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It's hilarious watching the 3 threads on HN surrounding this topic.

First had one brand new account uttering psyop nonstop with zero evidence. All their posts were flagged before the story went from front page to gone in 2secs.

The second one had several accounts saying the exact same message, in the exact format and wording as the first. And a few extras with similar but clearly different people. Also went from front page to nowhere in 2secs.

This being the third I noticed is absolutely full of these opinions. Which are entirely conspiracy theories.

If a group of activists choose this story as their attack vector, so be it. Clearly it is interesting enough to keep on fire. There's also a lot of unanswered questions and nobody has been held to any sort of account.

Maybe if we jail an executive for this we will stop seeing it.

It's just one executive, who cares.
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Ok but that's a hypothesis you make. To me it is absurd how an external object can exist independently of perception. What does it even mean that anything "exists" without senses to perceive it?
One project I was involved with, the value of the consultants was helping the clients work through their own process, because the client didn't fully understand the process themselves.

Did the consultants know the process? No! But they managed to extract the information from multiple people, combine it into an actual working process and present it back to the people and us, so we could actually implement any of it.
Had to learn about these the hard way when trying to set up a Wireguard tunnel on machines that are also Kubernetes nodes.

Turns out that kubernetes (specifically flannel? I forget exactly) aggressively colonizes half of the fwmark namespace, and Wireguard was trying to use a value in that range. For a non networking guy that was hard to figure out.
> Especially one already in legal trouble and significant debt, unable to travel

... and living in a country involved in war, run by a regime for which respect for the rule of law is a "nice to have".

If I were in FSB, I'd be banging at this guy's door right now, and making his life as comfortable as I can. Imagine dropping an obfuscated killswitch on half the global web, that is Real Power right there; or silently siphoning out credentials from FAANG-level companies; or or or...

We are incredibly lucky that Herr Putin's henchmen are actually not very good.
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If MSDNC, Fox, CNN etc don't get weighted for being superior, the general consensus may prevail moreso.
From the next line in the article:

> They wanted us to spend a fortune on some schemes like the one they had to encourage voter registration, but we only had to spend about £5,000 to make sure Jeremy’s people, some journalists and bloggers saw it was there on Facebook.
At least I can't see how the current Russian administration could survive a loss in the Ukraine. On top of that, if the war drags on for years, the sanctions and general production losses are going to bite. Various far regions of Russia (Vladivostok?) may start looking for options. No need for overt rebellion, just tactically ignoring edicts from Moscow may crack the federation.

The future seems sad yes, but this situation didn't appear out of nowhere. The dragon seed in Russia (and China) has been growing for decades.
Related book on the same topic:

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2019/12/24/book-review-the-...
>The US cannot fight two wars vs Russia and China.

US is winning conventional war with Russia without losing a single soldier and using 1-2% of what they spend on Iraq war.

>China will use this opportunity to take back Taiwan.

Sure, "take back". Use factual words - invade.

>China knows that if they let Russia be defeated, then they are next.

Next of what? Being defeated when they rush into extremely aggressive, genocidal war? They need to be sure of that, yes. Russia's loss is 100% self inflicted.
My spouse and I eat spicy foods. I’ve got a 6-year-old that’s tried it but chooses not to because he doesn’t like the sensation. It goes both ways!
> Pixelated Noise is a software consultancy and we're always looking for interesting projects to help out with. If you have unmet software development needs, we would be happy to hear from you.

Yeah the code presented on that article doesn't really make me want to hire those guys.
Consultants are a "management" sock puppet for "bad decisions".. one gets to respect managers way more, that tell you the reasons they got to the for you bad decisions.
This is from 2016. Next.js was one of the first frameworks to solve most or all of the problems mentioned in the article.
Interesting that the issue was solved in 2011 but presumably, the risk that someone is still using a 12+ year old browser is greater than the benefit of removing this trick. I wonder if they would ever deem it safe to remove.
Sure, "employees" like Zucc or Sandberg.
What do you mean by directly? Gravity is only sensed via an interaction between fluids and fine hairs in your inner ear.

By that definition, we can also detect the weak interaction by feeling the sun on our face or the warmth of radioactive material.
I think the idea is that pulling out that one tiny support can cause all the layers above it to fall apart.

At the very least, it would destabilize them.

Kind of like a house of cards
Popular with others is a bit different than popular with your manager's managers, which is what the OP suggested. But one good way to get noticed up the management chain is a combination of high impact deliverables and self promotion so getting shit done is always a great recommendation.
The novel part is that instead of running tools like that, you can just politely ask the target system to hack itself
I would worry far more about local unrest than a "spy" balloon you could see with your eyes. Especially from SV.
Bing’s AI Chatbot went bonkers over the Spanish prime minister’s ‘beard’
Thanks for the link. It's a pretty hard read, I wish the author would have done some editing. It's unstructured speech interspersed with cursing. I only skimmed it, but might come back to it in the future. If Lazar is lying though, he's a world-class liar (and he's a world class failure at making money off it).

