skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. Some smart person at my local school district decided that all rooms be fitted with Apple TVs(a great budget decision, especially since they're used exclusively as cast targets and have no accounts), which now only about 30% of students and about 70% of teachers can use because you need Apple clients to use them. This is in Europe, so Android has a relatively large userbase, especially for students.

The same smart person worked out a great deal during Covid that lets "disadvantaged" families buy an iPad for only 500€ so they can participate in online schooling.
Many of the monkey.org and deathstar.org folks all worked for the same IT help desk at UofM which at the time was called "Facilities" best job I ever had. We are still looking for that stolen box of t-shirts!
I grew up in Manchester, NH (50 miles away) and in my mind Boston is hell. (e.g. highly expensive like NYC but the city goes to sleep -- walk around at 1 am and all you'll see is the police arrest some drunk driving in the wrong direction.)

Unless you marry your college sweetheart I think it would be almost impossible to meet a partner around Boston -- there just aren't any places where young people gather.

I'm also no fan of the Harvard-MIT complex; I was almost shocked at the story of Epstein visiting the Media Lab with not one but two "beautiful assistants" in tow (couldn't image that happening at most academic labs) but the Media Lab is the kind of notoriously pathological place where something out of a Marvel movie might happen.
This assertion is both true and irrelevant. Try:

"Comcast customer service has a huge number of employees. I'm not saying there aren't jerks in there, but..."

Devolving corporate responsibility (for the bad stuff) to individuals is of course the corporate preference. But at some point you run in to the "only the best people" problem - McKinsey hires them, trains them, assigns them and pays them, no matter how slippery McKinsey PR is, I keep seeing that name, McKinsey.
this may be true, but it is definitely illegal. the owner can keep a tip if directly given to them by a customer (eg, while serving a table), but they may not participate in any sort of tip pool.

of course, "illegal" is very different from "doesn't happen" in the restaurant biz. the owner of the place I worked would often reach into the tip jar to pay himself back when we made mistakes.
You goddamn snowflakes have no idea what it actually means "to live in constant fear and daily trauma".
But I did live in a country where secret police could make you disappear if you said the wrong things or just knew or met the wrong people.
You could be sentenced to uranium mines for 10-25 years just because your parents or grandparents were considered enemies of the communist party (for crimes such as fighting Nazis on allied side,... ). Or they could 'just' prevent your children from ever attending any university, just to ,you know, give you a warning that you better behave.
I hear this one pretty often. I'm sure it happens to some extent. But flip the perspective there. You're talking about a a company that is so dysfunctional its leaders can't make decisions on their own. Getting stuff done there sounds pretty difficult to begin with. If stuff gets done, that's valuable. That's part of what I'm saying. Business is hard.
My bet is on tech like Starlink with inter-satellite communication. Starlink should have lower latency with space lasers compared to fiber.
Cherry picking bad examples is not how to evaluate how often McKinsey "make bad recommendations that have demonstrably bad outcomes".

Any company the size of McKinsey around as long as McKinsey will have success and failure stories.

The proper way to evalaute is to take all things McKinsey did, normalize for background, and see how it performs compared to other methods of solving the same problems.

Cherry picking to make a claim is the 2nd worst form of evidence, outranked only by outright lying.
No soap, radio.
Your just focusing on the hardware here and miss the software ecosystem this devices has already enabled, there are ~20 distributions working on this device, which I am using daily. I still carry a proprietary smartphone with me, but I won't be much longer – the PinePhone has improved a lot since I received my first PinePhone in June 2020.

All the specs of the device are limited by the CPU, which PINE64 chose because they had used it in many previous products. You can't put in more than 3GB RAM in this (a 3GB RAM/32GB eMMC PinePhone variant exists), and better cameras would also be not supported by the SoC. Same for a higher Res screen: It is fine, generally (~260ppi is nothing to sneeze at), and you would not want to force that poor Mali 400 MP2 graphics to push even more Pixels.
Now PINE64 could have chosen a different chip for WiFi/BT, likely that Realtek chip was cheap and available and that's why it is used.

Anyway, the hardware is not the story here, the software is, and that is going to be reusable in large part on subsequent, more powerful hardware that is slowly landing with the Librem 5 (who deserve massive credit for developing Phosh/Phoc/libhandy, without which I could not use my PinePhone daily), and you'll soon be able to run this software on older Snapdragon phones thanks to SoMainline (e.g. OnePlus 6). And PINE64 will eventually provide faster hardware, too.

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These lines were written on that "old fashioned toy" running desktop Firefox. You're welcome!
I think "training" is a misnomer, as its not actually the case the people doing shady stuff will change their moral compass based off of clicking through a few slides.

