skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's self evident, endless and unchecked profit motives (neoliberalism) are divorced from considerations of resource sustainability or genuine social need, it will always use up more land than market economies with a more social minded approach.

If that isn't enough, loss of tree cover since 2001:

Neoliberal capitalist USA: 16% [1]

[1] https://www.globalforestwatch.org/dashboards/country/BRA

Socialism with Chinese Characteristics China: 6.7% [2]

[2] https://www.globalforestwatch.org/dashboards/country/CHN/
1% of world car sales. https://www.statista.com/statistics/200002/international-car...
Android 12 was a complete disaster.
There seem to be no book stores in Miami like at all anymore, it is pretty sad. Apparently Books & Books was a thing before but no longer exists other than the sun umbrellas outside where they used to be.
Figma plugin lets users select multiple nodes and flatten each in one click
> It then becomes a delicate dance, can the consulting team learn how to do the thing they sold the client fast enough,

Can they find a loophole in a document somewhere or a mistake in some email that they can use to claim what they sold the client is out of scope, you mean.
Just run your eye horizontally to see that toggling only a couple of bits move you between ^C, C, and c (back when ASCII was formalized few terminals supported lower case, and six bit character sets were common).
This is hilarious, kind of like the onion but without pesky humans, would be interested in how these are generated, perhaps the title is used to generate the image with dalle.

Note when generating text try https://text-generator.io which will save you some when generating text or code Vs open ai
I think it's equally good, but I can appreciate that it must be far more challenging to write.

From a writing perspective, Breaking Bad was amazing because they somehow created a very good story arc for the entire series, despite having no idea (at least initially) how many seasons it might last. Better Call Saul has to maintain continuity with a story that's already been written. It's like trying painting yourself into a corner and then exiting the room without leaving a footprint.
One frustration with Lenovo laptops is failing hinges. Well, not really the hinges, its the plastic around them that cracks. Neither of these was abused like you described, just occasionally opened and closed, probably not even on a daily basis.
Keep in mind, these websites might be sharing data, so be aware of the kind of data you are sharing.
Otherwise, a good and helpful list.
It looks good on the wall, has a bright large display that lights up when you approach and intuitive enough for non-techies to operate. Also it can be installed without a common wire.
Nope, works fine here on current webview and firefox nightly.
Angular was a reasonable choice - it's well suited to "enterprise" web applications as it has standard ways of doing things the Angular way in contrast to React which has 3 - 5 options for different things. Certainly back when it was chosen, there's no issue in this choice.

Mulesoft, personally hate it - but it's definitely an option if you're trying to abstract out a whole bunch of legacy systems into clean APIs. Personally, I'd probably create some lightweight integration components in custom code (whatever language you like) deployed in containers on some scalable cloud platform over buying a chunk of enterprise middleware and trying to find the skilled resource to configure it. But, I don't think Mulesoft was a death knell here - merely a bit of a money pit. Same thing for AEM.

Overall, it doesn't look like they were choosing unreasonable tools to do the various things they wanted. e.g. they weren't trying to use Salesforce as a transactional database platform.

You could definitely pick a better stack, largely from open source, and deploy to the hyper-scale cloud provider of your choice - but I don't think the tech stack that's what screwed this project up overall.
> The only reason these companies are successful is that the top execs are friends with the other execs at fortune 500 companies so they mostly figure out a way to spin it as a success so everyone gets their bonuses even if no value was created.

It's also usually that the big companies are so incompetent that paying 20 million dollars for nothing is still cheaper than hiring their own people to do it in house and ending up paying 40 million dollar for a team that will actually break stuff down and make everything worse.
Is there a list of all 25 somewhere? This could provide some illumination on what SEC does and does not consider a security.
How will they profit if the information never becomes public?
> We accept unsafe intersection in America that could be made a lot safer.

Related, Americans encountering a traffic circle, presumably for the first time and with their brains turned off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDaQZUzJCNM
Thanks for the feedback!

>If we select the "Product" option from the top menu, we're taken directly to the order page for the TinyPilot Voyager 2. If we go to the root page for the products (https://tinypilotkvm.com/product/) we get a page not found!!!

Are you talking about if you manually change the URL? I don't think anything links to the /product/ route.

>Although you're also selling something else, the TinyPilot Pro software (over at https://tinypilotkvm.com/product/tinypilot-pro) this isn't visible in the "Product" selection or from the main page. Maybe you should rename this selection to "Products" since you have at least 2 things you sell. The page for buying the software is only referenced from the Voyager2 page and from nowhere else.

