skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So: for anybody who is curious what's actually going on here:

1. Problems are far bigger than the specific payroll software system.
There were tens of thousands of outstanding cases in 2015 before the new system went live. There were tens of thousands of outstanding cases in 2012 when the project started. And there were tens of thousands of outstanding cases every year before that on the "old great system". (why? read on)

2. IBM didn't create a new system from scratch - Govt chose PeopleSoft HCM, an industry-leading system which reliably pays people day in and day out at thousands of customers. Base solution is not the core issue.

3. When you buy PeopleSoft (or SAP, or JDE, or whatever), ideally you make your business fit the system's best practices, customize as little as possible. No client fully does it, but govt doesn't even try.
IBM, together with govt employees, spent five years trying to hammer several tens of thousands of complex time and labor rules from more than hundred labour agreements into the system.

3. Implementing this system was half of the initiative, other half was reducing workforce for compensation advisers and moving them all to NB, hiring new grads as replacements. Who were surprisingly not exactly intimately familiar with these hundred labor agreements and tens of thousands of time and labour rules. We're talking one third of the support force at one tenth of experience.

4. So, the billion wasn't spent on "the system". It was mostly spent scrabling afterwards to re-hire old CA's as expensive consultants and trying to catch up the damage.

5. Because guess what, garbage in, garbage out.
If your manager doesn't submit or approve your acting gig or leave of absence or maternity leave for several weeks, or months, or more, system won't magically know about it. Not the old one, not the new one, not some magical future one.

If your HR person doesn't create you as a new employee, you won't get paid.

If you don't submit your overtime slips on time, but instead collect them for 10 months so you can have "Xmas bonus", that also MAY just may create an issue. Ditto with retirement applications. Secondments to other departments.
And if through this all employee groups perform denial of service attacks on the system because this is all a political game, that may also be a problem.

There is a pervasive cultural issue that boggles mind as to why nobody does their HR things on time or correctly there. The system just provides useful target of the moment, but issues were there before and without cultural change they'll be there in the future.

There are real problems and there are real people suffering because of them, and they have for decades, and yes it's gotten worse. Grandstanding over some magical new systems won't fix it though.

This is a burner account, I had the dubious privilege of working on this few years back and am aware of some of the horror stories - from the present and the past. I'll stay the dear heck away from Federal Govt / Public Sector project in the future if I can.
Are you running an ad blocker? I'm wondering if that might be interfering.

Just loaded the form using the direct URL [1] and it worked fine. Try in an incognito window, just to make sure?

[1] https://www.10xmanagement.com/agent-on-demand/
I meant I don't get why he would want to do that. Why insist that all of his customers' keys be revoked? Why intentionally compromise the keys to make that happen?

After reading more about it, though, I think it's less that it doesn't make sense and more that the person making these decisions is incompetent.
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Yeah why is his name there at all?
I think the problem is the right wing stalwarts like Alex Jones are doing stuff like inciting people to send hate mail to the people who lost their kids at the Sandy Hook massacre. Further, hate speech rules are often codified in law, and for good reason. It's not youtube's fault that mainstream rightwing culture is deeply sick, neither is it politicized censorship to censure people like Alex Jones.
Yes. Learning how to unhook from other peoples trauma and pain was really critical in my recovery.

I realized that very often the charge we feel to dig in and solve someone else's issue is often linked to our own unhealed past.

Ironically, it's when we heal ourselves that we can actually be of the highest service to those who are hurting.
Yea, I mean 100 megawatt per hour for ten hours equals 1 megawatt per day of driving.
I did the same a while back, and i suggest using an NLP library to extract parts of speech and parse trees and building a quick dirty solution. I did the same a while back and the strong solution isn't much better (took a week+) than the hacky manual one based on specific keywords like "teaspoon" and parts of speech/parse trees (took a few hours).
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Thank you! I'm glad someone else has acknowledged this.

Making a true edge-to-edge phone is impossible, and the notch IMO is the more aesthetically pleasing of the two options.

The Pixel 2 is another great example. Supposed to be edge to edge, but just looks almost-there-but-not-quite in practice.
Ethereum has already forked into Ethereum Classic, due to an exploit 2 years ago. Maybe it will fork again... Ethereum Classic2?
Or in Queensland with the $1.5b health payroll failure.

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/queenslands-ibm-ban-lives-on-...
Reminds me of .. backus ? minsky ?? or landin.. u_u;

who simulated it's interpreter by cards lifted by his family :)
I thought that too, until I learnt how all the payroll rules are fed into a mainframe for companies like ADP and Ceridian.

A mainframe stood between a client and their need.

Maybe we're after a better mainframe that doesn't need so much workarounds to do what has become payroll today.

