skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ERP implementations likely provided value because of the lack of bespoke systems, instead people standardized and gained efficiencies. That was the value I would guess.

Outsourcing? Did it provide value? Maybe immediately on the books, enough to cook to hit the stock options and cash out.

Could companies have built internally? In an ideal world that's definitely a yes. Amazon sucks in so many ways, but one thing they don't is the fundamental value they place on their IT systems and workers.

Old school companies could not handle that culturally. Ugly nerds? Paid more than managers would be several levels up? Treat them respect? Structure the business around them? They couldn't handle it.

Accenture had the organizational gravitas with the execs. Through that came the temporary infusion of valued IT change. Were they vastly overpaying? Yeah. But that price tag meant they needed to take the implemented system seriously.

Ultimately Accenture kept showing up and selling services somehow, despite many many many other options. Should there be a kick-ass IT consultancy that competes with them and embarrasses them? Probably, but ... where are they? If Accenture was charging 250/hr for 50/hr talent, why didn't some leaner org at 150/hr with 100/hr talent (a fundamentally different tier of worker) vastly outperform them?

Well, the world is run by the rich, and they only respect the rich. It might be as cynical as they respect how Accenture rips off its workers and still delivers acceptable product, exactly like the execs in the companies like their companies to be run: extracting maximum value from the plebe workers.

Marketing and connections are so so powerful. As stated elsewhere, Accenture is generally a "safe" choice for an "important" project. And don't forget those "approved vendors" rigamarole that companies have. Because Accenture and their ilk extract so much excess from clients and labor, they can buffer the failure scenarios and throw more labor at the problem.

In large companies where budgets are abstract in relation to value, more that budgets align with how much power and influence a subsection of the org has, cost can become secondary.

And sweet jesus would I like to know how much kickbacks and the like exist in IT procurement. It must be extensive, based on the mystifying decisions I've seen in my career.
Yes, I've heard this said many times about sales people. If they're not visibly wasting money, people are reluctant to hire them because they either aren't good (and thus have no money to waste), or won't be hungry (because they've saved the money they earned by not wasting it). So conspicuous consumption becomes a way to signal that the sales person is capable of reliably generating large incomes.
Oregon’s decriminalization of drug possession is proving disastrous
You see the assumption is that if you are using Cabbage, you are either learning Csound or you already know it. So Cabbage allows you to sidestep the abysmal arrangement API in Csound for something more intuitive by embedding it in a DAW. But now I realise this makes no sense at all and will advise any hobbyists currently doing this they need to start learning C++ and thinking about cross-platform support.
I’ve bookmarked this thread. I have a new reading list! Thanks OP!
It's misleading to talk about profits purely in absolute terms. The profit margin could stay the same while the absolute number doubles.

If you make $10 profit on $100 revenue one year (a 10% margin) and $20 profit on $200 revenue the next year (still a 10% margin), profits "doubled" but the profit margin stayed the same. When you add in the inflation and the fact that the $20 this year is not worth as much as $20 was last year, it's not even a real doubling in absolute terms.

Inflation will produce "record highs" in terms of absolute number of dollars in all sorts of things, but if you don't account for the fact that the dollars are not worth the same amount as before it's disingenuous.
> No need to waste time with 7 rounds of interviewing only to find out the salary is 50% of what I currently make.

It's somewhat nice to have salary range in the job posting, but I've never felt strongly about.

You should not go through 7 rounds of interviews, or even a single round, if the comp isn't a fit!

