skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR organizations respond to incentives and the incentive laid out in the legislation for the organization responsible for setting prices the government pays is to spend money, not save it and McKinsey takes advantage of that.

Considering that a big player like McKinsey can't systemically overcharge the government and get away with it due to how noticeable it would be in terms of sheer dollar amount there are likely be other smaller players that are making even more absurd profits on their services and I wonder who they are since IMO their existence is more worthy of investigation than some BigCo walking right up to but not over the line drawn by the law (as BigCos do). This is not to say that the incentive structure shouldn't be changed to categorically prevent all this.
> if you re getting an article in 1 second when you -obviously- plan to spend 2 minutes reading it?

In my experience, 99.9 percentile is more like 2~30 seconds in NorCal with a potentially sub-optimal ISP. I expect this to be even worse in developing countries like south/southeast asia.
The Plot to Steal the Color White from Dupont (2016)
>They advocate for thicker less secure products so that their margins increase if they win my business.

They advocate with me (a customer) for a more repairable product. Just like Apple advocate with you for a less repairable product.

They are also the trillion dollars company against a billion dollars industry... seems like you are with the one expert in increasing margins.

> It's simply not true that the devices are not repairable, the issue is that repairing is low margin business.

No one's arguing that they aren't repairable, we are arguing that they makes them harder to repair. Why do your comment keep being that dishonest.
IANAL, but I'd be hesitant about doing a lot of reaching around and turning on lights & such. Better to wait to be told if the officers are nearby.
Comcast wouldn't do that because Comcast already flat out charges publishers like Netflix to not be deprioritized on their network. It would be analogous to Google charging publishers for top organic search positions.
"With my new place of work I pass through rolling hills, farms, vineyards, rivers, and by the time I get to the office I am delightfully refreshed and my heart is pumping."

Wow, that's incredibly fortunate! I go up a bunch of urban hills in my old vehicle, people drive sub-optimally/selfishly often, and there's not ample parking so I park in a shady neighborhood to walk 3 minutes in to my office.
Integrating Apache Kafka with Python Asyncio Web Applications
Only recently discovered Mr. Stoller's media/reporting, and I have been absolutely impressed with his weekly mailing. Can highly recommend subscribing.
You mean young people and old people, working age vs retirees. For the most part, that’s how wealth works. The more years a person works, the closer they are to group b. If young people had the same wealth as older people, that would be horrific!
You nailed it. There was a thread on economics and Piketty's work which summed it up well: do you live off your labor? Or your capital? The comparison perfectly matches your description of Class A and B. The only way for us A folks to get ahead is to acquire capital.
I'm having trouble understanding why the randomly sprayed bits from the attacker to the client are even accepted at all at the crypto boundary. Shouldn't it hard-fail (not decrypt) due to an invalid key?
Do note that setting scale breaks modulo tho.
Also key is that suspect kept on talking after asking for the lawyer.
Well - for most (99%?) of society, violating international laws around migration and facilitating ethnic detention is on a different level than eating meat.

I don’t think your comparison is apt.
New Science Shows Managing Blood Sugar Isn’t About Counting Calories or Carbs
Double tap and swipe down to quickly zoom into the button temporarily and then zoom out again. It's fast and doesnt require two hands for a pinch gesture.

Also make sure to check "settings =>
accessibilty => always enable zoom"
De-aging The Irishman without tracking dots
The IFF referenced in the article seems like a great example of how good-intentioned changes to incentive structures can have very warped outcomes, potentially years later. These kinds of effects keep popping up for me, even in industry contexts (e.g. stack ranking).

Are there accepted mechanisms for systematically identifying these knock-on effects, and if so, what are they and how can they be more broadly applied? How many "hops" of influence can you get away from the change before the effects are impossible to predict?

