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> Consultants are hired because hiring consultants is the first advice that consultants generate. Its a recursive loop of scamming government money on undeliverable projects.

That's more a problem of governments being unable/unwilling to properly scope projects - in construction for example, politicians love to low-ball estimates for their pet projects in order to have better chances at getting them passed. When you have competent government that is willing to work with and sell reasonable estimates, you get examples like the Luise-Kiesselbach-Tunnel in Munich, which got finished on time (IIRC, even a few months earlier than planned) and in budget [1]. In military projects, the "overestimations" and giant budgets are usually because money is diverted to clandestine, top secret projects that are not supposed to be known to the general public outside of a very few high ranking military and government officials. You gotta read between the lines here.

> Most consultants when hired somehow themselves become unfireable and even more expensive for basic work that could be done by competent employees with a decent paycheque and union jobs.

I've worked in the public, private and consultancy sector in Germany, so I can at least add some context from a German perspective.

Usually, government employment is unionized in one way or another and trades lower paychecks for long-term job security, in the case of the Germanic "Beamtentum" ("public servants") it's a literal lifetime agreement - the government will take care of you until you die.

However, that also has its downsides - in Germany, the difference for a simple programmer or IT admin in the public service to a colleague in the private sector can be as large as 4x. You simply won't get staffing for these positions outside of utter idealists and people looking to start a family. And you can't go outside the unionized agreements and pay market wages because that would result in "low level" staff getting paid more than the director of the entire agency in the worst case, and in the best case it would only blow apart the entire wage hierarchy. Additionally, the staffing cost for a project realized with consultants can be directly booked on the budget of the project, whereas assigning time/wage for government-hired employees is way more difficult.

Hence, the government is better off hiring specialists from consultancies and body shops... it allows the government to keep its existing wage structure, keeps permanent obligations from the books (similar to the capex vs opex debate), and to get actually validated experts instead of having to deal with validation itself.

[1] https://www.merkur.de/lokales/muenchen/luise-kiesselbach-tun...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xz-utils/+bug/2059...

I thought it seemed like a bit too much of a coincidence the backdoor was pushed out before a new LTS was due
Are there prints for sale?
Thank you! I was pretty sure it was Pratchett (but not which book and character) but I self censored in case i was wrong :)
Plot sounds similar to Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven from the 1970s, but the protagonist is on the night side of Earth, not an astronaut on the moon.
Ask HN: AI for writing requirements? Good or bad idea?
Have you ever tried using ChatGPT to write your product specification or requirements?

Maybe you used it to get inspired but i am more focusing here on checking did you manage to bypass repetitive parts of specification/requirements writing with the use of AI.

What would you say are risks in doing that?
if you're round robining clients w/o sticky assignment then you're going to get nodes*limit consumption. Not correct.

Also if you give limit/nodes per node and random assign a connection, you get correct answers on average, but a really janky pattern at the edge case (a user gets a 429, and retries and succeeds, then gets 429 again as they consume those last few requests).
> The farmers have no right to force the area to remain agricultural.

Personally, I think they do.

> Their actions here are incredibly greedy as theyre lowering the bay areas housings stock which hurts everyone else who lives in the bay.

Maybe the Bay Area should fix its own problems instead of imposing itself where it's not wanted as a "solution"?
Not sure if you mean "space-elevator music" (music to listen to on a space elevator) or "space elevator-music" (an elevator in space) but I spent too long thinking about it and decided I'm fine with answer being either. Also I kind of hope I live to see a "space elevator" but I'll also settle for an elevator in space.
Lets not pretend this is the same skill set.

Prompting is yet another layer of abstraction. Untrained teenagers obsessed with chatGPT likely rival OP in prompting.

OP can likely write some random forest algorithm, its just not needed anymore.

I'm not an AI person, just a programmer, and I've found my time has gone into learning parameters to fine-tune + learning prompting. Maybe the parameters would have helped if I knew AI, but these are all layers that need to be learned.
author straight up admits to not having lived in the suburbs for over a decade so what even is the point of this?
I think that depends on what the alternative is. It seems to me that the problem is that there's no way for Israel to wipe out Hamas without massive collateral damage. However, instead of giving up on wiping out Hamas, they just decided that they are OK with the collateral damage.
Ubuntu is not intended for old hardware. It is intended to be an easy-to-use distribution with decent adaptability to server and desktop use. It's not bleeding edge, but it's not all the way over in the "staid enterprise" category, either.