However, if the "training" includes explaining how employees breaking these rules will be held accountable and how it will affect their continued employment, it could influence behavior of potential bad actors.
it's not an optimizer and so it's runtime doesn't matter really. It's intended to find new rules (patterns) that can in turn be implemented in llvm as new optimizations. So this thing is just a research step.
>>As part of the settlement, McKinsey admits to no wrongdoing.
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/04/963864747/consulting-giant-mc...
Currently with D the two people in charge both favour library solutions, but so far I'm seriously leaning towards a language one - it seems to hard to do type erasure efficiently otherwise, for example.
You should just read Candide, it’s fun and hilarious, and a true cultural touchstone.
Great perspective IMO.
If someone gives me a $10M loan at -1% interest, I would spend $200 on suitcases and a vacuum sealer kit and $200 to hire a mini-digger. I'd then go dig a 6 foot hole in a forest somewhere and hide the money as cash. I'd install some weather stations around the site with PIR sensors and 4G ($25 each, x4) just to see if someone comes hunting for my cash.

After 5 years, I return the cash. I earn $500k. Subtract off the $500 it cost me to set up and that's a pretty tidy profit for 2 days of my time. The chance of theft is well under 1% as long as nobody else knows where it is, so I still make a tidy profit even with a risk premium.
The point is that you can't say that McKinsey are incompetent and not worth the money, while at the same time saying they are so competent that they created the opiod epidemic. It makes you look silly.

Doing good economic work for bad people is a (gigantic) ethical flaw, but not a problem with the economic quality of the work and skillset.
But does that argument really work when one of the extremes got elected president?
So, forgive the ingenuity, what prevents me from taking that 1000 loan, park it in my bank account, and repay the 990 due in a year (earning 10 in the process)?
The reputation of your country is thoroughly ruined in South Africa.

Paying the money back (as was agreed, and even then my understanding is that not all of it will be repaid, no interest was offered and no criminal charges have been proffered) will never cover for the gutting of essential skills in key state owned enterprises under the cover of a McK “restructuring”.

South Africa is in a perfect storm right now and big consultancies and accounting firms all had their fingers in the cookie jar. They all had a part to play. It makes me sick to think what these consultants might achieve in less democratic states as it’s evident their reach is global and they are legion.

In my university days many bright eyed youth wanted to work for these companies. I hope people are waking up!

Edit: For anyone interested “Zondo Comission McKinsey” or “McKinsey South Africa Guptas” should get you quite far.

Edit2: I’ve just given a brief summary. It’s enlightening to dig into the role of Bain, McKinsey and KPMG especially, their relation to Gupta enterprises (common cause) and their enabling of deals, cutting really good people at key state institutions like SARS (Revenue Service), Eskom (electricity), Transnet (commercial rail). And that’s only what’s in the public domain. The scale of the rot is enormous. Their executives spin corporate speak at our commissions of inquiry (Nugent and Zondo) and do not take any accountability!
I think you can already see this playing out in gold and crypto.
datatype99 generates a switch expression under the hood, and modern compilers check this switch expression for exhaustiveness.
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At my current job I do at least 150-200GB of writes per day.
50GB for code temporary files, 70+ GB for data files, x2 that for packing them, and then also deleting some of those to make some room to do it again.

Also the disk that it's on is over 50% full so that also degrades it faster as there's fewer blocks to wear level with.
Maybe companies hire MBAs as a perk/morale-booster for the engineers, so they have someone to unite in their hate against and not fight with each other over their failures.
It's easy to be critical of executives. A naive narrative could sound like this: "Bob was hired to turn the company around, and 3 months later the company is still bleeding money. Bob sucks." But it's important to understand the two difficult tasks that Bob is facing:

1) Identify all mistakes made by the previous management and come up with a plan to correct them.

2) Get buy-in for your plan and execute it.

It might appear that 1) is harder than 2). But it turns out that the company's interests are not always aligned with each and every individual in the company, and implementing change always results in winners and losers. Getting the buy in from losers can understandably be quite hard. And then you also have the winners who sympathize with the losers and don't realize that they will also lose their jobs if the plan is not implemented.

When you're running a startup, a CEO can single-handedly turn things around. In a larger corporation, a CEO is going to rely on a chain of command to get things done. When you factor in the misaligned incentives or loyalty for people who are at risk of losing their jobs, it's easy to see how information channels can stop working and neither 1) nor 2) can be accomplished successfully.

I agree that brining in a 3rd party like McKinsey feels like a lazy shortcut to addressing the fundamental organizational challenges, but the more I see, the more I am starting to understand the upside of that option.
The war on drugs is responsible for the opioid crisis.

Companies psychopathically seek out profits, and need to be kept in check, but that does not diminish the fact that US (and Canadian) drug policy bears direct responsibility for opioid deaths.

