skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This only works if the bids represent the same work, at the same quality, on the same delivery schedule, with the same feedback pathways and the same risk mitigations.

Why would this possibly be true? Two groups can bid on the same project with different tradeoffs. Projects are complex, and there are zillions of tradeoffs to make a competitive bid. The group offering the project then evaluates the bids, often with multiple rounds of feedback.

And generally then these projects initially got to several competitors, with fewer getting follow-on work, causing them all to try really hard to deliver good work.

Future projects are always worth more than current projects, so only an idiot does bad or over-cost work often. Such groups eventually don't get more work.

I've worked on such bids for decades. Multiple groups bid, with a statement of work. The other side evaluates the bids. Cost plus simply allows groups, when bidding to not have to use larger multipliers to mitigate risk, since some of the risk goes to the offeror.

If you were running a company, and you had two ways to bid a contract, firm fixed price vs cost plus, which do you think provides less risk to you?

And how does a company account for risk?

Higher prices, end of story. This is simple economics.

It's why less risk results in smaller margins throughout pretty much all industries. It allows stable planning.
It’s the loss of a job with the nearly guaranteed promise of a new one. The hiring bonus for a former SCOTUS clerk presently going into a private firm is >$400K. It would be a terrible outcome to be sure, but we are a long ways away from what you can even think to call a war crime and the integrity of the Court is vastly more important to me than the integrity of the jobs of its staff.

By the way, the June-July recess is about when clerkships turnover and they choose to stay on for another term (at the Justice’s discretion) or move on in their careers. Clerkships aren’t forever.
This is why promo culture is impossible to remove at bigger companies. Perks of promotion (higher salary, title, status) far outweighs just trying to do right by customers.

Whereas at early-stage startups, the only way to really make a lot of money is to grow the pie, which usually involves serving customers better.

Now that there are so many well-funded startups (https://topstartups.io/) there are more paths to escape the promo BS and still make a great living
We tried out one of these telepresence bots in our (open-plan) office. It quickly became universally hated and soon kicked out because its speaker somehow had a completely distorted spectrum, with shrill, emphasized high frequencies additionally full of low-bit-rate artifacts that carried across the whole floor.
IBM's Asshole Test
"It's just FTP with curlftpfs and SVN"
That has depressed me..
The optimist hopes that this is just compliance with a well designed API.. the realist saw Intuit on that list..
My favorite place to bike is Parc naturel régional de la Haute Vallée de Chevreuse (French people aren't into the whole brevity thing). I can't speak to hiking but I have to assume there are nice walks to be had in the area because I frequently see people with hiking gear on. You can get there from Paris on the RER B: just take it all the way south to Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse. Île-de-France is, by and large, quite flat, but Chevreuse is a nice valley so you can get some really pretty scenery.

EDIT: I'll add that last fall I was biking around there with my wife and we found some most righteous porcini mushrooms growing on the side of the road. It really is nice out there.

I should also add that nearer Paris is Forêt domaniale de Meudon, which is in the direction of Versailles. Nice forested area. I can't speak to the walking/hiking but I assume it is not bad (I've only been out that way on bike).
I think they've said they don't actually enforce the usage limits, so you can add an additional subnet router and they largely don't care (because they haven't put the engineering into enforcing the limits, because it doesn't actually use up appreciably more resources for them when you exceed those limits). I think they do enforce the user limits though.
Sanctioning and sending weapons has become a (dangerous) game of one-upmanship. But before it reached this point, Europe was very much split on both because it can’t stand up to Russia militarily and was also cautious about hurting Russia economically because that implied hurting itself. Many European countries also had and have connections to Russia.

The US was preparing sanctions around the use of the USD and SWIFT and around Nordstream 2 (despite what Germany might have wanted) in December 2021.
And it’s the US which have set a goal beyond helping Ukraine of “weakening Russia”. I.e. more sanctions, more weapons, less possibility for negotiation.

The sanctions game certainly has a life of its own now, especially as Russia’s military stumbled, but I don’t believe it would have reached this intensity without motivation from the US. And who knows what diplomacy could have achieved if given a chance instead of continuous escalation.
Policy interest rates have wide reaching impacts across society, sometimes second and third order effects that can be hard to predict. Generally though, increasing interest rates encourages more saving instead of borrowing. Less borrowing means less aggregate spending. The overall effect is that people buy less stuff (lower demand). This lowers prices if the supply stays the same.

If it helps anyone at all, I recently published a new post on rising interest rates & what effects they might have: https://ericvanular.com/rising-interest-rates
>The fact that almost no Justice has faced impeachment is precisely why it's unlikely a Justice leaked this document.

