skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the reasons defense spending in the US is so high and why programs like the F-35 have gone $183 billion over original cost estimates, is because of the Shirky Principle.

I’m convinced that earned value management (EV), which is a requirement of contractors to follow under the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), is a very subtle form of regulatory capture that serves the needs of the managerial professional class over that of the warfighter, workers, and tax payers.

EV, at its surface, appears to be a tool for the government to ensure contractors provide honest work and control costs. Because it’s essentially waterfall, it incentives raw task execution and disincentives managing risk, fixing bugs, and satisfying non-functional requirements.

We have acquisition programs that follow the systems engineering process, with discrete execution steps of design, development, integration, etc. with people’s careers focused on fulfilling those stages of development. The later in this process an issue is discovered, the more expensive it is to fix [1].

The kicker is that a good manager, under EV, will work to exceed performance, get a task done ahead of schedule, and under budget. This manger has every reason to not solve bugs and to pass them on later in the process.

There is no reason for anyone in this process to change it, because careers depend on it continuing to exist, and contractors, as institutions, really benefit from it.

In the bad old days of defense contracting, contractors would seriously underbid contracts. As soon as they got the award, because they underbid everyone, the contractor would immediately send a series of change requests to increase the budget. The government has ways to eliminate this risk, such as hiring two contractors to do the same job, then drop a competitor who attempts the change request ramp. Though this is expensive.

With EV, contractors get a ramp up and further contracts, without having to directly engage in shenanigans. EV incentivizes the development of brittle and incomplete solutions, like aircraft that give their pilots hypoxia and melt holes in the decks of carriers. The genius of EV is that contractors effectively get change requests and follow-on contracts, and everyone in the system can act honest and honestly say they are acting honest.

What I would do instead is change these perverse incentives by amending the FAR by adding alternative oversight mechanisms, such as a knowledge point framework to develop risk modeling or use economic modeling such as cost-of-delay. The problem is that everyone benefits from the current system and you would need strong leadership by many in congress on an obscure issue.

[1] https://deepsource.com/blog/exponential-cost-of-fixing-bugs
I can see its utility as a very quick and rough “back of the napkin” for (ideally unmarried and with no dependents) man nearing retirement age in the US who expects to drop dead rather suddenly from a single, undiagnosed and untreated, acute health issue, for preference the impact of a large vehicle (and if they do the dependents, said vehicle should be driven by someone with significant liability insurance).

For anyone in the current world’s geopolitical reality who is more than 25 years from the Reaper’s ultimate embrace, and especially anyone who is likely to engage with a for-profit healthcare system in any significant manner, methinks the this may end up being a little optimistic.

That said this is more my cynicism about the likely financial headwinds barreling towards us all than a direct, or in any way mean-spirited, criticism of your work. I appreciate you taking the time to consider my comments, and especially taking the time to work at least inflation impact in as well.
Freedom comes with a cost, but using a bludgeon like the US Supreme Court to outlaw "bad speech" today may have severe repercussions tomorrow. We should look for other solutions. Social solutions for social problems.
That's the problem though isn't it. Google doesn't want to maintain stuff otherwise they would incentivize it. Classic "The purpose of the system is what it does"
Mealie: Self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner
That's not it. You just can't help a freezing person by setting fire to them.

Giving people money for food raises the prices of food. Giving people free food ruins the people selling food.

A starving population is an economics problem, rarely is it a commodity shortage.

If you want to distort an economy you have to do it intentionally and with great care with an eye for helping it grow.

For example, look at what they already import from your country, buy it from your own producers and then sell it at a deep discount, but watch out for who else sells it and if you'll distort any other exporters markets.

Look at their needs for capital equipment, especially where efficiency is involved and sell it to them cheaply, again paying attention to not trample existing markets.

Many more examples but in essence pay attention to the consequences of your actions, don't just focus on one and ignore the rest.
"For everything TSA misses they've caught plenty of other weapons that have no place in the cabin of an aircraft."

How do you know? They seem very tight-lipped about how effective they are at catching things vs things they miss and at least one test done by the TSA itself resulted in a 95% success rate - for the terrorists (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/06/reassessing_a...). But hey now you at least have the "right" to pay a fee to be labeled not a terrorist and go through security as if it was pre 9/11.
Speaking of violence:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_Haitian_massacre

There aren't many instances in history where people are actually systematically exterminated on the grounds of their race, so Haiti is of historical significance.
> whenever you have a strong and weak entity interacting, you can always find a way to frame anything the stronger entity does as "violence".

Correct. While it's a bit crude term than the historical "inquitable", it accurately describes trade surpluses being lost to the weaker party compared to a more equal exchange. This is why BATNA is an important principle.
> Why would I provide a feed that earned me no money?

