skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These large proposals can take many years to award. There could very likely be a new administration by that time.

See the KC-X tanker program as an example:

01/2007 - RFP comes out

02/2008 - Northrop Grumman wins

03/2008 - Boeing successfully protests

08/2008 - Revised RFP comes out, then cancelled

09/2009 - Third RFP comes out

02/2011 - Boeing wins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC-X#Initial_competition
Obviously getting the JEDI contract has implications for Azure/Microsoft far, far beyond the monetary value of the contract itself.
Yes, more comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22320798
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"On Thursday, Judge Campbell-Smith also required that Amazon pay a $42 million deposit that will be held by the court in case it later determines that the injunction was wrongfully issued and that Microsoft is owed damages."

I know $42MM is pocket change to these companies but this goes a long ways toward removing my perception of the judge being biased.
I think it will hinge on what, if any, communications took place between the administration and the DoD. If there were written communications, those will be discoverable during the lead up to a trial. Conversations that took below the SecDef level where (if) personnel felt pressured to skew things a certain way could also come out.

I don't think people watching this case would tend to thing the courts would award the contract to Amazon though. That is very much outside the scope of this case, and does not appear to be what Amazon is seeking. The case hinged on the more narrow question of whether the process followed was proper. Even apart from first-hand testimony on pressure, this can be determined in part from the timing and changes to requirements. If the requirements were changed at the last minute to include things that only Microsoft, by definition, could provide, then it's a problem for the DoD. For example, an 11th hour change to stipulate "selected contractor must currently offer per-minute billing on services" could easily be interpreted as unduly biased towards MS. A stipulation saying "Vendor branding of products must reference a shade of blue" (Azure) then that would be a bit of a smoking gun. I mean sure, a ridiculous example, but you see what I mean. And, being a civil case, the burden of proof is not "reasonable doubt", but the much lesser "preponderance of evidence" threshold.
Also, the current-gen consoles from Microsoft and Sony are pretty much PC hardware-- somewhat customized APU (both the PS4 and Xbox One are based around combined CPU + GPU designs from AMD), but still derived from designs that are available as commodity PC hardware.

Nintendo's the only one that's really gone a different direction; the Switch is ARM-based and built around the Nvidia Tegra X1 (same chipset as the Nvidia Shield). Software-wise, they're (reportedly) running a derivative of the OS from the Nintendo 3DS.
I think that is the point. It doesn't block the website entirely lest you go and disable the extension. It's designed to frustrate you slightly.
> Not knowing what is going on, living in a country with a high standard of living and personal safety, doesn't affect me at all.

Even if you lived in a country with a low standard of living and less personal safety ... would knowing about the world events really change anything? Important local things usually don't make the national or world news, yet you tend to learn them unless you're completely isolated.

And the world events that would change things for anyone anywhere, like being on on the brink of nuclear war ... would you knowing about it have any effect on it?
The USA does exactly the same, so they can absolutely not claim the moral high ground here.

The CIA even bought a company in Switzerland that produces encryption devices to be able to spy on everyone. And the NSA intercepted Cisco deliveries to do the same thing.
I went through the hoops of open sourcing some code in a global 50 company. The development team push for it restlessly for a year. The reality is that the culture in not there yet and I had to go through security, compliance and legal. We had to rewrite some code as one of our apache 2.0 dependency had some GPL dependencies.

We finally get the go when we cornered an exec during an off site event and he finally agreed to let us do it.

Big company are unfortunatly not ready by default to contribute back, it s not in the culture, and you get pushback from internal IT team thinking the code / architecture / documentation is not good enough yet to open source (hint : it never is) once you have clear the compliance / legal / branding / security side of things.

Hats down for the tech lead / dev / manager that convinced ING to open source this one. I hope that getting in front of HN will allow the dev team to get a little more budget to maintain this project a little longer.
> Is there a way to bring similar social signals to the online world?

You're assuming that people will react to those signals by stopping (or not starting in the first place). Many of the most disruptive people look for those signals as their goal, because they want to be disruptive.

Think about people who will interpret any variation of "ugh" signals as "oooh, I've found the buttons to poke to get fun noises". If you want to solve this problem, that's a large part of the threat model.
Come grab a coffee with me, I'm at 2nd and Howard, about a block away from the Slack office. Or just hang near the sidewalk, our windows are open and at some point my whinging about slack (or gitlab) should float down to the sidewalk.
I dropped my phone a while back and the screen now has issues. It gets "streaks" all across the entire screen. It's harder to see content, but you can get by. My first inclination was to get it fixed, but I've now had it this way for several months. I find I use my phone a lot less and now sort of consider the streaks a "feature".

