skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ex McK-Intern here: From my short-term experience, I'd say there are folks who genuinely want to help their clients while others are mostly in for the prestige and the money. The business model of staffing young graduates alongside more experienced people is actually quite reasonable as the experts could steer the overall project while the juniors would do the number crunching and info gathering. I personally see their value for a broader circle in the sense that if the consultants can make a client $$$ or reduce costs, this can either lead to overall improvement of business and thus increase employment or - in case people need to be fired - save the rest of the employees from their whole company going out of business in the worst case. Just to briefly touch the most common criticisms.

Nevertheless, I decided not to take their offer afterwards, partly due to exactly those shady practices that went well beyond even my quite relaxed sense of business ethics.
Definitely. I am building a VR game and even trying to get it into the Oculus ecosystem at the moment (even though it's the unlistes App Lab listing and not the official store)
Where are you getting this great customer service? I'd like to get in on some of that.
I discovered the concept of desire paths in college and found it very interesting at the time. it flips the narrative of "these inconsiderate kids keep walking on the grass!" to "these landscape architects failed to anticipate how students would use the space where they live and work".
> Everyone complains about the cost of healthcare and nobody asks why the AMA operates like a cartel.

That's not entirely a bad thing. It would be bad for Medicine to turn out like Law, with a huge glut of unemployable graduates after a long, expensive training program (IIRC, an intense 7 years post-college, minimum). There's a need to balance demand with the need for all (or nearly all) the graduates to be able to find a job.

Also, you're neglecting Osteopathic schools, which aren't controlled by the AMA but graduate students with the same practice rights.

> The number of doctors allowed to graduate hasn't changed in 40 years.

Do you have any data to back that claim up? The
Association of American Medical Colleges says enrollment rates are increasing:

> In response to concerns that a projected doctor shortage could impact patient care, the AAMC in 2006 called on medical schools to increase first-year enrollment by 30%. That target was reached in 2018-19, when first-year matriculation reached 21,622 students. Osteopathic schools increased their enrollment by 164% during this same time period, with 8,124 first-year students enrolled.
(https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/us-medical-school-enrollm...)
I actually left an early job because it didn't offer a 4x10.

4x10 is amazing. Your work days are your work days, but the extra day off is amazing. You can actually go do stuff.

My own view - everyone should switch to 4x10 or at least have it as an option.

Now I'm working crazy hours so all a dream anyways these days.

Note 4x10 shifts are not new in warehousing (or even in mfg).
Yes, they do get offended. I've done that before because the code was shit. I appreciated that he got it done faster than I would have, but I didn't appreciate that:

1. He wouldn't clean it up.

2. I had to clean it up (it needed to be kept around and extended).

3. He got all the credit even though his was an unmaintainable, unextendible (necessary for the effort, not just a want) mess.

4. I was the one who, after cleaning it up, actually made it a deliverable and added the critical missing parts (around extensibility).
Thank you. It's crazy nobody cares about this kind of practice. None of my friends would have noticed what you noticed.

I guess social networks with "likes" were the first step and now actually rating your colleagues seems acceptable.

Rating anyone anywhere at anytime like in Black Mirror is the next step after that.

I've heard rumors some teams where I work are already doing this. If this ever happen to my team, I'll quit for sure.

It seems that as long as your are going little step at a time, people will accept any dystopian practice (or won't even notice it)
US is reverting to early 20th century labor market norms, thanks to 'gig' economy and megacorps subverting unions.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/22/tech/amazon-nlrb-union-el...
Only thing missing is union-busting Pinkerton thugs...
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/30/940196997/amazon-reportedly-h...
Thanks for your suggestion! It's actually optional. I had a problem with spam signups and thought it might help a bit.
I do get churn, and have users unhappy about things, but it's just as valuable feedback, if not more, than the positive ones.

The only demotivating thing would be silence. In the Show HN post, quite a number of people said it wasn't what they were looking for or it was lacking xyz. But that's a whole lot better than languishing in 3 upvotes and no comments at all.
Crimes are proportional in terms of punishment. It's called aggravating and mitigating factors.
Agreed! I'm plagiarizing wholesale from Peter Zeihan, I'm not a geopolitical expert. I recently read Disunited Nations. His YouTube videos and podcasts are very interesting.

Re: your comment about being in for a bumpy ride: I think his logic is solid in that the bumpy ride is only in relation to the unprecedented post-WWII/post-cold-war era. We know from history that the norm in the world is instability.
They are great at making PowerPoint’s though.
So if I want to work at SpaceX I have to use the rocket ships before I reach out to their hiring director?

