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Corporate stupidity and expensive consulting go hand in hand. It's easy to blame Accenture here but arguably, it's Hertz that messed up here. They should know better. Did people get fired over this? The CIO apparently left with a nice juicy big package. Probably that was no accident and the writing was on the wall around that time.

This level of spending and failure reeks of severe levels of incompetence, negligence, and stupidity. They probably have layers of management covering each other's asses. And now they are forking cash over to lawyers as well. Maybe the lawyers do better than the consultant, but either way, they'll get payed a lot. They'll squeeze them hard probably. Easier to point fingers at Accenture than to admit management and leadership was asleep at the wheel for years.

Of course, Accenture probably dropped the ball here as well. But what are they going to do when faced with a customer this dumb asking for all sorts of things and probably constantly moving the goal posts? Say no? Of course not.

So, they did the obvious thing: pick expensive enterprise solutions and dangle nice sounding buzzwords in front of the customer. Tell them what they want to hear basically. And then pick some boring/conservative technologies and go to work. Angular was still reasonably fashionable around the time and 25 year old "senior" Javascript "specialists" are a dime a dozen. So it's not surprising that that became a thing. And we're all so agile these days that you wouldn't believe it. Standard sales pitch and practice for the last 2 decades.

The reality is of course that Hertz signed up for classic waterfall complete with blueprints and everything and Accenture was smart enough to not go fixed rate here. Better still, Accenture was smart enough to realize that IBM, Oracle, and others also were in on the action so they did not take responsibility for any of that; only for their part. Classic recipe for lots of scope creep and budget overruns. Which of course happened and was probably encouraged to happen.

That CIO looks like he knew what he was doing. Big spending, fat pay check, and be gone and take the package when the shit hits the fan.
I have no idea what you're referring to but, if you have to ask in such a fashion then probably not.

You'll eventually learn that every online community has its own particular brand of bias and implicit editorial slant, if you will.

HN is no exception. There are certain topics that are simply not kosher here, irrespective of what people say.

The sooner you make your peace with that the better.
How many of the deaths in the US result in a recall?

How many recalls would it take to stop the deaths? I would argue that every single car death is proof of a defect worthy of recalling that car, but Im not sure if the recall could replace the car with a piece of equipment that would have prevented the death.
Thanks! This is what I was looking for.
Enough to compensate for population growth?
I wonder if this has saved the state much money. Imprisoning and prosecuting anyone is expensive and a net drain on the state coffers. Even if the people here don’t pay the “traffic ticket” fines, I have to figure the state is saving a lot of money.
I was introduced to Ben recently and they are doing some pretty amazing stuffs. They are now laser focused on the UK Banks.
> Whether we look at Zig, Go or Julia they stay relatively simple because they simply avoid solving certain problems.

Could you expand on the specific problems that each language avoids?
Stallman: The bug nobody is allowed to understand
Fenwick Trees (which, despite the name, are implemented using an array) allow counting prefix sums AND updating prefix sums in O(log n) time. Very useful when n is in the order of millions. I have used them a few times in Project Euler problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenwick_tree
I think that alternatively, considering how approximately every death of a bicyclist or pedestrian, or car driver, is all caused by someone driving an enormous 5,000lb machine irresponsibly, we should redesign our cities in such a way that most people don’t need to drive those cars in the first place for most trips. And if you do need to drive a car, you have much less congested and smaller streets for those trips.

That also allows us to repurpose some of that road space that’s not needed anymore, for separate bike and bus infrastructure that will also be more convenient and safer for everyone.

I don’t want to live in a world where you have to own a giant dangerous $20k machine just to move around, when there are cheaper, safer, healthier, and better-for-the-environment ways to accomplish the same thing.

And I drive too, a lot! I just don’t want to be forced to anymore, but we’ve kinda built society so that you only have one option, and it creates all sorts of problems.
I've started my own company and am about to launch our product, so I'm learning marketing.

I think that I've been lucky so far because most of the traction is based on the strength of the product, and that has meant that I can sit back and gather feedback and opinions without doing anything outside of asking. However it's left me in a position where I'm unsure which steps I should be taking as I get closer and closer to launching.

If anyone has any resources that they've found particularly helpful, I'd love to read them.
All NFL players, not just quarterbacks, right?
The author does mention this possibility in one of the final paragraphs, that maybe every actor in the film /except/ Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis look different in the Ocean's 12 universe - it seems to be what the film wants the audience to think, and though it's a bit silly, so are the films :)
The absence of a proof of correctness is not a proof of incorrectness, strictly speaking.
The situation with cars is that there are posted limits on every public road, so it's not up to the driver, but drivers exceed these limits routinely, anyway, and doing so directly contributes to something like 12,000 deaths per year. The point here is that if anything that obvious and predictable were happening with air travel it would already have been addressed.
> Disfavoring Asians in such a place is ineffective, as there aren't enough to have an appreciable effect. Are you claiming affirmative action doesn't exist in such areas?

