skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Its fairly well established that consulting struggles during times of economic uncertainty

Only the bullshit kind of consulting McKinsey is known for, IMO. The value of someone coming in and repeating what the smart folks on the team are saying is no longer there. Plenty of boutique consulting shops are eating just fine right now. Delivering real results/solutions and being a SME is always in demand.
I have a curated gaming content-related newsletter called The Gaming Pub (thegamingpub.com) and most of my initial users came from promoting on Reddit on relevant subreddits. However, most of them do not allow self-promotion, so it's not the best place to be honest.

I had a little bit of luck as well that someone shortly after I started the newsletter mentioned it here on Hacker News when on an Ask HN for cool newsletters that they followed and this brought a bunch of users as well at the beginning of my newsletter.

Today I barely do any active marketing for it, I believe mostly comes organically from word of mouth and also from newsletter directories/aggregators.
With labor becoming fungible in the eyes of c-suites, the holders of institutional knowledge are the libraries of the consulting firms. Consulting firms also have tech talent that traditional businesses had no access to in the past, so any large scale data driven related project is done with consultants.

However: 1. The costs are insane and probably we reached the point where the benefits do not justify the prices they are charging.
2. Wfh is a cheat code to get access to cheap tech personnel that is pissed with the RTO of big tech. I keep hearing tech folks working at traditional manufacturing shops remotely these days.
It's great that the subcontractors and executives and day traders who own the stock for a few seconds care so much about "what the future of Boeing is past their retirement".
Interesting if true. You should write up the results of your experiments.
Salary based requirements are the easiest to game. Create shell company, inject enough cash to cover salaries, hire people who want to live in the US and charge them a margin on the cash they gave you. Lots of people will happily pay the IRS taxes on a phony salary for the option to live in the US. Far easier than gaming an H1B or even an E3 which requires an LCA.
I just mean a mechanism for specifying metadata, and a little metadata.

Off the top of my head, an optional header like "MergeMetadataObjectPropertyName: @mergeMetadata"

Which would cause objects in the merge containing the property "@mergeMetadata" to be treated specially.

The merge meta data could (optionally) specify an alternative to null for the special delete value. Or (optionally) specify the key value for an array representing an ordered, keyed collection. (Or, possibly, to specify the order value for an object used to represent a keyed, ordered collection.)

I guess you could just do without the header and specify the metadata using magic values (in the same way null is used as a special value meaning delete), but it seems better to opt in to things things like that.

(IMO, json merge patch would have been slightly better if it had no special values by default, but it's not bad. "null means delete" is a small thing, you probably need delete regardless, and, anyway, the ship has sailed on that one.)
Good point about the enforcability, this will certainly put strict limits on the idea's real world influence. Self-enforcing contracts will help.

Also you are right that I can't grant a model the right to rule the world, I can grant it rights over myself.
> without workers there is no company.

Is they gradually move production to non-union factories in other states then there would be a company but no [union] workers...
Less than nothing. It has flipped to the other side in the bullshit of it all. Pundit hot takes have ruined quality dialogue. Frankly I’d rather have discussions with people who do their own research and form their own opinions, no matter how faulty those opinions may be (there is always room for improvement precisely because there is room for discussion), than to hear them regurgitate party-speak drivel shilled by actors.

Talking heads are a cancer upon society.

edit: to the folks responding saying something to the effect of “you don’t know what you’re talking about!” - I could have saved you the trouble and written your responses down ahead of time. They’re trite and reflexive. Oliver is a shill, down to the so-called data. He’s an approved mouthpiece on behalf of the state. He discusses and he frames only what is allowed to be said in a context it’s allowed in, and his edgy woke takes are the complete opposite of. They’re edgy because of how milquetoast the Overton window has become.

Put another way, if you’re in unison cheering for someone who is allowed to have their own TV show, it’s time to ask yourself if you’re being played with bread and circuses. You won’t hear the opposition because, well, in older times and other places they’d be disappeared/imprisoned, but today it’s mostly people like this twat (and yourselves) drowning out the contrarian voices.

Job well done lads.
Town has no cell service, so the 'electrosensitive' have made it home
For Medicare ACOs you can read about monitoring and enforcement here.

https://www.cms.gov/priorities/innovation/innovation-models/...

For ACO agreements between provider organizations and commercial payers, the parties can negotiate any contract terms they like. The agreements are usually confidential but payers aren't naive about this stuff and are fully aware of how to protect their financial interests against cherry picking by providers.
Worst gang-like behavior of animals I every saw was, like, a decade ago at the Cape Point parking lot in South Africa.

This a relatively large lot (being at the round-turn point of a one-way route), with both personal vehicles and tour busses coming and going. There are also a lot of baboons. On the narrow-ish mountain road up and down, these already pester the vehicles every way they can, but once parked, it's when things get truly special, especially for the tour busses.