Yeah, we intentionally focus on the Voyager and bury everything else. We used to have a product catalog, but it made users confused about what they were supposed to buy ("Do I need to buy the hardware and software separately?").

We consolidated down to a single product, and it roughly doubled sales:

https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2021/11/#simplifying-to-ju...
You're correct, and I expect the real issue is that working that was was completely foreign to WebAgency.

They typically are employed by businesses who are looking for a very specific result: a good website that works well.

Their team wasn't setup to, and didn't know how to just deliver a simple logo.

The correct answer would have been for WebAgency's CEO to say, "We'd love to work with you, but we're not really setup for this type of project. If you'd like to have us take on your whole website, here's what that would look like. Otherwise, I don't think we're a good fit."
Coal is (probably) permamently destroying 510 million square kilometers of Earth. Few square miles is amazingly small price for a carbon free energy.
I'm using a pg json column to store data as a second source of truth for data that is primarily held on a separate microservice.

The schema on that end is pretty intricate but to prevent hitting two services for certain types of data, we just dump it to a json column.

Furthermore, for a personal project of mine to help me with productiving / daily schedules, i'm using a json column for a to-do list in the schema of

{[some_todo_item]: boolean,}

which can't traditionally be represented in pg columns as the to do items are variable.
What you describe is basically open source ERP exchange protocols, which will never happen, as enterprise ERP software is designed to lock companies in for generations of maintenance contracts.

We were supposed to get all this with the promise of SOA, SOAP, data routers etc, but that never really happened outside of the enterprise.
Very cool. I'd prefer Sharp's memory display which uses power like ePaper display, but looks and works exactly like a traditional LCD with high refresh rates. And bluetooth/etc is not a feature, but a bug IMO; goes against the philosophy of F91.
The type of learning problem where I agree with your point is in something like learning how to classify hand written digits. My point about the continuous nature being unsearchable in practice is about recursive forms - if I choose this policy, my opponent will choose to react to the fact that I had that policy.

In your learning problem where thing were made tractable by differentiation you have something like an elevation map that you are following, but in the multi-stage decision problem you have something more like a fractal elevation map. When you want to know the value of a particular point on the elevation map you have to look for the highest point or the lowest point on the elevation map you get by zooming in on the area which is the resultant of your having chosen a particular policy.

The problem is that since this is a multi-agent environment they can react to your policy choice. So they can for example choose to have you get a high value only if you have the correct password entered on a form. That elevation map is designed to be a plain everywhere and another fractal zoom corresponding with a high utility or a low error term only at the point where you enter the right password.

Choose a random point and you aren't going to have any information about what the password was. The optimization process won't help you. So you have to search. One way to do that is to do a random search; if you do that you eventually find a differing elevation - assuming one exists. But what if there were two passwords - one takes you to a low elevation fractal world that corresponds with a low reward because it is a honeypot. The other takes you to the fractal zoom where the elevation map is conditioned on you having root access to the system.

This argument shows us that we actually would need to search over every point to get the best answer possible. Yet if we do that we have to search over the entire continuous distribution for our policy. Since by definition there are an infinite number of states a computer with infinite search speed can't enumerate them; there is another infinite fractal under every policy choice that also needs full enumeration. We have non-termination by a diagonalization argument for a computer that has infinite speed.

Now observe that in our reality passwords exist. Less extreme - notice that reacting to policy choice in general, for example, moving out of the way of a car that drives toward you but not changing the way you would walk if it doesn't, isn't actually an unusual property in decision problems. It is normal.
Not the person you replied to, but...

Everything is extremely hype-driven -- it turns out that "cannot confirm X" isn't very compelling for journals, etc. etc. or even the news cycle. Journals, etc. thrive on exciting new findings... and that tends to lessen the critical looks.

Of course, there are lots of other things to this problem: Very narrow fields where people absolutely know who their "anonymous" paper reviewers will be, and so must include even extremely tangential references to those reviewers' papers, etc. etc.

Usually the sciences self-correct eventually[0], but that's only because there is such a thing as objectively verifiable facts and overwhelming statistics in science.

[0] Unfortunately often as slowly as "one funeral at a time" (Max Planck, I think).
Actually having a usable product is missing from most government specs. Individual components get built by different teams, and nobody is responsible for making sure that they are built such that they work together.

At least, that's the theory of why the insurance marketplace failed so spectacularly.