I don't hire often but when I do, and when I see "to whom it may concern" I don't ignore it. I put it on the top of the stack because this is a person who doesn't waste time. They're not going to put more effort into the process than I do, which tells me they know how to set boundaries and prioritize their tasks.
Koda’s Robot Dog Uses Artificial Intelligence to Sense Human Emotion – Unilad
I used to be very into theme names. You know, back in the early '90s when this document was published.

Sit down and let me tell you a story of the moment that really put the nail in the theme-based name coffin for me...

I used to run a System Admin consulting business. One of our clients had a bunch of systems that were named things like "db" prefix for database servers, "web" for web servers, etc...

They hired a new CTO at one point, and his first order of business was to rename all the servers. His naming scheme was: Machines would be named after cities around the world, and the country they were in would represent the function.

So when we got paged at 3am that "Host statista is down", you both had to know that Statista was a Finnish city, and that Finland was the country chosen for database servers. Knowing that it was the primary rather than secondary was just something you had to remember.

"Host kolding is down" might have been something that could wait until the morning, because that is a Danish city, and that's the name used for web servers, and there are 5 of them that are load-balanced.

He was, to my mind, giddy once this naming scheme was in place. It took something like a calendar month to architect and implement this change.
Even the staunchest Efficient Markets Hypothesis advocates accept that you need a robust amount of active investors, who are the ones who actually keep the markets efficient. We really are in a new world where there has never been so much money in the market that follows other money and is essentially price-insensitive.
American customer service is leaps and bounds above anything you get in Europe. And I don't mean restaurant service. Europe as a whole is much more worker-first than customer-first.
It 100% depends on the family. I'd be curious if on average family businesses are better or worse places to work for employees who are outside the family.
I don't need Machine Learning to tell me that my cat is sleeping. 95% accuracy rate with zero training!
And deployment requires a central authority to define.

Inherently, this cuts most use cases off at the knees. Some small country your route your shipment through changes requirements? Broken.
We Illustrate at GitHub
Yes they bill the insurance $1,944. But the insurance isn't going to pay that. Most of the insurance companies have capped COVID testing at $100. That is what they will cover because that is what the CARE Act requires them to cover. So that person probably got a bill for $1,844 from their insurance because the insurance probably paid $100.
One Obscure Word Captures Urban China’s Unhappiness
Will this solution work if my cat has become non-local by having it's state become entangled with some wave-packet?
Service itself is pretty good compared to the EU. Consumer protection for goods however isn’t. Most products in the EU must come with a 2-year consumer warranty for example.
hey. i just thought of something. is it not possible for india or iran in this case to check your phone number and see if it is active on signal? if you are online means you are somehow bypassing their blocks. isnt then just a matter of tracking your cellphone and relevant xkcd applies ?https://xkcd.com/538/

this is looking like a zero sum game unless signal account is delinked from phone numbers because the govt can play cat and mouse game indefinitely
I think both can be true.

A snapshot of source code can be useful as a basis for some other project. However, you're also correct that, if the source code is abandonware and you/others have no interest in maintaining it, it almost certainly becomes less useful over time and at some point just breaks.
Youtube-dl is an app chasing a moving operating of trying to interact with other sites APIs... many of which don't really even want to let youtube-dl do that. Most apps aren't in such a difficult space and keep working basically forever.
Damn, I've read the code. This won't work against an active probe. Censors just use signal domains and non-signal domains to test your proxy. If signal domains get passed and non-signal domains got denied, you are fucked. Besides, TLS in TLS is highly identifiable by simple packet length dpi. I'd hope there's better plan.
$75k for five doors? Might I ask whereabouts? That seems ridiculously cheap per unit.
Is this a private cable that only connects Google datacenters? If so, too bad for open, neutral Internet.
Hospitals enjoy that luxury, of course:

https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/hospitals-pledge-to-figh...

However, it looks like that practice won't be allowed for much longer:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/04/politics/hospital-price-trans...
> Also, what’s the ethical issue with pirating content that is not for sale?

There isn't one and never has been :)
I agreed with a lot of the points and that often source code might not be valuable but.... Much of it sounded like only thinking of a small team doing something no one else care about.

Conversely we have github and the millions of libraries it hosts in the form of source code.

We also have examples of WebKit based on KHTML, Blink based on that. Electron/Edge/Brave/Vivaldi based on Chromium. There is no one programmer who has the entirety of Chromium in their head and I'm pretty confident most teams would not find it easier to write their own browser from scratch. Chromium or WebKit are embedded in many places. PS5 and Oculus Quest are two off the top of my head.
The LSP means every single language server has to reinvent the wheel again and again.

It’d have been much more useful to build bindings for IDEA plugins so they could be integrated into arbitrary editors, especially as the IDEA plugins for most languages even after several years of LSP development are still superior.

All in all it’s like the whole JVM vs. WASM, Java vs Electron story again, with someone deciding to reinvent the wheel but worse.