Please read my comment again and try to comment in good faith. I never mentioned anything about affirmative action not existing. You'll notice also that California is aggressively trying to implement affirmative action to disadvantage Asians despite Asians being only 15% of the population in CA.

Are you claiming that affirmative action doesn't disadvantage Asians? Because that is demonstrably false, as evidenced by SFFA vs Harvard, the data out of the UC system before and after Prop 209, and comparing the racial makeup schools of similar caliber that do and do not utilize affirmative action.

> like suggesting $400 and $30,000 are equivalent

I never mentioned any numbers in my post. Please don't lie.

> the completely made up claim that managers were being encouraged to pay women more

It is a fact that Google managers used internal discretionary funds to pay women more. It is also a fact that Google managers have diversity KPIs they are encouraged to meet as part of their performance: "At Google, we measure the progress against these [DEI] goals with various metrics across hiring, progression, retention, and inclusion" [1]. I will let you come to your own conclusion as to how the latter could lead to the former.

[1] https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/intl/en-gb/future-of-marketi...
This has been on my project list for a long time haha, would you happen to have any blog posts or references for those of us who aspire to do the same?
i'm generally in the 'quit' camp.

i've been in this type of situation more than once -- i've job-hopped a lot, done a lot of contracts, etc. -- and i am _not_ in that situation right now. praise all that is holy.

i currently dislike my job, but it's more fit, product, and managers, etc. -- it is definitely _not_ because I don't get along with the various nice people I often interact with - who are really sources of joy every day (def not all of them). (i just watched some of a steve kerr interview on youtube and he talks a lot about warrior culture and gave this anecdote about Pop and his just wanting to have a good day, etc.)

that situation -- the one you are in, one that I have experienced multiple times -- is brutal.

my guess is that you could do a million things that might make it slightly less worse over the coming months and years, and you'll end up with a heart attack and depression and all sorts of other niceties.

sometimes a shit team/people/culture/company is just that -- and you _may_ need to get out.

main question i would have is, how do you avoid this happening at the next place? you probably would _not_ be that unlucky, but i'm sure it has happened to others.

i think i have actually landed in this situation after, during the interview process, people told me how _awesome_ everyone was, how awesome the company and culture and whatever was, and then you find out it's all rather shit. like some bad holacracy dream -- everyone acting happy, but is really ready to kill themselves.

some of them might actually have believed it -- and i have almost certainly sold prospects on the awesomeness of our company/team/culture when i knew better. why? i dunno. stupid/evil fucking human psychology prob. "Let's see if you can convert this stupid mf -- I'm not going to suffer alone -- we need bodies -- and he prob doesn't really care -- he's here b/c he needs a job, not a good or ideal job."

start interviewing, get out. you can keep an open mind about staying, maybe make an effort to break things open a bit, change things up, maybe like others have suggested - going to the office more, etc. but def start leaving.

also, i hear hybrid work can burn people out faster than full on-site or full remote. so, if you're not required to be there, don't be. or ask for a couple of full-remote weeks, then ask for one more, then give your notice.
Another thing which makes Zig interesting is it’s approach to allocation, making a failure to allocate memory a catchable error, and enabling developers to easily assign their own allocators.
fake meats are overly processed, and probably more expensive too. real chicken has far more protein and is better digested than fake meat. from a nutrition standpoint, the real thing is much better.
HPAI LOSSES PASS 38 MILLION BIRDS
https://www.agriculture.com/livestock/poultry/avian-influenz...

Signs of avian influenza include: birds dying without clinical signs; lack of energy; decreased egg production; soft-shelled or misshapen eggs; swelling or purple discoloration of the head, eyelids, comb, and hocks; nasal discharge; coughing; sneezing; incoordination; and diarrhea. The USDA has a resource with images to help identify discoloration and other clinical signs.
This Intel-approved not-a-review isn't a good look for LTT.
Thank you for creating this course. I started out on Tensor Flow but seeing this material I am in two minds whether I should abandon my TF book and start this one or save it for later. Most likely I am going to dive in :-)
It’s as simple as not proceeding past the initial 15 minute call without knowing the comp range of the role. Period.

Bonus points if you also confirm I’d that’s W2 or 1099. That one has caught me a couple of times.
I love science. I fully support the desire to answer big hard questions that may be answered with this tool. I absolutely am 100% behind spending this money on this telescope.

I, however, do not believe it will ever provide any kind of substantial return beyond possibly helping to answer some esoteric questions about the universe that nobody alive today or in 10000 years will benefit from.