First, the baboon females parade past a bus, with infants on their back. The tourists are delighted by this, and rush out with their cameras. Then, the females retreat into the bushes, which further distracts the humans.

Then, the males, which have been hiding in the nearby trees, descend upon the bus, and absolutely ransack it. Everything that can be taken (and that's mostly bags and coats) gets dragged into the trees. Then, they triumphantly go through the loot, redistribute anything that's edible or otherwise interesting, and toss the rest.

It's scary how well these animals instinctively understand the way we behave...
Virtual staging is already a thing that real estate agents do, as long as the photo is watermarked as "virtually staged"
Please respect your users. It’s frustrating to spend your time on a puzzle that might not even be plausibly solveable. If you’re going to ask strangers to do free testing you should at least bother to do some basic proofreading first.
"The herd is right" is an emotion that's been with us since before we left the sea. The rest is just rationalization and modernization. Any invertebrate can defend the consensus. And they do it with the greatest of zeal.

It takes rare vision and spine to press the alternative.
Following up on Boaz Barak's comment quoted in this article, my best local model did get the answer to the kiwi problem correct when I changed the system prompt from "You are my helpful AI assistant." to "This is a math exam."
Is it fair to say that ...

Consulting is the oldest profession ;)
> > other countries to pay their share, but how do you propose to do that?

They cannot pay with money, but honestly speaking they could "pay" with risk taking, I mean trying drugs that the FDA is too risk averse to approve . For example the risk profile of basically every day activity is much much higher in India or Nigeria compared to the U.S. and so the same should be for drugs, medicine is an extremely risk averse field as it is, but with the FDA being the world authority over medicine safety basically the risk profile of the US is being transferred over to the rest of the world which is nuts. Consider for example the risk profile of daily driving in the U.S. vs India or Thailand where everybody goes around in scooters without helmets, it works for them, their economy would collapse if they tried to have the safety of the U.S. drivers going around with 20ft long 7500lbs cars.

The unfortunate thing is that the whole world relies not only on the U.S. for drug research but also drug approval. If the FDA says no to something then not even Lesotho would try it , even though maybe from a risk reward standpoint it would make so much sense for Lesotho to try it .
Not sure how this particular whale met its demise, but I'm guessing it probably should have been taking a statin.
That I really don't like, it doesn't make any sense. "/" as a path delimiter feels totally ok though. I mean, it's path, after all. Also, I'd expect "." to be a part of a key much more often, than "/". And also it really doesn't matter what delimiter you use.
As I understand, electric cars are more polluting than non-electric, because first of all manufacturing and resources footprint is larger, but also because they are heavier (because of the batteries), the tires wear down much faster, needing more tire replacement, which is so significantly much that their emission free-ness doesn't compensate for it.

Besides, electric vehicles still seem to be very impractical compared to normal cars, because they can't drive very far without needing a lengthy recharge.

So I think the eco-friendliness of electric vehicles is maybe like the full self-driving system: nice promises but no delivery.
When I read the headline I clicked to see how they solved the problem of getting onto the modern cell network with hackable components.

Answer: they didn’t. WiFi only.

Yes there are Arduino GSM modules , but they are old (2G or 3G), expensive, and do not work well or at all in the US.
The economics of consulting are pretty raw: they basically arbitrage the hourly rate of folks. They pay you X and then bill you for X*1.3 (minimum). Folks are starting to realize they could just go direct to the customer, and the recent non-compete uncertainty has made a dent in the quality of talent these places have on their bench. Not to mention most of the talent at these shops are just window dressing for cheap offshore labor that actually does the work with mixed results.
My parents absolutely hate beeps so I often open up the appliance and look for the beeper on the circuit board and physically remove the beeper.

So far I've always been able to use side-cutters to cut the beeper leads because the beeper has been a through-hole device. I guess some modern PCBs you would need to desolder the beeper.

Obviously only if you don't have to worry about warrantee.

You also need to have a smidgen of technical ability to not cause other unforeseen problems.

I'm sure there will be YouTubes and articles on what to look for and what to do.
Other languages do this sort of thing, so certainly it "would work". But it's very much counter to the design and aesthetics of Python.

Python is intended to enforce a strong distinction between statements and expressions (`:=` notwithstanding :/) because it sidesteps a lot of questions that one might otherwise ask about how it's intended to be parsed (including by humans).

Being able to write something like your example makes it harder to figure out where the end is, figure out what happens if there's more than one statement inside an `if` (do we only consider the result of the last expression? What if the last thing isn't an expression?), etc. By the time you get to the end of understanding what's happening inside the block, you can lose the context that the result is being assigned to `x`.