My conclusion wasn't that a Justice leaked the document. My conclusion was that is optimistic to think they would be successfully impeached if it ends up being a Justice. What you've written has not convinced me otherwise.

Surely in the previous 200 years, some Justice has done something of similar unbecoming-ness, and yet a successful impeachment of a Justice has never happened.
I kind of feel like "roughly as much as MMORPGs slash Pokemon Go slash Fortnite?" I can't see how it would end up too differently from those.
I think this is only true in C# for value types - I think the same generated code is used for all reference types, so eg. `List<object>` uses the same code as `List<string>` but different from `List<int>`.
When it started, you could mine Bitcoin on a laptop for fun. Now you need a faceless cartel of datacenter owners running rigs 24/7 and selling options on mined BTC to keep the lights on.
The problem with something like this is that it's basically the musical equivalent of the artificially constructed language Esperanto. It will NEVER gain any significant traction in the existing world of musicians.
I’d like to see a project like this that adapted comma.ai into a wearable vest for blind people. It would signal through haptic vibration to help avoid walking into obstacles.
I am very lenient, there's a ton of things that are non-traditional about his recipe. He's missing the onions, the mustard, the cream, and the ground beef. He's also using milk and gelatin, and worcestershire sauce.

I'll even forgive the marmite which is about as un-Swedish as you can get, because he's right about its purpose. I mean, no-one is batting an eye at adding soy sauce, but that's also available in Sweden, unlike marmite.

All of these changes are fine, he's still in the territory of "Swedish meatballs" despite having deviated quite far.

But adding garlic makes it a completely different dish. It is now garlic meatballs or Italian meatballs or whatever. We're in the territory of Southern Europe now, not Sweden.

The size of the things also moves them from meatballs to frikadeller. That's Denmark, not Sweden.

So he's made Italian-Danish garlic frikadeller. Great. I'm sure they're super tasty. But they're not Swedish meatballs.
This article is bizarre. No mention that Ma has not been heard from since the Ant IPO was cancelled and he was ordered to Beijing after criticising the government. One of the wealthiest men in the world. The most famous man in Asia. hasn't been seen in 2 years.
This is the going rate. I beasted MIT up to 12%. Same for Routledge.
Really famous and prolific authors can make 15% if they're pushy.
And even if they did, the stems of the notes (excluding half and whole notes) traditionally are as long as the distance between octaves. One of the things that I think makes traditional notation more robust for experts is the redundancy of information.

It also helps that for many instruments there’s a mapping between the layout of the instrument and the notation! This is less true for brass and the violin family, though I think even with them there are probably some arguments to be made about the harmonic series, or the spacing of strings in fifths.
The other posts in this thread make it sound like internal promotion has higher barriers than an external apply/interview/offer process. Bizarre when you think about it, but it does seem to be the norm. The person you're replying to is suggesting that employees should be encouraged to apply to other positions within their current company as if they were an external hire.

I've worked at a company that did both (internal promotion and internal re-hire) and IME people that actively applied to new positions had faster "career progression".
Darn, if this is true.

I'm going to do the low-effort comment and link to a Silicon Valley series video someone posted here not long ago (Brain Rape): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlwwVuSUUfc
It's only depressing if you make it depressing. I personally love it and it makes summer feel even better
> "Climate and sustainability is going to be the new computer science"

This is nuts. I'd bet that, 10 years from now, this donation is likely to have returned less than 5% in value to society.

That are so many better ways to use this money to benefit climate and nature in general...
And the director / talent commentary tracks, which were sometimes really great (Vanilla Sky comes to mind). I think that was only common for a really brief period unfortunately. To be honest I think it just failed from a market perspective (cost vs revenue). I could be wrong and maybe it still happens a lot?

Suspect the angles thing was the same. Sounded cool but no one wanted it (or to pay extra for it).
Cost plus is a fantastic way top do business.

While working on a cost plus contract in the early 2010s i cant begin to describe the amount of cool shit i bought with a one line explanation as to its purpose.

Probably isn't as cool if the taxpayer is pick up the bill mind....
Will Seiko provide parts for older watches? I just got stuck with a bricked Swiss Army quartz watch because no one can get parts for it (it's 20 years old). I'm very tempted by some of the more affordable Seiko mechanical/automatic models, but I'd like the watch to last at least a decade or so.
An update on Google's performance review system
Hah, 50/50 I'd get that wrong, cheers.
>Contracts where the contracting party agrees to a % of responsibility.

Except no big agency does this because it's a legal nightmare. The others (cost plus and firm fixed) are well explored.

>Then they're actually incentivized to not have overruns.