That's the conversation to have on the very first intro call with the recruiter.
That CentOS blog post is an interview with Greg. The source for Greg being the founder is...himself. That post was supposed to be the first in a series of interviews with people who were around in the early days of CentOS, which is mentioned in the second to last paragraph. Those interviews happened, but they were never published because the interviewees disagreed with the premise set forth in the first post about Greg being the founder. It was decided that publishing additional interviews with conflicting claims would not be a good look for the project. All other articles referring to Greg as the founder use this blog post or Greg's own claims elsewhere as the source. Greg is the root source for all claims of himself being the founder. None of the other early CentOS folks have backed up his claims, despite him asking them to. There are even people in the Rocky project that have asked him to stop claiming this. Greg's response is typically to post archive links that show 1) he started the cAos Foundation and 2) CentOS started in the cAos Foundation. These are facts that no one is disputing. What is disputed is whether his level of involvement in CentOS itself merits declaring himself the founder many years after the fact.
How much, of what is exposed as the complexity of a language, could be realized in the form of sequences of optimizing compiler passes, perhaps automatic or perhaps flag-driven, such that the programmer user experience remains clean-ish yet the sophistication of generated code is on par with a language like Rust?

I don't know the answer, but I find it a curious question.

(And are SBCL internal compilation optimizations an example of this idea?)
Fountain Codes: reconstruct data from random selection of packets.

Was deeply patent encumbered until recently.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_code
This is completely missing the point. As I said in an earlier comment:

"If you had a Bluetooth keyboard or mouse, then Bluetooth would have been enabled before installing the update, otherwise how could you type or click to install the update in the first place? Also, the same thing happens on Mac laptops with built-in keyboard and trackpad. Moreover, it happens on iPhone too, which has no peripherals."

The point is pretty simple: if you had Bluetooth disabled before an OS update, then it should stay disabled after the update. And likewise, if you had Bluetooth enabled before an OS update, then it should stay enabled after the update! In other words, an OS update should not silently change your settings.

It's astonishing to me that people with Bluetooth keyboards somehow believe that I want their keyboard to stop working. That's absurd.
Infinite Objects
Politicians have been doing their best to improve the economy for a very long time. If we have to wait for them to succeed before we take action on climate change, then we are never taking action on climate change.
What you are saying makes sense, but it feels a little weird in this context. Aren't these just the windows EULAs? This section would only be useful to me if it differentiated between EULAs that come with windows no matter what and vendor-added ones. My first reaction was, "What? Framework has licenses to click through?"
Sure, but someone loses, and in this case the loser is the local restaurant that doesn't appear to have much pricing power.
I've been running Ubuntu on a Dell Precision for about 5 years now and it's been great. Upgraded ram and disks a couple of times now with no issues.

Maybe it's just specific models with the hardware limitations?
I wonder if the Univ. of Minnesota is has any potential liability here?
It seems weird to include Windows-specific EULA stuff when you don't have to use Windows
In between the dead PAL/GAL ecosystem and today's FPGAs, you have CPLDs. A 32-macrocell 15-nanosecond ATF1502ASV will run you US$2.42 from Digi-Key https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/microchip-technol... and a 64-macrocell 10-nanosecond 3.3-volt M4A3-64 will run you US$6.90 https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/lattice-semicondu.... You can replace a heck of a lot of 74xx components with a 64-macrocell CPLD, the software tooling for CPLDs is significantly less antiquated than the PAL/GAL tooling, and the designs are as open as the PAL/GAL designs.

The thing is, though, if you can stomach a BGA, a 640-LUT iCE40UL640 FPGA is only US$2.80 via Digi-Key https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/lattice-semicondu..., so it's hard to justify using a CPLD instead in a new design. Maybe easier since the shortage crisis. But that's a "still-in-production commercial-grade† FPGA" and it's US$2.80 in parts, not US$100. A reel of 1000 is US$2340.

Is this the small-scale hobbyist FPGA you're looking for? I think you can fit two or three RISC-V controllers on it with SeRV, and it includes 56 kbits (7 KiBytes?) of EBRAM.

(Disclaimer: I don't actually know any of this stuff, I'm just repeating things I've read without really understanding them.)