Once you get to an organization of a certain size- private or public- the people with purchasing power are never the ones who need to use the service. As such, purchases are never made with the end users in mind. Instead, there'll be a list of checkboxes of things that sound nice, and if you're lucky, that list wasn't specially crafted to exclude everyone other than some Manager's buddy's business.
it 100% was set up
Pfft, my recent experience has been "copying while billing your clients".

Just had a consultant who literally got me to womp up a summary of everything going on (which was pre-existing analysis). They then added it to a PDF with some titles and a bit of fancy colour-shading, and BANG. £Xbillable hours and some expenses to boot. Honestly, the only "added value" they brought was to add on a cumulative growth percentage they obviously pulled out of their ...

Joke.

But I place the blame with the CEO, not the consultant. Consultants gonna "consult".
Those bodies routinely enforce road widening and other measures in residential areas that make things grossly more dangerous.

They also have explicit tradeoffs between the changes they make and deaths, proving the article's point.

Plus the guidelines often prioritise speed as an end goal rather than caring about throughput, or the fact that it should be a quiet residential street.

Plus the destruction of transit.

Spending just as much as safe, accessible transport would cost on road widening projects and barely keeping deaths under a high self-declared threshold isn't prioritising safety.
Valuations stopped working on reality some time ago.
This comment is spot-on. We've traded actual productivity for the appearance of productivity as thrift.

Yes that's primarily due to capitalism, specifically neoliberalism, crony capitalism and late-stage capitalism.

Unfortunately socialism isn't enough to save us, because even democratic socialism demands full employment, which is increasingly at odds with automation and UBI.

I don't believe that we have come up with a system yet that incentivizes the kind of one-off revolutionary invention that most of us got into programming for in the first place. The kind of economy where a single invention frees millions of people from forced labor.

Sergey and Larry come up with PageRank and suddenly everyone wants their search engine and they're set for life. Google wins the internet lottery and keeps all of the trillions of dollars. What about the rest of us? We invent something and our business fails due to long-tail effects and we die broke. 90% of businesses fail in their first year. So it's becoming increasingly competitive as tech improves - the ultimate tragic result. Which self-evidently trends toward a crisis of techno-capitalism in the future: The Singularity. Probably the last failure in human history.

We're looking at a situation by the end of the decade where one guy generates an entire movie from notes scribbled on a napkin with some future variation of DALL-E 2 and makes a million dollars. Meanwhile another guy who doesn't have the right connections spends his life working in the service industry as a wage slave.

Meaning that the most likely indicator of someone's success is a coin flip as we enter this era of neo-fuedalism.

Meaning that civil unrest and violence are all but inevitable now (just turn on the TV to see it everywhere).

Now, I think a lot of people on HN and the world at large have not tried working for themselves, so have no idea how hard money is to come by. Sure, we can make a quarter million dollars every year working 40+ hour weeks at a FAANG company. But make that from a personal project? Highly unlikely.

Writing this now, I have given up on a solution to this coming from the top. People close to me, even the majority of people on HN, don't seem to get it. They'll never get it. Something in the idea of UBI irks them deep down inside, just like with student loan forgiveness. So it's over.

On a personal level, I'm looking towards solarpunk and local cooperatives that create resource streams for people outside of the financial incentive. I think it's possible to invent robot kits that provide things like hydroponic produce for very low cost. Once people have their basic needs met, it liberates them from having to beg for grants or even a job. Which is why the entire status quo is geared against this. Rents and basic expenses will squeeze us even harder before the end. Expect crushing regulations against off-grid living, just like how rain barrels have been criminalized in the southwestern US.
I recommend "Mythic Worlds, Modern Words" by Joseph W. Campbell as a good introduction to the Wake, especially its decryption of the first few paragraphs, which are especially dense -- and not just because they're at the beginning and the reader isn't comfortable yet with the style.

I've read it all the way through three times. (I'm old.) It's worth the time, if you're willing to spend it.
Perhaps inspired from the real world author, Umberto Eco?

"... The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have! How many of these books have you read?” and the others—a very small minority—who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary. ..."
It's highly region dependent. In my city the work you're describing would go into the six figures(assuming you the design-architecture-engineering firm are paying the contractors).
the op explicitly states that they feel like an outcast in that specific workplace, not that they suffer from generalized social anxiety.

i am happy to hear that you have overcome your generalized social anxiety. i caution you against suggesting that someone stay in an apparently toxic workplace environment and chalk the problems up to flaws in their own character. you may be steering them down a path that could result in irreversible damage to their livelihood.
are the results different? i cant believe in usa the divide between black and white are bigger than being poor or middle class. certantly there are certain big picture "identity" dinamics (or the remaints) at plays, but to solve social issues the solution are simple and proven across countries and time. lift the poor out of poverty with economic and social chances (effective education is a simple solution) and control the problems originated by poverty in those communities by law and by "social" investments. the CRT discourse looks, behave? and talks like a divide et impera
Thank god we have CNBC to keep us informed.
This is actually expected.

