skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's refreshing for me to see an article from a modern conservative outfit that actually seems to understand the adversarial relationship between the finance sector and the principles of economic conservatism. I particularly liked the section talking about historical precedents and bipartisan support for initiatives:

> Believe it or not, America has been here before. In the 1920s and 1930s, the American defense industrial base was being similarly manipulated by domestic financiers for their own purposes, retarding innovation and damaging the nation’s ability to defend itself. And American military readiness was ebbing in the midst of an increasingly dangerous world full of rising autocracies.

> Within the defense base itself, every example—from TransDigm to L3 to Chinese infiltration of American business—has drawn the attention of members of Congress. Representatives Ted Budd and Paul Cook are Republicans and Representatives Jackie Speier and Ro Khanna are Democrats. They are not alone. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Tim Ryan have joined Khanna’s demand for a TransDigm investigation.

Outside of this article, the best writing I've seen on this topic of short-term incentives is from British economist John Kay's book "Other People's Money", for example when he compares the annual reports from chemical company ICI in 1987 and 1994.

1987: ICI aims to be the world's leading chemical company, servicing customers internationally through the innovative and responsible application of chemistry and related science...

1994: Our objective is to maximise value for our shareholders by focusing on businesses where we have market leadership, a technological edge and a world competitive cost base.

Kay goes on to explain how ICI, a leading British chemical company since its founding in the 1920s, attracted a short term flurry of investment activity but ultimately sold in 2007 just about a decade after their change of priorities.

Kay primarily blames an over-expansion of the finance sector and the revolving-door culture on Wall Street, fairly consistent with the premises of this article.
What does this do to the important justification for stock markets and financialization, the argument that stock markets distribute capital to the most important firms that can use the capital? What does it to to the importance of the Wall Street financiers, those who supposedly provide the intelligence to distribute the capital? What's up with that?
You are forgetting nondeterministic aspects. Only in theory, aircraft and atmosphere is a deterministic Newtonian machine, in practice, less so. But even if so, physics simulations can't be done and evaluated for all possible initial conditions for even the simplest model.

One can imagine a mental model of airplane and make a formal design for it. Then do a formal check in the most important scenarios that introduce weather, human action, system failures. The design will always fail for some scenarios. Not a problem if those are not important (in terms of risk). But which scenarios are the important ones? Probability and severity of consequences of those scenarios are much needed knowledge, and one can find those only via the good old method of iterative testing in wild.
There seems to have been some disconnect where we’ve just decided that young people have no longer got any rights. For most cases your barometer for treating children ought to be “would I as an adult be okay being treated this way”. Children need more protection than adults, not less. Schools should be a place where children feel safe, not a place where they feel locked up. It’s no surprise that there’s a school-to-prison pipeline in the US when some schools resemble prisons so closely.
And notably similar to Eugene Podkletnov´s claims in the 90´s:

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

whose equipment is rumoured to have ended up in the US.
A bit too expensive and hardware-hungry for a mahjong game.

> 42 GB available space
Excellent talk! Thanks for the link.
> it was a smoking hole in the ground

Really? When did Detroit burn to the ground? When I said literally, I meant literally. I've lived in Detroit, and still have family there. Sure it's bad but it's not literally an unlivable ruin.

> it would be equally bad for the urban many to dictate to the rural few

Equally bad? No, sorry, I don't believe majority and minority rule are equally just or effective. However few or many things should be decided at a federal level (nice red herring there), those things should be decided by votes and votes should be equal. Saying each member of one group should get more votes or more representation than each member of another is saying we should have a class system, and I reject that. There is a clear moral difference between majority and minority rule.
Ha! This makes Rap Genius's apostrophe trap even more delightful, then.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/genius-google-...
OpenID Connect predates the final JOSE RFCs, but not the drafts. It was not published by IETF, so it allowed itself to refer to internet drafts describing JWT before being released. The JOSE RFCs and Open ID Connect were basically authored by the same people (M. Jones, J. Bradly, N. Sakimura).
Google announces Equiano, a subsea cable that connects Europe with Africa
Not saying I agree with the state of things, but very few people use open source apps other than a few high-profile ones (Chrome, Firefox, Telegram, et Al).

We need open source alternatives to everything for AOSP to be truly viable again.
Ask HN: How are posts being reparented?
I've noticed twice now, and commented once about it here with a picture of the post hierarchy before the reparenting happened:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20246152

Here is the picture of the hierarchy before:

https://i.postimg.cc/W1ytffL2/hn-post-moving.png

And here is how it is now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20244726

Is it automatic, or done by mods, or is there an option to do that that I've missed or that is gained on reaching some karma threshold?
I know people who work there, and it seems to have a similar bell curve of talent you see in any corporation (though given what kind of person is attracted to government work, maybe shifted more towards the bottom).

