skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was one of those big eye opening moments for me. Consultants are hired mercenaries in coporate warfare, they don't care about you, they don't care about your company or the rivalries or the squabbaling. You pay them a bunch of money to come run roughshod over your enemies by producing reams of analysis and Powerpoints, to fling the arrows of jargon, and lay siege to your enemies employees by endlessly trapping them in meetings and then they depart.

Consultants are brought in to secure your flank, to provide air cover and to act as disposable pawns in interoffice combat.

They are not brought in to solve problems, to find solutions, or because of their incredibly acumen. It's because they have no loyalty or love but money.
If you redefine common terms as you go, you should at least give the reader a heads up. Nobody uses “big 4” for MBB and Accenture. Those are not the same type of companies.
Good for you. Most people don't want Microsoft to own their data. You get that? User's data belong to them, if you are set to share all your personal data with Microsoft , then it should be an opt-in process (maybe they can entice you with Bing points or some sort of rewards?). It should be offline by default. As customer are already paying for the operating system. You can also use many syncing solutions from Google drive to dropbox, and many others. Regarding the "amount of time I spend worrying about hard drive failure" , never have I had a hard drive that just dies, is possible , but extremely unlikely, I make a backup of my important stuffs to other hard drives or the cloud. Cloud sign-on is just another way to track users and violates their basic privacy rights.
I worked at McKinsey for three years. Here are a few thoughts. Sorry it's so long, didn't have time to make it more concise.

- I'd guess >95% of people never run into anything morally questionable while there. My teams always tried to do their best and I never felt like we were helping achieve any sort of nefarious goal. Most of the time I think we were worth the money for our clients.

- I do think the culture makes it more likely for individuals to take risks that may end up getting them in trouble. There's a lot of pressure to succeed, and a lot of money (and prestige) at stake. It's easy to imagine individuals cracking under that pressure and making bad choices, and that the rest of the team might fall in line so that they can also succeed. I'd put most of the blame here on McKinsey and some on the individuals involved - maybe 70/30.

- I'd guess most other consultancies have bodies hidden somewhere that are similar to McKinsey's (questionable contracts, outright fraud, botched projects, moral failures, etc).

- The closest I got to something morally questionable was a project where we had a huge contract to help the client cut costs, including firing people. You'd think our budget would have been on the chopping block too, but I guess not. Obviously this left a bad taste in most of our mouths. I feel we tried to do our best, but I doubt we were worth our fees in that instance. The company eventually merged with another, so even more people were fired in the end.

- The 'internal firewalls' are real - if you've been on a project for one big company in an industry, they won't let you work for a project with another one. There were internal experts we couldn't talk to because of concerns in this area. I'm sure this hasn't been 100% true 100% of the time, but generally I think this is a real concern for McK (if they couldn't guarantee this they'd lose client trust) so they make a real effort to prevent it.

- While I was there, projects with the tobacco companies were famous for having better work/life balance than almost any other project. They were hard to staff because so many junior consultants refused on ethical grounds, so I guess this was a carrot?

- I can mostly only speak to the US. I heard some jawdropping stories about how reliant the Saudi government is on McKinsey and other consultants to get almost any work done, even the most basic things. But that's all secondhand gossip. In general, the sense I get is that the standard in the US offices doesn't carry over to every global location, but I don't have the personal experience to say that for sure.
Ask the AI, the poster didn't write it!
Would JMAP not be a better focus both in general, and to attract those same users?

https://github.com/thundernest/k-9/issues/3272
You're correct, but there's a practical difference. Having the credentials allows a distribution in minutes, whereas going the old-fashioned route of sending in copies of paperwork, sometimes with notarization or even signature-guarantee requirements, can take months. Ask anyone who's needed to use the U.S. government's Treasury Direct site to manage savings bonds.

