skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a couple of reasons government IT projects turn out this way.

In my experience, a lot of the time it's not so much that the contractor is trying to make money by prolonging the problem. It's that the customer doesn't know how to be a competent product owner that prioritizes and scopes things properly.

Then, frequently the software being designed ends up replicating broken/inefficient business processes, so it ends up being difficult to make cleans and efficient software. This becomes worse when there's legacy software in the mix where the customer wants the contractor to port over all of the clunky functionality of the old app. Which of course isn't documented in the first place, so you've got to perform software archaeology to figure out what it did.

Some other show stoppers I've seen are when key stakeholders act as gatekeepers and prevent developers from talking to SMEs directly, so you have to build your requirements based on what the person with the 10,000 foot view knows. So of course you get incomplete and sometimes completely wrong requirements. And you might not find out how wrong they are until after you've spent a lot of time building things

Just those dynamics alone can add an enormous amount of cost or outright doom a project. I could probably fill a blog with all of the dysfunctional stuff I've seen in federal IT, but suffice it to say that these factors can easily balloon costs and timelines to a comical degree. This $44 million failure is actually small compared to some other government IT failures like the billion dollar Air Force accounting system.
Stars don’t equate to usage.
Does it solve the issue bitcoin had, of increasing energy requirements, or will it be in the same place as bitcoin in a few years if it's successful?
A really great way to learn more about numpy is with Math Inspector[1]. It creates a block coding environment which works with the entire numpy/scipy stack, it also has an interactive 2d and 3d plotting library that updates the functionality in mathplotlib. Also, I made it =) Just spent the past 3 months working day and night and released a massive update a few days ago. Check out the youtube video on the bottom of the page for more in depth information.

[1] https://mathinspector.com/
Quite strikingly, the BJP government in power has been unable to produce a shred of evidence -- minutes, paper work etc of any of the purported meetings they claim they had with the farmer organizations. There has been RTI requests (its the Indian analogue of FOIA) for these and the government has been unable to put forth any supporting evidence.
Depending on where you are there are bespoke jewelers that can take industrially made "perfect" stones including diamonds and emeralds and make rings to spec for like 500 USD equivalent or less. In the US, the renaissance fair crowd almost always has a bunch of jewelers who's work you can preview.

Gems and workable gold allows are not that expensive.
Nano white paper: https://content.nano.org/whitepaper/Nano_Whitepaper_en.pdf
Thye are different things. Cavity plugs are the plastic plugs that go into the hole and expand once you screw into them. Molly bolts would definitely be better in this case.
A lot of the time, that's ok. A few people in the know want to avoid a lengthy and wasteful evaluation process for the product or company they already feel confident will meet their needs. Or worse, they're afraid someone might underbid, people without context will pick the lowest cost option, and the product or service will end up being a disaster.

The problem comes in when things like this happen - that a company forces itself to be the only option through unnecessary infrastructure and proprietary software in the public space.
This solves a very real problem that some services like GitHub [0] have started to address. Auth tokens are being committed to public repos at an alarming rate. Detecting this and ideally preventing it as early as possible is key to avoiding account compromise. There are two components to this: identification of a secret and attribution. Identification is non-trivial and requires determining if some text really is a secret and not just a random hash, uuid, or other high entropy string. Most tokens today are generic, alphanumeric patterns; false positives abound. Attribution is tricky too, currently relying on either parsing the variable name (`AWS_SECRET_KEY=XYZ`), commit message, file name, or some other metadata. In the rare case, a service will have designed their auth tokens with this in mind, prepending a unique, static prefix to their tokens.

The URI scheme proposed in the linked RFC will squarely solve the first problem. It will allow for highly accurate CI scanners and pre-commit hooks. The scheme doesn't appear to address attribution, assuming all service providers use the same `secret-token` scheme. However attribution is a nice-to-have, allowing for automated revocation once the secret has gone public. If done right, identification alone could be used to prevent most of the token leakage that occurs today.

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/developers/overview/secret-scanni...
Yes, I am aware about this.

Yet the most common way to denigrate Xorg is to assert that Xorg is basically a keylogger. Which might be true, but as this post shows just switching to Wayland doesn't offer any additional protection under the key-logging point of view.

You might combine a sandboxing technique with Xorg too, by the way.
This is unsurprising since we often observe plants with a larger number of chromosomes, and a higher number of sets of chromosomes than animals.

I believe this is theorized to be a product of domestication (domesticated crops often have a higher number of copies than their wild relatives).
Whenever I see the name “Babcock,” I think of The Passage.