I've investigated going to a true dumb phone, but that's not nearly as feasible now as I would prefer. The Nokia 3310 is the only reasonably priced option I can find; and all the boutique, low volume dumb phones are absurdly expensive.
News is actually worse for me than social media. That's what I feel addicted to. I'd like to get into a state where I read my news from a quality weekly newspaper (like The Economist for global news and maybe another for domestic ones.) An spend the rest of my current time used to browse endless unimportant news to reading books, doing sports etc. But given that there are lots of actually intersting things I would like to work with and study with my computer, I have not found a way not to slip into the news chamber instead of going for a run/opening a book/ when I need a break from the stuff I do with my computer.
yeah.. they're probably shutting that one down..
This misses so many nuances it's not even funny.

I'm mentally and physically exhausted, yes. However, I'm exceptionally happy. I enjoy what I do. I want to do it all day long.

We're working on something I think is useful, I think people need it, and I want them to have it sooner rather than later. This might mean I burn out and need a weeks rest come like... June, but fuck, I'm running straight towards that and I'm so happy I don't care.
The DMV is one of the most popular places in the city, for example.
Here’s the DOJ statement:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-telecommunications-co...

Also here's Huawei Technologies Chief Security Officer Andy Purdy talking to Maria Bartiromo:

https://youtu.be/iPczYamcruo
>If everyone follows the advice of avoiding the news,

That would be a similar situation to everyone following the advice of not becoming a musician (no music) or not becoming an astronaut (the international space station would have to shut down). Our society is based on specialization and every group of friends really only needs one person who knows what the news is talking about.
Oh wow! Thank you! The setting was on for me. (By default? Or maybe I turned it on.) I just turned it off. Thanks for this suggestion.
finally! i’ll give credit to trump on this one.
Remember Snowden? I guess you’re implying that the US intelligence service spies on its own population. Well, if that makes the US bad, China is objectively bad by the same criteria.

Also, the Opium Wars was a British/Chinese issue, not America.
Of course it’s up for debate. Everyone thought Amazon would win the contract because they had such a lead in cloud services until Trump got involved as part of his personal vendetta with Bezos for the Washington Post
How about: "Vendor must be able to quicky fix bugs in Microsoft software"? Would that be "undue" or not? Seems like a desirable capability for a government entity that runs on Microsoft software.
For registration. Why would you have a cellular option if you also have to carry the phone?
That's pretty neat. It seems like it would be a perfect response to trolling, in particular, since a big part of that is the emotional high they get from getting a rise out of people. Slowing down that process would be sure to dull the dopamine hit.

I can even imagine it tamping down "reply wars" and long arguments since you get more decompression time between impressions.
Maybe, but I think this is a solvable problem from the browsers perspective. In my experience building websites the need for image dimensions is near zero.

1. The penalty for not displaying image dimensions is nearly insignificant because almost _all_ images that you would put width/height on are from content managers, not designers.

2. Mobile content: On a phone the content moves down after the image is loaded. (everything is just a single column) Which is a preferable action than a big empty space. So, I prefer _not_ including dimensions on user content for phones.

3. Responsive design: All CSS I have been using for years now has "max-width:100%".

Therefore (since a lot of traffic is mobile) most (rough guess) of images loaded from sites I've worked on the image dimensions are recalculated as soon as the image is loaded anyway.

4. Srcset: Multiple possible images downloaded that are _chosen_ by the browser at run time. You already have to provide dimensions. But what if they aren't exact? Go back to #1.

5. Web design: I can't even recall the last time I put an image in a design using the <img> tag that affected layout. (maybe if you go back to the 90s this would have mattered)
They are indeed judgements but they are based on facts you are welcome to look up, like Wag (a dog-walking-as-a-service startup) trying to silence with an NDA a customer whose dog was killed in an accident, or KitSplit which uses misleading claims regarding their insurance (that doesn't actually insure against theft) to lure customers in and then fobs them off when the renters steal their gear (but issues a bullshit apology and promises to change their policies when the media gets wind of the story), or Airbnb which does nothing to help customers scammed on the platform until they go to the media (which results in the usual BS apology), or even my own experience with Uber Eats which tried to fob me off for incorrect food being delivered multiple times until I complained hard enough at which point they refunded me because they didn't want me to escalate the matter (they clearly planned on most people not taking things that far and just accepting their loss, thus free profit despite "breaking things").
All of the people here disagreeing with you certainly haven’t worked in a large enterprise. Try locked down Teams and then let’s talk about Slack.
Building on top of WebGL would mean completely custom renderers that have to reimplement everything else too, such as scrolling and context menus and text selection. This has been tried dozens and dozens of times by big players, and never works out.
Please read the article and the definition of racketeering. This has nothing to do with the Chinese government using Huawei equipment to spy.
My assays at Crusader Kings II—squaring remarkably well with fictional and historical accounts of similar figures in roughy the same time period, see e.g. King Lear and Hamlet for good examples of the former—do not make being a medieval lord seem low-stress. Full of creature comforts and experiences unknown to most of the population at the time, yes. Though I think the environment of medieval Europe was a particularly rough one for the ruling class and at other times and places before and after, yes, it indeed would have been unreservedly "good to be the king".
And that's the reason why arts don't follow these rules.