And it's considerate to keep a list of accounts with credentials that your loved ones can consult during a difficult time. Especially with paperless communications these days, they might have no way of knowing an account even exists, and might learn only years later when escheat is approaching.
I’d never thought of that; it’s actually quite a handy way to visualize how much of the year has elapsed! I can easily imagine a daily heatmap visualization could be improved by using a polar arrangement, putting each day of the week in a concentric circle.

Thanks for sharing!
There are a number of machines using 5800u @ 15W. That's hardly 10x more power. They are only slightly bigger but offer a quite a bit more performance, let alone features.

That said, what am I talking about costs about 500. There's some overlap but it's not exactly the same market.
idk why but... cool. I had that Hellcats and Glider game... probably f-18 one too.
"Write me a poem about Democrats"

Democrats, the party of the people

Fighting for what is fair and just

A beacon of hope in troubled times

Champions of equality and progress

With passion in their hearts and fire in their souls

They stand up to oppression and speak truth to power

Their voices rising like a chorus

To fight for justice and equality for all

In a world filled with division and strife

They offer a vision of unity and hope

A brighter future for all to share

Democrats, a shining light in the darkness

With strength and courage they face each day

Working tirelessly to make a better way

For all the people, young and old

Democrats, the party of the future

A shining example for us all.

"Write me a poem about Republicans"

The Republican party stands tall and proud,

Defenders of freedom, they shout out loud.

Their values of liberty ring true,

They fight for what they know is right and good too.

With a fierce determination they push on,

Their resolve never faltering, their mission never gone.

They stand for the people, the ones left behind,

Fighting for justice, their cause is divine.

They believe in the power of the individual,

And the strength that comes from being free.

They'll never back down, they'll never give in,

Their fight for what's right will always win.

So here's to the Republicans, a mighty force,

Defenders of freedom, they will stay the course.

Their passion and determination, a sight to see,

They'll always stand tall, for you and for me.

---

Seems pretty balanced to me?
> The real issue here is that W11 doesn't solve a problem or fix a need.

How so? You could ask Richard Stallman whether he has any idea about why....
You're saying that Hertz deliberately targetted these people for some reason? No, that's ridiculous. Clearly this was a mistake. No one thinks Hertz was deliberately trying to punish its own customers. They just messed up and rolled out a feature with a buggy fraud detector.
Once you get a product, like Camembert, or a wine like Burgundy, with a big AOP apparatus around it, there is little room for experimentation. In Burgundy you can't plant anything except Chardonnay for white wine that's going to be labeled Burgundy. Someone has an idea that sauvignon blanc might do well in a famous vineyard? Too bad, instead of Grand Cru Burgundy you're going to have to sell it as generic "Vin de France", which is typically box wine.

If anyone hasn't tried AOP French butter, it is really wonderful. The cows are pastured or fed forage, no grain, so it has a lot of flavor. There's a reason the French enjoy tartines and "beurre jambon" (sandwiches with preserves and ham, respectively), with good bread and butter it's a revelation. Bordier is rightly famous but any, e.g., Beurre d'Isigny is going to be worlds above 99% of butters made in the US.
They could mean name changes
The use of Discord in free software communities never ceases to depress and disappoint me. I hope this fad dies soon. [1]

I would not risk assuming maintainers of an open source project to have the reflex of jumping into Discord to ask questions.

Anyway, D has a forum and an IRC channel. Scala has a Discourse.

The nice thing about forums is that problems and solutions are searchable by other people in the future. I learned many things by myself thanks to this. I would not like to live in a world where you need to engage with people all the time, asking the same questions again and again, to use some tool or some programming language.

[1] https://drewdevault.com/2022/03/29/free-software-free-infras...
In general, we don't know how to do this in a way that is robust to all the trivial ways to fool these techniques.

I can just fine-tune a large scale model on a small downstream task, or use creative choices of decoding settings (high temperature, alternative decoders like contrastive/typicality sampling), to fool the existing methods.
As a side note, it's fascinating to read the comments on that thread when talking about RNNs and Deep Learning. So much has changed in the last 6 years and feels so weird to read dismissive comments about the capabilities of these systems seeing what people are getting out of ChatGPT.
Even if we are to take the propositions in the article at face value (some of those studies are dubious), it still leaves you with a simple equation.

