skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case some you are not aware; McKinsey and similar companies have been progressively replacing public servants in government offices and administrations all over the world, for decades.

There was a relatively big scandal in France before the last election, as they crossed some lines, but this is far from over.
Here you go: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/04/12/2330

You can theme XFCE to look really, really close. Won't behave identically, of course.
It’s easy to be confidently wrong with statistics.

Ivermectin improves outcomes in a hospital setting… but only in developing nations.

There’s two confounding effects there! One, you have to be sick enough to be treated in hospital and two, living in a place with high levels of endemic parasite infections.

Ivermectin treats parasites. Parasites are helped by the steroids given for severe infections. Treating the parasite infections does -- demonstrably -- help outcomes, but not uniformly. It's not a prophylactic and it won't do much of anything in developed nations where less than 1% of the population has parasites.

I noticed just how bad these studies were when I took Tamiflu for the worst flu I had ever had. I went from crying in pain to "this feels like a mild sniffle" in less than 12 hours, the fastest I had ever experienced flu symptoms subsiding.

My doctor recommended against taking Tamiful because it was expensive (not really) and that studies showed that its effects were marginal, something like reducing the duration of symptoms by a mere 1/2 a day out of 2-3 weeks.

Reducing the duration... reducing the duration. You see, there's no objective method for measuring symptom severity, so during studies of new medications, they don't. They measure duration. But duration is very difficult to reduce, because of the way the learning process of the immune system works. There's a bunch of sequential processes that occur sequentially.

Tamiflu reduces symptom severity but not duration. So apparently it's "worthless", because it improves only outcomes that aren't measured.

Whether you're crying in pain or not is apparently not objective enough...
And then the Bank of England intervened because they saw trouble in the market. That's not "it is what it is." That's "with proper insight into important market positions, economic catastrophe can be avoided."
Add to that the fact that I can't stand iOS. I currently use a Pixel 4a because that was literally the smallest Android phone money could buy at the time, and one that still had a headphone jack.
Could be useful, if I did that often (or at all, but it is on my list)
This reminds me of a recent NYT op-ed where the premise was "a little nuclear war is okay." The reality is that any amount of nuclear war is the end of humanity, there is no post-nuclear war civilization, at least not for very long.
Counter parties go bankrupt all the time. Usually you’re faced with not receiving floating or not paying floating, and loss of your upfront fees for the contract. This isn’t a huge blow usually. Sometimes swaps blow up a counter party and you can’t get a windfall because they can’t pay it, but this isn’t a material loss but an opportunity loss.
> Pension funds and other 'non-bank' financial firms have more than $80 trillion of hidden, off-balance sheet dollar debt in FX swaps, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said.

Ah yup pension funds. In some countries they're mandatory: money is forcibly taken out of your salary to put into pension funds. Which may or may not give money back to you in 30 years once you retire. A few weeks ago the governor of the bank of England said pension funds were "hours away from collapsing".

Why the fuck was that? Can't pension just simply DCA reputable stocks and call it a day? No. They have to do crazy things. Like that Canadian teachers pension fund who put $95m into... FTX. Yup. FTX.

I don't know about you but I'd rather not have the state use its monopoly of violence to confiscate my money and put it in a pension fund, which I see as a complete and total ponzi.

I'd rather, instead, like to pay less taxes and be able to do what the fuck I want with that money. Like buying stocks, gold, Bitcoin or splurge at the casino.

I think about just anything I can think of, even lighting my money on fire, would be more moral than participating in the gigantic ponzi that pension funds are.

But I've got no choice as in the EU these ponzi are mandated and often run by the state and you cannot opt out.
This is it. States need to rip the band-aid off (or be forced to) so that people will be forced to get a Real ID at their next license renewal. Only then will this deadline pass without being extended
I'm seeing it too, and surprised their health page says nothing. The US East 2 console is unresponsive. https://us-east-2.signin.aws.amazon.com/
It’s not really net zero. The problem is that the value of that “asset” may get to zero because the debt is not going to get repaid.
Not exactly. The thing to keep in mind here though is that billable rate isn't necessarily 40 hours/week and you likely have some sort of salary component that requires you to hit a base amount of billable hours.