This kind of obsession is nothing new, but, is (thankfully) rare; as is the case for a lot of diseased behavior.

What is new, however, is the modern, interconnected world (air travel, the Internets Tubes, etc.).

This acts as a multiplier for this kind of thing; affording lone actors a powerful gun platform, and allowing extremists that would normally be confined in small, local quarantines, the capacity to band together.

Not sure what the answer is. There’s talk of changing Section 230; not just from authorities, but also, from many mainstream communities.

On one hand, I think that the ability for minorities to band together, and seek strength and support in numbers, is amazing, but you also get stories like this (and it isn’t really unique).

At the risk of “Godwining” the thread, it could be argued that Hitler wouldn’t have been able to come to power without a powerful and efficient propaganda machine, looking a lot like this, so it predates the Internet.
I got it running relatively easy. Lots of client functionality from Element do not work and the shared secret request between devices timeouts.

I also find hard to debug because of all the errors related to broken federated servers. One thing that I recommend is to set "disable_federation: true" until you get some acceptable functionality before enabling it again.
Dinosay is a humble, simple, nice and paleolithic alternative to cowsay
Sidebar: I originally used the word “gunmetal” and that...was even less correct.

Get this guy a dictionary!
Why would there be a limit? How would you enforce it?

Much of this covers from options in the brands they built.

The stocks aren't being taken from anyone.

So... Why would there be a limit? How would you enforce it?
Hydrogen as a Fuel
Quicksy is the onboarding app we need for XMPP but until we have a perfect like for like Quicksy also available on iOS (like Element has) I can't in good conscience recommend my social circles join.
It’s called Payola.
Did the site have a video stream in the centre and a chat box below it? There were often streams of storms filmed from a beach front location?
> freer world

I guess that's sarcasm? I can't even eat a sandwich outside without fearing that it will be considered a picnic and get me arrested.
With the likes of AMD Threadripper around now, I guess there is even less reason now to have a home rack - a single Threadripper in a standard tower case likely has more compute capability than most home racks from just a few years ago.
Reddit channel has 59,940 Members by today(https://www.reddit.com/r/nanocurrency/)
So assuming most of this 5x is "junk" (as the article seems to indicate), how much energy/nutrients does it cost an onion plant to keep copying the "extra junk" compared to if it had the same relative amount of "junk" as that of a human?

I imagine not a lot, given that a cell contains a lot more than the DNA itself, but yeah...
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I might be misunderstanding something but how can you have a secure chain without any form of fee?
Channel membership does not equate to usage.
> All apps that require a phone number are a scam, privacy-wise. Use Matrix.

…and leak my message content, IP address and social network to everyone who cares to look? You're making a very broad claim here and implicitly assume a very specific threat model. I can come up with dozens of other threat models that are more relevant to me and everyone I know and that completely invalidate your statement.
What you usually can't avoid though is that you have to account for much bigger disk usage for the image storage - both on local and target machine.
The real serious issues are not really with fonts and vectors, it's when you have a surface within a surface. (In the context of a browser, think flash plugins, JS canvas and the like) Those have to be pixel sized, which means practically you are forced to 1x, 2x, 3x... It is unfortunately a special case that is incredibly common, and it has to be handled. Solving this by snapping everything to the pixel grid is another form of rounding that has its own set of artifacts with elements jittering around when the window gets resized, and it breaks down again if you try to have surfaces within those subsurfaces. (e.g. You decide to display a cached buffer within your flash app or JS canvas) These problems are exacerbated further when you have mixed DPI, it actually makes it much worse, and you still have one screen that is going to be scaled down and blurry.

At some point maybe I'll put together a post to illustrate this, I know it seems easy when you think about it but if you try to implement it you'll see it causes a huge number of problems. They are not unsolvable but the amount of clients that are going to care enough to solve them all is very small. (Fundamentally this cannot really be solved in a browser either for the reasons I described above)

If you want to work on this, please do it, but don't say I didn't warn you that it's a rabbit hole. I've actually done everything you're suggesting before in other projects, and honestly we've really only scratched the surface of why trying to do this kind of scaling is problematic.
Even RSS (BJP cadres) affliated BKS questioned why the bills were passed in hurry.

They suggested changes to the bill and commented - "We have serious doubts whether the current bills will serve any purpose to the farmers and it appears more of a tool for the buyers rather than the farmers."

