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When the initial JEDI contract was announced and having used AWS, GCP, and Azure I imagined a few scenarios that might come to fruition. Considering the scale and complexity of a large 'enterprise' org AD deployment, I found it hard to believe that Microsoft would come away with nothing.

The most realistic outcome seemed like the DoD would rely on AWS for most infrastructure simply because the people at the top wouldn't know better and regulatory capture. I figured they would, almost begrudgingly, bring Azure into the mix, simply because Microsoft makes it nearly impossible these days to retain a completely on prem AD deployment and how in the hell is a bureaucratic monstrosity like the DoD going to disentangle itself from Active Directory?

Another scenario is that if whomever is in charge of making the final decision is a bit more forward thinking and has some vision, they'll go all in on a multi-cloud strategy for maximum redundancy and resiliency and we might see GCP get thrown in the mix. I think it's really hard to argue against this strategy for an org as important as the DoD frankly. Some people often make the argument that starting with one cloud platform and incrementally moving beyond that is the way to go, but I strongly disagree with this. A true multi-cloud strategy has to start by incorporating multiple platforms from the beginning or else you're extremely likely to get locked into a single platform due to organizational inertia. Not to mention the cost benefits. Locking yourself into a single vendor basically removes all your leverage to take your business and go elsewhere. You really can't bluff your way out of that one either, because what are you going to do? Go redeploy all your applications that were built with proprietary platform specific tools on a _different platform_? Nope.

I think the most unlikely, but also most interesting outcome would have been the DoD goes all in on GCP and the chromebook style of computing, basically tearing everything down and starting from scratch. If ever there was an opportunity for that, this would be it, though there are many arguments against that. I think there's a scenario in which something similar might have been possible for AWS, but in reality it doesn't seem possible, because AWS doesn't really have a competitor to G-Suite / Office365. I know they have WorkDocs, but that's not exactly the same thing.

Having used all three, including Azure, myself though, I really didn't believe a Microsoft only scenario would come about. Among other reasons, and to be fair its been a while, but last I remember Azure's annual downtown far exceeds the other two platforms, which seems like a pretty critical point when considering the systems running on here may hold soldiers lives in the balance.

Anyways, I do hope we see a more reasonable scenario come about eventually. Any single vendor locking in the DoD would be a disaster for national security, soldiers lives, and frankly the federal budget.
This is why I wish I had a pension instead of a 401k. Too bad that the people who still offer pensions are also paying a lot less on average (usually due to being government related) than companies offering 401ks do.
This author has discussed these sorts of proposals: https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-why-insert-thing-here-is-not-..., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18381675
Supply disruptions occur with every war or crisis yet modern economies are extremely resilient. The trap is thinking the economy needs exactly what it’s getting rather than it being the result of a giant optimization problem on available resources. Just look at the US GDP drop from Covid vs the percentage of people staying home.

I also think that you are assigning agency to the general public in ways that are unlikely to hold up. Clearly groups could whip up hatred over global warming, but they can do that over just about anything. The root cause is almost never as important as the people guiding things and the goals being pushed.

As to [1] what’s interesting to me is the US emissions are currently about 1/2 of China’s and dropping fairly quickly while China’s are still expanding rapidly. Dropping US emissions will continue to help, but it’s currently less important than slowing how fast China’s increase. And thus someone aims the mob at a slightly different target.
That explains the advice to always salt and pepper your hash.
Henry Kissinger speaks.
If Trump really is the one who threw a wrench in the process, in theory they just need to hold up the contract until 2021 if much of the DoD begins getting cleaned out by a political competitor.
I was deeping through the old web recently. Sites either had really small pictures or full sized pictures scaled down. You just don't see more than 1024px sized quality anymore. Browsing photothumbs instead of scrolling is so much quicker and offers more depth. We did lose a lot.

We gained more people with shallower content. Being able to lookup and find a picture of most people is an advantage. But losing flickr quality and album length means instead of a photoset you get a highlight photo with mayhe four combined.

