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McKinsey and BCG do not audit companies. They are consultancies and do not certify accounts to be “correct and legit”. Think of auditing companies a little bit like of vehicle inspection shops certifying your car is safe for the road.

Consultancies are not doing that.

I’m not sure why certain businesses should be “banned” because YOU believe they do not add value. Do you pay them? No.

It’s not correct that they are proxies for decision making that mangers don’t want to be responsible for. Neither McK nor BCG could run at the scale they do for five decades if that was the case.

But I suppose that was just your happy Sunday rant of the day to let off some steam.
The timing of the new non-union perks points to it being illegal anti-union vote tampering. They announced them days before the Oklahoma store's union vote. Apple is also spreading misinformation about the perks, messaging that it's impossible for union employees to receive them, and using them as a scare tactic ahead of other store votes. Also, Apple suspiciously announced these new benefits via news media instead of internal communication.

You can read the union making these points here https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/23209996-core-lett...
Audit results are taken very seriously by companies operating in heavily regulated industries that intend to stay in business, so healthcare, finance, insurance etc.

If you are a team lead doing programming for one of these sorts of companies and the auditors come round with some findings, I promise you that you need to take it deadly seriously. I've seen engineers fired for cause by the board of directors of a fortune 500 for failing to do so. Word gets around and nobody will touch them after that. Its literally career ending to poo poo audits.

Tech companies are the odd man out when it comes to audits, which is why its possible for so many in a thread like this to have opinions that are so wildly inconsistent with reality. Who knows how much longer that will last, particularly with advances in AI.
> But a lot of businesses fail for reasons other than the directors "mistakes".

All the more reason why entrepreneurs should not take lightly the prospect of filing for bankruptcy, and should focus their energy on ventures where they can minimize the chance of burning through cash right into bankruptcy. Otherwise it starts to sound like these serial entrepreneurs are just flinging crap at a wall to see which one will stick with little to no effort. This is a massive disservice to investors and employees alike, if not outright fraud.
I don't know about the percentage, but in my searches, their particle board stuff was the same price and much higher quality than other stores, and their solid wood stuff was cheaper than other stores.
$200k is an amazingly cheap fine for a HIPAA and PII breach of 114,979 peoples information. Each of those people could get like 1.5 bags of M&Ms.

Other companies may be taking note, but more of the sheer affordability of that.
Maybe on a slow day. But I would wager 80 percent of those orders are not made in house when they are at high demand, which is what matters in this context. When they have a ton of orders they are most likely contracting most of them to TSMC.
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I feel like what you describe is in fact best practices as practiced by libraries.

What makes you think this is not what libraries actually do?

Do you have specific examples from a specific library of them doing something very different from what you describe?

If you aren't going to go by circulation numbers/popularity, then the main obvious other thing to go on is expert opinion. Which I think is what you are encouraging, experts to decide that John Grisham isn't actually "good for people" or something, and Thucydides is. One issue with expert opinion is it's necessarily subjective, any individual person, such as yourself, might disagree with any given decision made by experts, and it's just a matter of opinion whether something was worth keeping why. Perhaps the experts got rid of the thing you think should have been kept, and it has upset you. While no choices are never going to upset anyone, good practice probably combines expert opinion on enduring value, with popularity via circulation stats. And, as you mention, also tries to collaborate with neighboring libraries to divide up the burden of keeping the "last" copy in the region of things deemed worth keeping a last copy of.

Here's one library guide to "weeding" (getting rid of books, also called "deaccessioning"), for anyone interested in how libraries and librarians talk about best practices. Although this one is 15 years old. https://www.tsl.texas.gov/sites/default/files/public/tslac/l...
15-20 years ago, I would have agreed with you.

Now I absolutely disagree. The primary thing keeping them from suing would have been the optics of the situation: Suing the local library or the small group trying to keep knowledge alive would look bad. That's less of a factor now, and suing the small guys in order to ram through judicial precedent they can wield like a cudgel later would be too tempting.
I think the launch was a bit premature. They were in a prime position to really kill Twitter, had the product been ready. They announced it too soon.
> I said, "an instant ramen cup, but not the cheapest brand. Also, watch out because they sometimes have beef broth and I'm allergic."

This strikes at the heart of the issue. The criteria you’ve placed on the ramen is actually pretty complicated, and yet it is simpler than the criteria many use to select produce, dairy, and meat. Needing to meticulously articulate criteria for the 100+ items purchased every month would be a pain. Items also have interdependencies, e.g. I can only afford the fancy yogurt if I got a deal on something else, and context dependent, e.g. I want to spend more on chicken for the fancy dinner, and less for a weeknight meal.

