skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like this is the story [1], though it seems the reason is actually some kind of funding-related issue:

Wang was working under streamlined critical pay authority the agency has had since its landmark 1998 restructuring. It gave the IRS 40 slots under which it could pay temporary, full-time employees higher than GS rates. Former Commissioner John Koskinen pointed out Congress did not re-up this authority in 2013, despite his entreaties to former Congressman Jason Chaffetz’s Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

“The last one ran out this past summer,” Koskinen said. The departures included Wang. He says he applied to become a GS-15 or Senior Executive Service member so he could see through the assembler-to-Java project. But his approval didn’t come through until a week before his employment authority expired. By then he’d accepted another job. Wang says he had a house to pay for, kids to educate. Koskinen confirms the agency wanted to convert Wang. But the process of approval from Treasury headquarters and the Office of Personnel Management simply took too long.

And here's a follow-up from this year [2] which also describes the patent that came out of that work [3].

[1] https://federalnewsnetwork.com/tom-temin-commentary/2018/01/...

[2] https://federalnewsnetwork.com/tom-temin-commentary/2020/01/...

[3] https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/IR...
>Your investment is recouped in 5-7 years.

(Oops, then edited it to double that estimate)

>Your investment is recouped in 8-13 years.

So, right when you recoup your investment, the 10 year warranty runs out. Great.
Anecdotal, but a couple years ago I spoke with an engineer working at the BBC and he had nothing but praise for the kind of state-of-the-art work they were doing (our initial topic was GPU clusters), most of it on Red Hat Linux — in sharp contrast with most of this industry apparently, at least historically.

They really seemed to have a well-funded, well-hired and well-meaning engineering department.
> DNS challenge is even more secure, in my opinion, as it works the same but the response code is stored in a TXT record for Let’s Encrypt to validate. In order to break this you would need control of the DNS servers.

> Now let’s contrast this with, for instance, getting a multi-year certificate from the likes of Verisign or similar: this (as far as I am aware) requires manual interaction, which can at least theoretically allow for human error, of which there are many chances.

What I've never understood is how this doesn't ultimately just shift the security risk to my DNS registrar.

Instead of social-engineering the CA to give me a cert, I have to social-engineer the registrar to store a TXT record. I don't see why one should be significantly harder than the other.

> Additionally, many more traditional CAs will let an inexperienced user have the CA generate the private key and then transmit it to the user. This opens up a LOT of dangerous possibilities, as now this private key is being saved and moved around, and could easily be missed and left on the workstation used to perform the work. Or a MitM attack could even snatch it in transit.

Again, it's harder for a rogue CA to abuse my certificate - but instead, a rogue registrar could now easily manipulate my DNS record and receive a valid cert of its own.
I'm not ignoring the maintenance cost, I'm saying it doesn't exist. I'm also saying the math works already in your state at your energy cost. If you want to argue, let's argue over facts.

I'm not sure what state you're in, but several states prohibit an HOA by law from preventing you from installing rooftop solar. You should check if your state has such legislation, and if not, champion it. I'll even do it for you if you don't want to spend the time (until I can get federal legislation passed).
Works for single-family dwellings, and maybe duplexes. But a 4-story apartment building with 2 units on each floor? Same rooftop, 8X the electricity demand.

If a city wants more solar, then they could put up a solar farm in some rational place with a good economy of scale, and connect it to the grid.
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Thanks for pointing out that I corrected my information, I prefer communicating accurate information. Panels and inverter have 25 year warranties. Storage is optional (the 10 year warranty you mention). If there are incentives for it, get it, but don't pay out of pocket entire yourself for the storage. Let state, local, and utility pockets pay for it.
I love the feel of this font.
Is it not possible to look at the seller to tell if it's the real company selling the product? I wouldn't buy branded from some no-name seller, that's no better than ebay.
there are recent sequences posted here as of feb 21 2020 actually
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> All homes are horrible investments.

I beg to differ. Were I to sell my home at current market price I would not only have lived for free for the last decade, I would've been paid to live in it.
Because the title makes it sound like swift is soaring ever higher above other languages, though both swift and go are certainly growing quickly in adoption - someone could probably find metrics.
Can you query parquet from bigquery without loading it into a table from gcs?

I've gotten pretty far with jsonl on gcs and bigquery - even some bigquery streaming for more real-time stuff.
Counterpoint: there is a lot of PV in the pale green of Germany and south England. It works well in a lot more places than most people realise.
I am telling you there is a conspiracy going on to end the open and free web.

We should fiercefully start to fight back otherwise those who made the internet great (the open source hackers working on LAMP) will loose everything.
Very few products on Amazon are sold by the creator. Virtually everything is sold by a mixture of middlemen and importers and drop shippers.