I'm choosing to be optimistic that if a Stripe can navigate the payments industry, a payments startup could allow a better mainframe to be built through a rules engine that allows the degree of flexibility and data interoperability required in today's world.
Exactly, AUS is an overpriced polished turd. It's called "land of plenty" for a reason... plenty of sheep happy to get ripped off. So why not milk them for their cash...
i miss the memory card
Consumers gain much because the cost component of wages in most products is not necessarily that significant, while wealthier employees make for a stronger base of consumers.
That's such an unfair comparison, though (and really, with 8+ GB of RAM being the norm, 20 MB is still pretty svelte). Java has an entire virtual machine and runtime, whereas a C program is just a binary that gets loaded straight into memory.
Nice bot. I bet it would increase the amount of junk I have to bring rather than lighten the load I carry.
I’d like to see the outcomes of therapitic psychedelics on this same protein marker.
And why isn't "The Harper Government"(TM) not named?
Yeah but if that's a viable career path, I'd want to know about it.
In queuing theory, it's well known that choosing the request with lowest service time first will result in lowest waiting time on average across the requests.

This is usually not done because it can starve the larger jobs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortest_job_next

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queueing_theory#Service_discip...
I’m on the east coast. My stepdad and my girlfriend’s dad were both making 150k in tech and I don’t get the impression either was unusually well paid.
I do meditation. I don’t suffer from depression, however. It has helped me in living a more tranquil inner life. Less anger, more understanding, not just of myself but of others as well. It has definitely fostered more human connection and the value of vulnerability. How? I developed more awareness of what I cling to, which is the source of almost all my undesirable emotions. YMMV.

I like to use Calm most times but I started out by studying Mahayana Buddhism and some advaita. I practice meditation in accordance with those ideas.
I'm in multiple organizations, but some are against different email accounts, some use an external SSO and some don't. Were Slack to give a single login I would probably NOT be able to connect to the multiple workspaces I do now, which is a major benefit to me.
Nice eye. Thanks for this... good enhancement. A good option for display, as it depends on what kind of numbers are being displayed and compared (fractions vs. big whole numbers).
Didn't HSBC get off by permanently opening all it's books/accounts worldwide to USG?
What authority does the president have for such tariffs?
It's on the same topic. You can do a comparison and the creators could even discuss challenges and different approaches. And users get the best overview. I thought that was the point of this site.
There was a period of a few years when I used HP pen plotters to make transparencies for presenting on an overhead projector. There was something sort of relaxing about watching it work. As I recall, there was also a lot of screwing around with non-standard serial interfaces.
Higher Education is becoming more and more of an MLM.
I'm starting to see the vision a bit. A holistic solution to creating a healthy balance of things like Facebook and video games could become a sustainable business. Headspace might be a good company to learn some ideas from. They seem to be doing really well selling "peace of mind".

Good luck!
You're right that there are definitely people who are competent and have accepted the necessity of the surface-level accoutrements. The problem is that their direct knowledge of the worthlessness of those tokens means they will never wear them as sincerely and earnestly as an incompetent person, who believes that the surface-level tokens are competence itself.

A little bit of pushback on the more technical or capable people and they will start dropping the facade, whereas the less capable will just hold it up higher, because it's the only thing they know. They have no conscience accusing them of misrepresentation, no sense of guilt or concern that they may be drifting afield from an acceptable core. They only learn that they need to wear the tokens more convincingly next time.

So yes, you can have people who wear the tokens for expedience and out of a recognition that its important to fulfill the heuristics, but they're no competition for those blissfully unaware that there is anything else involved.
What’s with the name?
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If you compromised the reseller, would you have the reseller keep a list of illegitimate certificates that you issued via that channel?
I created a Chrome plugin to block all Hacker News comments and just provide a list of the links because I found myself wasting too much time reading Hacker News comments but I still wanted to be up to date on the actual news part.

All it did was make me waste more time because I got into the unconscious habit of opening Hacker News in incognito mode to avoid the plugin.

I'm not a huge gamer really, but I've also found it difficult to turn off games once I get involved. I've spent many many hours / early mornings playing Hearthstone, which is engineered to be addictive.

I eventually cut free by destroying my collection in game and locking myself out by resetting my credentials to a random email and password. The cost of starting completely from scratch has kept me from returning.

Some people have willpower. Some people need to consciously avoid things that they find unhealthy for themselves.
I feel like you have it backwards. The intent of my comment was to say democracy hasn't dropped the ball. Trump is massively and obviously corrupt, so he was massively and obviously investigated. Where's the whataboutism? If anything I was responding to reverse-whataboutism (self-deprecation from people in democracies when reading about 'N' being censored in China).
Sensationalist title. The study found vulnerabilities in 34,000 out of 1,000,000 contracts. That's less than 4%. Hardly surprising for a new technology.
This is only partially right, because the hungry hardly believes the one who have just eaten their lunch.
The pyramid finds you. Always has, always will.

<insert eye of providence>
Proofs with Idris
Not true. The Ethereum Foundation is funding Yoichi Hirai's work on formal verification.
> Not just because it's very expensive, but because the resulting system will be brittle and incompatible and taking advantage of further developments.

But that's where the lure of the IBMs of this world comes in: they claim no change will be required, it's all free. Of course, we know that eventually it'll be a big fuckup.
> So we had to take the bad battery, still fully charged despite being blown up like a balloon, with us on an airplane so we could take it home and dispose of it properly.