This kind of news story, while maybe satisfying, is a red herring. As long as addiction is criminalized, and legal drug supplies dont exist, it doesn't matter how many Purdues or McKinseys we punish, the problem does not go away.
Downvotes should not be tools of censorship.
They are definitely gimped to prevent you from using them in weapons. GPS receivers are the same way. Non Military units wont work outside of certain parameters.
Given that your comment has been downvoted and grayed, your observation seems to have been confirmed. My hunch is that 'the left' is much more involved in activism and that translates to being more vocal in online forums and more liberal in giving out downvotes.
Good questions/pushback.

Audio analysts don't get identical results due to human error, different software, and different room configurations. The HomePod in particular was reportedly difficult to measure due to its shape and inability to plug directly in.

For the rest, I think you might be seeing the loudness compensation, which isn't a boost. Here are two measurements from the reddit thread showing how the HomePod responds at different volumes. https://i.imgur.com/dQQYdrI.png https://i.imgur.com/Iz1HAfu.png

Here's an overview of that approach. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour

Another angle might be to read from reviewers who want bass and aren't happy with the Homepod's balance. For example, this reviewer recommends the Sonos Five over the HomePod if you want bass, and provides this measurement comparison to partially demonstrate the difference. https://www.rtings.com/speaker/0-8/graph#15253/4553/1719

A third angle might be to find a speaker with bass you like, and read its measurements. If you have a particular model, happy to look at it together.
Australian government may use herpes virus to control invasive carp
That would necessitate higher interest rates to cool down a heated economy, not low / negative rates.
Can you give me a couple of examples where McKinsey’s work was helpful to a society ? Jobs were saved, lives were saved , poverty was eradicated ?

Everywhere I look it’s just strategies to increase sales ,lay-off lower level employees and boost executive and shareholder profit .
Even if RSS was popular, how could advertising companies like Google and Facebook make money off of it?

Those companies have no incentive that I know of to give their user a reliable (a.k.a non-personalised) feed that let them chose whether they'll get to click through or not. No, they want you to click through first, so you get to see the ads before you even start doom scrolling.
It does-ish.

The -ish is that Medium uses a Metered paywall where three subscriber articles per month are free if you are logged in. So if you end up on one of these books because of a Google search, you'll probably end up getting your answer for free.

But if you want to read more you have to be a subscriber. Launching the Prags is part of upgrading the subscription to make it stronger for programmers. There were already a lot of programmers subscribed, but I think the Prags makes the value of a Medium subscription a lot more clear cut.
Your complaints apply exactly as well to the internal employees.
Sure. It's the old self-hosted vs cloud problem. I don't have the time or interest to host my own services, so I pay someone else to do it. That comes with its own risks, like you say, but I think the tradeoff is worth it. Having a functioning business model that isn't based on abusing their own users provides some insurance against those problems, I think.
The purpose of the OP post is not to provide an introduction to the visitor pattern. It's to explain the relationship of the visitor pattern with something else.

Did you miss this part of the post?

> I’m not going to provide a standalone explanation of the visitor pattern since the linked Wikipedia page already does that.
This was really awesome! I think that many people are so focused on success we don't take the time to enjoy our garden! The best part of building is the being so hands on, especially when it comes to talking with consumers and hearing about problems, or even building out the product and putting your special touch on it. I will make sure to enjoy my garden this week, and observe how I help it grow to ensure what I'm doing is truly sustainable!
> clients have incompetent executives

Nope. I don't agree with this at all. I'm saying, 100% clarity, that business is really hard. Working with a large organization is really hard. Many cultures are very rigid.

People are quick to comment about the intricacies of team dynamics, but hand wave the larger org stuff. There's a tough doublethink whereby I might say its not that hard to play the role of an upper level executive, because you can mostly just ride the tide and be fine, but effectively identifying a problem, a solution, and implementing it in a large org? Extremely tough.
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> I want to remind you that the military are supposed to take orders from their commander in chief

The military (at least here in the US) swears allegiance to the Constitution, not the president. And they were very clear about broadcasting that the military was not going to interfere in domestic politics.
Chamath and others using Elon's playbook of leveraging social media to create a brand mostly opposite of what reality is continues.

Elon: I'm a genius! Also TSLA's self-driving technology is better than Waymo's

Chamath: Big Wallstreet needs to be taken down! Get off of Robinhood! Use SoFi instead! I'm taking it public via a SPAC
I assume you just find rock solid corporate bonds. Apple issues bonds and they have assets far in excess of their debt load + massive profitability. Realistically as an individual you just move into equities. Institutions have different equations. Hoarding physical cash is probably not a good idea, since you have inflation (which probably exceeds the negative rate by quite a bit). It’s worth mentioning that cash holdings in a bank already have negative real growth because inflation exceeds interest (at least in my shitty low interest savings account)
Even just legislation to safeguard adversarial interoperability would be a big help, so that companies like Apple can't wield DRM laws to shut down reverse engineering.
The story doesn't end there though, does it? The recommendations _did_ result in massive public backlash, hefty fines and a whole load of other shit for both McKinsey and their client. I wonder if these companies think this route was worth it.
Having a young family is a double-edged sword. You get your kids out of the way just in time for the most productive years of your career (45-60yrs), but your opportunity to work ceaseless hours as a young person is curtailed.