They also say "top aircraft test base" but it's also practically the only after the BRACs of the 90s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_Realignment_and_Closure
Apple Identifies Logic Board Issue with 'Small Number' of 2018 MacBook Airs
Why not? Now, more than ever, we can see this as a tragedy and great wrong. Would you consider that a “mural showing the Holocaust is perhaps not suited for a public space”?

Of course you wouldn’t. This mural doesn’t glorify and we can add context around it to make it into a teachable situation instead of trying to erase history.
War or no war China will be always happy to sell material to US. It had happened before with British buying Zeiss binoculars from Germany in exchange for rubber during WWI.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World_War_glass–rubber...
I went to a small elementary school; a small-ish middle school, and a large "talented" high school. The last was by far the best environment. The first two were in the suburbs; the last in a major city.

The middle school was the worst of the bunch, but the unhealthy power dynamics are everywhere. Students who, if they don't care for their grades, teachers have zero leverage over. Teachers with little to no accountability, and a bunch of hormone-rich assholes to look after. All locked in together day after day.

It was atrocious.
The amount of luck involved definitely helps with casual play. You can face much stronger players without being completely obliterated. But that also means, for tournament play, that you need a sufficient number of games for statistically better players to come out on top. So tournaments typically last 2–3 days, totaling 8–12 90 minute games.
Whilst I support the premise that schools might want security cameras for security reasons (finding out who beat someone up etc), it’s basically been shown that schools can’t be trusted with that kind of technology. I imagine that it would have a huge chilling effect on student development if everything was constantly being monitored (and who knows who watches the tapes).
Choose a vendor that isn't actively fighting the OS they sell and support if you want your hardware to work as expected: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/03/nvidia_server_gpus/

eGPUs in a laptop format is a bit silly, you sacrifice the mobility of the laptop to get a very cut down discrete mobile GPU. AMD has started to eat this market alive due to the performance per watt advantage: https://redd.it/bc5hkg

Consumers are much more likely to bring a sub-5lb HP x360 everywhere than a bulky 8+lb laptop.
Ask: Why would you open source all your company's software?
What can really be open-sourced in a company when it comes to dealing with customer data in it's services?
A similar technique was used to prove that the mobile game Heroes Charge was built on stolen code https://www.facebook.com/allstarheroes.en/videos/15770877858... Except that code has become a lot more complicated since the Atari days. So, you don't need a hex dump to show the evidence. Just a gesture sequence on a certain screen and the UI pops up "Copyright: The Original Company".

Meanwhile, the original company was simultaneously being sued by Blizzard for blatantly knocking off the character designs of World of Warcraft https://blizzardwatch.com/2015/03/24/blizzard-files-lawsuit-...
My experience is that senior managers don't have the time or inclination to be aware of operational issues. They are unable to perceive something like there is a structural issue between units A and B. These issues are actually seen and surfaced by workers in units A and B, who actually experience the result of the mismatch. If they are able to cross-communicate directly they may be able to resolve the issue without intervention from above. However, they may not be able to, typically if this involves hiring.

But the only way that a senior manager could even understand there is an issue is if someone in unit A or unit B makes them aware of it.
This is useless overhead. The workers have to be able to successfully communicate the issue up to senior management and usually also suggest the resolution, then get buy-in from senior management on implementation. If instead the workers were more empowered to make decisions themselves the information and decision-making bottleneck could be avoided.
I like this analogy. Lets expand.

These soufflés take two months to bake but you need soufflés every day for sales. What does this mean?

You always have 2 months of soufflés in various states of production at all times.

Now you lose power and all these as very fragile soufflés in production are lost because of the power failure. Furthermore, it will take you two months to get the first soufflés off the restarted production line.
Here are the standing ovations that followed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQNYExxW_W0&t=1h17m55s

Here is his second statement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQNYExxW_W0&t=1h41m01s

Though I'm sure the whole thing is worth listening to.
I'm just more offended that the default behaviour on an extremely popular distro is failed boot = brick. You don't even get a basic command prompt to fix something, the default behavior is to lock everything down and forbid access, making it impossible to repair the machine from itself. Windows will reboot a few times and then automatically start in safe mode when this happens, you don't need to extract the drive to manually edit some text files before the system can boot again.
> Most of us don't want to mess about with the desktop stack. If the stack we care about is open-source and runs across many systems, then we still have the freedom.