Maintaining old sites were always an issue. Costs / site changes brought down good sites/pages so deadlinks were a huge problem. The waybackmachine could bring a site back but they rarely deep indexed or saved media so you mostly got a page full of 'x's.

Someone on here could easily build a better search engine indexing older websites and bring life back to those sites.

But be warned you've changed. Waiting a week or two or months between replies was common. Having tiny text on mobile is the norm so get ready to scroll. There was a lot of shallow content with some real gems. Patience is required.
Correct. You need solutions at those levels. As sovreign said, they're typically available at levels around 4, 7, and 10.

With the example code, you'd insert into the buffer solution, then run (for example, in Python)
```
# place in buffer of nominal ph of 10
V1, T1 = sensor.calibrate(CalSlot.ONE, 10, OnBoard())
# place in buffer of nominal ph of 7
V2, T2 = sensor.calibrate(CalSlot.TWO, 7, OnBoard())

Then save V1, T1, and the buffers you used to a file, your database etc. Or just write them to your `py file.` The MyCodo version, for example, handles that automatically.

Then next time you run, load
sensor.calibrate_all(
CalPt(0.,7., 23),
CalPt(-0.17, 10., 23)
)
If you just edited the file. Or those values would be loaded from a db.
To Get Hired, Send a Video Pitch (Not a Resume)
> If I remember correctly, pushing back hard when not winning a contract was not done.

At least two high-profile companies (SpaceX being the better known one) have done just that very successfully in the last few years.
Yep, it’s one step towards the death of Facebook. I am also quite pleased about this.
Once upon a time I saw pg as a guy that was leveling the playing field, and I think he succeeded because of that.

As another comment pointed out, concerning his writing about the wealth tax, I think he's lost sight of the fact that's there's more wealth to be created that's outside the scope of what the wealth advisors for the uber-wealthy are familiar with.
I believe it's because the Broadcom System-on-a-Chip (SOC) that the Raspberry Pi uses has one or more binary BLOBS that are required to access features on the SOC. RISC-V is an open standard; chips made based on this standard are open source.
But how will you log in to your SMS inbox? With an email? But what if that requires an SMS inbox as well.

Once we're in the realm of 'you only have to remember this one password' you might as well use a password manager that unlocks with that password and does the rest for you (be it with autofill or webauthn and the likes).

Yubikeys are fine too, even as a single factor in some cases.
You can use WhatsApp without uploading an address book.
You're confusing run-of-the-mill hash functions used e.g. for hash maps with cryptographic hash functions which have an entirely different purpose and therefore different characteristics (and conversely, using SHA256 to hash your dictionary keys would be totally overkill).

Cryptographic hash functions are one-way in the sense that (unless they are shown to be broken) it is not believed that there is a computationally tractable way of recovering the unhashed input from the hash. You can always brute force it, but even "just" for passwords, the input space is way too big for that, especially if you use a salt - unless you use a very common password, of course (even if limited to 26 letters and 8 characters that's over 200 billion different passwords).

So, most of your comment is just wrong, except for the part about how Wattpad stores passwords, which is just very likely wrong, since I can't prove it.
I disagree completely. This is how you fight corruption. You don't just throw up your hands and say "welp the system is rigged, guess we will give up". Would you say the same thing in a civil rights case? Should we just give up all anti-racism efforts because "well we've already tried for a year but didn't make any progress"? Do you think it also reflects poorly on the ACLU or EFF for continuing their fights even after years of unproductive legal proceedings?

If the process is corrupt (and based on all public knowledge of JEDI, it absolutely seems like the award was given based on Trump's personal idealogies) then I believe it reflects extremely positively on Amazon to finally stand up to this type of bullshit, rather than rolling over and saying "well that's just how govt contracting is".
This is less annoying than sites that accepts your strong password, except their backend actually couldn't handle it. I love being locked out immediately on account creation.
Interesting—-do you have a source for either of these statements?
I've had that happen before, but even if you have to degrade your password, at least it is random and not associated with any other password/account.