So something like (just making up numbers here)

$120,000/year
$170/hr for each billable hour over 20 hours/month
Sales/delivery bonuses, etc.
If air marshals could get rid of security checks, it would be worth the cost
Reminds me of the silly graphs you can find proving correlation is not causation like the correlation between Nicolas Cage movies coming out and increase in people drowning by falling into pools. If a Nicolas cage movie comes out this year then people are 50% more likely to drown by falling into a pool and it's a cover up if fact checkers hide this fact from gullible people /s
I don't know if this is legal now in the US, but insurance should be allowed to charge more for people with higher risk-taking, either because of past offenses, or other behaviors
how do I use this to play Dark Castle and Crystal Quest?
Slack's CEO Stewart Butterfield and CPO Tamar Yehoshua Resign
Can someone with more literacy explain what is the impact of this on an average Joe?
Is there any reason to be concerned that this site opens links to mc.yandex.ru, visor.sberbank.ru and kraken.rambler.ru?
As I see the title (just in case it has been changed), it is "Turns Out, Mandatory Helmet Laws Make Cyclists Less Safe".

This simply doesn't indicate that wearing a helmet makes cycling less safe. Perhaps someone might misread it that way, but that would be a mistake in terms of both logic and rhetoric.
Oh, are you the type to slip in a mention of your recent bread-run to Paris, keeping the "s" silent?
ChatGPT hasn't overcome any of the fundamental issues, it's just a huge improvement on the things that the original GPTs were good at. Being able to stay coherent for a trained-in length that gets longer with larger models is different from the length-unlimited coherence that human beings can manage, spanning lifetimes of thought and multiple lifetimes of discourse.
> The reduction in the number of cyclists is very easy to see as making things less safe for the remaining cyclists.

Perhaps that should be the headline then. "Mandatory Helmet Laws Make Cyclists Less Safe" implies that going helmet-free is safer than wearing a helmet. I get that there's a logical thread the writer is following re: fewer cyclists create a more dangerous environment -- we could also follow that logic when talking about rising bike prices or any number of things removed from the actual noggin-protecting benefits of helmets. Not sure I'd go so far as to call the headline "clickbait," but a more precise headline would've more accurately described the actual story (which was interesting to me, and I learned something).
Like all professionals , SEs should not rely on paycheck long term. Should build some form of wealth like real estate, or virtual real estate (an app or sth) to profit from. Don't think the crazy salaries of the '10s are repeatable
Yep, this is the reason. The same reason they use 'q', 'c' and 'x' etc., they don't correspond to English, or Italian pronunciation of those letters. They are "pronunciation keys" and Wade-Giles was the same. Just represented differently.
Or, ya know, maybe having to divert planes because of drunk and disorderly passengers is a giant waste of time and resources. That costliness is why it is heavily punished. It isn’t the same as a drunk stumbling in a gutter and passing out.
I think I will now.

I can't find the comment now, but there was a similar conspiracy about ex-Amazon Managers being paid to force their new employers to adopt AWS on one of the programming subreddits.
Conversely, as a hijacker, you'd be taking a huge gamble to try and select the one flight where there were no air marshals.

A lot of times, I feel like this whole concept was based on an inherit deterrent and seems to have worked, in conjunction with increased airport screening:

"The number of hijackings has dwindled in recent years. About 50 have been reported since Sept, 11, 2001, and none in the U.S., according to the Aviation Safety Network."
I did that in the last weeks. I live in Germany and we have a flat that is not very modern but has reasonable insulation. What I learned that under these conditions, with two people in a 30 square meters room, CO2 rises so quickly that one has to do intermittent, full ventilation (about 3 to 5 minutes, in Germany it's called "Stosslüften") for about every hour, to keep CO2 levels below 1500 ppm.
During the night in a smaller room, one can get easily levels of 3000 ppm. That's not dangerous, but it is not recommended for places where people have to work in a concentrated manner, like offices, or schools, for example. The recommended limit by the federal office for environment is 1000 ppm.