Of course, these criteria are theoretically learnable by an LLM, but extracting the prerequisite information is hard. So much context exists in your mind. For instance, just looking at your ramen purchase history, do buy chicken ramen over beef ramen because you like chicken better, or is it because you actively dislike beef? It’s hard to say without your explicit input. If every purchasing decision requires explicit input, it seems better to cut out the LLM.
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That's completely outdated thinking if you reach the level of AI being described.

Complex systems could be completely self healing and self quarantining, "red team" can be freely interrogated "blue team" and convinced to create attacks that are then mitigated.

And again, the AI itself would improve at self-interrogation, so we're saying "trivialize", but trivial as in tricking a system capable of hacking into power grids with ease into ignoring its training.

People who go to this doomsday scenario fail to extend any sort of lateral thinking.

An LLM that trivializes taking down the power grid would not be "GPT 4 + SCADA infiltration", it'd be a new paradigm in how humanity operates.
Also, I don't think you would need a human-like level of consciousness for a general problem solving device i.e. general intelligence. We could end up with a Deus Ex Machina situation where the general problem solving device appears to be human. Even exhibiting heart string pulling capabilities, not to mention cock string pulling capabilities, while still having the end goal being something absurd like going to a specific crosswalk at a Manhattan street and stand like a useless toaster.

That isn't the singularity, but it sure as hell is a general problem solving device i.e. AGI.
The former doesn't exclude the latter
https://docs.flutter.dev/deployment/web#pwa-support

Flutter is a great option for PWAs too!
Good luck with your project as well!!
But electronic computer music (including pianos) allows us to enjoy many more genres of music nowadays than it was some while ago when only "the elevated" afforded to go to a piano concert.
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Can you explain a bit how somebody can stop others from trying to triangulate?
I think a Jupiter sized planet, 20 light years away, imaged at 500nm wavelength, would need a 826 meter diameter mirror just to make it 2 pixels instead of 1.

Space is big.
This petition is an excellent idea. We as humanity need to get closer to the edge if not ahead of AI Development to strive to ensure that a) the wealth and benefits can be generated for societies b) closed and unaccountable parties are not the sole custodians of such a powerful force.

The idea of CERN has a lot of merit because of CERN's success as a multi-national institution. The model will need to be evolved for AI but that's why we need to start now.

This is the start of a new phenomenon for our societies; not the end. It's better for its impact to be managed by society as a whole.
1. It handles joins pretty well

2. It can make sense sometimes, but you always have the option to specify the table name
You can run vault on your own infra
I expect progress will be much less predictable. Some kinds of action look pretty easy; it depends on the domain.

For example, I expect skill at writing some kinds of code to improve dramatically because running tests in a sandbox looks easy. It’s already being researched. [1] Extending that to device drivers might be a bit harder. Fuzzing is already mostly automated and smarter fuzzing could get pretty scary.

[1] https://nanothoughts.substack.com/p/reflecting-on-reflexion
As much as I appreciate the value of good documentation, forcing most developers to write documentation would be less than worthless. In part because most people are no good at writing to communicate complex ideas to others. Developers are no better, and may in fact be worse. While they might understand the complex ideas, in trying to explain them to others they run into the Curse of Knowledge. With no skill in turning ideas into communication, the output is at best a first draft of something that might be input into useful documentation.
Ideology is pragmatism, just thinking further ahead.
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Thank you, but we do much more than just generate SQL queries
Think I need a plan C, because B was on quantum computing.
Yeah, but it’s good for workers. The union members sacrifice for the greater good and are still benefiting the worker (just jot them). So they are resulting in better worker benefits.

Or maybe Apple is just doing what they were going to do anyway to attract and retain workers and they are restricted from changing the benefits agreed to by the union bargaining agreement.
Thank you, and good luck with your project as well
The original title (shortened on HN due to its character length restriction) is more interesting - and provocative:

> [A company hoping to help California with its high-speed rail built one in North Africa instead, saying the region was ‘less politically dysfunctional’]

> A French state-owned railroad operator wanted to help California with its high-speed rail project.

> The company left after the state refused to listen to its recommendations.
That no such thing exists and the space is a top to bottom grifting scamfest.
My 2¢ on the tidyverse is that it is a bit misleading to call it "a collection of packages". I think it would be more accurate to call it a "framework". Though I suppose "opinionated collection of packages" is perhaps a fuzzy synonym for framework.

The difference between "collection of packages" and "framework" is that "collection of packages" implies interoperable via API conventions, but otherwise standalone packages, which could easily be used in isolation alongside base R.

Whereas "framework" generally means tightly coupled components, in a "do things my way or the highway" fashion.

Technically speaking, it's not "impossible" to mix tidyverse with base R, but in general if you wanted to mix and match tidy vs base R syntax, you'd find yourself working "against" the tidy api rather than alongside it most of the time.