Life isn't an investment, or it's a really terrible one, as the final return is oblivion no matter what. Making all decisions on the basis of "investment" is stupid. Why? We all will eventually die, the planet incinerated, all of this is pointless. Even if the JWST helped lead to interplanetary travel that only changes the timeframe, the heat death of the universe being inevitable. If your only basis for doing something now is some material return in the future then you've totally lost the plot.

So yeah. I think it's a bad investment and I'm glad we spent the money on it.
> It sounds like the restaurant was a side project that was barely solvent to begin with

This is an incredibly bad take.

Restaurants are a grueling business and many have low margins — 80% fail within 5 years. Since the beginning of the pandemic many incredible and beloved restaurants in my city have been forced to close due to lock downs, landlords raising rents, rising costs, etc.

> They could try raising prices, but if the customers leave then people simply aren't willing to pay what it costs to keep that place open and the demand to support that restaurant in that place just isn't there.

If customers are sensitive to higher prices, it's probably because of record inflation and economic downturn limiting their disposable income.

Nowadays the only establishments with stability are chains: McDonalds, Starbucks, Burger King... places that for the most part only care about profit and neither pay or treat their employees well, or have good quality food. A city without diverse locally-owned restaurants is a bleak prospect.
This is more of a product problem than a technological one. I don't think the issue is lack of imagination, but hostility from consumers.

There are a million and one cases where a pdocut could be 10x better with 10% more effort from me,and where that tradeoff is more than worth it (hell, it's why I use Linux). But the average consumer is aggressively turned off by having to do any "work", and the type of person hanging out on Hacker News is very high-percentile for wanting to put a nonzero amount of work into optimizing this type of thing.
True, but so is less of it. “Western Diet” is a real malady at scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_pattern_diet
The hospital I work for just outsourced the majority of IT to Accenture in what I am sure will become one of the worst mistakes they have ever made. The 10% if us they kept are now going to be just doing cat herding work with all our contractors. It's..... a whole thing.
#FirstWorldProblems can't find real problems? Make them up.
Downplaying isn't lying, and categorizing people into those that tell the truth and those that don't tell the truth is a stupid way of assessing anything important.
I never tried zig but I want to address something the article wrote

> People struggle with Rust for a number of reasons ... the borrow checker!

The borrow checker was the easiest thing for me to learn and the only thing I liked about rust. Except it's broken. I have to constantly reborrow after calling a constant function. The reason I actually bailed on rust is because it's a worse C++ (compiles slower, executes slower, isn't compatible with C's __thread etc etc), it's a worse webserver (I still use PHP and C#), it's worse for database heavy code, it's not very good for one offs (C# and python are better), it basically cost too much to switch for the broken borrow checker

Also the article at the end doesn't make it clear what he thinks. Usually I read the start and end to see if I'm interested in the topic and I'm not sure if this article is in secret a rant
I believe the implication is that if everyone collectively agreed to eat the inflation – go from 10% margin to 5% margin for the same $10 – there would be a lot less inflation because purchasing power would be the same regardless of what some number on a computer says.

But if everyone raises prices “because inflation”, well that’s exactly what inflation is – things getting pricier.

I know this sort of coordination can’t happen. Point is inflation is a trailing measure of price changes. Without price changes there is no inflation. People set those prices.
I know it's unfair of me, but I'm imagining a default-dead early startup guy saying this while drinking the weird mushroom water, so thank you for that
Unreadable as in, “this code is unfamiliar and I haven’t talent the time to understand it,” or “this code is syntactically designed to be difficult to parse by humans and I cannot read it?”
So the observations it made were pivotal to expanding research, but none of the following studies discovered counter-evidence? It seems like something is missing here.
Both the Aurélien Géron and François Chollet TF books are absolutely terrific, and everything you learn from them will be extremely useful in becoming a deep learning practitioner, regardless of what framework you end up using. So if you've started with one of those books already, keep it up! :) The fast.ai course would actually be a pretty good addition to either book, since you'll get to see a whole different way of doing things, which might be useful to understanding what's going on.
They aren't just bluetooth headphones, they are airpods, you bought airpods because you are in the iecosystem.

Who buys airpods and expects them to work well with anything other than an apple device? You buy them because it'll work well in their ecosystem, really well.

I have some cheap earbuds that work decent everywhere, as well as a generic bluetooth speaker, but I generally use my apple earbuds because they work the best with what I have.

When you support only your ecosystem you can improve the connectivity that bluetooth alone doesn't allow.
Now apply that to workers wages. Can guarantee those haven't 'doubled' regardless of the method used to calculate it.
First of all, a big thanks!

