? Is it taking over the world or providing a service to people that care about their privacy and free (as in freedom) communication?
When people in ads should look at the viewer – or away
Yes. The system is broken from the ground up. From doctors working with other doctors to make sure to limit new doctors coming into the workforce, to our multi-node insurance systems.

Anyone selling you an easy solution is lying. Anyone selling you a "reform" solution is also lying. We need a holistic approach to this that means the government needs to hire a bunch of experts that are given a lot of power to change the system to make it work.
The mechanisms for ants and humans clumping behaviours are, I expect, quite different. My understanding is that we are looking and listening while ants are smelling and feeling. This means that the actual architectural insights you get from ants - put a column here and a door there - might not generalize to humans.
I completely forgot about that! I very vaguely remember experimenting with it, and I think I never got it to work. I can't find anything on it now, though.
He reminds me of that guy who was selling the Four Hour Work Week book -- able to "work" four hours a week while living off proceeds from said book.
Hmm, I have a family member going to seminary in Iran and he has been in contact with me over Signal (he moved our family chat to it over WhatsApp because of recent events).

Did this happen like literally today? Because otherwise I haven't heard of such a thing...
Ford cuts F-150 pickup truck production due to semiconductor chip shortage
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Look good for other dudes? (gay or otherwise) Health and endorphins?

I don't go to the gym for the wife, but she sure appreciates it.
I totally hear that. Especially if people are commenting that they were thrown off. I just wanted to make sure people knew to use this term if you're looking to learn more about the topic of this project. If anyone is looking to implement this or another method to do indoor mapping, you'll probably want to familiarize yourself with the research field of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping or SLAM.
That was '42; the (in)famous Dönitz order below was from November or December '39.

> Rescue no one and take no one with you. Have no care for the ships’ boats. Weather conditions and the proximity of land are of no account. Care only for your own boat and strive to achieve the next success as soon as possible! We must be hard in this war. The enemy started the war in order to destroy us, therefore nothing else matters.

I'm not sure what happened in between that led the U-boats in the Laconia incident to ignore that order.
As if it was that simple; no it's not as simple as decentralization > centralisation. You might not agree with everything (I don't) but this video provides some good points https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj3YFprqAr8

I trust Signal to try their hardest to solve communication, spitting on them is not the solution.
I don't need to demonstrate that. What I said was: Many people who are proponents of Wayland act like it solves all security problems you get while running X11. It doesn't.
For those who want to skip the fluff:

> Tsinghua University researchers opted to do a meta-analysis

> The team first combed the literature for all brain-imaging studies that investigated people’s neural responses to visual art and faces and that also asked them to report on whether what they saw was beautiful or not. After reviewing the different studies, the researchers were left with data from 49 studies in total, representing experiments from 982 participants.

> The technique used to analyze the pooled data is known as activation likelihood estimation (ALE)

> Performing this analysis, the research team found that beautiful visual art and beautiful faces each reliably elicited activity in well-defined brain regions

> If we take this at face value, then the beauty of a face is not the same as the beauty of a painting. Beauty is plural, diverse, embedded in the particulars of its medium.
Apple's mixed reality headset could cost $3k and include 8K displays
Empirical evidence cannot be since shorting is legal. This is total BS. The concept of price efficiency is like missing the forest for the trees.
My grandfather worked in a coal mine and died in a coal mine. My father worked 40 years in a shipyard. I've worked 40 years in a various cubical farms. Get over it, work is work, that's why they pay you. Be grateful that you have a job. Do what you can to make work a better environment for you and your co-workers. At the end of the day you job isn't you life - it provides for your life.
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Are they a "ways off"? It's not clear to me that the two are in a linear progression.

Is Tesla even attempting tests with no safety driver? They're selling personal auto mobiles, not ride sharing cabs.
Student-Developed App Connects Shovels to Snow
Not if they build garbage well, the quality of the code and the quality of the product are independent.
>> Military solutions will fall back to inertial, celestial or optical guidance, and people using GPS for navigation will at worst show up where they need to be somewhat later than planned.

> The US Navy re-started celestial navigation a few years ago:

Also, the SR-71, B-1, and B-2 and other aircraft have automated celestial navigation systems to provide corrections to their INSs:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17207/sr-71s-r2-d2-cou...

Honestly, for military applications, GPS seems to be mainly useful for bad weather and providing navigation to the smallest units (and I'd think a small unit would be able fall back to a map and compass).
> doctors don't actually put in any effort into prescribing generics or really learn how much anything costs

I'm hesitant to blame doctors, since I myself find it impossible to learn how much anything costs until after being billed for it. Is it any easier for the doctors?

(Note: clearly the doctor in this article is scamming his patients, but I'm talking about the situation in general)
Consumer ignorance is not an excuse for a crappy market. Consumers should have access to advice from a third party.

When I want finical advice I hire an expert that gets paid the same no matter where I invest my money, because his incentive is to give me the best advice so I stick with him. If I get finical advice from someone that gets commission based on selling specific investments then the advice is more likely to be less than the best.
Mother Earth Mother Board is one of my all time favorite articles, which chronicles the laying of a cable.

https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
Yes Newton, Darwin, and Einstein came up with their theories for that sweet profit. /s
According to the article, employees previously not on the 3rd shift schedule were given a week to either agree to it or lose their jobs.

I don't know about you, but if my employer said I had to start working 1:20am to 11:50am within a week or lose my job, I'd be pretty angry too. Especially if I was a warehouse worker making a low salary that couldn't afford to find a new job easily.
I certainly appreciate learning from history rather than repeating mistakes --- Understanding the change over time lets you at least identify why some things worked and some things didn't. This allows you to make new work more easily and more completely.
A better title would be either:

Locate your cat at home using...

Or

Domestic Feline location using...

Depending on the level of techno-mumbo-jumbo the author is looking for.
I don't understand what you're suggesting. To put the work into the ALSA userland, you would make an additional daemon on top of it and put features there, which is exactly what Pulseaudio and jackd are.
I didn't say that. I said "presumably their privacy policies would be different".

If their service's privacy policy isn't materially different, then I wouldn't trust it. If their service's privacy policy materially restricts how they can use the data in ways that Google's would otherwise allow, then I would put more trust in it.