The 24.04 release is the next release to get long-term support (5 years; commercial plans of 10 years). If you're going to stick this on a computer to run a long time, you care what it looks like (LTS releases come out every 2 years), so you might be running a beta to give feedback.
Show HN: I created a nicer-looking alternative to Excel's charts
I learnt how to fix problems in apt by running Ubuntu betas in the late 2000s. It was very educational!
Makes a lot of sense, seems to be a win-win. The country needs skilled people, and young people need reliable careers.
Not true, on Fridays after lunch time can sometimes pass as slowly as 3 seconds per second.
Thanks dailymail for another oversimplification of a problem
Yeah but Macs were pretty close to the bottom of their popularity in 2001 and Firewire was near non-existant on PC. It was really only a high-end PC thing or maybe an add-on for those FW capable camcorders. When the iPod launched USB 2.0 was already out, available on okayish PCs (not Macs yet though) and was pretty much fast enough as was seen with later USB 2.0 capable iPods.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pushed+forward+vs+pushed+back&t=fp...

No, people commonly say "pushed back" for moving to a later date.

I agree it's a bit like "press" and "depress"
Mistranslation or not, conceptually "natural numbers Z+" or "whole numbers Z*" are a more fitting claim.

Peano would go further: God invented 0 and +1, and all the rest are the work of people.
Good for you doing a thing! Please understand the community is likely very wary of single maintainer, weekend project, high risk dependencies right now.
FloatHeadPhysics does a really good job of explaining these kinds of things https://youtu.be/TJmgKdc7H34
Best Mac apps you cannot live without in 2024
Through this community, I found the value of ClearShotX. What are some other apps this community can suggest ?
> These are the American taxpayer dollars being wasted in high executive pay and corporate greed under his leadership.

Please elaborate how this is happening. Your link does not go into such details.
1-Person Side Businesses
What are some 1-person side businesses in 2024 ?
Is i a whole number?
In particular HR 7521, which in principle is to censor national security threats, but as every other bill like this, would find a way to apply to everyday Americans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_Americans_from_Fore...
Yeah I use Stimulus and Live View together as well. It is the right level of complexity, while I feel Svelte deals with a lot of stuff which is not even an issue when paired with LV. All you need is vanilla JS or a thin layer on top of it, not an entire framework. You will not have to write a lot of JS after all.

My production app has no more than 200 lines of JS, and I could probably get rid of a couple Stimulus controllers. Live View is that good. I also made a very hacky Stimulus-Live View hook adapter, so my Stimulus controller can send events directly to the LV process.

EDIT: Live View does not require you to run geo-distributed servers at all, unless you have bought into the fly.io kool aid a little too much. And it deals with disconnections beautifully. I didn't even have to do anything to support zero-downtime updates. The client loses connection to the WebSocket and reconnects to the new version, restores the state, all that out of the box automatically. What more do you need?
> Maybe the Bay Area should fix its own problems than imposing itself on others as a solution?

This is the bay area fixing its problems. There are other methods I agree it should take but this is a group of bay area residents literally solving their own problems.
I'm not sure about the larger issues surrounding the lunar time standard, but 55 microseconds per day is about 0.64 ppb. Even good OCXOs drift more than that. A standard crystal oscillator like the kind used in computers drifts by multiple seconds per day. Unless your oscillator costs more than your computer, that kind of accuracy is going to be beneath the noise floor.
Can we please grow lymph nodes and vessels next? I need them
The people mentioned in the article say that they spent about 20 seconds on each target and basically just rubber stamped them. In that case, I don't think people are ultimately making the decisions in a traditional sense.
There's pretty much nothing to suggest things are plateauing lol
Nobody chooses the Beta for production. The Beta is used for testing. And it is not outdated.
Actually, the Chinese government holding my data is probably better than my own government holding and using it to incriminate me. I'm pretty sure China doesn't share the data they're collecting with their adversaries or even allies.
There is Xonsh which is a Python shell. I don't know why everyone hasn't switched to it already as default.
You first have to get a file from your iOS app. Good luck with that.
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But even if Intel have stable optimized drivers and ML support, it'd still need to be supported by PyTorch/etc for most developers to want to use it. People want to write at high level, not at CUDA-type level.
I've also been looking for an "LLM browsers" for iOS, i.e. apps which can work with LLM endpoints that I host, but I haven't been able to find anything.
> Are you really going to claim that living in a city is part of the natural world?

I’ll pick little example. Get on Google Maps. Put a pin down at Trebes Park in Chicago. “Walk” North on Racine. At what point does this look like an uncomfortable place to walk? At what point do the trees go away? At what point are you further than 1-1.5 miles from a grocery store? A park or playground?

> Besides, I can flip that argument on its head, cities are limiting and put people in cocoons never having to leave their own neighborhood and see the world.

You think city people can’t rent a car or get on public transit to the airport? The average American spends $5,000 a year on their cars’ total cost of ownership, that could buy you a week long car rental every month.