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† I'm not sure what you mean by "commercial-grade"? I mean it's not a university research project? Lattice is a commercial company and sells the iCE40UL640 as a commercial product.
well, you def would _not_ want a bachelor's degree -- if you were thinking about school, def do a masters.

they have 1-year MBAs -- i'd be curious if there are any 1-year Masters in Comp Sci.
OM seems to be trying to move all the personalization into the technology layer, and treat the actual providers like interchangeable widgets.
I'd be fairly surprised if we don't see gas under $3/gal sometime in the next decade. There's a reason several key economic indicators exclude food and energy (due to the much higher volatility of these categories).
I re-wrote Array in JavaScript but as an Object
Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
This question pops up on HN occasionally, but I am posting it here again. These days, besides working as a data scientist, I am learning game theory and curious to know what you are learning besides your job.
They are deterministic in the sense that provided everything else is the same, iteration order would be the same after each insertion.

However, it can change after insertion (if the hash bucket count changes). If the hash function is random-keyed, iteration order would be different for different instances of the hash table even if you insert the same items in the same order.

Sometimes you want the order to be consistent every time. Be it insertion order, or some natural order of the items.
Nice to see the business model is still working.
If it's on a PCIe card, maybe you can plug it into a motherboard that has USB and HDMI output?
You might enjoy a paper I’m a coauthor on which combines finger trees with B-trees to build a data structure for optimal updates to sliding windows: Optimal and General Out-of-Order Sliding-Window Aggregation, https://www.scott-a-s.com/files/vldb2019_fiba.pdf

Slides from the conference talk: https://www.scott-a-s.com/files/vldb2019_fiba_slides.pdf
"Improve" in what sense? "Too highly" by what measure? And why do you want to reward mediocrity more highly than excellence?

An exam is partially meant to measure how well the student learned the information. Why would you want to penalize students doing well?
DiDi: $1B fine for 64B illegal data collection acts
Occupy was a right wing thing?

I don’t get what you’re saying here.
City and county laws still override HOA rules. And every city and county has minimum parking for businesses, setbacks, and mandated access by cars.

You might be able to build a tiny little enclosed block, but you couldn't also have business there too because of zoning.
We have a weird hybrid model in the US (texas, at least) where some aspects of insurance are tied to the driver and some to the car. So I personally have liability insurance that pays out to other people (the legally required part) but also have insurance that covers my car in the event of a wreck.
this is just a reality of the economic policy we’ve chosen to pursue here.

Now who is "we" in this scenario?
This is why these large companies often form "innovation" units that are spun out as separate entities or at lest setup as separate orgs sheltered from internal politics by the C suite.

It's possible. But it's really hard work, very politically expensive, and extremely high risk. So, yeah, not surprising.
What does consensus mean, exactly? It doesn't sound like Aβ-56 had full buy-in; the article mentions people complaining about an "amyloid mafia" and half of all funding still going to alternate research, so clearly there were a lot of people who weren't part of whatever the "consensus" was.

What's really interesting to me is that such vast sums can be spent, a number of people apparently did not like the Aβ*56 hypothesis and had substantial reason to oppose it or try to find holes in it with substantial rewards for doing so, yet the ones to find problems were some dudes (without any funding at all) just poking around.
Really strange. You've known two people who died in crashes. You've probably drove by multiple bad crash sites. And yet you perceive a danger you have only seen on TV or Internet as more important. Nothing here about you in particular, of course — all of this is just "normal".

Makes one think, is it just how humans are or is it actually an example of how powerful is professional media?
Also LSM trees!
> Presumably, though, you'd be better off with a beefier FPGA for which HDMI isn't such a stretch.

Another option is an external HDMI serializer. You send it a parallel video signal, similar to what you'd send to a VGA DAC, and it handles all the details of turning that into HDMI.

