skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ll admit “consulting” is an overloaded term.

I have worked for third party consulting companies for 5 years. Companies hire my company to do a job or issue guidance and then leave. If I am on the bench, I still get paid. I report status to the client company and they are ultimately responsible for signing off on work. But they don’t manage my work.

I’m not embedded into their team, we might embed them into our team. But at the end of the day, we are leading the projects.

Then you have staff augmentation “consultants” like you are referring to.

I saw both sides a few years ago when I was the dev lead for a company. We hired both staff augmentation “consultants” where we paid the contracting agency $90/hour and the end consultant got $60-$65 and we also paid the AWS consulting companies $160/hour and I have no idea what they got paid. But it was a lot more.

That’s what made me work on pivoting to cloud consulting in 2018. I didn’t know AWS when we hired the consultants.
Helm gets you 99% of the way there with less complexity than running Terraform in loop. Terraform is great for bootstrapping Kubernetes of course.
Thank you very much for sharing this. I've been trying to form a mental model of why reflection in transmission lines is a thing and never found a theoretical foundation that satisfied me. I've read a number of publications that just state that as fact, without further explanation. I'll spend some time sketching my own graphs and formulas to fully absorb the fine article.

PS: he discusses the impossibility of moving signals faster than light. I'm in fact interested in moving them way slower than they do, since that could make it possible to build very short antennas. I'm surely not the first to think of this. Maybe that's not even possible and that theoretical model could help to demonstrate why (even though it applies to transmission lines while I'm concerned about antennas).
Thankfully nobody is trying to sell humans as a service in an attempt to replace the existing AIs in the workplace (yet).

I’m sure such a product would be met with ridicule considering how often humans hallucinate. Especially since, as we all know, the only use for humans is getting responses given some prompt.
Why would they care if customers whine but remain customers?
I agree that localization might not be the biggest hurdle, but that's also not the biggest selling point of the language. It's a gradual language (the syntax grows which each level), it's fun, and designed for classrooms so teachers can help kids easily. I disagree with you, because I think the localization does more good than bad. It's not like these kids are becoming "career hedy programmers". There are only a couple of levels, after which they will hopefully continue to learn other languages. I'm happy to agree to disagree.
Everyone has the power to create credit out of thin air.

What the banks have (now, due to long history) is a regularly regime where we expect the government to fix that credit when the bank gets those credit decisions wrong. In trade for that extraordinary treatment governments demand banks comply with a variety of regulations.

I’ve worked for a long time in the banking and credit space, no one I know in that industry thinks Andreeson did a credible job explaining modern banking. To knowledgeable people he came off as either fundamentally ignorant or extremely deceptive depending on your cynicism levels.
> The social cost however is creating a society that favors consumption over creation, and weights incentives accordingly

We've been heading this way progressively for the last century.

If you look back at the early days of broadcast television, for example, there were only 3 channels. 72h of programming at most in any 24h time period. This deeply favored the creator (or perhaps more accurately, the owner of the channel of distribution). Now we have YT and Netflix, both of which are biased towards consumption. Is it all bad? In some ways; we have to wade through more to find the good stuff. But in other ways, we have more to choose from and more people can be creators.
"Meanwhile, the Concorde continued its effortless cruise toward New York’s JFK Airport."

i.e. it used only 4,800 US gallons per hour of fuel (a 747 burns around 3600 gallons/h). Not what I would label "effortless", but not nearly as bad as I expected.
LibreOffice is probably about 10% of the size of MS Office these days...

As for instructions/support: Changes between subsequent versions are minor. There was a versioning scheme change recently, so you may be thinking "Oh, LibreOffice 7.3 vs 24.8, very different" - no, mostly the same thing, it's just that 24.8 came out in 2024, in August. Also, there is ask.libreoffice.org #libreoffice on irc.libera.chat , and there are Telegram and Matrix channels... so just ask.

But it's true that with 0.1%-0.5% or so of the budget MS Office gets, it's difficult to keep all of the materials fully up-to-date.
Lost in the Mall? Interrogating Judgements of False Memory
Depending on your level and how much of your life is built around your job - it's not always as easy to leave as you might think.
Your Light Bulb Is Lying to You: Why so many LEDs look so bad
It's entirely possible that the owner of the ship is some fake company that only exists to own this particular ship, and the company will vanish if there are fines to be paid. There's still a lot of shadiness in international shipping.
I'm not going to devote the time required to search, retrieve and cite extent material. But you will find results if you do, but probably no panacea. Also, I deliberately don't mention specifics in this instance (and many others) due to potentially and probable controversy. As an example, if I were to (but won't!) cite research indicating the universally reviled Ag showing efficacy in mitigating TB, I'd be attacked by waves of hostility as if it was my own rogue idea.