A tangential point but a relevant one nonetheless. I owe most of my tech. skills to the fact that it was hard to get a Linux distribution running on a cheap PC. I had to read up about hardware, learn how to fix installation issues, sometimes recompile the kernel with different options (and hence study them) and a number of other things simply because it didn't "just work". It gave me an intimate comfort with Linux that I just don't have with any other system (including MacOS which I used for about 2.5 years).

I completely get the notion that when one is a professional he or she shouldn't need to meddle with system level quirks to get a productive environment and a desktop and thankfully, modern Linux is more or less there. I haven't had any major trouble in a long time with it. However, during college or early years, having a system that demands some amount of work to get it working has, atleast to me, be crucial in honing my skills. I wouldn't change that even if I could. I'd vigourously defend it.
This object / function switching is horrible. Obfuscates code reading a lot. Why lambdas and not named functions. Same for nested ternaries. This is the kind of code which no one will like afterwards to maintain.

Early exits are fine when they are used for invalid input/use cases. But not for regular algorithmic outputs. This would hide cyclomatic complexity. Unfortunately, not understood by the author once you understand the reduce example. I am not experienced enough with reduce to make a statement about the array pattern... But it looks good especially when the language has array deconstruction.
I wonder if this might be a result of architectonic decisions. What if the architecture of the school made people in it behave more prison-like?

I think that another aspect of the us school system is the stampede during the breaks. Too many people moving at once.
Except in this case, there is no Ferrari. That's the crux of the issue that the article kind of touches on, but not really.

Are Ericsson and Nokia free of EU surveillance facilities? Is any American equipment free of surveillance facilities? This is the real problem, lack of open hardware that we can readily validate as "better" or "worse". With a Honda and a Ferrari, we're free to pop the respective hoods and look into what we find. Heck, we can go way further than that if we know our OBD equipment well enough. But not so with, say, your average router.

So people out in the non American parts of the world say, "Meh, one's just as good as the other. They're all spying. May as well get the cheapest equipment I can." And right there, market share is won.
What Shakespeare sounded like in his day – original pronunciation recreated
So is the claim here that the state is paying for the rides to the checkups? The comment even indicates that the taxi companies structures themselves around the insurance company contracts, which unless the state is paying insurers, doesn't seem to have the state in the loop. I'm confused how the state is supposed to be in this too.
Came here to just say that. I liked Children of Time more [0].

[0] http://plurrrr.com/archive/2019/06/14.html
The article describes the missing security features. Did you read it?

The lack of nonce makes replay protection impossible. The lack of c_hash opens up vulnerabilities in connect flows where the service incorrectly assumes the two tokens refer refer to the same user. Returning the id token on the query leaks it in the Referer header.
This is more or less one of the only part that is respected in full.

I've got to say, I've seen providers without proper discovery, I've seen providers with strange hybrid flows and I'm pretty sure most providers don't implement the request/response signing and encryption (after all, if you want insanity, you'll be more than happy with SAML). But I've never seen a provider who doesn't implement an ID token.

I think everybody would agree that OpenID Connect without an ID token is just plain OAuth 2.
I think there is a huge difference between trying to coerce a president of a country residing in his own country, against a literal nobody residing in the country of his military’s enemy who also have access to his relatives there.

Also there’s a difference between a person having Estonian passport or a British one very much.
Mathematical Art 2019
There's also the little matter of the sheer magnitude of the threat to the species: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/15/dramatic...
I had similar problem. With Hyper-V my PC BSODed like every other day. I did some investigation on dumps and I think that problem was in nvidia driver (not entirely sure, though, but stacktraces were from that driver). I don't really know whether it resolved or not, because I decided not to use Hyper-V ever again, VirtualBox is much better.
Windows kernel is actually more suitable for Android than Linux kernel. In such an environment, JVM could have been the entire userland.
Apple Pages, Numbers, Keynote use 128-bit decimal floating point calculations
When AI learns to make art, will humans even understand it?
My uncle was a locksmith. His listing was "AAA Locksmith". He was pretty proud about gaming the indexing system that way.
The selective constraint on gut bacteria is not merely to eat food, it is to facilitate the health of the gut. That is, a symbiote has different evolutionary goals than a bug that is just out for a meal. Don't go looking in rotten food for this stuff; the most likely place to find it is in another person's gut.
Several highly endangered iberian lynx are found dead each year with riffle pellets in the corpse. In 2019. Everybody knows that is a very rare animal. Some people just don't care or even enjoy doing harm.