There’s even bindings like https://github.com/Ruin0x11/intellij-lsp-server or https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10209-lsp-support to glue it all back together.

It’d have been much simpler to reuse an existing ecosystem from the start.
Crappy drivers. Happens all the times. Even wired, and even Intel. Solution under Windows: Click on the Symbol in the task bar, go to network & shares, choose the corresponding part, deactivate, wait 2 seconds, reactivate. See the globe spinning, be connected again.

Solution under Linux: maybe unnecessary, because quirks are meanwhile autodetected and circumvented if possible.
A big part of what consultants bring is repeat experience — when you’ve watched multiple clients make the same mistakes, you can credibly speak up.

And for the kind of transformational work that folks like McKinsey would come in to assess, there’s a huge organizational component that’s actually more complex than the technical components. Building a new technology tool is great, but designing the process the tool implements and rolling it out to non-technical users is the job our buyers hire us to do. We would hire offshore engineers if the engineering work were the majority of the work we do — but the coordination overhead is too high.
First "a consultant" is @ very overloaded term.
I was talking on the type McK bring to do a little business research and give some recommendations.

Software consultants OTH are usually sub-contractors and not consultants per se.

Regarding who has the bullshit job, well, probably both the mediocre/corrupt leaders, and the consultant.
Biochemical Pathways Map
It was already merged, so I'll just go ahead and link it here: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/10513

Thanks again for bringing it to our attention!
Would love to see a list of all the stores in a particular category. Would pay for that. I know there are lists you can buy but your data seems more in-depth.
> But the reality is that the stock market has also offered a path for ordinary people to build wealth — and more so in the last generation than ever before. You haven’t needed to burn down the system. All you’ve had to do is take the laziest, simplest approach to stock investing imaginable, and have a little patience.

> Any schlub on the street can put money to work harvesting a small share of the earnings of hundreds of leading companies, led by some of the sharpest corporate executives on earth and their millions of employees.

This is leaving out a very important detail, which is that you first have to be living comfortably and holding excess savings (that you're willing to risk, or at least leave alone!) to be able to even take the safe road in the market. That's not something "any schlub" can do; it excludes something like half of Americans. The "40% don't have $400 for an emergency" statistic is tired at this point, but it's telling here. You shouldn't be investing, even in an index fund, if you don't have enough cash to cover an unexpected emergency. It's not a question of patience.

The really predatory thing about Robinhood and the like isn't that they prey on "impatience", it's that they prey on desperation. A person who can't afford to put $1000 in an index fund and leave it alone for ten years can maybe scrape together $100 to bet on the small chance of striking it rich and pulling themselves out of borderline-poverty. It may still be bad advice, but when people don't have other options, the calculus starts to make sense from their perspective. Robinhood's commercials even emphasize this specific angle.

This article is great advice for the shrinking middle-class, but it comes off as tone-deaf for a growing majority of Americans.
Thank you! I was very confused while reading this because the author never actually got to anything interesting. Just talks about their routine of sorting through other people's medical bills.
The article is specifically about chores but in general discusses how you shouldn't apply economic models to relationships, you are correct I extrapolated it.

I'm not so interested in your complaints about divorce (though I don't think you have a good understanding of laws surrounding prenups and how they function in the American legal system and you should learn more ) but I mainly responded because I felt your attempt to apply the economic model of "utility" to a human relationship was a pretty bad idea.
Technical analysis is a joke, it's financial astrology. Traders fool themselves into seeing patterns in random noise.

The stock market is an information market. If you want to generate above market risk-adjusted returns as an active investor then you need more accurate and current information than other investors. In other words you have to do proprietary research and keep the results secret until you've executed your trade. This takes time and effort; you're not going to do it just by reading the same public information on the Internet as everyone else. For example you could spend a few days visiting GameStop stores in person to estimate their current revenue trend.
Someone = Elon Musk.
Thanks! If you send me an email (in my profile), happy to make that work for you
Yeah, actually the most missing thing in C is sum types, as for me. Poica was rather an experiment; datatype99 is rather a practical library. I'm planning to use it on my work.
This's so freaking cool!
The Kubernetes and cloud software security blueprint
Seems interesting. So I suppose your focus long term is on the products side of thing only, to allow merchants to work out which products they should sell? Do you plan on adding any other insights for data such as shipping etc?
Presumably this was an office job? It might be a little different with a warehouse job that has very productivity targets set from above.
My memory is very hazy - too many beers in North London pubs far too many years ago to remember clearly :-0
Not everyone can be a professional. Companies like Amazon, Walmart and Monsanto squeeze out “mom and pop stores” so they can no longer compete and end up working for the man.
> Most apps aren't in such a difficult space and keep working basically forever.