But yes, at that point all you can do is either complain to the website purveyor or vote with your feet (if the latter is an option).
It appears as though Amazon likely helped to write the requirements, such that they would be selected. If you write a strict and tailored set of requirements, you can basically select the contractor/product before you even put out the RFP (request for proposal); this is relatively common.
I still play moo2 when I want to make four hours disappear. I probably need to branch out a bit, it's been two decades already.
Little enrages me more, especially when the forbidden special characters betray a shockingly backwards mitigation for injection attacks.

[1] https://benhoyt.com/writings/dont-sanitize-do-escape/
Depends on what kind of programmer you are. I have a 5 year old Chromebook running Ubuntu that will work for many tasks. It can totally spin up a rails server or react dev server.

If you do UI work I recommend NOT buying a fancy retina screen and instead rely on a good monitor setup. It's important to test UIs as they would be used in production, and most users don't have ultra wide curved screens.
Have there been any recent games as good as populous? I was thinking about this and how good the game Dungeon Keeper were
When I wrote that a total library would contain "probably even itself", I had a nagging feeling that may lead to a contradiction.

Here is the essay "Total Library" by Borges:

https://www.gwern.net/docs/borges/1939-borges-thetotallibrar... (PDF)

It mentions "abnormal transfinite numbers (whose parts are no smaller than the whole)". This seems to be a reference to Russell's Paradox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_paradox

> Let us call a set "normal" if it is not a member of itself, and "abnormal" if it is a member of itself.

> Now we consider the set of all normal sets, R, and try to determine whether R is normal or abnormal. If R were normal, it would be contained in the set of all normal sets (itself), and therefore be abnormal; on the other hand if R were abnormal, it would not be contained in the set of all normal sets (itself), and therefore be normal.

> This leads to the conclusion that R is neither normal nor abnormal: Russell's paradox.

That proves your point, that it's a mathematical impossibility.

Borges calls it "the vast, contradictory Library", so clearly he was aware of this fact.
The quick must be ironic. His articles are insanely long, could be an hour read sometimes for a slow reader. Each post is a booklet long if it were put on paper.

Not a criticism. I like long text too. That would be extremely boring in a 30 minutes video though.
For many, it seems like his rehabilitation was bought with dirty money:

1. Earn a billion with brutal, unscrupulous business practices

2. Spend half of that charitably, keep the rest, and expect to be seen as a great philanthropist.

Suddenly his charitable works don't seem to offset his reputation so much.
Well, a single poll, sure. Many polls...
The commenter didn't say anything about where developers live. A very small percentage of the world's software developers live in San Francisco / Silicon Valley, and a very small percentage of the ones who don't are working, remotely or otherwise, for companies based in those areas.

Also, they didn't say mindlessly churning through tickets, they said working on concrete tickets.
AFAIK, put em deep enough - which isn't that deep - and you're basically fine? It's why subs (AFAIK) DGAF about storms.

Mutual impact issue sounds pretty resolvable with a big steel frame and the like.
But apparently Birch sap is fine, it seems to be enjoying a fad as a successor to coconut water at the moment.
I get a lot of what you're saying, but I think you're conflating signal-to-noise with disappearance of the old weird web. It's still there, there's just a lot more other stuff out there too.

For the most part I agree with what you say about big tech and their dominance, but you don't have to use their products for the most part. The web standards are the big problem in that context.

Genuine question - why do you feel you have to use TikTok?
OP, I realise AnyLeaf uses an electrode, but you're probably well-placed having considered it to answer my Ask HN [0] that didn't get any traction: why aren't (seemingly) ISFETs/BioFETs available to hobbyist/small-scale customers?

MSFET3330 for example is a pH sensor, but try finding someone to sell you one.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22996014
My favorite is when the website accepts your long random password but then the login fails. Because the set password function truncated the password before hashing it but the login function doesn't do that.