And that build-up of the stuff is a big difference to where we were living before (Edinburgh) where that kind of ventilation was basically unnecessary because no window closed that hermetical (well we lived in one of those wonderful 140 year-old houses in New Town).

In the end, with good insulation, it becomes increasingly important to have some active ventilation - it is also more economical, because it saves on heating. And that is in fact becoming more widespread with new family houses.
> The FBI is a political organization and chooses who they will persecute based on the political leanings of FBI leadership.

That's seems like quite a broad generalization.

Here are there press releases with regards to developments towards cases: https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/press-releases

Crimes that involve politics will always have some individuals stating they did things for political reasons, but without examples or more context to what you are referring to, that statement seems particularly broad stating that FBI is a political organization.
FT Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelenskyy. ‘I am more responsible than brave’
The current system (without Real ID) isn't really any less "secure". All Real ID does is force you to show a citizenship document to travel. It's designed to put pressure on illegal immigrants to self deport and punish States like California for who issue driver's licenses to non-citizens.

There is no automatic reason that Real ID would even be required to vote, since voting is left up to the states anyway. If the state says you can use a business card to vote then you can.
Eh, as with any LLM, you can prime it to be any political orientation you want.
"Risk compensation" is definitely a legit issue. I think you're the first to bring it up.
The US is capitalism-porn come true.
The fact these people act out on a plane causes me to evaluate them as non-normal. We’re all on this human cattle car together. Shut up and stay quiet for four hours. The videos I have seen (likely not representative) the passengers were given several opportunities to behave before the extreme measures were taken.
Also the book _The Cyberiad_ by Lem is now more relevant than ever. It is a set of short stories, mostly about messing with generative AI, AI assistants, etc.
Every single consulting article brings out comments who make the same mistake:

There's a difference between strategy consulting (e.g. McKinsey, BCG, Bain) and consultants that do large implementation projects (e.g. Accenture).

Yes, it's not so black and white these days as both do a bit of both but the reasons they are hired are very different:

Strategy: best practices, ass-covering, politics. Smaller teams, shorter timeframe, C-level. Think interviews & powerpoint slides.

Implementation: body leasing, offloading large projects. Larger teams, IT-heavy, longer timeframes. Actual coding / documentation, etc.

And no, your experience working on a 300-people core banking project at Accenture doesn't translate to a 5-people McKinsey project.

And while both types are "expensive", they are needed in the corporate world. Because work in that environment is more than just writing code in a text editor, it's mostly politics at the top.
We got all our main stack all at us-east-2. Seems to all be running currently
> The tone in these papers is universally that this would be desirable for the central bank, but hard for the public to accept.

Yeah, that’s putting it mildly! Isn’t this basically a wealth tax on the middle and working classes?
We're experiencing issues for some users but not all connecting to resources in US East 2.
Without a bike helmet perhaps your confidence would better match your surroundings eg: black ice. If I biked all winter in full hockey gear I’m certain I would fall more often because I would not be scared to death of slipping on black ice and getting running over by the truck behind me
Could be resolved, east-2 console working fine on my end.
nice ... it would be nice to know how to play though
Have you not seen what’s happened in tech over the last six months?
Try it on your phone.
Not the poster you asked but there’s been a few.

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/16/business/16jail.html
Replicache is cool

1. So by "weaken durability" you mean basically allow committed changes to be "lost" in the case of a common conflict, aka give it up entirely?

2. CRDTs are meant to converge even in the presence of network partitions (offline first), so you're saying your committed transactions can be uncommitted? Or you're saying writers have no idea if their transaction is committed because it might converge the other way after arbitrary delay?