At the other extreme, everything is an expression, and you have Lisp with funky syntax. But Python holds that this syntactic structure is important for understanding the code. I sense that this is part of what "Flat is better than nested" is intended to mean.
Why Use React for Game Development?
Plus, back when Musk and Bezos entered aerospace, a common joke was "how do you become a millionaire in aerospace? Start as a billionaire!", SpaceX was the exception to the trend, and had fewer resources than even other previous space startups.

Part of the reason NASA was so doubtful of SpaceX at first was that they had previously heavily supported other space startups, only for them to fail to deliver.

Arguing that SpaceX is hoarding all the talent is also funny when considering that many other space startups are by ex-SpaceX employees, and SpaceX is often described as having a high churn rate.
U.S. to probe Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system after pedestrian killed
I've resorted to calling this kind of breathless fearmongering out for what it is. There are too many people suffering too greatly in the existing system to be civil at the expense of maintaining the fictions of libertarian idealogues.

Hyperfixation on an idealistic interpretation of real-world dynamics will always be thought-terminating. In the dichotomy of map vs territory, the map is definitionally a cliche. We can be better than that.
Did Automattic commit open source theft?
What part of the statement is false?
We need less pop ups, not more.
Nice. I have a similar line for websites: every page is a home page. It helps to keep it in mind so you don't get caught up in thinking your page structure means anything to your site visitors. They mostly don't know or care.
If they drop this program they basically fuck over NASA. And Boeing is still the prime contractor on SLS. Meaning that NASA could very well finally stop playing nice over SLS.

And if Boeing wants to ever recover a chance on major NASA contracts, they can't let NASA down on this. Unless the want to just leave the space business.
A minor bug. It’s not possible to copy and paste the link from the UI. Using Firefox on iPhone
It may not be instinctive, but learned behavior. They're not dumb, they're apes, not that far from the evolutionary tree from us.

Hell, my cat knows when it's time to eat.
+1

I was never as scared of wildlife in my life, as one time in a Malaysian tourist trap that housed a gang of baboons. Jesus, they were ferocious. Once the mood changed, there was no stopping them.
A news source that has confirmed with at least one seismology expert who has conducted a thorough (preferably peer reviewed) analysis showing that the charts are abnormal for an earthquake and are more inline with those of an explosion.

It seems to me like it's should be extremely easy to distinguish the two, there's more than enough earthquake data - and that fact that there is no such report says it all. For starters i'd even take an amateur analysis, but just some dude on twitter saying "there was seismic activity - must be a nuclear test" - nah.
no one has really insulted you, so the playing the victim part is also coming across as more obstinate -- what you are experiencing is people becoming frustrated with the assertions.

you have been sufficiently approached, your points addressed, and multiple people have provided ample reasoning that expound on their assertions, adding context, nuance, historical, conventional, or otherwise.

all you have contributed to the over-reaching discussion is assertions (in some cases they come across as not fully thought out, as if the tape was not fully played), followed be an emphatic and repeated: "you're wrong!"

and for as much as you have claimed to strip away culture as an influence to the discussion, you have also managed to strip away important nuances between established words in our -- cultural -- expression here: proposition vs. hypothesis.

it appears that the position here is attempting to generally (and loosely) apply a statistical hypothesis as the internal world model for science at large, where in stats the word hypothesis is almost a binary operator evaluating to true or false (ie: Null Hypothesis), and functionally operates more like asserting a proposition over a data set, and then evaluating the data to see if it holds.

as a comment reader, while i appreciate the discussion, reducing everything to a statistical hypothesis and then telling people they are wrong when they show, not tell, there are important, established, agreed upon meanings, is not contributing in good faith, which i imagine is causing a lot of the aforementioned frustrations.
"Superconducting flux qubit with ferromagnetic Josephson π-junction operating at zero magnetic field" (2024)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43246-024-00659-1 :

> Abstract: Conventional superconducting flux qubits require the application of a precisely tuned magnetic field to set the operation point at half a flux quantum through the qubit loop, which complicates the on-chip integration of this type of device. It has been proposed that by inducing a π-phase shift in the superconducting order parameter using a precisely controlled nanoscale-thickness superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor Josephson junction, commonly referred to as π-junction, it is possible to realize a flux qubit operating at zero magnetic flux. Here, we report the realization of a zero-flux-biased flux qubit based on three NbN/AlN/NbN Josephson junctions and a NbN/PdNi/NbN ferromagnetic π-junction. The qubit lifetime is in the microsecond range, which we argue is limited by quasiparticle excitations in the metallic ferromagnet layer. Our results pave the way for developing quantum coherent devices, including qubits and sensors, that utilize the interplay between ferromagnetism and superconductivity.
Many lives ago I worked for an adult-webcam site. There we received a lot of webcam-model applications with real(-ish) passport, with the facepic photoshopped to the applicants real pic (Very frequently because the applicant her/himself was underage) Every day 10s, sometimes 100s of applications were rejected due to such shenanigans.
I wrote up a preliminary whitepaper, but haven’t done a statistically sound test yet.