Imagine Van Gogh on HN...
How would somebody less privileged be negatively affected by not knowing about the news? Mind you, it's not about being affected by what's in the news, of course you're affected when the government decides on a new policy ... but how does knowing about it on the same day or in the same hour mitigate that?
Having played a lot with gitlab and really happy with it, I'm confused as to why I would look at GitHub.

This looks like it is free as in price, but not free forever and not free of red tape.
Most librarians would agree with you that the current situation is terrible, and if you look at library literature they've generally felt that way from the beginning. They are highly constrained by copyright law.

re: microfiche, it lasts much longer than digital scans -- if kept in good conditions it has a usable half-life on the scale of >100 years, while digital files need much more active maintenance to both prevent bit-rot and to ensure the file-type is still readable (eg countless file formats have been abandoned and are only currently accessible via emulators of older machines).

And if you want to bring the cloud into this, most libraries don't have the funding to bring in the technical know-how to manage a private S3 instance only accessible from that building.
>> Everyone thought

Citation needed. I didn't think that for a minute. If anything MS was the only sane choice here, for reasons I wrote of above.

>> Trump got involved

Citation needed.
Man this is terrible! I was warmed to Gnome 3 (I like the experience unlike most of the loud crowd) but this is inexcusable. Literally a breaking experience for hundreds of third part applications for some reason I just don't understand.
> I mean it literally ranks nearly everyone as burned out.

Yes, got that. My point is, it's exactly what you would expect IF nearly everyone ACTUALLY IS burned out.

Not that I'm seriously saying they are, just pointing out that you are making that assumption, mainly as a way of saying maybe software is a profession with a relatively high burnout rate.
The pissing contest between Jeff and Larry (AWS and Oracle) has only resulted in MS getting Oracle + Azure. That may not seem like much, but to most enterprise and government bodies that is a huge + on the MS side is it not?

Also not mentioned here AWS already has GovCloud- there are a number of agencies both federal and state that use AWS. Its not like this contract is the _only_ contract there is to win. Its just a big one. Jeff is a pretty damn sore loser.
It's a file sharing protocol closely related to protocols like BitTorrent (https://ipfs.io/) a peer-to-peer filestore where you can host/seed files for others to use
I mean there is no point quitting Facebook to spend all your time on Twitter or Instagram either... They are objectively as bad, especially Twitter which is 24/7 of nonsense and petty drama and people yelling at each other or organizing virtual lynch mobs...

Facebook as a way to keep in touch with close friends, as a private family network is fine.
I spotted this as a joke, but it really does come very close to being a Poe.

I can see how people could miss it, as it wouldn't be shocking to see something like this put forth as a serious proposal.
> my perception of the judge being biased.

That perception was possibly influenced by the HN title "Siding with Amazon" vs the title the NY Times used "Judge Halts Work on Microsoft’s JEDI Contract in Victory for Amazon". At no point in the article do the words "sides" or "siding" appear.

Edit: The HN title has been changed since I wrote this.
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China = bad
America = good
People here will argue that the US has at least some safe guards where the Chinese will do what they want no matter what. But from my perspective as a Canadian, neighbour to the north who used to dream of one day working in the US, the US is a total disgrace at this point in time. They have failed to lead the moral high ground in so many ways over the last 2 decades yet we are supposed to care when they cry fowl of China. Another case of do as I say not as I do. So I agree the US has been doing this for ever and a day so stopped crying fowl.
Seems a bit alarmist..
Thanks for sharing your experience! Much appreciated.
Apologies, but I had to omit the last word in the title to get it under the character count.
Decades ago I discovered HTA (Html Applications). It was a program from MS that let you build applications using a single html file. It had no browser UI in it, had it's own button in the menu bar, and other than the default white background it looked like a native application. All you needed to update it was to edit the file and reload the application, no compilation step needed. You could embed scripts and styles and even images so it could be one file if you wanted. I used it for building small toy apps. It was the times of IE5, I didn't really care about browser upgrades. Better of all, the files were small and you didn't need to package an executable since all Windows machines had the executable already.
It is still significantly easier to use the hipchat, et al. Which was the main driver in the "enterprise" space.

Also the free model is _very_ generous.
Well now we are getting into regulating dopamine responses, which is too broad to apply to a single website which is probably why the article doesn't have a source.