I enjoy discussions, but find it often tends to be argumentative here, so I avoid things I expect to go in that direction. Note the hostility to my use of the forbidden word in quotes. It's a thousand cuts with these kinds of compulsive prison shanks of logic that makes me awkward.
I have had video chats with my bank. The video part was not super important but nice given the magnitude of the transaction (house loan things). The more important part was the screensharing to sho the advisors calculations and other info.
May be, but Ukraine does not control the straits, is not a member of the European Union, and is not yet the 51st US state. Other European countries are unfortunately or fortunately only in a state of cold war for the time being.
I have a lot of ideas. Each would have to be examined, debunked, improved etc they would have to be considered in combination as many would overlap, contradict or compliment.

On a higher level it's fun to notice that HN isn't suitable for developing anything. People are just talking for talking sake, small nuggets of information are tossed around that may be useful to the reader any place but here. It is quite preposterous actually that this kind of architecture is even a thing. I have higher expectations from scribblings on a napkin among drunks in a loud bar.

When I first got on irc I had the audacity to ask people to do things for me. I even used private messages for this. Everyone got really angry but I disagreed, I still do. irl if I need a drill ill go ring the door 5 houses down the street and expect them to lend it to me. If some stranger asks me to dig a swimming pool for them ill show up with 10 friends and go do it. People who don't normally function that way should be offered assistance until they've so abundantly made use of it that they too will lend a hand. Online the opposite is happening. People have culturally rendered themselves to be quite useless.

Imagine for laughs trying to architect and build a house on Twitter. Even GIT is pretty useless. If it cant get an 8 year old to contribute in 5 minutes a tool has failed. Sure, all parts of a project might be extremely complicated or dangerous but that is just looking for excuses.

Therefore, I would argue, everything that doesn't directly contribute towards setting or accomplishing real world goals should live behind some imaginary line in the sand and be treated like useless content. Educative or inspiring does count as useful but only barely.
You don’t find too many profitable “lifestyle companies” in tech.
I think that the honorable thing in those companies is for a CEO to demand seppuku from a significant portion of the c-suite. At least as a form of solidarity with the workers put to the sword.
>Switzerland doesn't have issues with selling arms to neutral countries.

That's a very poor case. Any country declaring itself neutral stops being neutral the moment it gets attacked by another country (see Belgium and Netherlands in WW2 when they declared themselves neutral but still got steamrolled by Nazi Germany anyway, and Ukraine today).

So then you won't be able to get any ammo or spare parts for those expensive Swiss arms you bought making them paperweights (again see Ukraine right now with it's Swiss Oerlikon AA guns on the German Gepards).

So why would anyone buy swiss arms then if the moment you actually need to use them to defend yourself you can't because the Swiss government puts an embargo on you?
> It’s not you that’s critical, it’s the job you fill that’s critical.

I think at a big enough company the people making layoff decisions don't know or care what job is critical. In some cases that means your job wasn't as critical as you thought. But I've also seen layoffs that seem just downright stupid. Literally saw someone laid off then re-hired to a different team a couple weeks later with a substantial bump to their pay.

At a certain level of abstraction nothing will save you. Critical job? Bean counters don't know the specifics of each team or project. High level? Cost too much, not contributing enough to short term goals.

I was once told that a lot of executive level management was based off gut instinct more than cold logical decision making. It would not surprise me if this also applied to deciding who is laid off.
> Where has Trump's agenda collapsed? I might have missed the press release.

Well, it's too early to say if it has happened in this case. But we've seen it happen again and again, so it will not be a surprise if it happens.

> And why would a curveball on AI throw off an agenda around trade, immigration and military engagement? I don't follow.

Well, trade restrictions against China have just backfired spectacularly. So further trade restrictions may not seem as good an idea. And to start trade wars, you need a strong economy. And at the moment America's economy is entirely driven by the AI bubble, as it is the value of the AI stocks that has separated the economy from the European trend.

It is very likely that military engagement will be driven by, or affected by, developments in AI. And there's no doubt that Taiwan's situation is heavily affected by chip production.

> Do you feel the Chinese government closely controls AI research and timed this response?

No evidence, but I am not naive enough to think it's out of the range of possibility. I don't follow your reasoning, more likely the timing of the release is all they had to modify - which is quite trivial for any government. To not question that would be very naive. They have _every motive_.
Because in a lot of places the consultants and employees work side by side, sometimes for a long time, on the same project/work. They operate as one team, more or less. The consultants are more like staff augmentation, than McKinsey consultants.

If I was a manager of that team, I'd worry about the effect of treating part of my team differently.

If I was an employee on a team like that, I'd feel really bad about my team mates not being allowed to participate.
Have you lived under a rock for how many years?