Btw, found this episode #1853 with Jeremy Corbell about UFOs; it's pretty fascinating as well: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0gYVutFOYsHaklxO0DLcS7
This is blogspam complete with made up terms (“hyper-volumetric”), self-congratulatory back-patting, and no technical content. It’s an ad to scare you into signing up for cloudflare.
They're at the wrong angle to see the plane hit.
The motivation to correct someone else who is (IYO) incorrect or to express your point of view is stronger in many people than the motivation to transfer money from your pocket to someone else’s without a direct quid pro quo.

More people will spend 30 minutes looking after an infant that might be abandoned in the cold than would give $1 to a beggar in the same weather, even though that 30 minutes is far more valuable. I will often shovel my neighbor’s sidewalk and steps while I’m already out there doing mine. I’d never pay someone $20 to shovel their walk. You can look at those differences and decide if humans are good to each other or not depending on which part you focus on.
https://www.perplexity.ai/ is also doing that but in a better way IMHO. you can just enter search text and it will google it for you and summarize the best hits by using GPT-3, still presenting the best hits in a list.

I do about half of my searches now in perplexity because you get really relevant links. I use google only for trivial searches.
They're claiming to have made breakthroughs in several encryption technologies, not that they've figured out a clever way to glue some things together.

I could be wrong, but it smells like snake oil to me.
The question is: would this still work today?
The difference is that they may be hesitant to fire you just because you work remote.

If the terms aren’t in your contract the situation inverts, where the company can unilaterally change the terms and bet you’d be hesitant to leave.
> I'd say that over 99.999% of the people who saw that message, created memes about it, etc.. did not have a corporate credit card and the power to use it at their discretion. If you want money from corps, THOSE are the guys you need to find and ask money from.

So he should be cold emailing netflix, airbnb, linkedin purchasing managers?
No, that's just the business tagline. Consultancies purity spiral on Goodhart's law. They're worse than useless, and it's their "cult"-like behavior that is the basis of their entire business.

You HAVE to believe they bring in value because... well, you gotta believe.
I like the idea. I actually set up something kinda similar to this at work, a sort of bookclub where once a week somebody posts a short video/blog/article for the group to consume and discuss, with the hidden goal of getting at least myself to churn out a blog post each week based on the discussion. We are currently in the third week but first post still because despite getting a dozen or so sign-ups, the follow-through has been low and feedback has been that more time is needed.

I think once a week for Tavern should be suitable - you aren't trying to compete with Twitter or other social media sites for volume of content. I haven't signed up yet, but you might need to use email nudges to remind people to post. A streak count might be a good way to gamify persistence. Could you provide some examples on the main page of the kinds of prompts you'll be using, so I know whether I'm likely to be able to go through with it before giving up my email address? And finally, my concern with content reset at the end of each week is that if I am late to post I might only get a really small window to read other posts. Similarly, everybody else will have a small window to read _my_ post, and they might not even check the website during that time. Perhaps a couple of days grace period into the next week to read but not to post?

Edit: I just signed up, and it's awkward that you can't easily navigate back to the landing page when signed in, to remind myself of the rules.
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This.

Management consultants are useful in a few ways: 1) you get a dedicated team that works full time on some issue and 2) you get people who have seen how a lot of other companies have done things.
I don't remember perception starting and so far i have no indication that it ends, so it's all assumptions here because "perception end" is something i cannot know, empirically.
I’m sorry, I thought we were playing the “let’s speculate wildly for entertainment’s sake” game.
Topical: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34778954.
Hasn't it been said that company executives bring in consultants to get cover to do things the executives already wanted to do?
It's unfathomable to me that people in the UK are skipping meals. If you buy rice & beans in bulk you can fill your belly for less than £1 I'm sure.
Quick look on the Tesco website

- bread: £0.39 £0.05/100g

- chicken soup: £0.60 £0.15/100g

- 1KG rice: £0.48 £0.48/kg

- Baked beans: £0.50 £1.19/kg

- Kidney beans: £0.59 £2.46/kg DR.WT

- Tinned mackerel: £0.85 £0.97/100g DR.WT (sardines are half the price)

- Eggs: £0.20 / piece

- 500g pasta: £0.41 £0.82/kg

People are probably just used to eating take-out or buying £8 microwave dishes for the whole family and don't know how to cook on a budget.

If you're really desperate, markets usually put aside vegetables that are too old to sell but you can make soup out of them no problem.