Or does it just boil down to "ask very smart domain experts to think about the problem very hard for as long as you can afford to pay them"?
Yea... not nice at all. And now we'll probably have to simultaneously support nftables. This isn't a route I really want to go down. Suggestions on alternatives are welcome.
Sounds like the difference between passive and active matrix LCDs. Passive vs. Active screen was a big differentiator in cost and screen quality in early to mid 1990s laptops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_matrix_addressing
When I use ddg I find more relevant emacs blogs than with Google, which has endless crap in their results
Wow this looks awesome. Thanks for sharing!
Title’s terrible, I read it as taxpayers pay $3M a year per U.S. college graduate. It’s not even the original title, “Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor.”
We just published this:

https://www.scylladb.com/2019/12/05/is-arm-ready-for-server-...
See previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21694285
Liar, a Con Artist and a Snitch. His Testimony Could Send a Man to His Death
How do they deal with the linearity of Zelda games, where you NEED a certain item to succeed in a dungeon, before you can then get access to more items later? If I need the hookshot to pass the water temple, but it gives me the floating-light-boots, how am I supposed to beat the level?
> For me it is obvious that BMW should pay taxes in US for cars sold in US. Are they taxfree there?

He was talking specifically about income tax, not other taxes such as sales taxes or import taxes.
Peter Singer on being provocative and rescuing children drowning in ponds
Is this NSFW? I'm afraid to click.
so, you have nothing to hide. cool. Just remember to not use your google voice or google meet for those union talks ;)
Just the number of minutes is a very coarse measure.

Important for me are seating and no changes in public transport and by bike the route is important.
What framework is your site built in? And what did you use to build the application itself? Thanks.
Tallinn-based MeetFrank, the ‘secret job agent’ for job seekers, raises €1.5M
This might work in Europe or Japan but what are these people thinking? They can't get a train between Portland and Vancouver Washington going, have wasted hundreds of millions on it already with nothing to show for it multiple times, and now they want to build this? So let's waste a few tens of billions of dollars, get nowhere like California, and then give up? Fuck that. It's impossible. This is America. We should try to live up to our own potential and our own potential is not much these days. No one seems to have told these idiots. I'd bet money right now this doesn't happen in my lifetime (I'm late thirties). So let's stop with the fantasy cause the mere fantasy of a replacement or new bridge over the Columbia (which this project would absolutely require) is fantasy enough for me.
The AMP standard doesn't need use URL hijacking anymore: https://www.cloudflare.com/website-optimization/amp-real-url...
It seems for the attacker to find out about active connections to any given website they have to already know the IP of the website and then brute force the virtual ports. Being able to determine what website the target has an active connection to without prior knowledge would probably take even more brute forcing. A small solice.
I'm not against geoengineering, and it will be part of the actions that posterity will have to do in order to deal with climate change, but why leave the major changes in lifestyle that will be required to fight it for future generations? We must accept that we need to massively increase energy efficiency, and a huge part of that is abandoning the "everyone gets a car and a McMansion".

We should not default to geoengineering. We should default to reduction of carbon pollution, obviously, then when it isn't enough, start geoengineering, which will probably also be necessary.

The start with geoengineering faction is just a few steps away from the "it isn't happening" crowd.
I really like the distinctions you are drawing. And I think that it's better for people to walk through this in (1), (2), (3) order rather than jumping to (2) or (3) before they know (1) on at least one monad.

> Imagine learning all OOP patterns knowing that every pattern is the same concept except for this one thing: bind. That means it's relatively trivial to learn these patterns and make new ones. Except they're not OOP patterns, it's monads, and no, you can't generalize OOP patterns the same way.

From the OOP perspective, though, monad is a pattern where you only have one behavior (bind) that you can customize, and you have to do everything through that one behavior. That looks like a straightjacket. Sure, it composes well, but... why limit yourself like that?
The A1 loses against the M5, but from my reading of the linked article the M6g matches the performance of an equivalent M5.
Build Your First Real-Time App in Node
This reminds me of that viral survey that went around not long ago asking people if they thought they could win a set against Serena Williams and the result being a huge amount of responders saying yes.