Because (unless you have infinite greed?) at some point in your life you will have enough money, and then you might wish to provide a feed for other reasons?
I bet that they had it already developed and validated and just needed to enable it, either by flicking a config or updating to a different build with the other lidar enabled.
You do get all of roof, healthcare and education on a low income.
Shutting down Google Reader was the peccatum originale of Google. The original sin. The phase transition from "don't be evil" to evil. The moment when the sign flipped from net positive to net negative.
And if it's supposed to be used to talk locally, why doesn't it use Unix sockets?
I am always really excited about stuff that exports sea and deep ocean
New M&M vending machines have always-on facial recognition cameras
Powerwolf is another great band with orchestrated metal albums.
Capitalism is perfectly fine with FOSS software especially if it can use the idealism behind it to save on labor costs. Especially since the definitions of both "free software" and "open source" explicitly reject non-commercial licenses as heretical.
> It's jargon from a subculture of enterprise Java, not a universal term.

The name itself might be, but the principles apply to software development in general. You don't need to memorize the acronym, but saying you've "never used SOLID" isn't the brag you think it is. If you can get past the acronym and understand the actual principles I think you'll find they apply to most software you write. Unless you never have to maintain the software you write, then it's super easy to go a whole career without understanding the SOLID principles. It's the "20 years of experience" vs "20 * 1 year of experience". Folks in the former group generally understand the SOLID principles even if they can't name them. Folks in the latter group will insist they don't apply to the software they've written in their long and storied careers of job hopping.
Have you tried Lenna.io? I’d guess no, but it could regard some of the pains. (Disclosure - a product I work on)
> but nitpicking when the meaning is clear ("destructive")

But “destructive” and “violent “ aren’t synonymous. Its not nitpicking at all.
Very click-bait of them to use a still video thumbnail of the massive Chinese surveillance balloon of last year.
> My 86-year-old grandmother noticed no change in the climate over the course of her life.

She should consider getting checked for dementia.
Show HN: Psfiles – a CLI tool to monitor file system activity of a Linux process
Psfiles is a simple utility to view file system activity of Linux processes.

Features:

- start new process or attach to existing one and trace its file system activity,

- output results to standard output or save results to file,

- custom results sorting and filtering.
Definitely agree with the first part. The most important thing you interview for is passion and any discussion that lets the candidate show that more is great.

Hard disagree on the bit about uncle Bob. Everything he says isn't gold but his take on clean architecture and use case driven development is pure magic.
Burt Berlin, my mentor at Boeing, got his start working on the B47 (first jet bomber). They discovered that the pilot could not bail out into the wind stream, the force would just push him back in. Hence the development of the ejection seat to force him out.
They're not asking you to fix anything. They are asking where to submit a bug report that someone (someone else) will look at.
The amount of energy available hasn't changed in a billion years, only the activities of humans has.
not sure if it's possible to make a comparison between Linux / OpenBSD. Maybe only time this problem presents itself is when one is asked to design the hardware+OS for a network appliance.

Linux, as it stands in terms of security, is an absolute joke. Historically we have Torvalds calling every security conscious user a master-debating monkey. And even more recently (few days ago) we got the LKML / CVE process debate - under which logic anything could technically become a security bug so we should drown ourselves in CVE because it isn't our job to think about whether something might be security relevant. This seems like a bad-faith argument from the Linux community - and I hope they lose it.

Docker ... is really just a bit of glorified buggy networking around namespaces/cgroups. I still remember the days when the docker documentation asked users to curl random sh&it into | sudo bash while talking about the security-benefits totally without blushing. Dockerhub has always been the petridish of choice for malware across critical infra and supply-chain attackers. Yet the community pretends Linux security is great while Windows security is terrible. That old meme was true 20 years ago. Today even Microsoft as shit as they are are miles ahead in terms of Linux security.

Linux is great in embedded domains because here nobody cares about security. What is left then is cloud infra which security-wise is a joke as we all know.

BSD understands that complexity is the enemy of security. And Linux essentially offloads any responsibility for the mess they create to the users. This is also because Linux still considers itself as just the Kernel. BSD has more control and is able to keep the entire system logically coherent (and secure). Linux security in comparison is best described by Grugq's slide nr. #35 of his "COMSEC beyond encryption" talk: https://grugq.github.io/presentations/COMSEC%20beyond%20encr...
However switching to Wayland will improve performance:
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/3366
This is why I wish there was a megaforum where anyone can isolate themselves into smaller forums as they wish. Then no one gets deplatformed by the feds or corporations or whatever (unless they call for violence or doxx someone, something like that), and yet no one has to see what they don't want to. Still but a stopgap to foster better communities, alas.
I think the “Mars” books (red mars, blue mars, green mars) proposed an interesting economic idea.