Again, I’m advocating for reduction in car trips and not designing the lived environment for cars, I’m not saying that nobody should own a car or that city people will never own a car. I own a car myself. I’m just saying that we are putting cars above people on the priority list.

> Have car, can travel.

> That’s the nice thing about choice…

What if you don’t have a car? What do you mean by “choice?” You don’t have a choice, you have to own a car! I think you’re mistaking me here: real choice would be being able to choose not to own a car while still living in the suburbs. Real choice would be someone in a big urban city like LA not having to own a car (but you pretty much have to in a city where public transit was destroyed and the city has been designed around driving for decades).

I’m trying to say that living in the suburbs without being dependent on cars is actually is possible, but not in a poorly designed suburban environment that makes no consideration to other modes.

You’re looking at this as me coming after you and your lifestyle. I’m not. I’m trying to make your patch of grass better! I’m trying to increase the amount of choice that suburban people have! I’m not asking you to make your house smaller or give up your yard.
Could you elaborate? I don't see many similarities between those and LiveView.

The difference between traditional technologies that render HTML server-side and LiveView, is a persistent connection to the server which allows it to re-render templates in response to server-side events and patch client-side HTML without writing any Javascript.
is there no stem cell therapy/ clinical trial for this condition?
That's an astonishingly bad take that requires gratuitous cherry-picking of data.
obscure snark no less. Chase is still the Amazon-branded Visa card issuer.

and yup. or even better, any ol' payment processor-processed card (e.g., Visa or Mastercard processed 'gift cards') purchased with cash or other accepted currency. card retailer with dodgy surveillance optional.
We don't call Deno the new "true Node" even if the founder is the same. Rally, I can't think of any case where X stops being "truly X" because it is sold. Vivaldi is Vivaldi, Opera is Opera.
If the liver gets full of hard scar tissue, it can physically constrain the hepatocytes from making more liver tissue. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200824/Large-animals-wit...
This is the "Hyped" stack, not the "Right" stack.

From all of this, the worst decision is to use Next. Vendor lock in, developed by one of the most shady companies right now, and full of problems.
Yes, the binary "test files" were checked in. But the code that actually decompresses and executes the shell code in that file is in this m4 script, which only exists in the tar archive:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/xz-utils/-/blob/debian/5.6.0...
That's why I don't see e.g. TP-Link basing their router firmware on OpenWRT as a win, and why I want the "vanilla" upstream project (or something that tracks upstream by design) running on my devices.

Applies to all of my devices btw. I don't like Android having to use an old kernel, I didn't like MacOS running some ancient Darwin/BSD thing, etc. The required effort for backporting worries me.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying OSS has no vulns.
> I keep reading people making this claim repeatedly on orange-site

If this is suppose to mean HN, the header color is blaze orange https://chir.ag/projects/name-that-color/#FF6600
Commoncog has some blog posts about the process:

https://commoncog.com/putting-amazons-pr-faq-to-practice/

https://commoncog.com/product-development-iterated-taste/
Microsoft making the decision to own GitHub in the first place also speaks to my suspicion. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
To a local observer yes, but to someone moving at a different speed no! FloatHeadPhysics does a good job explaining some of this https://youtu.be/OpOER8Eec2A
I just made the jump from Opera to Brave after ~5 years of dailying Opera. I wasn't hugely put off by the AI popup; in fact, without the AI bits, the select popup was nice to quickly search something. For me the driving factor was Opera's shady business practices of "use our VPN/AI/whatever" and then harvest data from that.

Other than the recent(ish) UI redesign, though, Opera has solid UX. I will miss the interface, but Brave has most of what I want.
Removing incentives for EVs has to happen eventually, especially if ICE cars get banned. Something has to replace that loss in revenue.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39908441
I wouldn't be so sure. Even if it worked 100%, I don't see a way that Waymo could ever be profitable enough to justify the investment. There just isn't enough margin. Alphabet can afford to subsidize it indefinitely but it's not going to become a moneymaker for anyone. In fact, as you point out, their serious competition is basically out of the game now. I expect within the next five years, Google will spin it off and call it a win, and Waymo itself will peter out a few years later.
This is run on the BEAM VM, so a LiveView is a lightweight process hooking up the view to the bells and whistles of the BEAM, including relatively easy Pub/Sub, soft-realtime monitoring and so on.

Some people think it's kind of nice to have one programming language for everything, including queues, cache, database queries, client layout, business logic.
that lines up with my experience too, i.e. potentially ~20% higher CoL. Nothing like 200-300%.
That's why if you use a car you have more bags that you need on one run in the trunk. Then you keep bringing them in the house by twos or threes and at some point you drown in reusable bags and put them back in the trunk.