Its virtually impossible to tell the difference between a product I'm middle-manning that's interpreted by investigators as real, vs a product that's interpreted as fake.

With books, nobody really minds if conceptually a book sat unopened on a bookstore shelf with the general public touching and pawing it occasionally vs a book that sat pristine untouched and cleaner on my home bookshelf, although one is marketed as "new" and one as "used", but in practice it usually doesn't matter. Also see the weirdness with $10 "indian subcontinent only" textbooks that normally sell for $200 to sucker american students, nobody complains their book was "fake" with a 95% discount to keep them quiet.

On the other hand, do that same game with toothbrushes and in roll the complaints.

This may be a problem inherent to online shopping in the long term. A copy of "Numerical Recipes in C edition 3" is a fungible commodity. Apparently, as per the linked article, that is not the case with fad overpriced gloves and toothbrushes. Possibly that type of product is inherently unsuitable for online purchase.
Thank you for posting this! I've been looking off and on for this for ages and ages.

Trivial factoid: my understanding is that the Gorton pantograph fonts came first, and that the Leroy lettering sets were manufactured using the Gorton fonts. But I don't have a good source for that, so I could be completely wrong.
Good question.

You can create indexes to match on one or more properties:

https://admin.unbounded.cloud/docs/#/guide?id=configuring-in...

You can also create saved queries to partition the data by more complex criteria:

https://admin.unbounded.cloud/docs/#/guide?id=saved-queries
https://news.energysage.com/shopping-solar-panels-pay-attent...

You're right. 4 on this list have 25 year warranties... but the rest.. ouch.
99% of Americans, and almost all people in the world, are wholely unqualified to make any meaningful decision that basically makes most forms of affordable housing unlawful.

If this sample is, by some miracle, representative; I guess it shows that Americans must live amazing middle-class lives to believe that this policy is viable.
Yep, the barriers were purely legal, not technical.
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”The client should decide whether the certificate is still trustworthy”

That’s what is happening now. Except for common sense, nothing stops a browser from trusting a certificate with an expiration date in the past.

The expiration date more is a statement from the issuer “I wouldn’t trust this after this timestamp”.

Having said that, I think Apple should say “our OSes will stop trusting certificates issued over two years ago” instead of ”our OSes will stop trusting certificates that expire in over two years”

If they did that, one could still use certificates with longer expiration periods, allowing other parties to cache them for longer periods.

Now they force everybody to follow them, so that, if this change breaks sites on iOS, it also breaks sites everywhere else.
Second that. Tinc is great for this.
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I thought dmit's comment was fair. I've been programming for over 30 years now and Go is my least favorite language (actually, I absolutely hate it). The reasons for my distaste are basically everything dmit just mentioned (and more). I get that some people love Go but that doesn't mean the criticisms against it aren't fair.
Yeah chord recognition is a much meatier problem for sure. Anything where the pitch signal gets is blended with others is pretty cool. I haven't dived deep into pitch work yet, but this[1] is a fairly solid recent review paper that I followed with good results for tempo stuff.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00078
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Funny aside, you know what else is considered a "Sin Industry" by the US tax code? Golf Courses.
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So much this. If you’re building anything in an urban setting that actually has enough roof to power its dwellings, that just means it’s not tall enough. PV mandates miss the point that it is dispersed, detached developments patterns that are inherently energy-intensive. PV doesn’t fix that.
Having spent the last ~8 months at my work grappling with the consequences and downsides of a Data lake, all I want to do is never deal with one again.

Nothing about it was superior or even on par with simply fixing our current shortcomings OLAP database setup.

The data lake is not faster to write to; it’s definitely not faster to read from. Querying using Athena/etc was slow, painful to use, broke exceedingly often and would have resulted in us doing so much work stapling in schemas/etc that we would have been net better off to just do things properly from the start and use a database.
The data lake also does not have better access semantics and our implementation has resulted in some of my teammates practically reinventing consistency from first principles. By hand. Except worse.

Save yourself from this pain: find the right database and figure out how to use it, don’t reinvent one from first principles.
The GPD Win 2 is pretty sweet; I have Ubuntu installed on mine, and it makes a more-than-capable coding machine, even while standing up.
I agree with your overall point and appreciate the clear explanation. However, I'd like to suggest that perhaps what you describe as "merely precautionary changes" should never occur on anything less than a ~2 year timescale anyhow. If it's urgent, go right ahead and break things. But the internet is _big_, and modifications can be _expensive_, so precautionary changes should probably occur quite slowly at this point.
BBC research are amazing. They've been doing this for decades, most recently with next gen codecs and latency issues on internet transmission. As a British person I'm actually proud of them, even though many people complain their politics are orthogonal to mine.
This is huge. Thanks for the hard work! I cannot imagine something as hard as multiplattform.
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For some reason I vaguely remember 1993 as having a 7th Guest vs Myst marketing theme. To this day I still haven’t played Myst but my memories of 7th Guest have not grown fonder with time.
Can you provide more info about your setup?
Probably not, but who cares? The point isn’t that the SAT has been equally racist for some amount of time. The point is that bias exists in standardized processes.
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Apple Drops SSL/HTTPS Bomb - Forget Long Certificates