I’ll freely admit this is just a competing theory when I’ve only tried a dozenish hand-written examples rather than hundreds by script.

http://www.spacepowermonkey.com/publications/whitepapers/art...
That Weird Compose Crash
Methods of persuasion and influence are used widely for all types of advertising and marketing, but some methods are employed more frequently by some groups than others.
Exactly, the NHS is only going downhill because the dominant ideology among MPs has been that the NHS is the first place to get gutted for cheap savings. A lot of very efficient systems were removed and farmed out for "cheaper" private systems, that end up being rather costly in the long term with respect to increased error, price rising, and all the myriad ways incompetence and explicit money-grabbing messes with healthcare. They gutted the administration systems and now doctors have to work overtime on the weekends just to get their notes in the system, and now because doctors are overworked, they're putting more work into the hands of the incredibly underqualified PAs. And on top of all of this, repeated mismanagement of the money that is distributed to the NHS — including, of all things, incredibly inept bartering, putting hospitals on a "target system" where underfunded hospitals are given less money for not hitting targets, etc. It's a complete joke, but every step was damned near deliberate for the case of farming public money into the pockets of the friends of MPs.
A great many of the paintings in their art collection are by Clifford Ashley of ABOK fame. Besides being a knot collector, he was an accomplished artist.
Yes. This is absolutely a win.
Often, people in situations where they require healthcare are least able to assess the implications of their choices, as well. It is very literally praying on the sick.
literal asshats
Just like AGI and the year of the Linux desktop ;P
What does "have you tried OSM" mean? If I understand the thread, they're talking about the feasibility of "safe/annoyance-free" bike routing. Are you suggesting apps like OSMAnd? Or are you suggesting that they simply complete the map for their areas of interest?
Would you say McK is the consulting equiv of SAP? Where they push the business into the vertical template vs do the actual legwork to improve the org in the vertical in question?
>how "parse transforms" work in Erlang, though there you're handed AST and not bytes.

Oh, I didn't know about this. Was thinking about doing something similar in my own language, so I'll have to check that out.
"Leaned behavior" to me means that they previously saw other, non-baboon, groups rob tourists in the same way, which seems unlikely?

This feels more like a situation where the baboons realized that "these humans have yummy stuff" followed by "hey, and this is how we can distract them in order to grab it"

But, well, semantics...
If anything this might show that proper communication and general writing skills are very impactful on the results from LLMs. Leaving out unneeded information is important in any kind of dialog. Providing the necessary info is very important. Being able to do both is a skill!
You are just using a poor stereotype.

I agree that many technical people don't give a shit about users or usability. However it is also true that non-technical people often don't give a shit.

Making sweeping assumptions about a group will only harm yourself.

Good techos must also be good at talking with users and understanding user needs: it is a critical skill for designing user interfaces (software or hardware). Anyone lacking user facing skills severely limits their salary and career choices.

There's a reason so many development methods and startup advice focuses on the user.
Vanity of Vanities: Fool's Cap Map of the World (Ca. 1585)
Something about these two statements seem to be in conflict with each other, but maybe that is just kinda Tesla PR talk.
UK firm strikes deal to make space-based solar power a reality
More likely they pay you X and they charge 3X, but yes I agree.
What is legally complex about hacking your own TV that you own, in the comfort of your own home? The device and all its components are yours.

If Samsung or anyone else wants to tell people their TVs are licenses/rentals or some corporate delusions like that, they are welcome to lose in court(s).
Spectra is a customizable, JavaScript ESP32 smartwatch
To be fair, being a lifetime gangster tends to be bad for your life expectancy.
> ironically, whoever was on knocking up used to get to lie in for the week.

I need to know more about "mandatory milk at the same time" to understand this
> Unless the want to just leave the space business.

Do they really have a choice...? I haven't been following this very closely, but it seems like SpaceX is eating their lunch regardless, and Boeing the overall organization is in crisis, isn't it? Will they even still be around in a year or two, much less continue to make space things for NASA?
Maybe he's just German? "Pazifik" is in fact the German word for this ocean, as a shorthand for the proper name "Pazifischer Ozean".
I didn't claim there are an infinite number of Mersenne primes. I said the contest could presumably go on infinitely long. The latter doesn't require the former. It's only predicated on us lacking proofs about how many there must be.
Autoregressive Large Language Models Are Computationally Universal
I wonder what limits sends to 2.5GB ?
This is a surprising take, considering the consultants I’ve worked with never took the trouble to learn anything about the business despite sitting shoulder to shoulder with us for weeks, and then proceeded to give us spectacularly terrible technical advice. “You need machine learning for this. Trust us, we’ve done this before.” They hadn’t, and it became clear they’d wasted our time and hadn’t listened to a word we said.