R is not my main language, but every time I come across a task and I need to make a decision between R vs tidyR, the two feel like completely different languages.

I also have some beef against some of the decisions/conventions used (e.g. abusing metaprogramming to pass variables and use the variable's label as a value, completely ignoring the variable's actual value, instead of passing it as a string or as an actual variable ... seriously confusing when you first come across it).
Even searching Twitter for “substack” now gives results for “newsletter” and Elon Musk. Nothing to see there.
There is morning fact widespread debate for as long as we have a written record. The first several hundred years of writing are basically commercial records, royal edicts, a few prescriptive religious texts, and some poetry.

For example for most of human history, your community had a religion and set of etiologies explaining how the whole world worked. To disagree was to cast one’s self out of that community or to be cast out.
I’ve seen a lot of programmers/architects who created way to complicated solutions. Distributed microservice applications, nosql, and so on. New technologies that seem cool and useful, but make stuff much more complicated then it needs to be. Without real benefits.

„But we can scale from 500k to 50 million users now“, which usually doesn’t happen. But what does happen is, that the system gets too complicated and too hard to extend or fix bugs.
> For the longest time Chess was considered a domain where computers could be dilettantes but could never dominate

I don't think this was ever true. Chess programs appeared EXTREMELY early in, and everyone recognised that it was a matter of time until hardware was quick enough to evaluate so many positions per second that grandmasters could be defeated by sheer calculation.
I doubt that's very feasible though. There's so much equipment around for this band. The same way with the 27Mhz CB band. If they ever sell it it will be swamped with interference by people still using their old radios.
Fully agree and can relate to this one very much. As with all other things, the "optimum" is somewhere in the middle between Type 1 and Type 2 depending on the context, but both extremes are an equal PITA.
In what way do they draw it out? Is it because they bring up things you hadn't considered in your initial "just do X" solution?
Okay, I want to clarify something here: I didn't mean that I would prevent people from using the old versions. Seems some people think that.

I thought the guy meant "to use the old licenses on the new code." Reading it again, I see. So, what I actually mean is, "I'm not sure if they can use the old licenses on the new code. But, I would prevent that if I could." Which is totally valid and I would do that--I can do that.

It seems somehow the other meaning has created lots of crazy ideas for people, and they've gone on a tangent, which you can see in the sibling thread here. It's not my fault, but I see how I haven't probably made it clear enough there: I'm sorry for not making it clear.

Ultimately, I think having those licenses in the past is a silver lining for customers, especially because people can access this old code, and it's not affecting our revenue with Pro or people who want to pay for the standard edition somehow. Because this old code and old licenses do not sync to the latest, don't give access to Pro, and it gives people a chance to have a taste and build on that. It's really just another part of the funnel.

And, I think the whole variety of licenses there is sort of a silver lining. So, I don't know where people got the idea that we're against having that or something like this. It's not like that. So, just understand.

Thank you!
No. This is nonsense.

You audit accounts that are falsified and give thumbs up: you close shop, are held liable for damages and could go to prison.

Auditing companies are crucially important for a working economy. Bank loans, bonds, equity markets would all be chaos and fraud mayhem without them.
HOO.

Human ownership only.
The conflict in Ukraine is caused by Russia's imperialistic and colonial mindset towards the rest of eastern Europe. They invaded because a majority of Ukrainian peoples wanted closer relationships with Europe and to throw off the yoke of Russian authoritarianism.
Based on blunder after blunder since taking over, it has become so obvious that Elon isn’t qualified to run a company. So how has Tesla and SpaceX succeeded?
I think you have the wrong take.

Preserving the culture and language doesn't lead to the things you are describing. Those results are separate.

Examples you should look to are how French has been preserved and protected in Montreal, Creole in the South, Catalan in Spain, on and on. Those places have managed to preserve their language and culture while also improving their standard and quality of life on par with modern western standards.
Lucky you in this case, not having to learn and deal with all this then :)
But the original comment was about someone living in Germany (at least at the time)
> or really have no choice but to further that aim to achieve whatever your own goals are.

I mean yeah. That's everyone.
I truly do not understand this Rust-for-all-problems mentality.

I was under the impression that Rust was essentially the next generation of C, meant for things like compilers, embedded systems, and other places where memory truly matters.

Why are we shoehorning it into things like REST APIs and frontend frameworks? One look at that syntax and I'd think anyone could see it's not the right tool for the job, even if there room for disruption in those spaces.
The problem isn't that the two types exist.