Everyone has incentives not to overrun - it means you're less likely to get future work, and future work is worth much more than overrunning current work.
Normalizing pay to years experience is a bad move in general, IMO.

You are going to have a distribution of high and low performers at all levels of experience. If you pay all the senior people the same, you have less money to pay your high performers. And maybe they go get that pay from elsewhere.

There's a difference between having 20 years of experience and one year of experience 20 times.
Edit: cannot assure, but rumor on the street from peers, they were not the ones to get Chase to build OAuth.

PR is a hell of a marketing tactic.
Drink 500ml of water as soon as possible after waking up.

Dehydrated brains make bad decisions.
The initial approach for the hallway was simple and reasonable. I'm looking forward to how the machine learning approach will play out. Improving relevancy on the hallway is definitely a worthwhile pursuit. Might even make a great kaggle challenge.

Intuitively I would replace the hallway with a feed of recordings (+ occasional featured live rooms, basically the opposite of the current hallway). While this would de-emphasize the live aspect of the app it would I think help to increase relevancy. That said: I'm sure the team has put more thought into it than I did.
No. I would be happy to pay for service, but they offer no choice but to rely on somebody else's authentication, regardless.
Incredible work with this article. I didn't realize experiences like that were even possible in the browser without a whole company backing the effort.
Yes, this is exactly what I meant when I said that justices have switched sides before. I understand that there was a draft opinion overturning the ACA when Roberts switched sides, though I'm not certain how complete it was.
The trouble I have thinking past the smartphone form-factor is what people will be doing with some AR thing. If its projecting something on some glass in front of my eyes, what am I doing? scrolling social media on it? The current state of voice response is poor for most things vs. tapping a screen/keyboard. Social media is probably where most users spend their time these days, which isn't likely to change, and also means they are posting things. Can you imagine trying to dictate posts with clever puns and witty wordings? Will everything be like tik-tok videos then?

I don't know - I have a hard time imagining the transition from current smart phone form-factor and typical teenager use cases to anything with AR/VR/*R.
It can't be helped I think. The chain of trust must start somewhere.

What if someone secretly have your password and enable 2FA? The addition of the 2nd factor of auth is a big deal and the process should be as secure as possible.
This analogy doesn’t fit at all.

> I'd like a system simple enough to use by all the kids in my local elementary school music class, much more than I care about what happens in the local orchestra.

Amateur doesn’t mean lack of experience or skill - what you seem to be meaning is “casual”. There are already a number of simplified notation systems for casual use. And this alternative notation is definitely not positioning itself for casual use based on its examples - and it sits in a sort of uncanny valley.
No CPAN and local::lib?
I've never used that, so there must be another one.
> when you go to almost any house party in those places, it's literally what this guy wrote

No, not even those places. This is a classic example of a social bubble. There's definitely a higher concentration in those places, but the majority of house parties, even in the Bay Area, are just a lot of drunk shenanigans, beer pong, weed, and not high brow intellectual talk. HN / ACX types are high-education, tech-adjacent, and likely raised outside the area. Their social networks are quite different from the rest of the 8m people here, especially the rest of Alameda county and San Jose, where most of the house parties happen. Even if all parties on the Peninsula were this type, they'd probably account for 2% of Bay Area house parties, those places have been so expensive for so long they're mostly amenable to workaholic and Netflix types.

Source: am Bay Area raised and have a foot in both worlds.
Is that a full refund? The cheapest Turbotax product is $60 + 50 for state.
This is different from a telepresence bot. In fact, it is necessary to have been following comma.ai for sometime to understand what it is.

Awesome
Your documentation says you use service providers, specifically MX and Finicity. Is that correct or are you integrating directly (or some mixture)?
Huh, whole media is chock full of fraudulent advertising including things that are not even marked as advertising.

Now you can call it whataboutery but thankfully courts have to reasonably go with what they can prove and not like "whoa, you showed fraudulent ads, here is 128 billion dollar fine equal to your market cap today. Shutdown the company and pay by end of week."
Ask HN: How do you handle people using your email to sign up for services?
I have a less-but-not-uncommon name, and was able to secure an account with a popular email service with my name. But the experience has been abysmal. There are dozens of instances where different people have used my email address for dating services, banking, receipt of legal documents, the latest SaaS, and so on.

What would you do in this situation?
Ah, the exit node thing is really cool, always handy to have a residential IP to route through too :)
Hey Clubhouse, the longer the profile bios are for your remaining users, the less important any of them are. You won't be able to get the important people back.