AI

The best learning tool, "stepping stone" for kids. And they're already familiar with it when cheating on their homework.
Well, the person who decided to lay you off probably didn’t care enough to know, if that makes you feel any better.
And DDG also enshittifies from its glory days of being an ethical alternative, where their AI prefers to e.g. explain a commercial service in their Assist section at the top, and not the common dictionary term.
Thank you. This is a very underrated (yet) thoughtful and wise response.
DeepSeek is having major issues their https://platform.deepseek.com page now just 404s and https://status.deepseek.com is a red bar
Any honest threat model assumes that any internet-connected device is already compromised…
> But it then talks about how exp is implemented in hardware, in a way that forces it to be a non-SIMD calculation.

This is especially surprising given that very few architectures have an `exp` in hardware. It's almost always done in software.
Calling someone petty for wanting to keep the workflow they're used to hardly seems good-faith to me.
Not a religious person, but there's something deeply spiritual about Katalin Karikó type characters, who throughout the ages stuck with their curiosities and craft for the craft's sake.
He's inherited a bubble. If he chooses to stoke that bubble...
> The real corruption/monopoly in financial services that needs addressing are the amex/visa/mastercard transaction fees.

The filthy anti capitalist socialists in Europe have already done that.

EU Interchange cap as follows: 0.2% of the transaction value for Visa and Mastercard consumer debit cards. 0.3% of the transaction value for Visa and Mastercard consumer credit cards.

Seems to work fine.
Intimidation has been their modus operandi for a while. Assassinations which they only half-heartedly deny is another example of that.

But it feels like this has become the new normal and isn't particularly effective anymore.
I believe this is called "racing the beam".

But given that different displays work differently, I'm not sure it would worth the hassle.
Bringing multiple windows to Flutter desktop apps
> This is not what Wayland does, it is what a particular display server with Wayland support decided to do.

To the user that's an irrelevant distinction.

I also don't think this matters that much - with X11 this was optimized in one place by people that care about such details while with Wayland now every compositor developer (who in general are much more interested in window management policty) needs to become a low leve performance expert.

> Second, just to be clear, this only discusses mouse cursors on the desktop - not the content of windows, and in particular not games even if they have cursors.

Games can and sometimes do use "hardware" cursors as well - after all, they also care about latency.
It's all sharepoint under the hood, which is why it's terrible, but you can just open things in sharepoint...
The unfortunate thing about Wayland, imo, is that most people think it’s a single implementation like x11
I agree, though I think Google and all the adtech companies share a lot of the blame for the structure of the modern web.

The result is current web search returns static output from smaller models in the form of affiliate marketing listicles. Using a larger LLM directly on your query is simply better. There is a semantic/vector search happening with them such that there might be relevant terms or concepts even in a false answer. That's a step forward towards real information at least. That doesn't happen with the listicles.
I mean 4-5% the size for 10-100x the time is not worth it.
If you go to dj show and get mad that there is live instruments, that’s on you.
Setting aside specific cases like DeepSeek, the tech trend is a consistent march towards cheaper, faster, and better solutions. This march is often fueled by new approaches in manufacturing, materials, and techniques, all part of the broader march of scientific progress. The result is usually similar or superior performance at a significantly reduced cost.

I agree with the OP that constraint is the biggest driver of this innovative trend, which is why disruption is the best form of innovation.
How Math Academy Creates Its Knowledge Graph
Meanwhile, I got a spam popup about Gemini when logging into a google workspace. I found the button to activate it in the workspace chat and it told me "Gemini in chat is not available".

Deployment looks as great as Microsoft's so far?
There's a relatively well-travelled path of filling hollow prints with something to get strength back, which does mitigate that. What that something is will vary per application, but I've previously used premixed post-hole concrete where I've just wanted to add weight.
"It feels as though the trust between companies and employees is now broken."

I'm afraid we haven't hit rock bottom yet, they won't change until no one applies anymore.

Huge opportunity for companies willing to do the right thing!
> you can probably be upfront about it.

But for the unwritten interview rule: Don't be negative.

Even if the interviewer knows you're in a dumpster fire, you have more to lose.
Is it roughly the same long history as the long history of corporations getting away with crimes that individuals could not?

Yknow maybe the modern day requires rethinking of some regulations regarding corporations.
I'd pair a pair of Halliday glasses like these with a pair of bone induction headphones. That oughta do it.

Wireless connectivity/latency issues aside, we're probably better off with them being two separate "cranium accessories" (as Mitch Hedberg called them), to accommodate a wide variety of heads
They missed a good service, which I’ve recommended here often, in their comparison — Migadu (no affiliation).

https://www.migadu.com
I don't work as a PM or for Microsoft.

Perhaps the problem is a deeper one, which is constant and likely unnecessary UI makeovers. But among the endless blizzard of these, this is an odd one to make your last stand for. More to the point, onto:

> Do you actually not understand why customization is something people want out of the operating system they use for upwards of 8+ hours a day, every single day?