Unless you played soccer at least semi-professionally in some small league team for at least some part of your not so distant past, there is just no way you are gonna win a 1v1 with Messi, either by committing a foul or not.

If you watch some scrim games during the off season, you can find games were a top tier team plays against minor-er league teams, and you can see the difference in skills. It's like they play two different games.
>We would however like to highlight Picture-in-picture (PIP). If you start playing a video on a web page, but then want to check out other content, you can activate PIP and keep the video playing in a small overlay while you continue to navigate the rest of the page (or other pages).

That's pretty nice.
I Wanted to Finish My Father’s Life’s Work
Wow. I haven’t gone through most of the content but shuffle sharding not only is a great idea but their write up is quite clear: https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/workload-isolation-u...

Impressive stuff!
Exactly. In fact, I'm sure there will be newer x86 instances paired with the new NVMe storage and the advantage is lost.

Perhaps, the power saved is translated to cheaper instances. But I don't think it's worth the performance penalty.
Americans want paid family leave and affordable child care, why can't we get it?
I might just see if I can find that! That sounds like a great project.
There might be a legal difference but in common parlance I see them frequently used interchangeably.

A disclosure reveals some previously unknown information, while a disclaimer renounces your responsibility for something.

So your example is correct, although "I am not a lawyer" could also be considered a disclosure.
Thanks for the recommendation, I didn't read the article either.
Con Man’s Wild Testimony Sent Dozens to Jail, and 4 to Death Row
Saw this from the Reddit thread about the recently freed convict on r/IAMA. Quite a harrowing read.
Kennedy Assassination Bullets Preserved in Digital Form
Stay tuned and look into Nuvia.

https://nuviainc.com/
And yet people are happier with the results from competing search engines...
The Octopus from Outer Space – Seattle Met
I recently launched freshlytics - selfhosted privacy respecting analytics.

Let me know if you’re interested in onboarding it into Cloudron :)

https://github.com/sheshbabu/freshlytics
Firefox is on a serious roll this year, from performance improvements to actual privacy hardening that matters. Since Chrome rolled out auto-login, I've made it my personal mission to stop using it, and now I'm realizing I haven't even installed Chrome on my newly imaged laptop. I doubt I'll have any reason to switch back.
Adobe Photoshop Camera (preview) for Android is now live
from the article >>> "In other words, the agency of the government in charge of bulk buying isn’t paid for saving money, but for spending too much of it. The IFF also incentivizes the GSA to get the government to outsource to contractors anything it can, simply to get more budget. The IFF has been creating problems like the McKinsey over-payment for a long time."
Overview of ReactJS component hierarchy visualization tools
Thank you for that thoughtful comment. You make a good point. However, different people have different opinions.
I'm not a fan of Google's proprietary web, but it's worth pointing out that this is largely a response to the increasingly shitty way publishers treat their users. Just reading basic articles on the web has become a painful exercise in dodging "Subscribe" faux-pop-ups; trying to scan text while your vision is bombarded with unrelated video; and user-hostile scroll capture effects.

For much the same reasons Google AMP is a thing, I use Apple News for most of my news reading. The web has overcome commercial broadcast television as being the shittiest way of consuming content.
Not sure if it's still the case... would be interesting to see a post-compiler tool that bypasses the GenuineIntel checks for certain cases.
“Since the mid-1960s, no major public infrastructure has been built in NYC”
The benchmarks in the article are bottlenecked by I/O. Definitely better than A1, though.
Yes, I have. Have you?