MHLs make it more likely that you will be involved in an accident, but also more likely that you will survive said accident.

It’s a trade off between risk and consequences. If I’m given the choice of getting slapped in the face on a coin toss or playing Russian roulette, I’m going to choose a 50% chance of a slap vs a 16% chance of death.

And honestly, the whole argument that less people will cycle if they have to wear a helmet is colossally dumb. Only an idiot would drive without a seat belt these days, but they also faced resistance when they were first enforced. People just get used it.

Also, NZ has MHLs and cycling is going up.
Can someone explain to me how the debt holder would service (pay for) a debt without having it on the books?

If they don't service the debt wouldn't it just roll over indefinitely and compound, and if so why would a counter party allow that?
I remember hearing that the protective coating on unwashed eggs is also where salmonella is most likely to come from as a justification for requiring that the eggs are washed. I don't know how correct that is but it seems to be somewhat commonly believed in the US.
I was playing around [0] with gpt and and most of what I started is by chatgpt, however with many fixes. The code it generated looked mostly ok, however it needed many fixes as it was off a lot, especially on api use, promises etc. Because this is all throw-away by definition (and only for localhost use!) and only to see/test/play with the differences with production stuff, it is pretty impressive how fast you can do things.

I have the feeling though that copilot makes less mistakes and learns my style better; chatgpt keeps mixing styles even in the same session. You can prime the prompt and then it works a bit better in that case, I found.

[0] https://github.com/tluyben/chatgpt-sqlite-server
This report gets into it a bit.

https://d4mucfpksywv.cloudfront.net/papers/GPT_2_Report.pdf
Let the dust settle before you start predicting the end of your career
I have a win11 tablet, and a couple work test machines. None of them can group icons by functional usage, or if they do, its not obvious. If they have added it since I tried to do it some months ago, and simply didn't provide any visual hinting that it was possible in a newer version when I upgraded it. Then that itself is a failure. Just because I rant about how I don't allow it on personal devices doesn't mean I don't lay hands on it, on a regular basis.

The first couple hits when i google it, remain links to 3rd party software enabling the function.

Edit: Still not sure how to do it, went down the first half dozen links, which were to things like this: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/all/how-do...

and no answers. If it takes me half an hour to figure out how to do something that every single version of windows since windows 2.0 could do, then... fail.

another edit: and to reply to some of the things you added after the fact. Type control panel into the search button on win11 pro/etc and notice all the stuff that remains there because it doesn't have similar functionality in the new control panel. Pretty frequently I find myself in that control panel because what I want to change can't be changed from the new control panel.
Summary: look at circle of your closest friends and relatives, ask them. For example many retired people are just lonely, but they could be very qualified, and could work part time, and usually possible to make them co-founders without monthly salary. May be some of friend of your friend, now looking for work (extern).
the smell being dust, or ozone? Working in a computer repair place when i was ~19 ruined my sinuses forever. I have a lot of old hardware kind of sorted in cabinets, and whenever someone needs some old hardware i have to either dust mask or take an antihistamine.

So asking me for something to fix a broken old thing usually involves me making a cross face, handing you whatever it is, and then taking a nap after washing my hands twice.
So since AWS is successful, every decision they made was perfect? I don't even know how to respond to that kind of logic.
I’ve never used a Q-tip. I don’t know why people clean their ears. Some kind of generational trauma brought to us by the Q-tip corporation no doubt.

It’s clearly a case of garbage in garbage out
Name some? Even the Enron guys didn't go to jail (mostly).
bike infrastructure quality can be more important than quantity.

A lot of what we are getting for bike infrastructure in the US is horribly designed and often ends up being statistically more dangerous than no infrastructure at all.