All the examples you listed are much more significant IMO than whether the taskbar goes to the bottom or top of the screen. I imagine that MS would be less likely to remove those features.

> M$ decides to remove it, requiring 3rd party devs to do their job for them

But why isn't that the end of the issue then? The feature can be fully restored.
No. As a Django dev I spend 6 months on a RoR project, and by far it was the least productive time of my 8 year career in web development. I understand why people like it, but coming from Django; u could never imagine being a part of a RoR stack again.
(or in my case, a variety of wide heads)
You have to legally start a company. That means some legal work (you don't need a lawyer, but it helps). You need to do the books yourself - and because this is very different areas of tax law you really should hire an accountant (only an hour/month, but having extra eyes look at the books is useful). If you do this right you make more money, but there are problems if you miss some legal detail that W-2 employees don't have.

Many times you cannot get called as a 1099 as some places won't work with you. however most of the big consulting companies have others working for them on a 1099 and will be happy to deal with you. However the amount they pay you doesn't change so you have to really understand how to make tax law work for you to make it worth out. (perhaps you can give yourself a 401k with a match - check with the lawyers/accountants above to see if that is legal and if so what the rules are. If not there are other loopholes that work similar)
Size savings translates to latency improvements which directly affects conversion rates. Smaller size isn’t about reducing costs but increased revenue. People care.
What about a cursor moving over an element that requires changing its look? (E.g. you go over a link?)
No, I don't think so. Or rather, what kind of response? Invoking Article 5 and then what?

It seems like just another chapter in the hybrid warfare. NATO countries can respond in other ways, more sanctions, more military support for Ukraine, undercover actions, restricting Russian vessel movement in the Baltic Sea etc.
A Boy Who Cried AGI
But you said the Allies definitely would have lost without the Soviet Union. Is it hypothetically possible that the Nazis might invent some mystery weapon without less pressure? Maybe… but it isn’t a sure thing.

Getting a plane across the Atlantic with the limited bomb and fuel load that entails might not have accomplished much. If only a couple bombs could have done the job, I guess allies wouldn’t have been building all those bomber fleets, right?

And they didn’t build a serious surface navy before the war, or in the first year-or-so when they were still trading partners with the Soviet Union. It seems there was something beyond manpower pressure holding them back.
Show HN: Browse Your Calibre Library From The Terminal (calibre TUI wrapper)
Trump is searching for potential TikTok buyers – who are the likely contenders?
And for a while it would helpfully generate python code for you!
The most striking aspect of DeepSeek's success is how it challenges the prevailing narrative that cutting-edge AI requires massive financial backing. Their R1 model was trained with significantly less capital, yet it's apparently on par OpenAI's models. This raises questions about the necessity of the huge sums that companies like OpenAI are investing, and whether we're possibly start seeing diminishing returns from such massive spending.

Also it seems that the impact of US export restrictions on China's AI advancements might not be as prohibitive as we initially thought. DeepSeek's breakthrough suggests that Chinese developers are finding alternative ways to circumvent limitations and potentially level the playing field in AI development. This could accelerate global competition for more efficient and cost-effective solutions.
We don't even know if it's actually a 1.5 frame latency for real because the test didn't try to establish that. The author said it looked like it was 1.5 frames, but that could be a coincidence. It just looks like a 1.5 frame overhead. It could, in reality, be a constant time overhead rather than a function of frames and so would be fine with a lower frame rate.

Tearing would affect everyone that uses a computer with X11 but your proposed example of a TV with 30i refresh rate would only affect the tiny subset of users that use a CRT television as a monitor, right?
People in a few decades will think we were crazy for packaging 100% of our food in plastic, the same way we think putting asbestos everywhere was crazy back then.

The amount of strokes and aneurysms that are gonna happen in 20~50 years is gonna be truly fantastic.
not even an SMT solver, that's not what they are for.
Sure it is. In fact, it's fractional banking where the fraction is 0.

Consider how much business can be done on credit, and what constrains it. Infinite, and nothing. My corner store is not required to hold reserves against it's receivable. Apple (or a telco) is not required to hold reserves against it's receivable for a phone on credit. Their suppliers aren't required to hold reserves against credit on them. And so on all the way back to the folks digging stuff out of the ground.
> I don't find the cons all that compelling to be honest

I found it reasonable.

The 5% improvement was balanced against the cons of increased cli complexity, lack of native JS zopfli implementation, and slower compression .. and 5% just wasn't worth it at the moment - and I agree.

>or at least I think they warrant further discussion

I think that was the final statement.
Significant Risks in Using AI Models Governed by Llama License
Yes they censorship seems to be done at the RLHF level and is easy to evade when you know what you're looking for. Refusals happen around 80% of the time for me.

Interestingly, even the 8B version, distilled from Llama 3 repeats CCP propaganda just fine.