That was incredibly dangerous and put everyone on the airplane at risk. You didn't have to take it.
Ignoring that it's very odd to retroactively justify immoral behavior because of unintended, positive side effects: I'm saying that being critical, like asking if the slave-like conditions of most of the population were actually necessary, is a pretty reasonable thing to do. This isn't black and white issue, like I have to pick between "a couple generations have horrible working lives" vs "antibiotics exist". I'm asking if both were possible, and I'd argue that they would be if the people at the top were willing to accept even a little less.
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Sometimes you just want to write and draw with pen and paper.
Here's a good intro to plotting in a JS environment: https://mattdesl.svbtle.com/pen-plotter-1

And one I wrote for Python: https://bitaesthetics.com/posts/surface-projection.html

One of my favorite parts of plotting is the community; there's a bunch of good tutorials and GitHub repos for someone getting started.
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There's a lot more to America than Silicon Valley. Whatever the average SV wages are, they're outliers when compared to average wages across the county.
Most of the 'holes' mentioned have to do with contract developers writing buggy code rather than bugs with Ethereum / Solidity itself. That being said, there's likely holes that aren't discovered yet, but the title and article is a bit misleading in that it points to flaws with Ethereum itself.
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> firewalled, or at the very least, configured to listen for and respond exclusively to connections from known front-end or application services.

Combine this with staying on top of vulnerabilities, this is really all you can hope for from a host standpoint. What is changing are the days of perimeter defense. The Zero Trust model is really the best path forward, and the only way to implement security in relation to the IoT.[1][2]

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k80jOH2H10U
[2]https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/zero-trust-ne...
At the least, it implies that you ought to carefully consider whether you should. Optimized code often makes trade-offs in complexity, flexibility, etc, not to mention the extra cost in development time.

With those costs, there should be a compelling benefit that you get out of it. Otherwise, it's not worthwhile.
Meet the men who spy on women through their webcams
Back in the mid 90s, the company I worked for used to plot our circuit diagrams with the pen plotters. It would plot it out on an A3 and takes about 30mins per page. The results were beautiful, almost an art piece.
From https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...

"OK, THEN I'LL JUST SERVE A CRYPTOGRAPHIC DIGEST OF MY CODE FROM THE SAME SERVER SO THE CODE CAN VERIFY ITSELF."

"This won't work."

Your comment that "That gives you more security than the update in your OS or Browser" is patently false, I don't know why you'd suggest that.
Big banks want a backdoor in TLS 1.3
If you want to learn more about distributism, the subreddit is actually a good resource:

https://www.reddit.com/r/distributism/
Cellphones on the Moon? Not So Fast
Your comment made me think of two things: Accurate payroll, and auditing of data.

ACCURACY: One of the biggest things I learned is that a correct payroll isn't a correctly executed payroll, but one that the employee is paid correctly. What's the difference? A lot of payrolls have a ton of manual adjustments to fill the gaps, which never easily get codified. If the barrier to codifying rules could be improved, it would pretty easily start to push around mainframes.

AUDITING: Existing platforms like Ceridian and ADP appear to do an okay job with their auditing - any calculation set to be done by a computer, rule, or human is forever recorded on the same leger. For what I saw, it was a healthy paranoia of tracking how everything is calculated for liability's sake. Faving this available, for repairing data and fixing payrolls is more important than reliably executing incorrect rules, or data. It creates a great audit trail for weeding out behavior.

I'm in no way endorsing one product, but I was reasonably surprised by ADP's newish workforce platform. Of course, once we got into the weeds, things broke and and processes needed to be hacked or split up, but it was only because the ancient mainframe underpinning could not be touched. Which sucked.

If Teyve said in Fiddler on the Roof, all traditions were new once. Maybe all new mainframes were new once.
I used LimeSDR at work. We were nervous to buy from Crowd Supply, but they are really a good value add. Compared with something like Kickstarter they inventory the products and handle returns- something a tiny startup might not deal with well.

LimeSDR was convenient for us because the LMS7002M has two radios, each with I & Q plus 3:1 input switch (so 6 inputs total).
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Well, that and the invention of the living wage concept and a complete shakeup of the nation's economy from the great depression and two world wars.
I can't help but think in 3-5 years how quaint our tools of the day will seem.
My main annoyance about this is that we're now discussing about the mentioning of another product instead of the other product itself.
Also, at least here in Australia, it's way more expensive to see a psychiatrist than a psychologist. I imagine if you've made your way to a psychiatrist (someone that can prescribe meds) for depression then you've already had plenty of therapy, and things are still bad enough to warrant escalation. Which then ties in to your point. If someone is making it in front of a psychiatrist for depression, suicide is probably on the table.
MillerCoors agrees:

"Like most brewers, we are selling an increasing amount of our beers in aluminum cans, and this action will cause aluminum prices to rise. It is likely to lead to job losses across the beer industry

We buy as much domestic can sheet aluminum as is available, however, there simply isn’t enough supply to satisfy the demands of American beverage makers like us. American workers and American consumers will suffer as a result of
this misguided tariff"

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I don't see what could possibly be the long term issues with a decentralized version of Windows XP handling global currency exchanges.