Happiness is overrated. Like picking a food to eat because it's sweeter.

If you could choose between a future where your happiness doubled but one of your loved ones died, or the unadjusted future, which would you prefer?
Seems to have missed out the Valve Index - especially the "Knuckles" controllers and the audio have some great innovations.

Also would love to see the weirder side of 90's VR included as well!
Very bad things. That's always been one of the key factors limiting helicopter performance.
I'm not a both-sidesist. My comment has nothing to do with "both sides have good/bad people." We are currently in a situation where many on the left believe that the far right are pure evil idiots. And those on the right believe that people on the far left are... pure evil idiots. But - guess what - this isn't true.
At my previous company we had to pick goals that aligned with the goals of our role/level and the goals of the company. It was a shit show. Our partner in charge would reject goals until everyone was struck with goals that were very far putside everyones comfort zone. Everyone hated it.

As senior dev / senior consultant I had to pick goals like „prepare a pitch for a potential customer“, stretch goal „win a pitch“. I didn‘t want to do this. I don‘t care about sales. I want to design and develop systems for someone who wants me to do that, not convince someone to let me do it.

By now almost everyone quit.

Current company: I can work in peace. Bi-weekly 1:1 with my manager that is usually over rather quickly.
Russell Peters did it first:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrsWp07BwVk
this is a really silly post for two reasons. First Amazon actually makes a fairly specific case, namely that they would have been cheaper by a fairly significant margin.

Secondly I very much hope government procurement to the tune of billions of taxpayer dollars follows objective criteria rather than someone at the DoD going "huh, okay".
Ahh, neat. Thanks for the link.
This is not true; it has to do with ideology. As a systems language, Rust should be able to talk to systems with no overhead. A zero-cost FFI into C is a huge part of that ability.

Nowhere in https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/230 is Mozilla mentioned, nor expenses.
Source? I've heard this claim several times but I've not seen it substantiated. The original poster was asking for evidence explicitly as well.
I'm sure you'd find it equally hilarious if Obama directed multi-billion dollar contracts based on personal vendettas.
Thats laughable nonsense tbh. People should "mine" to compress the blockchain lol. The blockchain isnt even needed (the history). Have a look at XRPL srsly its the perfect example it has terabytes of past transactions and they are stored by some nodes but its not needed to make progress. And ofc it could be compressed but that totally destroys its purpose. If you want the transactions you want to be able to query them which you cant do efficient if its compressed.
Me too - super arrogant. While I clearly wasn't what they were looking for, I had a lousy taste in my mouth after that experience. I still remember an awkward moment when I answered a question and the interviewer circled back to remind me I hadn't fully answered his question (he was right, but it just felt unnecessarily didactic).
This is the thinly veiled next round of Trump vs Bezos by the sounds.

Hint: There are no winners.
Not exactly, women/minority owned companies are often explicitly favored in the bidding process. It really depends though, as different government agencies have different priorities and criteria.
$360 USD in 1974 dollars is $1,892 in 2020 dollars, which will buy you a 32-core Threadripper 3970X today.
Well, you can do that. Go invest in these good companies. There isn’t anything stopping you from doing it and encouraging others to do it.
> Even Postgres gets it wrong sometimes

Imagining a timeline where people would say that about MongoDB is a good way to assess the project's quality...
Taibbi, Matt (25 February 2019). "This Battle of Billionaires Was Inevitable". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 25 February 2019. "This started as a lawsuit filed by would-be bid competitor Oracle, whose co-CEO, Safra Catz, is reportedly one of Trump's biggest supporters in Silicon Valley. The suit suggested Pentagon procurement officer Deap Ubhi's involvement in the JEDI negotiations constituted a conflict. Ubhi used to work for Amazon and in 2017 tweeted, "Once an Amazonian, always an Amazonian.""
You've confused cause and effect.

Declining expectations for NGDP growth/uncertainty lead to funds searching for yield in the credit markets, leading to declining yields.

Bond yields declined prior to Fed intervention [0]