https://keychest.net/stories/apple-drops-sslhttps-bomb-forge...
Cue fond memories of flooding events in Populous[0]... guess that was really the predecessor to Dwarf Fortress[1] in some ways!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populous_(video_game) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress
The idea that solar is guaranteed to be an environmental or economic net-negative in the northern US is misinformed at best, propaganda at worst.

Just as a single data point, my parents, who live in rural upstate NY, installed solar panels on a portion of their (connected-to-the-house) barn's roof a few years ago. Aside from times when they're literally covered in snow (which is rare, due to their temperature), they're producing power, and even in the depths of winter they produce plenty enough to offset a huge chunk of their electric bill (and in the summer, there are days and weeks at a time where they're producing more than they need).

I can't speak for the specifics of environmental impact, because I don't know the details for their panels, nor how one calculates such uneven things (how do you subtract electricity generated from the various kinds of environmental damage done to mine and refine the various rare minerals in solar panels...?), but at least economically, they're a huge win.
Yep, they construct a strawman argument about some niche edge case where Go was outperformed by some language. Or come up with some contrived examples where Go would Absolutely Need Generics.

None of those people have actually written any Go professionally.
I have never seen panels quoted by reputable installers that weren't Panasonic, LG, or SunPower (quality panels with the 25 year warranty mentioned).
> I do think Amazon needs to be held liable for fake products and whatever damage they cause its customers.

what would this look like? they already have a pretty generous return policy. they pay the return shipping and return the funds as soon as the package ships. I'm not thrilled with the status quo of playing fraud roulette every time I order something, but the worst thing that's ever happened to me is having to wait a couple extra days for the genuine item.
WebAssembly makes a number of strange choices that seemingly fly in the face of convention; this is one of them. It would be really nice if it someone took some time it make a FAQ on the website to answer questions like “why doesn’t WebAssembly do x like everything else”, because otherwise it just seems that they’re just doing things differently because they can…
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I've found learning new things can be very difficult and have definitely at times felt the same way you do.

One thing that has helped motivate me was to work with other people that have similar goals. I don't know if you have any friends or peers that you can collaborate on projects with but a more relaxed environment where multiple people share a common goal in learning has helped me to overcome personal struggles.
Brilliant! As far as I know, this idea was first proposed by Randall Munroe in the hovertext of https://xkcd.com/862/ (2011-02-18):

"After years of trying various methods, I broke this habit by pitting my impatience against my laziness. I decoupled the action and the neurological reward by setting up a simple 30-second delay I had to wait through, in which I couldn't do anything else, before any new page or chat client would load (and only allowed one to run at once). The urge to check all those sites magically vanished -- and my 'productive' computer use was unaffected."
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>> I'm saying it doesn't exist

Top hit on Google: "Solar panels generally require very little maintenance. They are very durable and should last around 25-30 years with no maintenance. The only maintenance you should need to perform is to wash them clean of dirt and dust two to four times a year, which you can easily do with a garden hose."

Sounds expensive, if panels are installed on the roof. And you can't wash off pollen by just casually spraying it with a "garden hose".

HomeAdvisor quotes $100-350 a pop. As a homeowner I'd expect the actual cost to be closer to the upper end of the range. Tradesmen won't get out of bed in the morning for less than $200. To wash windows in my house from outside only is $300.
I think the Googleplex is built around wetlands where land use is heavily restricted, and they couldn't get permission to add any housing.
Is there not already a standard procedure for certificate revocation on domain ownership transfer? It seems like there really should be - even a 13 month expiry is hardly enough to prevent intentional abuse.
that's some innovative and technologically monumental work, you must be good at what you do.
Does apple try to kill the web? Does Google try to take it over?

Why doesn't Apple kill a million sh.tty apps just trying to grab attention doing nothing useful?

It's time to get rid of Apple/Google browsers really
One of the purposes appears to be to connect to the cruise ship's (expensive) wifi as client, as a single fixed MAC address, and rebroadcast a local wifi signal you control to more than 1 device. Because the cruise company wants you to pay per device.

Also to have a small router you control to monitor the data usage per device, and cumulative data usage on the wifi-WAN-uplink interface. And to establish a whole-router VPN tunnel if you want.
I went from being an enthusiastic fan of Amazon Prime and a $50k spend one year [+] to closing my Amazon account and then warning other people away from it in the space of about five years.