See the discussion here around the finding of poliovirus in London sewage samples for background:

https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-913/
I guess I wasn’t explicit, I meant something made in the past decade or two. Going back to 3 decades ago, there’s a handful I can think of, going back almost a half century like the 8086/88, there were even more.
tl;dr -- should have gone with shopify
> If this was a single well-remembered click on each site no one would mind, the problem is that the providers want to make it painful so you start to just click 'accept' to get it over with.

God bless any website with a simple Reject All button.
I worked at a defense contractor. They'd pay me like $45/hr and bill me out at like $175 or something. This was the early 2000's after the dot-com crash. When I quit, they offered me like an instant 20% raise despite the fact they were giving 3 or 4% raises for years. Truly pathetic.
Customer satisfaction often translates into more dollars, though, because it means they won't cancel their service. I've had the same thought: if only this multi-billion dollar company could figure out that I want to continue watching the show I watched yesterday.
> lock their car and take them to the police station and let them contact someone from there. But don't force them to pay a fine or go to court if they haven't caused harm.

Supposing at least some drunk drivers are aware they are drunk but fully convinced they will not harm anyone, this improves their worst case scenario substantially. Before, losing their license; now, getting even closer to home before calling a ride. Does this incentivize drunk driving among people unable to evaluate the danger they present to others (e.g., drunks)?

Obviously, this falls apart somewhat because those same people probably drive drunk today thinking they won't get caught. Nonetheless, the common consensus is that certainty of punishment is the primary deterrent against criminal activity. Certain non-punishment will change some of the calculus.
So hire a Coyote into Mexico on foot. Got it.

For my assigned agent: this is not an admission of guilt, just curiosity and information collection. Carry on.
Tutanota is a peer of ProtonMail in the secure email department: https://nordvpn.com/blog/tutanota/
No need to overcomplicate it: we ignore it because it's not that common.

I mean, for every one person that dies in a car accident in the U.S., 16 die from heart disease and look at how good we are (collectively) at not really tackling that as a source of deaths!
Forcing manufacturers to put in a seatbelt in cars is a cost born by others for something many of them never wanted, forced on them by people who legislate not only having seat belts in their own car but installed in every car.
> They say their next model will have better Linux support

How come a machine like this doesn't have flawless Linux support? Such a lost opportunity...
Favored trigger mechanism for IEDs?
Xi actually does have a STEM degree as a chemical engineer, though there are rumours he didn't really earn it (I don't know if they are justified)
Selling a diuretic without offering a restroom is such a dick move
I once worked at a startup that came very close to securing a development contract with <TELCO> to build an early App Store like functionality for them. There was a major consulting group, like Accenture, bidding against us. In meetings with us TELCO would relay to us all the wonderful things this consulting company promised, which made absolutely no sense to us given the budget TELCO had given us. We figured the consulting company must already have those capabilities built for other telco clients, and must be benefitting from their massive scale. I figured the TELCO IT team knew how to due diligence these kinds of things well, being that it was their entire job.

We lost the sale because we told TELCO honestly that we could deliver what they wanted in the budget they had set. So TELCO went with the consulting company.

18 months later the consulting company came to us and offered to give us a subcontract to complete the project, within the scope we had originally offered to TELCO, for the same amount we had offered TELCO! We were stunned and could not understand how this could possibly make any sense economically. We had a meeting with the consulting company and took a look at the project status. It was a colossal pile of shit. Nevertheless, the consulting company promised that we would only be responsible for the scope they had laid out, which we were very comfortable delivering.

We were about to sign a contract to do so, and one of our advisors said we should flip the desks, run out of the negotiation, under no circumstances sign the contract, and for good measure close the offices for a month and not answer any phone calls or emails from the consulting company.

According to him getting involved in that project was in the very best case scenario going to destroy our morale and therefore destroy our team. And in the worst case would enmesh us in litigation and ruin all of our careers.

We thought hard about it, because we needed the money, but ultimately we didn't sign the contract.

Years later I met someone who worked for the consulting company and they told me that the project was an internal meme for a colossal disaster and shitshow. Apparently several consultants had nervous breakdowns over it. And one partner left the company. Meanwhile the project never saw light at TELCO.