[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DGS10
Why is such a straightforward description of Trump's behavior "incredible"?

It's what he does. Repeatedly.
This is an all or nothing situation for Bezos. Either they win this or they say "Fuck it, FedGov/FedRamp are EOL. Have fun with MSFT/ORCL/IBM"
It's dis-incentivizing wealth creation in general and taking ownership away from people that build companies.

There's a compelling argument that growth (that accounts for human rights and protecting the environment) is the best way to help the most people the fastest: https://press.stripe.com/#stubborn-attachments.

Policy that dis-incentivizes wealth creation creates perverse incentives that limit growth.

We're better off with policy that limits how wealth can be leveraged into political power, and policy that helps protect and improve the lower bound of society. That said, I think it's likely reasonable to limit how wealth can be passed down generations (to prevent things like dynastic wealth, but that's a separate issue and I don't know enough to really comment on it).

Wealth creation isn't zero-sum, just because someone builds a business and creates wealth doesn't mean they're taking it from others. We want a society where people are incentivized to create and grow wealth as much as they can (within bounds for environment protection and human rights), not just to some arbitrary cap before it gets taken by the government.

All of the above ignores real modern examples that directly leverage their wealth to do things that would not be done otherwise (Elon Musk: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, Boring # Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin # Gates: Health and Public Policy). I think the general argument in favor of growth is better than these specific examples though because it's a more systemic argument about incentives for the structure of a society rather than relying on individuals and their choices.

There's also the implementation issues (which are real), but I'm not going to argue that bit just because a lot of good ideas are hard to implement but still worthwhile. The wealth tax though I think is both a bad idea and hard to implement. The bad idea bit is more important.
> But a few years after it's over, we'll be acting as if [COVID] never happened. We're good at that.

I fear this prediction won't come true.

There's a great risk that 'health theatre' will join security theatre as a durable if not permanent part of our existence. That years from now, we'll be getting temperatures checked, schools will be shutting down for worse-than-usual influenzas, and so on.

I still can't bring an ordinary-sized yogurt on a plane, and have to remove my belt and shoes. Something made our society irrationally risk-averse, and I glumly suspect that COVID won't be the turning point in that trend.
I'd be interested in the original source on the allegation that AWS influenced requirements in such a way that they were the front runner to be selected; but nonetheless it is what has been alleged, not as sure that it "appears" that way without an original source.
Who is this "you" that will "generally encrypt the hash" ?

And no, pepper is not encryption. Encryption is reversible, you can decrypt the ciphertext with the key.

Hashing isn't encryption /
Confidentiality isn't integrity /
RAID isn't backup /
Income isn't profit

Not knowing the difference doesn't mean there isn't a difference.
> Contesting the initial award is one thing. Continuing their protests after a year of legal proceedings ended in favor of their competitor demonstrates a sense of entitlement.

The legal proceedings did not end in favor of their competitor, they were put on hold because DoD short-circuited the legal proceedings—which were going well for Amazon—by deciding to void the initial decision and do a do-over (in which, Amazon alleges, they simply repeated the violations for which they were challenged the first time).

They will now resume.
Bookmarking this. Additionally I assume you could also limit access to KMS so that only your servers can issue requests.
Note that it's not "global" or "print" - the commands are the literal single letters "g" and "p".
>Not exactly, women/minority owned companies are explicitly favored in the bidding process.

The exact opposite is true: https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/04/women-owned-biz-rec...

Where did you even hear this claim?
As per ginko, this is post Columbian Exchange. However there are older cookbooks, e.g. from 1390[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forme_of_Cury.
Because the investment prevents Amazon having a total monopoly on Cloud and helps keep the price from skyrocketing in the future.

I say that as someone who is all in on AWS.