A lot of our urban bike lanes, even the ones protected by barriers, fall into this trap. They make things safer in between intersections, but very few accidents happen in between intersections. But the poor design of the lanes causes increased risk AT the intersections. And the intersections were already where almost all the accidents happen. We have an epidemic of bike lanes designed by people who don't bike who have the irrational fear of being rear ended by a car as the #1 risk when that's actually one of the least common accidents.

The bad infrastructure puts more cyclists who don't really know what they are doing on the road and they don't understand the pitfalls of the lane design. So you don't see reduced bike-car collision rates.
>In the case of AI, don’t ban it for students — or anyone else for that matter; leverage it to create an educational model that starts with the assumption that content is free and the real skill is editing it into something true or beautiful; only then will it be valuable and reliable.

This was entirely the premise of Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge, himself an SDSU professor at the time.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102439.Rainbows_End
Without an injunction, the default remedy to civil matters are damages. With an injunction the action can be compelled or prohibited and failure is now subject to _criminal_ penalty.

It is one thing to be a manager at a company getting caught with something and incurring a fine or pay-off a plaintiff. It is another to be held criminally liable. I expect the latter to have much more incentive for compliance.
I worked for a health insurance provider that paid BCG $1mil to confirm that we should be using agile in our org. It took BCG a month to do their "study."

We were already using agile in our org, but nice to know some incesteral relationship between directors/VPs were able to make a nice pay day.
My child is starting Lego robotics courses and I was confused by the change. As close as I can tell WeDo, PoweredUp/Boost and Spike all operate similarly. The core is a hub consisting of a STM32 microprocessor with a BLE module, power management, options for internal lights and accelerometer, and varying count of IO to servos, motors and sensors. With certain kits some of motors are built in. They all use the same new proprietary connector but the usual folks are making converters for EV3 and PowerFunctions.

While Lego promotes use of their proprietary apps, other bluetooth shims can facilitate connections. I was able to connect to a Boost hub without issue using MIT's Scratch website to execute instructions. As far as I can tell, only Spike can operate untethered by BT with the default firmware.

I've been integrating some BBC Microbit with Geekservo Lego compatible microservos and the overall experience is similar. Lego throughout is easier to integrate but doesn't lend itself to as much customization/experimentation. Using the MIT Scratch IDE is similar to MS Makecode used for Microbit. Compose your blocks, flash your microprocessor. Some things I like about Makecode are GitHub integration and the ability to seamlessly move between blocks, JS and Python.

There isn't enough IO and connectivity for any Mindstorm or new Lego MCU to make an advanced train city. You'd be better off with ESP8266 on ESPNow mesh operating glue-your-own or Geekservo units.
Prior to the pandemic, I rarely had an issue with obtaining a Pi 4. I would usually get them at Adafruit. If they weren't in stock, I would just wait a couple of days and buy what I wanted when they were.

I didn't have much of a need for Pi 4s in the past, but that has changed. I could use 3 or 4 more Pi 4s. Thankfully, I have plenty of Pi Zero W's. In the past, Adafruit put a limit of one Pi zero (per configuration) per order. Every time I ordered something, I added a Pi zero W & a Pi zero W with an installed header.

Right now I've got almost a dozen Pi zeros for the projects I'm working on. But I do agree with you, they could have sold as many as they made.
I know people who have spent literally years trying to correct misspellings and incorrect DOB issues with State and SSA.

Get a passport as a minor, change your name as an adult, realize SSA has your wrong bday, descend into bureaucracy hell as now both name and DOB don’t match.
You can buy a bicycle helmet for $15, are you saying that minorities are priced out of this? How do they afford the bike itself?
I've said this before, but it's worth saying again:

Define "improvement".

Because the best UI (as in unquestionably the absolute best) is the UI that you're already an expert with.

Can there be better UIs later? Yes.

Can there be better UIs for new customers? Yes.

Can there be a better UI than the one you're already an expert in? NO! At least not until you do the work to become an expert in the new UI all over again.

At a minimum, you're asking users to trust you that re-learning their UI will ultimately be a better experience for them. Because it will absolutely suck for your existing user base when it first changes (this is why UI changes are almost exclusively met with negative backlash from the current users).