Here's one on a breakout board: https://1bitsquared.com/products/pmod-digital-video-interfac...
Minimum parking requirements are very common in the US. You would also still need some roads for emergency services.
I am all in on Zig. I was more producitve with it in a few weeks than I was after a few months of rust. Yes the memory management is "manual" but the std library functions for dealing with it are top notch, you have to free a lot less due to the ease of using arena allocators, and the testing allocator does a valgrind-esque runtime analysis of your code - very quickly and very thoroughly. In practice, it's not an issue, and unlike with rust I have a very clear idea of when and where memory is being freed and allocated.

That having been said - the core team chooses some incredibly dumb hills to die on. Last time I checked the tab character was illegal in Zig code - though I understand that's changing.

More concerning is that un-named parameters are a compiler error and this cannot be adjusted. Meaning that if you want to test on save, you can't if any of your parameters are unused. Enforcing such a thing at the compiler level because of your personal coding style is so mind-numbingly short sighted. The guy who made it is clearly a very smart and insightful, but I acknowledge you probably have to be fairly stubborn to decide you're going to replace C.
I believe insurance carriers have gotten much more aggressive about denying coverage for general Vit D screening absent a specific diagnostic code.

It's not part of the usual panel, and I get the sense that more and more doctors have been tacking it on for everyone.
so cool. would love to see this fit into a slightly larger footprint such as my square gshock tough solar (5610)
obviously the state can let the cloud run by professionals as well, see the German state NRW:
> Dataport setzt dafür die Softwarelösungen Open-Xchange für E-Mail, Nextcloud für den Dokumentenaustausch, Matrix und Jitsi für Videokonferenzen sowie virtuelle Zusammenarbeit und die Software Collabora für Office-Anwendungen ein.

https://www.dataport.de/pressemitteilung/dataport-stellt-ope...
This is my experience with big accounting/finance firms as well.
Let’s see, they opened in 2001.

So their original business model assumed gas would be around 1.40/gal (1.90 inflation adjusted).

When do you think gas will fall that low again?
At my Costco the 180 box is just under 40 with tax, and thats for the medium eggs. If you want large its $60 for the box. So this seems believable…
I think part of the challenge is no one wants to throw their hands up in the air and abandon amyloid after so many years and dollars spent on it. Instead, they say "well we just weren't doing an early enough intervention", which is how Aducanumab was forced through with weak evidence of effectiveness.

The big question is what do we do now? There's Tau, but that hasn't been a slam dunk either.
The big 4 accounting firms are also the big 4 consulting firms. Deloitte, PwC, EY, and KPMG all have both large accounting arms as well as massive consulting arms.

There's also the "Big 3" or "MBB" which refers to the big 3 prestigious strategy consulting firms, Mckinsey, Bain, and BCG.

And then on the other end of the spectrum there's "WITCH" which is the consulting firms generally known as "body shops" that hire for quantity over quality. That's companies like Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Cognizant.

Accenture usually isn't included in any of the acronyms, it's just kinda an outlier despite how big it is. It's very much the same as how technically Microsoft isn't part of "FAANG", but whenever someone does say "FAANG" they typically just mean "the big tech companies" and you subconsciously think of MS as included in that.
It is presumed (almost certainly correctly) to be its own string - but every part of the craft should probably have been pattern-coded to make it very obvious when it found some stray part of itself; and I imagine that will happen with future missions. What's most interesting is that these events (it found some foil, too) weren't anticipated.
Here you go, straight from the primary source (the center for medicare and medicaid services):

https://www.cms.gov/files/document/se20015.pdf

> Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Hospitals - Section 3710 of the CARES Act directs the Secretary to increase the weighting factor of the assigned Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) by 20 percent for an individual diagnosed with COVID-19 discharged during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) period.

Hospitals get to charge Medicare/Medicaid a 20% surcharge for COVID patients and COVID deaths.

Note that this is deaths and patients who test positive for COVID while at the hospital, not deaths/patients whose reason for being in the hospital is COVID. At one point, those were all counted as "COVID hospitalizations/deaths" respectively by the CDC.