Having developed a hate for all those one use bags clogging your trash also helps. I've started doing this before it was the eco thing to do just because I hated accumulating bags.

Walking to the corner store(tm) if that option is available to you requires a bit more discipline, but I mostly remember to pick a bag when leaving home.
Without knowing more, it sounds like someone with no authority doing something really unprofessional. (Of course, could have been a VP on a power trip.)

The correct behavior is to go up to the speaker after the talk and tell them that they really should verify that they have permission to use other company's logos before using them in presentations. (Large companies have multiple people who vet references and the use of logos in things like keynotes and customer presentations.)
Not really. You’re missing my point.

Suburban dwellers often already live “shoulder to shoulder,” but you can’t actually walk or cycle between close destinations because of the built environment being designed and optimized vehicular traffic.

I’m actually advocating for making your suburbs better and more livable. I’m trying to tell you that many rural towns don’t actually require you to take a car to every single destination. Rural towns existed before the car.
>>> The bottom line that shall not be stated is nobody wants to deal with Taiwan and everyone is happy dealing with China.

What? No one wants to deal with china. Everyone is moving their manufacturing OUT as fast as they can. China in its desperate throws to remain relevant in the face of a massive population decline is desperate (the same way Russia is in the face of their population decline)...

No one wanted to sell the tech to china to make modern chips before all the wars and saber rattling of belt and road (facing). And china lacks the will, talent and now access to catch up.

ASee the Ukraine war and Russia. To see what "no chips" looks like. modern optics on tanks are now outside what they can do, never mind glass cockpits of 4th and 5th gen fighters, never mind gps and smart mentions, never mind drones...

>> Chips made literally anywhere else, including China, are fine; China might blow up Taiwan, but Taiwan can't reciprocate and the west will not fight China.[1]

China isnt stupid, they keep pouring money into missles in the hopes of being able to do exactly what you're saying. The problem is that without sea lanes then china runs out of oil, steel and food inside 6 months. If you pay attention to recent conflicts you will note that the patriot missile system has been shooting down the best Russia has to offer. You will note that the anti missile ships off the coast of Yemen are using the same system and missles. That the brits and French are in on the game. You will note that all the intel on chinas missile force (farce) has leaked everywhere... China wont invade shit.

>>> [1]: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-staves...

This is a holdover deal on the chip ban selling chips to china cause they cant make a thing. You aren't making a strong point with this.
The exploit could be detected with a fuzzer perhaps. The infiltration seems like it was something that would be very easy for a funded intelligence agency to do, and would be nigh undetectable if they had been subtly introducing bugs rather than shipping a sophisticated backdoor to every Linux distro.

You have to assume if this was an intelligence agency they didn’t burn their only agent like this.
Not only that, but it's hard to buy small flash drives. The smallest I can find in retail stores around me are in the 16-32GB range, which feels like a total waste when all I need is a few hundred MB (i.e. just beyond the email attachment limit).

Smaller flash drives are available online, in bulk, of course, but they're not much cheaper. I guess the cost of flash becomes a negligible part of the total price at the single-digit GB range these days.
I looked at switching to Debian from Ubuntu, and the stable Debian versions have a lot of old packages versions. Those who want newer package versions will probably use Beta.
log(1)=0, so it's unavoidable to consider 1 a something at least slightly different from the other numbers, as much as 0 is.
Again, you're talking about something different than scaling. There are many different aspects of emotions, life, or even learning. But the comment was about scaling learning, which can be unaffected by other aspects, such as whether you learned something incorrect.

More succinctly:

I can still teach Simpson's Rule in a Calculus class to a young man or woman who subscribes to Creationism, or the Flat Earth theory. None of their false knowledge affects their innate ability to take in new knowledge.
Yeah I agree. A friend of mine in Hongkong told me that his windows (in a new construction) would fall out during smaller seismic events. What I meant though were things outside of the control of the building construction.

In 1999 Taiwan had a major earthquake where some 2400 people died. 3 months after the disaster the government released a change in building construction codes, to some extent, what you see here is the result of those policies being enforced right away. It's quite a feat of engineering, but I don't know to what extent this extends to sewage, gas, and/or other piping systems not directly related to the building construction.
darkoob12>I have to upgrade my skills and possibly start publishing papers and get a PhD. <

Have you seen this "oldie but goodie" from Philip Greenspun's website (esp. the graph beneath "Not So Very Serious Stuff"):
https://www.philip.greenspun.com/careers/

If there is an "AI Winter" it is unlikely that a Ph.D., new or old, would keep you employable. Look to other more predictable but related fields: math esp. statistics and engineering.

FWIW n the background is looming a great revolution in energy generation: fission is now possible.