Africa has lost 9 of each 10 lions in the last decades trying to repay its debt.

And 9 of each 10 tuna fishes and ridgeback turtles were also vanished

Is a full fledged global war against nature happening in all places at the same time.
Yes, it's open source. I wouldn't try to claim it isn't, like the parent is doing. However Google being behind it still makes me nervous, specially since this might end up replacing the copyleft Linux kernel and contributing to furthering the locking-down and tivoization of Android.
I saw the Electron mention, but didn’t know what to make of it. What does a “web window system” have to do with unix shell script limitations? I still don’t know.

I find web programming inelegant honestly, with three languages instead of one, a clumsy interpreted programming language that doesn’t multithread. Webasm may help with the last parts, perhaps. What about performance? How to run native code in windows?

At least I’d know how to use it, that’s a big plus. There would need to be some standardization around gui widgets, don’t like how they have to be built from scratch in every project.

Gnome3 uses js and css in its desktop widgets.

Finally Wayland is pretty lean, folks complain it doesn’t do enough already. You’d have to implement a driver and drawing layer anyway, right? So not much is “useless,” perhaps the window manager.
Pleroma 1.0, a Mastodon compatible fediverse server in Elixir
React Dashboards – Open-Source Apps
More like 2 kernels and 5+ userlands (Linux native, GNU/Windows, .NET, Win32, OS/2).
What is the "game OS"?
A Prime Breakthrough
Italians.
Curious new theory links Bitcoin’s inventor to Estonia
I know it's en vogue to mock Germany / Berlin for BER, and it's certainly deserved to a certain extent. However, BER also shows another thing to me: that regulations are taken damn seriously in Germany. I can think of some countries on the planet were such an infrastructure project would have long been in operation regardless of not meeting regulations.

The manner in which this all unfolded is however a completely different story...
My strategy is to RIICHI EVERY TIME.

Works all of the time, some of the time.
Just go back to lard and tallow. McDonalds French fries are still a shadow of their former selves.
Worldwide driving orientation by country (2009)
Some places have laws against "cruising"
I have been away from it for a while and am sure they are improving but witnessed Herculean efforts to get zebra fish to survive in a zero bacteria environment.

this sort of stuff

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091679X1...

Off hand I would expect living without our microbiomes to be similar to slow starvation while gorging on junk food.
> Are they also going to go through all kinds of expressions of art and looking for unacceptable views in their libraries?

Good grief. It's not a library, it's a mural. This isn't an archive of historically important but plausibly controversial artwork being purged for thought crimes, it's a fucking school wall. Kids and staff have to walk by this thing every day. And there's a dead indian on it front and center, and a bunch of slaves working in a field. It's... it's just not appropriate artwork for a public space.

And all this hand wringing is completely insincere anyway. If some random school in Arkansas had decided to repaint a mural with similar content, no one would care. But this is San Francisco, so of course Bari Weiss gets to write about it int The Times and pretend it's some kind of liberal disease.
I know your question was half-rhetorical, but people as a group follow authority figures. Asserting one's rights requires self-actualization, correctly extrapolating narrow rights into actions that remain within the bounds of those rights, going against a "professional" who is in charge, going against the social herd (and your own mirror neurons) who are judging you for not simply complying, generally making your position worse off than if you had complied, and then repeatedly doing this hoping that it will catch on.

IMO the US style adversarial system where eg cops can outright lie to you to nullify your rights are mindlessly naive. Having to do all of the above is basically market inefficiency, with the default being set by only the regulations the professionals have to follow. In retrospect the ethos couldn't have been better designed to foster totalitarianism.

Straw men such as not being "like Russia" or "like China" just prop up the cognitive dissonance. That is what happened to that radio host who accidentally made the badthink connection between US surveillance and Russian surveillance.
Linux is not Unix.
He's proud of the Daily Show and his legacy.. he just wanted to leave on a high note and let others rise to the top.
Uninformed and mostly outdated complaints, generally. What features are left unturned are in progress and have most of the pieces in place, and their realization will not add enough lines of code to come close to Xorg.
A bit more[1] on consequences of this attack, gist from the same author.

[1] https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/f716c3ff4a7068b50f2d8896e54...
How to sleep well after a major code refactoring -Thomas Arts and Tobias Lindahl
> Yet I do get the impression schools are worse in the US, at least from how they're universally portrayed by Hollywood

When I studied abroad in Europe, other exchange students regularly asked me how us Americans learn anything when we are constantly talking during class as seen in any highschool teen drama movie. As if Mean Girls was a documentary. I was dumbfounded.