Given that COVID tests are tuned to have high sensitivity and (comparatively) low specificity, all a hospital needs to do to get their hands on that money is just give out a lot of COVID tests, and avoid re-testing the false positives. COVID tests are cheap, and to patients, it looks like the hospital being extra careful about keeping them safe from COVID.
Crypto-surplus hardware with same FPGA, https://www.hivelist.org/@apshamilton/acorn-215-xilinx-artix... & https://www.eevblog.com/forum/fpga/sqrl-acorn-as-an-interest...

Artix-7 is supported by LiteX, an open-source toolchain based on reverse engineering of Xilinx bitstream, https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex & https://antmicro.com/blog/2020/05/multicore-vex-in-litex/

These can be used for PCILeech DMA attacks/testing, http://blog.frizk.net/2021/10/acorn.html
You’re focusing on these other aspects, not the actual control. I can put my bike in a car, I can ride a bike up a hill or on a dirt trail, a bike is comparatively inexpensive, I can take a bike on a train to another city. Etc.

And it would be even more obvious which form of transportation provides the most control if you had bike-first infrastructure.

But you’re also not accounting for lots of things completely out of your control, like where highways get built, potholes, funding, insurance rates, the price of rubber for new tires, oil changes, gas stations, etc. It’s the illusion of control.

We’ve designed cities specifically so that you can feel like you are in control driving a car. Nothing could be further from the truth.
While I don't think that drug addicts should go to "jail" for being found using hard drugs - there should exist some incentive to go through treatment. Some freedoms or state granted benefits could be curtailed. Perhaps losing a driver's license might be a first step.
And it sounds like the users didn't understand that in some manner.
American citizens collectively.
What's 7k? One week of work + client comms ?

You can't really imagine anything being completed and deployed in that time.

It was a death trap to begin with. They're experience should have flagged this.

But both are equally at fault. This is what happens when clients have the lowest bidder mentality.

"the cheapest price is always the best option because it's the cheapest."
It sounds like the restaurant was a side project that was barely solvent to begin with. 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.
> What I found incredible is the lack of push-back from academics against the encroaching takeover by the biznoids.

Paradox of tolerance. Academics were too peacefully inclined to realize what is happening to them and their jobs until it's too late.

As the left re-emerges, I hope it will evolve into something with some fight in it. De-corporatization is going to take decades and it's not all going to be pretty.
The reason NPR didn't spell it out is because Tesla has not spelled out what exactly their prices were for acquiring and for selling their Bitcoin. We are left to guess.

In their earnings call they said they sold for a "realized gain" but then said something about "impairment charges".
It’s stupid I agree. But that’s the current meta of the game, and no one of any influence seems to want to change it.

You could say homework is becoming an alternative, but that is egregious for its own reasons, and is more often in addition to leetcode, not instead of. Homework also does not scale - at least leetcode skills scale horizontally across many different companies’ interviews.

The irony is that solving leetcode is actually fun - if it wasn’t associated with the pressure and burden of deciding the fate of a potentially career and life changing interview.
To survive peak oil, I am not having children and trying to FIRE
Positive association
I am in EXACTLY the same situation as you.

New job of a few months outcast feeling.

The trick is to figure out if it's your coworkers or your own mind or even a little of both.

There are malicious coworkers that will work to undermine you.

There's awkward coworkers who will seem like theyre dicks but are just awkward.

Then your mind is not a reliable narrator either and can interpret People's behavior inaccurately.

All of these things are possible and there's no real way to know for sure what's accurate.

So all you can do is either work hard and do your best everyday or find a new gig.

There's no objective answer here I don't think because not only do we as your audience not know the context I don't think your mind fully knows the context.

My solution at the moment is to try my hardest and be polite and nice and act excited to be there and take it one day at a time.
I also document everything I do in Jira tickets in detail. Ask many questions in Slack so it's documented. If that's not good enough I'll get fired but everything is documented so if any higher ups look into their turnover it will be clear that they're firing people who didn't deserve it.

I think that's all you can really do.