This article is just a hit piece. This is the trash on HN these days.
I did this for a while, with a couple modifications:

I tried to replace the topics I was reading about in the news with books on those same topics. You'll get far more about, say, the Israel-Palestine conflict from reading one 300 page book than you will from reading 300 1 page news articles.

On top of that I'd pick up about one news magazine or newspaper a month or so, just to stay on top of what the current issues actually were. I did this for a couple of years.

That, however, was at a period of relative stability in western politics. The truth is that right now I'm too interested in the stories that are currently unfolding to only read about them once they've become history.
No, I am actually the majority of the potential market and future growth for hosted RCS/VCS firms: a tech company with many non-tech employees that wants to utilize RCS/VCS to formalize internal process across disciplines.

You are the minority.
This is awesome! By far the most Rube Goldberg machine I have seen in a while.
Ah the GitLab astroturfers are here
I had my suspicions it was a joke. They were confirmed when I saw the swag store.

The final chuckle came when I realized that "Nilats" is "Stalin" spelled backwards.
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I thought phrase in my post "I choose to believe you" indicates basic trust. I dont see how you got confused and misread my intentions to claim quite the opposite.
I choose to trust, yes ! Thats the whole point. I dont trust the interview process itself to be valuable, b/c it does not give you neither the right context or enough time to learn about the person.
It's a good idea. What stops a user from registering for N accounts? How do you tie one account to one human?
Looks like he could use an additional Spot or two to carry the load.

A pack of Spots.
The news these days has no attention span and pounds on the most catchy story all day. Right now it's novel coronavirus. I bet people who watch CNN are highly stressed out about it. I caught a few minutes during a tour of the CNN center and I was glad I won't be seeing that reporting all day. As soon as a more gruesome story comes along, the reporting will change, it'll forget about the virus, and life will go on.

There must be a better way to truly accomplish keeping government accountable. Think about your locus of control. Most reporting is about things that do not directly affect you, you cannot change them, and they have some emotional value that keeps them in the news. Where you can effect change is in your locality, or with your local representatives, voting in larger elections, writing letters to staff, joining advocacy groups, etc. I think the constant drumbeat of bad news makes people less likely to do any of these things.
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"I'm scared of hackers because..."

58% - "They smell bad"
Regarding disabling the search suggestions: in Firefox, at least, it's called that ("Search Suggestions") and disabling them is just a checkbox in Options.
It's a cloud computing contract, not for desktop services.

If anything, the terms of the contract were specifically written with features only Amazon can provide, and it was assume it would go to them until Trump cronies at Oracle got his ear.
Reminiscent of this: http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/12/linux-stop-holding-our...

"I along with many others tried Linux during college"... but I never inhaled.
Twitter, Facebook fined for not moving user data to Russia
Indeed, that may very well be true. Ironic, isn’t it, that we are more connected than ever and yet lonelier than ever.

Here’s an idea for a founder looking for a startup: a Tinder-esque platform for meeting and making friends with similar interests. I’m sure this has been done before but certainly hasn’t become mainstream.
"Nightmare Rectangle" is a brilliant phrase
Why would Amazon need to support Microsoft software? The contract is to build out cloud infrastructure, not every single product and service and application that might run on it. No vendor could do that.

If the DoD currently has MS systems on traditional infrastructure that they'd like to migrate to the JEDI cloud, there's no reason those couldn't continue to be supported by MS, just as the many other systems that run on the new cloud infrastructure will be supported by their own vendors. I no more expect Amazon to support every piece of software I run on their services than I would expect my appliance repairman to assist with my Hello Fresh cooking (if I had a subscription) just because they "support" my oven.
Instead of Helping Homeless People, Cities Are Bussing Them Out of Town
Historically this is inaccurate and more complicated. Numerous colonial powers participated in carving china up and using opium to continue their rule.

Britain just happened to be the face of empire in 1900, it's US now and likely China in 50 years.

Governments are corrupt institutions. Power should be as distributed as possible.
> for all but the poorest can be cooked and delivered by others on a fairly regular basis.

kitchens are expensive. the historical urban poor often lived in a corner of a room and bought their food from someone who had a kitchen. it makes eating home cooked meals feel absolutely decadent!

(one thing i haven't yet understood: food was cheaper than a penny, but there were no farthings or ha'pnies till much later. indeed, a penny bought about $20 worth. so did they buy meals a week at a time, and get a pastie a day or something?)
The various government agencies already have contracts for Microsoft software support. The JEDI contract is for cloud infrastructure.
In my humble opinion, there are 2 types of people who use facebook:

1. The show offs who want to share every little detail about their every little thing in life.

2. People who want to keep tabs on their family/friends occasionally.

I started as #1 back in 2004 when fb was still early on and slowly graduated to #2.