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...
I think you sum it up nicely! The better word you're looking for might be cornerstone?
I didn’t care how lonely I felt if I had heroin, and being involved in that “scene” meant meeting and interacting with people who were in similar (crap) situations to myself, which we bonded over.
This is a misunderstanding. Quicksy is free for anyone who signs up. And I'm not that commenter.
"Eco-friendly
As the world continues efforts to reduce pollution and energy consumption, many digital money networks have resorted to wasteful designs to secure their networks. Nano is smartly designed to address this issue by not relying on power-hungry mining for security, but instead uses a lightweight and efficient consensus protocol called Open Representative Voting (ORV) for minimal energy usage."

ref: https://nano.org/
The reality is that someone doing a quick Google for a resume screen, potential date, or whatever is going to devote about 30 seconds to the effort and they'll probably move on if they uncover something sketchy rather than launch into a more detailed investigation.
I have one as well for 4 yrs now. I like how you get the 4 enclosures for hdds and an internal usb slot for a thumb drive to put the OS on... And even a fifth internal sata slot you can use to add ssd cache to the raid (as long as you use Software RAID with lvm). There is even a second DDR3 non-registered ECC RAM slot so you can get up to 16gb memory.

... But quiet is not how I'd call it. My Synology NAS (718+) is not only more powerful but also requires significantly less cooling.

I just hate that I need two ssd's (read&write separately) and need to use the hdd enclosures, so it reduces the potential raid size to an awkward/uneven number: 5... I wouldn't buy the NAS again because of that.
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Maybe how to culture and grow mushrooms.
> Matt left a key for me for when I returned, and I waited in their bed, eating boxed cookies they had left and listening to a playlist they had made, until my eyes rolled shut.

As a non-native speaker, can anyone explain to me why „they” is used here? To me, this reads as if another person was involved here and is utterly confusing.
The type annotation story is indeed better with Julia, but having type annotations for NumPy is beneficial for many users for whom Julia isn't a win, where number crunching isn't the main thing going on and Python's better library situation is important and you want to avoid the complication of calling Python from Julia.
That won't save you at all. A lot of federal IT contracts are now written to mandate using Agile or Scrum. Many other forms of dysfunction that doom projects remain.
Doesn't work; the 1U fans are a different format, than any noctua I was able to locate. Regardless I tried putting noctua in a 1U rack, ended up with horrible hack like this: https://petermolnar.net/article/home-server-downsizing/inwin...
Stop asking if Peter has more than Paul, and instead focus on whether or not Paul has enough.

The individuals this article focuses on have almost all their wealth from options in their own companies - stocks they get by virtue of creating and running the company, which in turn skyrocket in value because they did a good job.

The money isn't being taken from anyone, except whoever wants to buy the shares.

You lose nothing if Musk's holdings grow by another 10% after Tesla sells lots of cars in China. Stop caring about it.
> Bitcoin can't scale past 7 tps. Nano's tps is uncapped and limited only by hardware.

It's very easy to fix. Just increase the maximum block size. There is a fork that does that and a fork that use smaller transactions in a secondary chain.

> Bitcoin miners will inflate its supply until the year 2140.

The Nano foundation got 7M/133M = 5% of the initial coins for a "developer found". Did they spend/distribute all of it or it is still saved?

Miners will get 2.4M/21.0M, that is a 11% inflation. And they have to spend most of it in the mining. Just call this 11% a developer found, and the difference is not so much.

> Nano is fully distributed.

I still don't understand how is Nano protected of double spending without PoW or PoS or centralization.
“3,850 requests per second” to hacker news? Sounds like a denial of service attack ;)
I would not call passing phone numbers (or reversivle hashes thereof) of my friends to a third part a scam. I would call it treason.
the UK has done exactly this - to make all Government Digital Services in house. It's been a blockbuster success in my opinion - they have some of the best UX/UI in the world and their websites are ultralight and downgrade well.

There are a few issues with authentication, but there is support.
Everything that's related to dealing with the UK government btw is all in ONE website, where everything is explained to you in Plain English - gov.uk

Coming from a country where this doesn't exist, I was blown away by every interaction I've had with the system. It's simply amazing.
"The consensus mechanism, called Open Representative Voting (ORV), also provides useful differentiation from other networks. Consensus is reached through representatives voting on the validity of individual blocks shared on the network. The voting weight for each representative is assigned to them by the account owners and is in proportion to the Nano in those accounts. Account owners can still use funds without restrictions as no staking is involved and the representatives have no control over funds, they just get voting rights from them."

ref: https://nano.org/
Nano may be a great alt and worth considering.

But this rant, with all the trappings of a fanboy conspiracy theory has the exact opposite effect to what you are trying to achieve: just reading it made me want to close the tab and never look at nano again.

It took quite an effort to keep on reading.

Now, please present us with a concise and solid technical argument as to why nano's consensus methodology is better than bitcoin's.