This all isn't very appealing or even healthy (although compared to microwave or takeout ...), but at least you're not going hungry.

If you can only send your kid to school with 1 slice of bread, you have other problems than money.
The key is to unhinge the gameplay thread from the render/physics threads.

This in practice means you have to use Array of 64 byte Structure for your shared data.

Lua is not going to change that. You can hot-deploy C with a .so/.dll without losing performance.
It's not very useful, unless you only want to write a single isolated class in Java. Every time I refine my prompt I get a completely different answer and often it just repeats answers it gave me earlier which wipes out improvements made in the meantime. It produces bad code faster than you can check it.

When you ask it to do something simple like chess it whips out crazy illegal moves. "the omnipotent f6 pawn" is already an internet meme [0]. You might now claim that it is a language model and it shouldn't be able to play chess but this is a very real limitation that you are going to pretend doesn't exist later on when it is about "language tasks". If it can't follow basic rules like rooks only moving horizontally or vertically or bishops only moving diagonally which is purely defined by logic then how on earth can it possibly do something that actually requires complex reasoning?

The problem with these large language models is that it gets harder and harder to notice the limitations, but they are still the same regardless of the size of the model. So every iteration you get to hype up more people about the same thing. They will make the same bad projections into the future like everyone else.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/AnarchyChess/comments/10yym4o/why_i...
(Context: ChatGPT will play pawn f6 which summons a pawn out of nowhere, beating the queen)
IT Consultants =/= Standard Consultants from Big4 and the like
That's a very naive worldview.
> I get most of the attacks from US servers. Often times Google cloud or AWS.

Yup.

The block $insert_country IP range "solution" is an outdated mentality that should have died off in the 90's.

These days most attacks originate from US/Western cloud and other rent-a-box providers.

They are a gift to attackers because they can hop around at the click of the button and they know the victims can't block the IP ranges because they're managed by US/Western organisations.

DDOS attacks tend to happen on a Command and Control basis, and again, good luck blocking US/Western ISP IP ranges because their customers won't be able to visit your website.

I have long given up on reporting to Google, AWS and others because nothing gets done, most of the time you get an automated message saying they just forward your Abuse report to the customer ... gee, thanks guys.
I agree. From my comment:

> Teams need to make sure their leadership is bought into their goals, and that the goals ladder up to company goals.
This approach of assuming some basic things and seeing how far you can get with just those assumptions always makes it surprisingly further than I would have thought in advance.

I remember reading an article once about how if you make some really basic but reasonable assumptions about how the laws of physics should work (e.g. probabilities add up to 1 at all times), you can get almost all the way to the Schrödinger equation. I was quite impressed.
'Following the searches, Gaurav Bhatia, a spokesperson from Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), described the BBC as the “most corrupt organisation in the world”.'

Which just about sums up the independence of the process.
Sure, but termination is a much larger step than unilaterally adjusting working conditions.
You can lose your job for supporting Harry Potter but if your policies derail a train and force 500 people to evacuate (which is an offence to free movement btw) you are safe.

The coverage isn't the issue. It's the lack of accountability being talked about.
Turning a TV set-top box into a Linux computer (2022)
I have a grudging admiration for the sociopath that came up with that solution. Still, it has an easy fix: make it illegal to run a train that does not fit into the pull off.
They exist to propagate good feelings amongst management and to ensure a fat paycheck keeps coming though, even if it means sabotaging the company.
Love it! Nice filtering, gotta bookmark this for more UI/UX researches!
I like to think about this sort of stuff in terms of strategy. The definition I use is 'strategical goals' are the things you are trying to achieve, and 'strategy' is the 'why, how, what's the rationale for these, when do we revisit the goals and the strategy, etc.'. Strategical goals can be high level or low level. In some cases you can take part in a big picture company strategy process. In other cases, the strategical goals you have as an individual are to support the goals/ways of working of your boss, and the other people you work with, which you can only comprehend in a very blinkered way.

In all these situations, it seems like some of the time, and for a critical part of what you do a lot of the time, you have to have strategies that take into account other people having hidden motivations, and particularly people who don't think strategically and cannot be reasoned with on the basis of strategy, or they refuse to be open with these sorts of things with you in particular, or will be evasive, or say they will do things and then not do them, etc.. A lot of the time you cannot fix these things, you can only take them into account and/or find workarounds. And it seems reasonable to say that this is the part of the picture where you have the most leverage to make a difference, or to reduce things like the amount of bullshit you deal with, or the amount of wasted effort you put into things.