Just like an actual exclusive clubhouse, the promoters and celebrities have moved on and you're left with a void of less connected people late to every trend, or those that are completely undiscerning. People that fail at status seeking behavior and people that don't care.

For a place with the name Clubhouse, alongside the initial rollout that was filled with promoters and celebrities, I think this is failure and its time to rebrand.
Lots of "optional" things one would have to explicitly disable these days. It's never a persistent setting either. You are universally forced to turn these things off every time you get into the car and start it.
"OMG nothing is really secure. So we might as well just curl into bash"
COL - Cost of living
I mean dive deeper, they are funding carbon capture and currently no carbon capture anywhere close to profitability.
I don't know because the change was decided way above my pay grade, but I always assumed that the reason was HR legal.

It is hard to look at people who are objectively doing as well as each other, and rate some lower only because they have been at that job grade "too long".

The fig leaf was always that the ladders encourages keeping up with technology and the company, which meant people couldn't tread water at the lower grades.

But if the "new technology" isn't necessary for the job duties, labor lawyers can have a field day.
Great survey! I'd be surprised if the majority of respondents to "do you feel your organisation pays a lot for cloud infrastructure?" said "no."

If the results are anything like what other reports on the topic say, then businesses are finding it hard to predict their cloud costs, they're spending too much on cloud services, and they're struggling to control costs [1]. All of which are problems that need to be addressed - my company, Usage.AI, enables businesses to cut AWS costs by up to 57% using Reserved Instances, but without lock-in [2]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2022/04/19/cl...
[2] https://www.usage.ai
And which are those great countries where this is not true.
With the M2 chip expected to debut at WWDC next month, here's the difference between the A14 efficiency cores used in the M1 and the A15 efficiency cores used in the current gen iPhones.

>The core has a median performance improvement of +23%, resulting in a median IPC increase of +11.6%. The cores here don’t showcase the same energy efficiency improvement as the new A15’s performance cores, as energy consumption is mostly flat due to performance increases coming at a cost of power increases, which are still very much low.

Also, when compared to the efficiency cores used in the Snapdragon 888:

>The comparison against the little Cortex-A55 cores is more absurd though, as the A15’s E-core is 3.5x faster on average, yet only consuming 32% more power, so energy efficiency is 60% better.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16983/the-apple-a15-soc-perfo...
Depends on who you are and what your growth potential is. I know SWEs getting offers in the 7-8 figure range. That's not in any way typical but if you're smart enough, hardworking, and get the right breaks hitting a 7 figure income isn't something I'd consider weird and is definitely FU money.
It's genuinely great Sam supports the idea of raising the minimum wage to a living wage. I fully support it, but he's going to need to run for office, or bank roll a PAC to get candidates into office who can actually pass the legislation. Platitudes are cheap, political activism is expensive AF.

Wrt equity, unless mandated, you're either at a company that gives it out because they have no choice (traditionally, startups or tech firms) if they want to be competitive, or employee owned companies where owners/management see the value in being employee owned [1].

Start funding candidates who will commit to raising minimum wages, it's that (not easy, but) straightforward.

[1] https://www.nceo.org/articles/employee-ownership-100 (Fun fact: Publix, the southeastern supermarket chain is one of the largest employee owned firms in the US, with ~200k employees).
Who was your provider, and who is your new provider?

I was having both bad connectivity to Spectrum as well as buffer bloat, which I think was upstream. Had to get Spectrum in three times, after which the spent several days up on the pole and in the field doing major work, and the problem resolved.
You can already put instructional videos on Wikiversity.

You're right that the editing workflow for raw video is a challenge, but I expect that support for editable animations, interactive simulation, etc. will also be added at some point. It requires some infrastructure for editing securely sandboxed code in-wiki, which is in the works anyway for the upcoming project Wikifunctions.
I misunderstood the intent it seems.
Ah, great. So… what is it?
>Except no big agency does this because it's a legal nightmare.

agencies are starting to do it more and more often. It won't get explored if people are scared, but it will get explored if people actually want to fix the problems with procurement overruns.

>Everyone has incentives not to overrun

in cost plus your overrun often directly leads to you making more money. So no, not exactly.

>it means you're less likely to get future work, and future work is worth much more than overrunning current work.

Maybe, maybe not. Lots of things have few competitive bidders, or bidders who bid knowing they're going to make overruns and claims to make the contract profitable when their bid never was. it's often called 'buying the job' in other industries.
I have heard the same...but I honestly think that is a 'here lets not try' more so than a 'we wouldn't make use of it'.

Totally agree with you on the rest.

What is interesting is the admins now finding that those same legislators won't leave you alone even if they strip all your funding. They will mess with you for cheap points and sport.