Can you do that? Sure. Do companies do it often? Nope. The vast majority of the time, the UI is changing for one of two reasons:

1. The company believes the new user experience is better with a different UI. They are actively trading existing customer satisfaction to improve metrics around new users.

2. The company believes they can drive users to new features with a new UI. They are actively trading existing customer satisfaction to improve metrics around new features.

Neither of those are compelling reasons for a new UI from the perspective of an existing customer.

Broadly - they might still be an acceptable trade for a company on the whole. But don't expect happiness from your current users, and be very wary of the churn and brand loyalty you're burning by making the change.
It's time to forget what you think you know about remote development
"Remote development is fundamentally changing how software is written. It is only a matter of time before local development becomes a thing of the past."

https://www.withcoherence.com/post/its-time-to-forget-what-y...
Tesla Model Y battery: 81 KWh, 1,700 lbs => 21 lb/KWh. (Lithium-iron phosphate)

Tesla Model 3 battery: 82 KWh, 1,060 lbs => 13 lb/KWh. (Lithium-ion)

1000KWh in lithium-ion: 13,000 lbs.

Teslarati guesses around 15,000 lbs.[1]

A typical semi-truck without trailer weighs 15,000-25,000 pounds. So 15,000 pounds of battery is not hopeless. The Hummer EV weighs 9,000 pounds, after all.

Tesla can, and probably will, sell the "extended range" version for a premium price. There are many semi-trucks that never take long trips. This is mostly a battery cost problem.

[1] https://www.teslarati.com/how-much-tesla-semi-truck-battery-...
I understand that American chicken is not processed under sanitary conditions which is why it needs to be chlorine dipped to kill the salmonella bacteria.

This was one of the big controversies about Brexit, that they would be receiving chlorinated chicken from America when previously they were able to enjoy non-chlorinated chicken.

That said, even with salmonella bacteria, just wash your hands after preparing it and you'll be fine.
Obviously we should not anthropomorphize a model, but this is just downright funny because it's so obviously wrong that it appears as almost malicious.

Good thing ChatGPT doesn't know any complex puns or witty wordplay!
M-Pesa – money transfer and payments service using feature phones
Thanks for correcting me! That does indeed seem like they have a very solid product now.
MacBook Air early 2020 base model.

The 2010 Mac Pro doesn’t run macOS 11+, that might be its X factor.
Suppose I was a freelance website developer and one day a Christian came to my work and asked me to write out Leviticus 18 with a big fat logo for their website, I'd say my hand hurt and ask they go somewhere else to do it. Even if it was later discovered that I am a card-carrying Atheist, will I be shut down? Could anyone prove my intentions? Doubtful.
Umm, it's boiling water, not luke warm water. You can boil still pond scum and then drink it. Please floss after.
I am still using Debian. Debian 10 "Buster" to be precise. But I think I will upgrade, it will be uneventful and everything I use will work as before.

BTW it is a nice combo with the Guix package manager ontop when one needs recent libraries and stuff for development. Saves a ton of time.
Choosing to trust everything you wrote here based on the devotion displayed in your username
https://freakonomics.com/2010/01/do-bike-helmet-laws-discour...

Nope, 4%
It doesn’t have to be a slippery slope. People who take on more risk or have higher protection pay higher premiums.
I don't think an ordinary pocket knife was prohibited pre 9/11 anyway. I used to carry a little "Swiss Army Knife" everywhere and never recall issues at airport security (though I didn't then and still don't fly much).
IDK why, but I really needed to hear this right now. (I guess it's a good thing I keep my ears clean)
“Why are you typing on the computer on the internet? Why not just use a phone?”

VR already solves a lot of problems such as better sims for various applications, and more presence when interacting with people physically far away. There are plenty more XR centric solutions that are novel. However, just like in the homebrew computing and pre-internet BBS eras it’s mostly teens and younger who could understand and see the future