Also: https://www.google.com/search?q=China+is+the+largest+green+e...
This looks really interesting! I'm wondering how they integrate with existing tools though, because I can imagine companies are not going to shift all of their existing tooling to Space in one go.
Are they the first company to ship a phone with an open source baseband OS?
It's great to see some of the stuff that I used while at Amazon becoming more publicly available. Good documents, these.
Here's our take. This is big.

https://www.scylladb.com/2019/12/05/is-arm-ready-for-server-...
How to create your MOST PRODUCTIVE WORK SCHEDULE based on scientific research
I agree a car is more flexible and it scales UP very well to allow for longer distances but it scales OUT very poorly. For a unit of sidewalk or road, you can support an order of magnitude more people walking to their work, or stopping by the bakery, vs driving to their work and filling up the parking lot. ie. It works great if you or a few people are the only ones doing it. But if everyone is doing it, you all end up miserable sitting in a traffic jam, or frustrated that you cannot find a parking spot at the bakery.
Anonymous answers: How risk-averse should talented young people be?
Bingo. https://www.scylladb.com/2019/12/05/is-arm-ready-for-server-...
Fedora has a prototype:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Default_Local_DNS_Res...

I ran it for a while. It was problematic from a UI perspective (nothing to do with DNSSEC per se — it was just immature), and it wasn’t fantastic with captive portals.

Also, it noticed that I visited an internet connection where the ISP was hijacking google.com. So it worked!
Would you prefer to have a state run pension plan like social security which pays out NEGATIVE returns. Or a privatized pension plan like a 401k or roth IRA paying POSITIVE returns?

Donald Trump tried to block AT&T from buying Time Warner to prevent market centralization which enables negative trends you object to. Why does the private sector bear 100% of the blame for negative trends, while faults of state regulation and our judicial system go ignored?
Okay, I'll ask the next question. How do I get to be one of those smaller players. Ha!
The problem is no matter what custom flavor of Android you run, you are still running an OS made by an ad company designed from the ground up to spy on you.

And crucially, every time you buy an Android phone and flash another OS on it, you just paid for an Android phone, reinforcing the monopoly and generating profit for companies pushing the Android platform.

The correct solution is to refuse to buy a phone that ships with Android.
Sorry, "has been" what?

You mean Google is using performance, in a meaningful way, to drive SERP and Carousel placement?

If so, I disagree. They talk about it. They don't do it in a way that drives behaviour. They could.

A significant drop plus a webmaster tools message that says why, would work.
WT: Social will have to pick a side
First and foremost you want to make sure SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are valid from the sender's mail server

https://www.smartertools.com/blog/2019/04/09-understanding-s...

Then, email filtering companies use things like IP Address of the sender, keywords, and NLP, and other tools to determine if the email has spam and assign it some kind of score to it.
I have used p9p for years because I like the GUI (in different modern laptops, always without external mouse). Other people prefer huge IDEs, many people prefer vim or emacs, and I also known some extremely good programmers who just use notepad. And yes, I am perfectly happy with that.
"Copyright (c) 2013 Aaron Miller. All rights reverſed. ſhare and Enjoy!" Heh!

I'm not sure bulking up melpa is worth it for the infinitesimal number of people who would find it useful.

Tangentially I really wish letters eth and thorn had not disappeared. They were certainly better than what we've got now, the 'th' digraph for both.
Hard Thing About Hard Things is amazing. I've given this book to two people and both shared stories with me about how incredible it was.
Security Best Practices for GitHub Enterprise Server
The title is "The Secret to the Most Productive Work Schedule". The guidelines ask to use the original title unless it's misleading and not add anything to make it stand out. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Graviton2 is about performance. We did tests. This thing blitzes.

https://www.scylladb.com/2019/12/05/is-arm-ready-for-server-...
Why integrate the NAS?

I run a Synology full of spinning rust for backups, archives, and shared file storage. It works reliably and is stupid simple to maintain.

Adjacent to that is a server running Proxmox, and I'm currently working to add Kubernetes/Rancher as a layer on top of that. The Proxmox server has a local SSD array so the VMs have fast low-latency storage. VMs that touch larger files (media server, etc) have an NFS mount to the NAS.