In a world where automation and AI allowed physical stuff to be organized and built almost as easy as software, you didn’t really _need_ huge organizations (employee wise) to accomplish goals, so Mars came up with an economic setup that did not allow you to join an organization, unless you got hard equity in it, and the amount of equity you could have had a minimum of 1%.

So everyone worked for their own organizations and were incentivized for their success, and organizations couldn’t grow too big (100 people at most).

So you had lots of small organizations with well developed interfaces between them, because there were so many of them. And you could still acquire huge wealth, just couldn’t be a monopoly.

I mean its just sci-fi thought experiment, but it got me thinking maybe there are better economic systems out there, both equitable and free market based …
I don't know, if you say you have build a language that solved memory and safety issues without any overhead and performance impact, but in reality everything is a noop, you're lying. You can't claim you have solved some of the most difficult problems in language design but when challenged just say this was an aspirational statement.

Apitational statements require that you have an idea how to get there. Even if you have that idea (why are you not at least saying how it would work), state that this is a goal, not a current status, otherwise it's a clear lie.
If they have identified it, doesn't that mean it is no longer "unidentified"?
You don't see the contradiction with

> The share price today already reflects the long term outlook for the stock.

as an excuse for artificially inflating the stock price? In a context where we're specifically expecting new-but-honestly-predictable information to push it down later?
NVlink is to connect the cards to each other. To connect them to the board you need the PCie slots.
Why don’t we ratchet the Overton Window a bit further and introduce the term “economic rape” when you force product into an economy. That’s bound to produce some useful discussions.
You're really going to make excuses for Slack here? 'o'/'о' is just about the easiest possible homograph attack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack) that there is:

> When it was his time to leave, McKay swapped out his existing profile picture for one that resembled an angrier version of Slackbot’s actual icon. He also changed his name to “Slackbot.” You can’t just change your name on Slack to “Slackbot,” by the way, as the service will tell you that name’s already been taken. It does work if you use a special character that resembles one of the letters inside Slackbot, though, such as replacing “o” with the Unicode character “о.”

And in fact, this exact pair of English/Cyrillic was used in one of the first published homoglyph attacks: https://web.archive.org/web/20200102175251/http://www.cs.tec... back in 2001!

In 2022, Slack had a valuation of something like $20b and had been in operation for almost a decade. And their business is username-based software for people who need security ie. organizations/businesses.
It mostly isn't a concern domestically. Americans don't eat nearly as much rice as Haitians, apparently.

What constitutes a dangerous level of arsenic in the diet is controversial. First, arsenic is an essential micronutrient similar to selenium, and with a similar toxicity profile. There isn't much science to support the notion that the trace levels commonly found in food and water represent a health risk. Second, the recommended arsenic thresholds set by the government were the product of efforts by environmentalists to make opening new mines impractical by setting the standard below background environmental levels for many types of mining. This was sold under the theory that "arsenic is toxic at any dose" but per the first point, it clearly isn't.

tl;dr: There was a lot of motivated reasoning and not much science behind the food and water arsenic recommended safe levels, and several regions of the planet are subject to significantly higher background levels with no ill effects. You definitely don't want to go out of your way to consume arsenic -- it is toxic at some dose -- but much of the discussion around the level of risk is misleading.
Reddit cites r/WallStreetBets as a risk factor in its IPO filing
yeah. same with treats/toys.
she tried to pull off multiple times same thing with us, bark at door (and then runs back to see our reaction) in order to make us leave table with food, but we were able to outsmart her :)
>So the functionality is correct, but not in a way the author would like it to, therefore it's a lie to claim it works. Eh? It's fine to criticize that the implementation isn't any good, of course, but employing such narrow definition of "works" and then calling someone a "liar" over it seems rather, eh, much.

As far as I understood the article the coroutines don't work?

If I write asynchronous code via a coroutine and one coroutine with io prevents all other coroutines from running that is not a working coroutine.
fast forward to:
New vending machines always have -M&M on facial recognition cameras
Overwrought
I think most rss users (or conscious rss users; I wouldn’t count podcast listeners) _were_ using it, either directly or via its api, weren’t they?
Use a magnometer on a winged drone? Presumably filter out high frequency magnetics due to motor noise? Or hang manometer?
> And selling rice with internationally illegal levels of arsenic and other toxins is violent too.

You’d have to prove intent to call it violence. Seems more like negligence. Its also puzzling why someone would assume an intent to harm in this scenario .
I can’t recall where but I read something about southern US rice (especially Texas) having high levels of arsenic. California rice was reported as safer
Oh the little bridge before the chorus is even more majestic, gives me goosebumps every time.