And I don't want to hear about "features" (it does this, it does that), but arguments proving the methodology is as least as secure as Bitcoin's.
looks promising.

but I've always wondered how Krisp.ai achieves such good results, considering that it works on the local device, plus the size is quite small (a few hundred MB). it really impresses me. disclaimer: I'm not affiliated in any way with Krisp.ai, just a happy user.
If you are in love ad your beloved expects to have electricity, take them to see “The China syndrome” and any number of documentaries on how power generation is damaging the planet ;)
Google Talk used to be XMPP based, and it was awesome.

Unfortunately someone managed to convince leadership that they needed to create a new chat app with a proprietary protocol, and everything went downhill since.
Hah they’re here in Brisbane too. Not to the same extent, but give it time..,
Spamcop.net email blacklist domain expired making every IP blacklisted
Better link: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8959
> ... letters were so clearly fake that I replied telling him to piss off (in exactly so many words).

In this case I wonder if you should contact the law firm the letter is purportedly from (or Stanek if the firm doesn’t exist) warning them that some idiot is impersonating them and sending ridiculous letters, with a copy of one attached. Even if they really sent them it feels like an amusing way of telling them that their allegations are absurd.

I think I saw an example of this happening in another case, perhaps for a letter received by a baseball stadium.
> I am thinking of student essays and prose answers to exam questions.

Dude/Dudette, circuit theory can't be further than it already is from prose essays and and open-answer questions.

As I mentioned, part of the strategy was to use simple numbers (think of stuff like 1, 2,-1, pi, stuff like that) because the hard part of the exam was not in numbers and/or raw computation.

So basically if you can read numbers, you can see what's been done there.

And I expect an engineering professor to be able to read numbers.
It's a shame that so many Americans lack access to a speech pathologist.
These people should read Habermas.

I'd take issue with communiat leadership not being 'meritocratically chosen'. Roughly, a communist party gates access to the top 1% or so. You get there by a combination of being 'red' (right ideology) and 'expert' (good at what you do.)

Yes people will form a 'circular economy' with their friends -- that's why Uncle Joe invented the purge.

It is a flawed system but at least they can fire the top 1% if theu really screw up.

See Habermas Legitimation Crisis and also Wintrobe's 'Political Econony of Dictatorship' if you want a rational take.
It's called singular they. It's been a thing for centuries.
The paper links to the McGill TSP speech database (English & French) as one of the sources of the data, which claims to be BSD licensed:

http://www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca/Documents/Data/
> so they can MITM you

They can't, provided you verify the (reproducible) builds you download from the app store and check your verification codes.

Besides, it would be rather difficult for Signal to target just you and hand-deliver a custom build to you – Apple/Google would have to in on this, too. And if you use a Play Store alternative like the Aurora Store with a random Google account, this wouldn't work, either.

> Why should I trust someone to route my messages?

Unless you want to put the cables in the ground yourself and run the entire internet's infrastructure on your own, you'll always have to trust someone.
The idea might not be too bad, but it is ridiculous to have to put something so long and ugly as fullname "secret-token:".

Why not just:
"Secret:" or "token:" or "ost:" for example?
From your link:

>The seed of the riot was an altercation in the Swindlestock Tavern in Oxford [ when two students became angry at being served poor quality drink ]

I wonder if this is the etymological origin of the word 'swindle?'

The online etymological dictionary indicates that the term was of German origin, brought to England by German Jews, meaning a giddy or untrustworthy person, based on an older word meaning to languish or decline but that seems incognate with its current meaning.
In my mind that cartoon character smells like a goat.
Not that I recall, no. I only looked at it once, for maybe 20 minutes. It was more like a blog (ie, scroll bar, multiple entries).
https://www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mc210118/
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I'd love to see a 6 bay HP MicroServer. I too have a Gen8 and my only real complaints are: max 16GB of RAM, and only 4 drive bays which sorta limits you to RAID10 as a best compromise. In the newest model they've rotated the bays to be horizontal and made it half the height; but I'd love to see that same idea at the original height with a few more bays. It'd be a cracking little machine that way.

My MicroServer has the E3 Xeon (which was a pain to find in the UK, had to buy the chip off eBay in the end) and for a home server it's pretty stellar. I do want something more powerful for a headless workstation though.
>You have a lot of work ahead of you to demonstrate that empirical fact.

It's self-evident that there is tension between privacy and security. I'm not making an argument against privacy. In fact, we now have entire political, activist and cultural movements advocating for the rights of the criminals. Who is making the case for the rights of the innocents to not be victimized by crime?