The problem is that each type thinks they are the solution, and the other type is the problem.
I think you're right. They seem to have less useful-for-tinkering pieces and more aesthetic but less useful pieces now.
Circa 2010 I got an email out of the blue from a Google recruiter. “We looked at your LinkedIn and you’re a good candidate for a ‘product manager’ role.”

Cool; let’s talk by phone, I replied.

The phone interview was insane. I asked the woman what about my work history made her suspect that I’d be a good PM and she was not able to respond. I asked her what product she anticipated that if work on and she said we would figure that out after I started, as if that was the most natural thing in the world. And I asked her how they handled remote employees, to which she replied that the person who took the role would be moving to Mountain View.

“So,” I said, “you do not know why you are hiring me, and you do not know what I would be hired for, but no matter what it is, the job is in Silicon Valley?

She said yes, already sensing where this was going. I asked her if she could make sure Google never contacted me again for any reason and she agreed that was probably for the best.

I did not get the job.
Non functional requirements aren't code, good luck writing code that reflects them.
Wow, worst most ignorant comment I've seen on HN in a long time here
Im not talking about end user documentation. More about how to configure and operate the software. How to add features, how to debug issues. How to deploy updates and so on. This is really often missing, I’ve seen it often that a developer quits, and then it takes weeks or months until the next bugfix can be deployed into production.
Runs on the Erlang Virtual Machine, also known as the BEAM. Erlang was built for scalability and fault tolerance of telephone switches by Ericsson in the 80's.

Give this a watch, "The Soul of Erlang and Elixir". Covers a lot of what's nice about the underlying platform.

https://youtu.be/JvBT4XBdoUE
I’ll save you 2 minutes: this whole article is a roundabout ad for the author’s password manager, the complaint being there is not a standardized import/export functionality in the industry (fair). But I’m pretty sure 1Password supports passkeys already (or maybe they’ve just written a lot about them?).
I get stuck on the "Applying Hadamard Twice" lesson, which assertss "Applying Hadamard twice [on a qubit] returns the qubit to its initial state again. From this we can conclude that the information stored in the qubit has not been lost."

The article doesn't explain what a Hadamard Gate is actually physically doing to the qubit. Without that information, I do not draw the same conclusion that a qubit's storing and retaining any useful information. Instead, I'd assume that the Hadamard gate is (somehow?) sensing if a qubit is in a superposition or collapsed stated, and then it inverts that state (i.e. from a superposition to a collapsed state or from a collapsed state back into a superposition).

I'm not saying that's the correct assumption, I'm just pointing out some incomplete logic in the lessons that's prohibiting me from proceeding with this lesson plan until I can definitively rule out the possibility that the Hadamard gate itself is not introducing the information back into the qubit.
I think we are in agreement. As for the five or more hops issue, I think software is giving a generational opportunity to rework our organisations. I think every company has two organisations - the first is the one that does the real work (think the bit that records how much money each account has in a bank). That first part is becoming / has become totally automated - it is a "programmable company". The second part (tries) to chnage the first org. Direct it control it alter it whatever. That's the part that has project plans and managers.

The two organisations are merged and confused in most places - even the hierarchies probably should be seperate.

The point being that four of the hops you had weee probably not in the first org. The alignment was perfect for what stripe actually is / does. The politics lies in what it wants to become - and that is a function of whether te people in the second orgabisation will keep power in the new place.

Software means we can I think seperate the two orgs.
The rpi4 has uefi firmware available, this allows you to boot any generic uefi aarch64 image, you no longer need rpi specific images.

https://github.com/pftf/RPi4
Have you seen what you have to do to make a bucket public nowadays? It's not as if you do it by accident (there's a couple of warnings etc)
Yes, buckets created with the API dont have public access blocked, so if someone that does not fully grasp cloud security is given access to create buckets ...
Luckily this is now fixed with the latest round of changes done by AWS.
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> For the first one, if we can agree the regulation is good, then so be it.

IMO: If we can agree that the regulation has a net good effect, considering externalities and adverse effects. Having a "good regulation" that also increases concentration of control in an industry can end up being a net negative.

> For the second, the solution is to plug loopholes that allow businesses of any size to bypass regulations.

This is a nice thing to strive for, but in practice layers of indirection and ample legal counsel accomplishes a lot even in well-run democracies (even leaving aside how large organizations often influence how they are regulated in both direct and indirect ways).
Neither of those are true.

They have similar roots, but dismissing entire languages and cultures in this way is super disrespectful
No, I would expect an administrative shutdown of a daycare facility to not be done by armed positions in the first place.
No. The article this hate comment responded to talked about auditing.

McK and BCG do consultancy and don’t do auditing.

The one certifies your car is safe on the street and is held liable if they didn’t inspect properly.

The other is a car tuning operation that doesnt certify anything but gives you an edge on the racetrack. Or you hope it does.