I used to "hate" ANATO for a long time but now it's easily my favourite from them and every time I listen to it it gets better. It's one of a handful of albums that to this day I can sit down and do nothing but listen to the music. No multitasking. (Though I guess trying to pick out each vocal track is a very multitasking activity).
OpenBSD has blobs too.
No, they shouldn't know how. Most of what there is to know about fixing a coffee machine is useless tedious bullshit. No one's life is enriched by knowing which error messages mean what, and which are misleading, or where the part replacement catalogue is stored.
Same here. Never heard of Google Reader before it was killed. I used an RSS reader in Firefox or something like that. And now, NetNewsWire on macOS and iOS.
> This is a good thing.

Why? Sometimes a mapper or a filter is best split across a few lines but a name adds nothing.
I still have yet to understand what you mean by “professional demanding work” other than you consider the work you do to be “professional demanding work.”

I work in marketing and used Python very effectively yesterday. Is that not professional demanding work?
> "Beating back all the PCI-E AER errors was hard, as anyone knows who has tried to build a system like this."

Define "hard".

The crypto mining community has had this working for at least half a decade with AMD cards. With Nvidia it's a non-issue. I'd be very, very curious to get more technical details on what new work they did here.
Actually a real case in a US state that has death with dignity laws. One requirement of the law is that you can make the decision only when in a very bad state (high pain, etc as certified by a doctor). And only the person can make the decision. Not a loved one.

A woman diagnosed with Alzheimer's couldn't make use of this because it'll only get bad when she loses much of her mental faculty. But by that point she is not mentally fit to make that decision.

She filed a lawsuit and eventually moved to Europe to get her death with dignity there.
Not only Feedly. When greader was shut down, there was at least half dozen other apps, some of which were pretty good. I liked feedly the most so I never checked the rest but I know they weren't unique.
This is not wrong in any way. If you undermine someone's ability to help themselves and then withdraw your help, that's two bad actions. There are other ways to go about helping.
How persuasive is AI-generated propaganda?
ottoman empire and subdivisions of syria and something. literally written in the link
> 1930 after the free market collapsed

What collapsed were the banks, due to mismanagement by the Fed (the government). In particular, it was trying to maintain a fixed (government specified) exchange rate between gold and money while inflating the money 2:1.

Like all such pegging schemes, the result was a run on the banks, leading to their collapse. This (finally) stopped when FDR made it illegal to exchange gold for money.
Managers: If you want to promote someone, then do your job
This isn't just about IP. In the not so distant future we'll find out about 3 letter agencies using companies like OpenAI to deploy corporate backdoors with ease.
I haven't used it in a while but https://theoldreader.com/ seemed like a fairly drop-in replacement for Google Reader.
It is indeed quite unusual for a chattel slave uprising to actually succeed. It's more the norm for them to be crushed and for their oppressors to continue to brutalize them with no consequences for decades and centuries to come.

Nobody bats an eye at the reprisals that follow when the slavers win.
Why aren't AMD and Intel a screaming speculative investment at this point? How far behind can they be?
"Economic Facts and Fallacies" by Thomas Sowell is a very good book that talks a lot about this (indirectly).

https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/economic-fac...
A decimal "point" is called that because it's written as a dot: .

"Fixed point" arithmetic has nothing to do with "fixed point theorems", it's a name collision.

Base ten has nothing to do with the distinction between real and algebraic numbers.

If you Google "algebraic vs transcendental number" you'll find many good resources. Pi is an example of a transcendental number.
I keep repeating it. To me telegram is the best RSS reader app (guess on could also use any other chat like Matrix that supports bots). Manybot or other bots do the translation easily. You get instant preview and syncing between multiple reader devices for free. If you want you can add reactions and comments. News outlets have taken this path already officially. I believe that those interfaces are simply the future of feed syndication. IMHO it does not make too much sense to build dedicated apps or web services for syndication. Dynamic ranking like Reddit or HN might be different, but your normal feed perfectly fits your messenger app.
If Linus got hit by a bus gregkh would step in the next day.
They quote one Palestinian and his quote can be interpreted as a call for a two or one state solution. It is an empty statement without more context.
For sure. I would really like them to do it.
that depends on the dimension of time in the afterlife. some believe that there is no time at all in the afterlife, such that all souls in the afterlife appear to have been there since the beginning, yet also seem to all just have entered just now.

also, in as much as life on earth is a preparation for the afterlife, you will always be reminded of what you failed to do in your human life, just like you may get a frequent reminder of how not graduating from university, or worse being born into a certain demographic has limited your job/life options.
There are people like me, who write blogs that routinely include links posts. Subscribe to those blogs, check out the stories that interest you, and subscribe to those sites in turn. I have a couple hundred sites in NetNewsWire.