I’ve lived this life. I wouldn’t trade it in, but I can tell you I don’t think it’s the easy option.
The reminds me of Zen master Shunru Suzuki's famous statement: "in the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few," in his book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin.

It also reminds me of the spontaneity Bob Dylan consciously strives to bring to his songwriting. He tries to avoid writing out of his conscious knowledge of how to write a song, and let his unconscious do it instead: "It’s nice to be able to put yourself in an environment where you can completely accept all the unconscious stuff that comes to you from your inner workings of your mind. And block yourself off to where you can control it all, take it down" https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/05/21/bob-dylan-songwrite...
In this case 'what' is God for you? The origin (God) could be the Bing-Bang as well (or any other theory currently around).

If God is a 'being', an entity, it can be more than one, and has to have it's own origin story.
Looking forward for this year online fosdem, making sure to stack up on belgium beers to get in the moode while watching!
This is a bad take on McK. The 26-year old isn’t in charge of projects, the 45-year old McK partner with a few decades of experience is.

Also, McK is more about organizing change and getting buy in. That’s their value. Some Director could come up with a strategy but no one would follow it.

Just like IBM, if a strategy fails, nobody gets fired for having hired McK. There is value in that.
If you remember your login and there are actually all that many links that are still live.

I personally find pinboard useful but I suspect the number of people who actively research and curate content is pretty small.
A meta-point: I see this as the single best outcome of the SPAC craze. By taking private companies public sooner, rather than later, we provide an incentive for short sellers to find mal-practice which is otherwise difficult to surmise among privately held companies (see: Theranos, WeWork, etc)
https://twitter.com/ACzemiel/status/1357349447043190788
In this twitter link you can see the video how it works
So Yammer rebranded/resurrected?
Posting this comment on a website dedicated to self-promotion of engineers who want to get rich quickly is an interesting choice.
You could replace that with a tool like direnv. It’ll automatically load your variables for a project when you enter it’s directory.

https://direnv.net/
first of all, some people seem to dislike what is considered "good service" in the US, so let's call it "high touch" instead. tips are definitely a factor, but I think it's mostly just the US service/retail culture. even people who don't work tipped jobs are quite likely to ask you if you need help finding something if they are not busy.
The origin of banks are people with castles agreeing to store valuables of people that don't have castles. You pay them to do that so you don't get robbed and lose your money.

So if you take your max int loan, where are you going to put it? Anywhere you store it has risk. Cash under the mattress can get robbed and investments can go bad.

If you really really want to be sure you get your money back then banks are the only option and in this case it's worth it to pay them.
Is sustainable fashion leading the way to reduce website carbon emissions?
There is. It's called Debian.
I dont see this going anywhere.Most of China can be pushed to dark ages by a confident and experienced black ops (Mossad?).

Most of China's power is in its coastal densely populated cities that are not possible to defend in any meaningful way.
> Many banks are already making lots of money

I think you mean some UK banks made money before rates went negative. The ones that made the most are in corporate and investment banking. Retail is a disaster zone.
I suspect too few people understand this.

The CEO works for the board. The CEO can be fired at will just like any other employee.

They will get an incredibly generous pay-off, unless they have fucked up to a world-beating historic extent. (And sometimes even then.)

But as soon as the CEO loses the confidence of the board, they're on their way out.

And most boards are only really interested in the financials. They don't care about culture, reputation, product range, or any of those other things. That's detail stuff, and it doesn't interest them.

This is a cozy arrangement because no one is personally responsible for anything the company does. The CEO and the board are covered by limited liability, and they won't be going to jail for common crimes - like poisoning water sources, or setting fire to forests.

They may go to jail if they fuck with the financials. Extreme fraud can be a showstopper.

But having a national monopoly on pushing highly addictive drugs isn't. That's a regrettable offence which deserves a medium-ish fine. And - you know - let's say no more about it.

Consultants - like auditors - exist to add another level of deferred responsibility. They're not there to make decisions, they're there to provide legal air cover for decisions that have already been made which need someone else's signature.

The meetings, reports, the hasmter-on-a-wheel super-keen grad cadres and the rest are just theatre.
Hoarding highly liquid physical assets like gold or paper requires security which costs money. The negative interest rates are cheaper than buying equivalent security.