"Durability" means "transactions that have committed will survive permanently" – wikipedia
Accenture aren't even in the Vault Consulting Top 50 rankings. I don't know how this list is calculated but people in consulting tend to refer to this (I used to work at MBB).
This is hyperbolic. The author isn't some kind of bumbling fool who can't program, as you seem to be suggesting, he's an accomplished computer scientist. And foregoing the return instruction doesn't prevent you from writing "nontrivial" code, you only have to look at the entire Elixir ecosystem if you need a proof.
Hilarious. I think the criterion is that you have to change your pronunciation if someone claims you have power: a kind of punching up / revenge.
I think the confusing here is between a “cease and desist letter,” which is a letter can anyone to anyone else warning them that you’ll sue them if they don’t stop doing something, and an “injunction to cease and desist”. An injunction is a temporary court ruling made on an urgent matter. The NLRB had to show the court that workers would be permanently harmed if they waited till the full lawsuit was over to force Amazon to stop. Cease and desist just means stop, so you can read this as an injunction to stop firing workers for protesting unsafe working conditions.

Edit: I missed that this was about safety protests, not unionization.
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield is leaving Salesforce two years after acquisition
Intentional bad behaviour like not hitting the breaks fast enough when a kid runs in front of your car?
It's not turtles. Here is an easier hypothetical:

Imagine you go to the bank to get a loan for a new tractor for your business. They ask to see a list of your assets and liabilities (your balance sheet).

You own a house worth $1 million with no mortgage.
You have an insurance policy.
You have nothing else.

If bushfires start right next to your house as you are meeting the bank manager, you don't say to him/her: I have a house that is worth 900k marked to market because of the bushfire risk, and I marked my insurance policy to be worth $100k.

You have a house worth $1 million. The insurance policy is "off balance sheet" despite the fact it could be worth a lot of money.
A company firing its human experts in favour of AI is a bad sign, probably going to fail. If business was good they would hire additional humans and use more AI. The purpose of a company is not to reduce salary costs, but to increase profits.
It’s a temporary order to get them to stop while the lawsuit continues. They’ll probably be fined, but that could take a long time to work out.
Imagine being the politician or person who cancels the program, only to have a plane hijacked or whatever.

Spending a few billion of taxpayer money is fine if the cost is your political career or a hit to your political party.
In the US we say "driver's license" because 90+% of the population has one, but the portion of the population who doesn't wish to drive can get a State ID card. The only difference between an ID card and a driver's license is on the back where it lists what types of vehicles you are allowed to drive and what types of restrictions have been placed on your driving them.

In the UK how do you prevent minors from buying alcohol if you don't have some sort of ID with DOB on it?
Hah, no, I'm the type of person annoyed by such things and thus aware of them.
This is simply insane at this point.
The animal's intestine. Which is why the cooking safety question is more of a question about how the animal was slaughtered and butchered.

See comments above about how US meat safety concerns are usually a consequence of slaughtering and butchering in the most cost effective manner.
It's a water repellant. My guess is that it's hydrophobic and causes the water to bead and roll out instead of smearing over the surface and clinging on.
All accessible
We're still up on us-east-2 but lots of customers calling in that they can't connect - makes me think there's some network down somewhere.
How do you know an Accenture consultant? They change "Big 3" to "Big 4".
Drinking on a plane is the only good part of flying, though!
https://www.onlinemetals.com/ will let you order custom cut metal supplies. I ordered from them years ago. It was the only source I could find at the time for being able to get just a small quantity of sheet copper. Everyplace else was like "Sure, we will sell you scads of copper sheet for scads of money. Bulk orders only."
Thanks, maybe I can ask ChatGPT how to code this :)
I have worked as a consultant, but not for the one of the big 4. We understood that we were often being used to develop an 'independent' perspective that would support a decision that had essentially already been made or disprove a rival decision.

We also were fully aware of the old joke that a consultant is someone who borrows your watch and then tells you the time. We sometimes deployed this ourselves with customers, and extended it to say that unlike our rivals, we would actually point out how late you were and how to get back on track.