IMHO the financial/maintenance overhead of a second unit is totally outweighed by the easy opportunity to have two performance and reliability tiers (fast homelab vs reliable slow storage), ability to upgrade/change the two units independently of each other, and ability for cohabitants to use the NAS without having to understand/deal with the virtualization stuff.
Make less of the carbon producers (humans). You don't have to reproduce to be happy.
My understanding is that's essentially impossible, but they're isolating the cellular modem into a detachable peripheral so it has no deep access into your device.
The background on the "private investigator" that was organised last minute is also an interesting read.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/report-musks-500...
... but completely failed to prosecute anyone.
A fair warning to anyone looking at placing an order for this.

https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-puri...

https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-puri...

https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-puri...

The company practices a lot of shady business. Their "phone" that they are so proudly claiming to be releasing to backers cannot place phone calls, the camera doesn't work, and there is no power management.

> To turn on your Librem 5 disconnect it from a power source and hold down the power button until it turns on. Currently calling is established (e.g. both sides connect fine) but audio is not routed (no voice heard or sent), this will be a few days until the bug is fixed.

They shipped out a "phone" that can't place phone calls.

edit:

The reason why this is significant is because not being able to make phone calls with a phone is not the type of "bug" that slips through the cracks. The company released the phone despite it not being able to make phone calls, and if this was simply a bug that could be fixed "in a few days", all logic and reasoning suggests that they would have fixed the problem and then shipped the phones to preserve the integrity of their brand and prevent negative brand perception.

The fact that they shipped out a phone that can't place phone calls is highly suggestive that there is a bigger issue with the phone and that they are under a time crunch to show the backers that they have accomplished something with all the funding that they have received.
Better throughput. Our tests confirm:

https://www.scylladb.com/2019/12/05/is-arm-ready-for-server-...
The pardoning of Navy SEALs is not being excused at all. Trump has been receiving enormous and extraordinary amounts of backlash not just from both sides of the political spectrum, but also from inside the military itself.
That's not really a bug - I'd say that's a product design choice. I'm surprised the ticket is still open, tbh.
The key quote this is responding to:

> ... less [to do] with McKinsey and more with an incentive to overpay more generally. It’s more likely something called the ‘Industrial Funding Fee,’ or IFF. The GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service gets a cut of whatever certain contractors spend using the GSA’s schedule, and this cut is the IFF. The IFF is priced at .75% of the total amount of a government contract. In the case of McKinsey, since 2006, “FAS has realized $7.2 million in Industrial Funding Fee revenue.”

> ... The IFF also incentivizes the GSA to get the government to outsource to contractors anything it can, simply to get more budget. The IFF has been creating problems like the McKinsey over-payment for a long time. In 2013, the GSA Inspector General traced a similar situation with different contractors. Managers at GSA overruled line contracting officers to raise prices taxpayer pay for contractors Carahsoft, Deloitte and Oracle. Government managers at GSA micro-managed and harassed their subordinates and damaged the careers of contracting officers trying to negotiate fair prices for the taxpayer.

> How did the GSA get such a screwed up incentive...?... [T]o become more entrepreneurial as part of its “Reinventing Government” initiative, Bill Clinton’s administration implemented the Industrial Funding Fee structure. It worked in generating money for the GSA ... so well that Congress’s investigative agency found in 2002 that the GSA stopped having to rely on Congressional appropriations.
And yet there are people refusing to accept that fact, I met one of them. And that guy also failed to realize what an immense cash flow advantage government has against private sector companies. Government wants to spend money as soon as possible. That alone is a huge lever in procuring hardware. Not sure why they don't use it.
Largest tech conferences in Europe in 2020
China is the true evil empire as far as I'm concerned. But this kind of headline annoys me. Have you been to an American metropolis lately? The pampering of pets and dearth of actual human children is nauseating.
> Sometimes you need to find a CSS file that defines a color, or work out which file generates a button label on a page. Full-text search makes this possible by letting you search through all resources in the Network Monitor.

This is incredible.
It runs in a web browser, so runs on tablets, cell phones, etc. but Texmacs doesn't. Also, it very directly uses the native LaTeX file format.
Fearing CTE, a former USC star's family donates his brain