Sadly, this doesn't match my experience. Software that isn't actively maintained always dies, sooner or later.
And in exchange for these antics they make roughly $300k/yr and have great benefits.
How do you do that? I tried to get Kaiser to tell me how much my wife's delivery would be and what they told us was much less than the actual bill, even though there weren't any complications
Walking in NYC is the art of picking the most pleasant path. 10st across the villages is more pleasant than one block south or north, Henry St allows twice the rate of speed of walking on Canal.
Depending what you use it for.

The bigger problem with it is you can't just load/store a 128 bit value without this instruction. An SSE 128bit load/store is turned into two 64 bit operations under the hood. So to actually get atomic loads and stores you need to use this very expensive compare exchange operation. That really limits the number of algorithms it's useful for.
Yes, because in the long run the equity will increase in value by the amount the currency has been debased holding all other things constant.

Put another way, if a currency is debased by 20%, businesses will raise prices or reduce costs to maintain the same margins over the long run.
History has not shown that. It is easy to say that people beat the market by chance, but you should actually try calculating how many standard deviations from the mean some of these track records are. There haven't been anywhere nearly enough hedge funds to justify the most consistent track records being due to chance alone.

For illustration: assume any given fund has returns which simply approximate a normal distribution; i.e. their returns are theoretically just noise. Then the chance of the fund achieving a 2 sigma return in any given year is about 2%. We can model the odds of such a firm consistently exhibiting a 2 sigma return for 20 years in a row using a binomial distribution with n = 20 trials, k = 20 successes and success probability p = 0.02. Then we have

binom(20, 20) * 0.02^20 * 0.8^0 = 1x10^-34

There are firms which have consistently beaten the market by a significant margin for that long. Even if you relax the constraint to 10 years, you still get "only" 1x10^-17. At a certain point this becomes similar to saying that Steph Curry isn't actually good at basketball, all of his 3 point throws are just the expected outcome of lots of mediocre players existing who didn't make it to the NBA.

I do agree that retail investors should just invest in index funds though. And I agree it's extremely difficult to determine who has the genuine skill to beat the market before they've beaten it for so long that they're no longer accepting money.
> doctor's pay is not enough on its own to explain even a small fraction of the cost problem

Not on it's own, but doctor shortage can still contribute to medical costs.

Do doctors make more mistakes due to high patient loads?

Are preventable items missed because doctors can't spend enough time with patients?

Would people be less likely to abuse the ER and/or wait to address conditions if they could get a primary care appointment more easily?

If doctors had a little more slack in their schedules, might they innovate in other ways?

If we had more doctors, would it be harder for mega-hospital chains to gobble up the supply of doctors in your area, leaving more independent practices to innovate in other ways?
I know it's kind of going against the idea of Dokku, but can it be made to scale across servers? I love the simplicity of Heroku but the cost can be a barrier for some use cases.
But k8s is too complicated. Anything like Dokku that scales horizontally?
Monotropa uniflora, the ghost plant (2002)
Like any other API they already make public for iOS/macOS: clear communication and deprecation timelines.
Is that better/worse with manual labor? In software dev, I tend to fluctuate how productive I can be for an extended period, so being useful (instead of just ass in seat) for 10 hours seems rough. Granted some days I go for 12 but that's unhealthy and mostly because I get into a groove I am not interested in breaking.
True. I'd note a couple things here though. The per/hour rates are for creating the contract. Actual prices are fixed. The partner rates aren't likely to be charging every day of a project either, and are comparable to lawyer rates. They're expensive, no disagreement there.
> The fact that it is regulated to a margin of 0.3% shows quite how important it is.

This is an excellent point. It can be applied to a huge number of biological phenomena, but it almost never is.

An example where this idea actually has made it into the mainstream is body weight. I read an article that pointed out that, yes, we're fatter than we used to be, but regulating body weight by measuring energy intake and expenditure is doomed to fail. Articles making this claim are a very rich genre, but I found the particular argument fascinating:

People routinely maintain the same body weight, within say 5 pounds, for years at a time. This is a level of accuracy that we do not have the technology to achieve by using measurements of energy inflow and outflow -- we can't measure dietary energy that precisely! (And modern technology is, by most standards, very precise.)

Thus, there is a very strong suggestion, based on this incredible stability, that your body is regulating itself to a certain weight. If you adjust energy intake, or outflow, other things will adjust accordingly; those are unlikely to be primary determinants of the system's behavior.
these seem like oddly specific complaints. personally i am impressed with the huge back catalog of old hanna barbera cartoons on the service

it's pretty fun watching jetsons and seeing how far off some of their predictions were, but then other things are spot on.
Everything you buy has a markup to pay for expenses and make a profit.

Consultants sell their time, so of course their time is marked up.
what is this "allowed to graduate" business? What authority do they have to dictate such a thing and is it in writing anywhere what said quota is?
What happens when Iran's government itself runs a bunch of these proxies?