[Edit] We sometimes found ourselves supporting one of the big 4 companies (as domain experts). We were often amazed by the quality of the A team that they would deploy to win the work, compared with the B or C team that would then actually execute it (often bright but junior staff).
In 1999-ish, my two brothers and I got a box of relays and some reed sensors and solenoids (for track-switches) embedded in lego blocks.

We're all engineers now, the box is treasured and still works. Finding a PC with a parallel port has become challenging though.
> ChatGPT hasn't overcome any of the fundamental issues, it's just a huge improvement on the things that the original GPTs were good at. Being able to stay coherent for a trained-in length that gets longer with larger models is different from being internally coherent for 90 years by nature like people are.

People are very often not internally coherent over periods much shorter than 90 years.
I used a few drops of paraffine oil in both ears, then in the next few weeks some small pieces of dark and hard earwax came out. I am using q-tips too and had slight worries about pushing wax into my ears. Turned out to be rightful worries somewhat.
Not exactly. What you heat is the inside of your rooms, and a significant part of that heat can be felt as infrared radiation. When you ventilate in a quick and intensive manner, you exchange the air, which becomes cold for a few minutes but you do not cool down the room - because that takes longer. And the cold air has very little mass, so it is easy to re-heat again, and will be warmed by the walls etc.
Lawyers can always make a law to pay themselves, programmers can't
Works from my computer but not my phone (AT&T in NY).
>> I don’t know how to complain properly

> Oh I don't know, I think you're doing a fine job of it.

:D If I knew, I would address the issues with the right person and solve them.

So I ended up speaking to computers instead. The rest is so dark that I shouldn’t tell it online, but honestly, you should stop being hateful towards anybody. Any human. Anyone. Don’t do that. Hard no. You are creating hate when you hate people. And man millionaires can be as violent as any other man, as uncaring, as ... We’re no special race. Wasn’t born with a silver spoon either, I was making the point that it was hard work and no life balance that led me here, not privilege or inheritance, just good sustained work, moving until it worked, and lacking social attachment. So I’m gonna go back to my computer and try forgetting about how people like you intentionally ruined my life.

Don’t.
Very cool. After trying numerous combinations of composition, velocity, and diameter... my takeaway is that most asteroids 70 feet or bigger would do substantial damage at 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA.
Edit: firstly, this is a distraction (i.e. a red herring) from the debate about national IDs. We have a national ID issue which needs to be fixed.

That ruling doubles down on it being a state thing by saying leave citizenship (which is a federal thing) out of it. If a state creates for itself a catch-22, that is the states fault and is therefore the states responsibility to fix.

Arizona needs to stop shirking it’s responsibility to its residents and come up with a solution to this problem, just like virtually every other state has.
But which market index ? Nasdaq, DJI, DAX, Sensex ? Article is paywalled so I can't quite tell.
Yeah I can't access our services on us-east-2 on AT&T 5G but CAN on my CenturyLink fiber.
z and forward slash for left and right bumpers.
Press and hold space to pull back launch plunger and release to launch.
x and period to tilt table.

Worth noting that F8/Player Controls dialogue doesn't work, and neither does disabling the music.
On our team, we are seeing that if you are on AT&T cell service or have AT&T as your ISP, you can't reach AWS or our site in US-east-2.
Can just drink in your car, people would do it. I'd probably do it. Why? Because drinking makes the flight go fast and it's fun, especially if you're flying to go on vacation.

I don't drink a lot, but like going to a baseball game - drinking and flying is fun. Goes well together.
OMGGG so many memories
Naa. Does not scale. Moloch need something more heavy duty.

Like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkaline_hydrolysis_%28body_di...
Lidiane Jones is Slack's new CEO
They'd make 50% or less of what they make in the private sector for the difference in job security and workload.
Can't you just clean the outside yourself, like in the shower? You can easily get infections for example from seawater residue.
Interesting, does that use the latest GPT tech or something else? And how do we know which is the better approach?