What is your take on the current state of autonomous driving? Do you think we can achieve "full autonomy" with the technology we have currently?

Any new advances in DL that you are excited about?
> groomer democrats

Like Foley, Hastert, Gaetz, Trump, Roy Moore and Jim Jordan [1]? Or Tucker Carlson's defense of child abuse by cult leader Warren Jeffs [2]?

"Grooming" as used by Republicans today is nothing more than transphobia and homophobia as Republicans try to equate LGBTQ+ people as pedophiles (eg [3]).

If you truly believe that Democrats are tied to grooming and not simply arguing in bad faith (as Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, Matt Walsh or Stephen Crowder routinely do) then I would encourage you to question the propaganda that has so effectively been communicated to you.

[1]: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/04/from-hastert-to-...

[2]: https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/unearthed-audio-...

[3]:https://eu.tallahassee.com/story/news/education/2022/06/29/l...
I have always been amused by their motto "Fast, Correct - Choose two". The more common idiom is something like "Fast, Correct, Cheap - Choose Two". I guess Bazel isn't cheap.
This argument always upsets me. You’re curious about what new species will come about in hundreds of thousands of years, millions? It’s certainly not going to be anytime soon. With the loss of biodiversity, we either have less life or more of life which isn’t preferable. I forget the best examples, but invasive species will spread further, and wreak further havoc, and then what? What kind of better world are you imagining this will enable?
This article was written by a person who is so proud to be a prosecutor that he mentions three ways he was a prosecutor in his 26-word bio at the end. So his thesis is... that Oregon should prosecute more people. At least he's consistent.
I like consistent hashing (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent_hashing). When a hash table (or load balancing pool) needs to be resized, it usually reduces the number of keys (clients) that need to be remapped.
Nice! Most people don’t read any of my lists. You can thank my puppy for the formatting. Normally I just write lists then edit for human consumption, but I skipped the edit so I could feed/walk/play with my gorl.
brain wallet + coinb.in offline. you're welcome
This is awesome. One question I have always had - is the research on applying DL for images the most developed compared to other things?

Even DL used for audio processing (classification, separation etc) seems to convert audio to spectral graphs and apply DL to that.

Changing a problem to be expressed as image inputs will be an advantage when using DL as a solution. Would you agree ?
Here in Germany torrent users have always been pretty aggressively pursued. The most common way is for copyright holders to upload their own content, collect IPs, sent out mass infringement notices and collect a few hundred bucks per case. There's an actual industry around it.

Unless you're in a jurisdiction where that stuff isn't illegal I think the answer is, yes.
All the more reason to use my Apple Card (MasterCard-issued).
A small GreenPAK is perfect for this.

There’s also mixed signal versions just in case you also want an opamp, or two.

https://www.renesas.com/tw/en/products/programmable-mixed-si...
Red meat consumption has been declining in the US since the early 2000s and more people than ever are vegetarians. I think it's time to update the trope about the "Western" diet.
Well, hard/impossible to predict perhaps. Iteration order can depend on the order things were inserted and deleted and may differ from computer to computer (for example in Julia the hash-based dictionary ordering differs between 32 and 64 bit systems, and might change between versions of Julia, etc - you’d see the same thing with C++ unordered maps, etc, etc).
Honestly, I've found the best way to build camaraderie is getting drunk with your teammates, but YMMV on that way. Pretty much every team I've ever worked in, until we go out and have dinner and drinks, it's all-business, all the time.

Some folks are kind and open up about their lives, very inclusive, but they won't be the ones who make you feel the way you do.

You're an engineer. Half of the people in this industry have social issues or aren't exactly extroverted. They've met people like you before, and they'll know it just takes a bit longer.

Finally, it's okay. People are different. Give it a few more months, make a concerted effort to be more sociable (and maybe bring it up with your manager, they should organise something - if they don't, get out of there). If it doesn't work, find something else. You're hot shit right now.
> The speedup factor is order-dependent.

This is why it is very difficult to justify optimization work to management. If there are 20 things to optimize that take 10 seconds each, the change isn't really noticeable until you're getting past half-way. And once your processing already takes a few minutes, what's the harm in adding another 10 seconds?
Good writeup. Also I enjoyed your podcast back in the day!

My current thinking is that if you want to make a "small" language with anywhere near the guarantees of rust you need to make the features smaller too. A good start is cooperative multitasking, aka basically the async model, to radically simplify concurrency. Communication between processes must then be done with channels. Another is memory allocators, I think arenas are a good start, and I'll have to look deeper into Zigs approach.
Surely each time I change the temperature manually that's a signal it's been wrong for the past half hour or so
Actually, it seems like he mentions two ways three times (an elected district attorney is a local prosecutor.)