You can also have the insight that other people will see you the same way - as someone who is obstructive, or fails to be clear, or isn't persuing the right goals, etc..
> My understanding is that the employees are the largest shareholder of Facebook

i would be surprised if that is really the case. I expect institutional holders followed by founders to be larger.
Rust vs. Haskell
Sorry, but the state police decided you are protesting against voice activated smart light bulb manufacturers and now deserve to get shot at like the Luddites.
Put a few thousand more words to pad, and I’d read that book!
California freeway underpass. Dozens of tents where the homeless live
A business school case study on Disney would make for interesting reading. The last CEO got removed by the board of directors for wanting to call in a consultancy to re-organize the company. The previous CEO to that one made a $200B executive decision and then came back to layoff 7,000 workers as the latest CEO who'll sit for two years observing commenters expect.
As someone who works at a big 4, you're quite right. They're huge employers of University graduates, however these graduates are usually supported by seniors, managers or partners. Each piece of work has a team around it.

Yes you might have junior staff coming in to ask questions, but there is always someone more senior briefing the junior and reviewing their work.

The growth that a graduate experiences in the first 2 years of their career is enormous.

It's also very important to distinguish between consulting and assurance services. Both within a big 4, offer very different services and offerings.
Comma in odd place. Could be typo of 30,000 or 300,000. Written the same way in the article
It has been said.
How is it that no one has solved "management" yet with a technological solution?

Where are the project/org management AI solutions?
I guess at this point I should believe the points made in the documentary. The reaction to it speaks volumes.
Developers don't need Docker for POSIX based development.

Those that do, maybe should have supported Linux OEMs in first place.
Large companies with middle managers often have a considerable budget but suffer from an internalised imposter syndrome that leaves them unsure about the challenges they face and the solutions they need.

I believe that senior sales representatives from consultancies have a keen sense to detect this professional anxiety and leverage it to sell their services and put the manager's mind at ease, regardless of the quality of the consultancy's services.

While it may seem that consultancies know less than they claim and cost more than they appear to, managers may still seek comfort in their reassurances and take legal action if things go wrong.
I’m interested to hear how you

1) block 2 Tbps of attack traffic

2) save $500k per month in bandwidth charges since blocking at the border means you have to pay for the incoming bandwidth
Did you maybe skim the comment and not actually read it? My interpretation was that not letting people even voice some state-of-the-world opinions is an excessive speach limitation.

I do read the anger though, but I feel it's not the destructive kind, more the disappointed at the state of public discourse.
It’s amazing how taking time to slow down and approach things in a measured manner can lead to positive results.

It’s not at all surprising that most of the popular conversation about these tools is akin to randomly bashing into walls while attempting to push the peg into whatever “moment we need to talk about”.

What is again surprising is that HN is primarily overrun with randomly bashing into walls.

I guess I’m normally in threads about C memory arenas, a topic that probably draws more detailed thinkers in the first place.
Exactly. I would add to this that pro-longed price uncertainty for fossil fuels causes people to invest in alternatives to minimize their risk and exposure and to divest from any solutions involving coal or gas. Even if it's profitable right now, it might very well not be in just the blink of an eye. Coal and gas related assets are increasingly toxic from an investment point of view as well.

Also, renewables were already very competitive before the war started. The added price uncertainty since then is just widening the gap. Anyone who has the option is considering putting solar on their roof, replacing their gas boiler with a heat pump, and buying an EV. Once people start receiving 1000 euro monthly bills for heating, people are going to get creative trying to fix that. Such a thing has happened this winter and people are acting accordingly.
How often I had to deal with some auditor from "a big 5", sold as senior engineer and he was simply going through checklists. Unix security analyst, reading a checklist, while trying to type "unix" commands on HP-UX, AIX.. was funny if we weren't paying for that. In another hand "no director get fired by going through auditing process with some big company, but some do get fired, exactly because they didn't want to"... I remember some "senior network analyst" having to go through a checklist while analyzing a network hub. Pathetic, but reality.
> Could it be that extreme smartness at some point will start to hinder extreme earning?

Not from this analysis. The analysis shows that, up to a certain point, there is an almost linear relationship between cognitive ability and wage. Then, for those with the highest cognitive ability, the relationship plateaus ie they earn a wide variety of wages (though all are higher than those of lower cognitive ability).

So, it still says smart people earn more. It's just pointing out that whether they earn 60k EUR or 100k EUR doesn't appear to be correlated to cognitive ability.
I don't think I've ever seen them aimed at the retail market?

The downside of flow batteries is that they're no longer solid state - they have mechanical pumping elements that require maintenance. I've only ever heard them discussed in the context of grid or industrial sized units, where the value provided by scale is enough to make the servicing economically worthwhile.

Which chemistry manages to use drinkable water for storage?
The budgets and incentives are all wrong. We have to do something which will make ad and profiling zombies stay in bed every morning and look at the ceiling, instead of leaving the bed and starting their workday.