I can't recall any other business from which I've moved so quickly and so far from one end of the spectrum of enthusiasm to the other.

[+] Most of it was for business -- parts and equipment for customers, it was often cheaper that way than my wholesale supplier.
Swift is also a bird. Someone is being playful with the title.
Germany doesn’t have a housing crisis. The context of the mandate is that USA lacks about fifteen million houses that it desperately needs. Solar power adds tens of thousands to the already-bloated cost of construction.
This is an overly-specific regulation.

If we want a regulation that all new construction must be powered by zero-emissions sources, say that. I'd even be in favor of it, cautiously.

But solar panels aren't a magic cure-all. They should be installed in places that make sense, which isn't guaranteed to be the roof of a new building.
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The SAT has historically been formulated in a way that is culturally biased towards white experiences, probably unintentionally.
Can you name a language with no "gotchas"?
Studies like this feel like they highlight interesting correlations but nowhere near directional causality. Am I misguided?
Don't build a house if you can't pay for the energy it's going to consume. You still come out ahead (versus utility power alone) if forced to pay for solar on the roof, and finance the system cost as part of your mortgage.

Americans aren't entitled to the cheapest new construction housing possible while foisting the consequences of that on the rest of us. No different than cars being more expensive to meet higher CAFE mileage standards. Not living in a polluted hellscape costs money, who would've thought.

Meta: Where did this entitlement complex come from that someone's pocketbook is more important than the air we breath?
I can't answer for cloakandswagger, but GPs comment sounded to me like this blog post is missing something essential because it doesn't talk about security.

This isn't an expensive course on setting up the perfect ES cluster in production.

As someone who is currently planning to set up a substantial ES cluster, I'm very grateful for someone to write up their learnings in such a compact overview.
The two big reasons for short certificate validity periods are to manage revocation issues (expiry is the one guaranteed way to revoke a certificate), and to reduce the risk of forgetting to renew certificates (by having to rotate them more frequently, your IT is more likely to have better processes in place). There's a secondary concern of reducing the ability of CAs to backdate certificates (which happened when SHA-1 was prohibited).

Neither of those really apply to the root certificate store. Updating the root certificate (to add or remove CAs) requires an OS/browser update instead of relying on CRL or OCSP queries which are flakier--and browsers have a variety of mechanisms to punish misbehaving CAs that aren't "drop you from the root store effective immediately."

Meanwhile, the process for updating root stores is entirely different than regular certificates, and it takes months to years to add a new root certificate--and I believe you don't get a pass to merely update your new root certificate for an existing CA.

The other risks with overly long validity times are ameliorated in large degree by the fact that CAs are regularly audited and have much greater scrutiny placed on their issuance.
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Why not both?

For example, one person in a 50 m² apartment, divided by 4 floors, with 20% efficient panels, 25% duty cycle for night/latitude, still implies 625 W/person. That won’t power everything all the time, but it would reduce the required size of the external electricity source — be it PV, nuclear, fossil, whatever — by a decent amount.
I canceled my Prime membership this week. I can't support how Amazon is undercutting the good union jobs of UPS, FedEx and the Postal Service.
The latter did already happen: Diginotar, in 2011. The Dutch government tried to restrain browser makers from revoking Diginotar's certificates, since many of their websites and services used them. It's a good thing certificates don't have an eternal life span.
You’re making a lot of assumptions. Sure, if the reported death rate is correct (it isn’t; it’s going to end up much lower), and the medical system in Wuhan is up to first-world standards (it isn’t; they’ve had to scramble to build halfway adequate infrastructure for the population), and the distribution of victims is the same as the 1918 flu (it isn’t; this virus kills mainly old, sick people), then sure, you can just compare mortality rates.

But since none of those things are true, you can’t. It’s not like these parameters are fixed; they’re dramatically affected by the time and context in which they’re measured.
Having a SaaS with open source code is possible, but probably best to consult with an attorney to insure the license being used is going to match up with your business plans.
Oddly that page doesn't list my favourite BBC open source project, Ingex[1][2][3], which is a broad set of tools supporting tapeless recording.

The related bmxlib[4], a suite of utilities for dealing with MXF files, also doesn't make the list.

[1] http://ingex.sourceforge.net/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingex

[3] https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/ingex

[4] https://sourceforge.net/projects/bmxlib/
I bought a tv at best buy recently. it was my first time stepping inside the store in ten years. I had very low expectations, but it turned out to be a great experience. the sales associate I spoke to was actually super knowledgeable; it was almost as good as buying pc hardware at microcenter.
Yes, which is why you used to be able to have fully internal domains that are served by an internal DNS server and are never seen on the public internet.