skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly right, yes: You can mark the field containing the constraint as "critical" or "non critical", which indicates to the end software what it should do if it doesn't understand this constraint. Apple software doesn't understand it, so it looks at the critical bit (at least Apple got that right): you can choose whether to fail by having it accept invalid certificates for any other website on the planet, or to fail by having it reject the intermediate completely.

I just assume that any general CA who's issuing a sub-CA instead of a wildcard would be unwilling to leave it marked non-critical.
Did the second staircase help?
It’s money that matters. All the poor people who have a problem with this scheme need to be realistic about how the world works and stop complaining.

(Snark, to be clear).
> Following those questions by citing a statute of the law, however, IS a legal threat

Nope. A legal threat is a statement by a party that it intends to take legal action on another party. GL with whatever.
Public health officials should tread carefully otherwise they risk alienating large segments of the population. Which would inturn be bad for public health.
I’m skeptical of a random dude claiming to have found the source of all ADHD and that it can be universally unlearned. Seems pretty similar to the concept of homosexuality being considered a lifestyle choice.
I’ll recommend watching this video to understand more about it. https://youtu.be/jhcn1_qsYmg
You’re not wrong. Or at the very least:

- Software needs to be built and distributed with local-first in mind. Self-hosting should be trivial, encouraged and accommodated for. Preferably transparently to the user. (Self-hosting a web browser and its built in password manager is already something people do, as a silly example of why it doesn’t have to be a worse UX). In the example of a “dapp”, this could mean the web app in source-available (not necessarily “real open source”) and provided as a zip file ready to run in a local browser and/or electron app. Possibly via IPFS or similar. It should not depend on phone-home to any particular hard-coded server, domain, or SaaS.

- For stuff that is hosted in DCs, opt for smaller providers. Get infrastructure, not SaaS. Ie avoid managed services in AWS/GCP/Azure/Ali, instead get VMs or servers with someone else.
Don't forget about gstreamer. Both FFMPEG and gstreamer are used in many production environments. That said, you also find professional codecs and transport libraries. I've worked on projects using Main Concept codecs and custom plumbing, for instance.
I will be looking into new engineering job next month and I just moved DoorDash to the top of my list.
I stopped using Alexa a few months ago after it almost burned my house down on Thanksgiving day, then it was virtually impossible to report to Amazon, and then Amazon never sent me an email even acknowledging that they almost burnt down my house.

My daughter put a pizza into the Amazon Alexa Enabled oven/microwave. You can probably guess where this is going. She’s done this many many times, put it on the metal rack, and let me know it was good to go.

I opened the Alexa app on my phone and said, very precisely (I saved the log) “Alexa, bake at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for thirty minutes on first oven”.
Alexa interpreted this as “Alexa, fig at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for thirty minutes on first oven”.
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Alexa interpreted “fig” as “microwave”, and proceeded to set the microwave/oven full of metal cookware to microwave for 30 minutes.

For some reason I thought being extremely precise and including degrees and things that would only make sense if you wanted to bake, or the fact that I have never microwaved something for that length of time, would inform Alexa and keep this from happening.

Around 21 minutes later my wife smelled something, as we were upstairs, and we had to open all the windows and leave a few hours early for our relatives house. Thank goodness we weren’t hosting.

Anyway that’s the last time I’ll use smart appliances like microwaves.
About 40 Chinese soldiers from unofficial sources, CIA reports etc, & ~20 soldiers on the Indian side. India seems to be more transparent on casualties here as the list of dead soldiers has been published in their newspapers/gazettes after the skirmishes in 2020. This information is better explained on Wikipedia.
Quote:

"The assertion that Alexa growth is slowing is not accurate,” Pearsall wrote to Bloomberg. “The fact is that Alexa continues to grow—we see increases in customer usage, and Alexa is used in more households around the world than ever before.”

End-quote.

So that sure sounds like some board-member speak there.

That said, I personally use Siri. I typically use it to check the weather or play music. Nothing else.

I also have a HomePod mini. It’s fine for what it is.

I just don’t think that voice controlled software is going to go beyond general information that you Can access quickly by asking a simple question, especially if you are doing something else at the same time.

Notes? Faster to check it manually since most people can read and find information faster than a voice telling you your notes one by one.

Searching for info? Right now it’s easier to do it yourself. Even Siri will say “here’s what I found on the web for #thing”, forcing you to look at your phone.

I don’t know, maybe there is potential there. But people will always do what’s easier and faster. A voice just isn’t faster than reading and doing tasks yourself in many situations.
There is some serious thought going into Bitwarden.

For example, what happens if I get hit by a bus? Oh, they've already thought of that: https://bitwarden.com/help/article/emergency-access/

The peculiar problems faced by families, work organisations, 2fa - they've put some time into thing about every sub-problem I've come up with.

Well, just about everything. I'd love if they would let me run my own read only backup servers - ie, a server that mirrors my data stored on theirs, that my device will connect to if theirs isn't up, and that supports a read only version of the web interface.
It does seem to be the norm for the UK: “In the United Kingdom... residential buildings are designed with a stay-in-place firefighting strategy as opposed to simultaneous evacuation, and regardless of building height, maximum occupancies determine staircase width, resulting in many tall buildings serviced by a single stair core. On June 14, 2017, one such building, the Grenfell tower, was engulfed by the deadliest residential fire in the United Kingdom since the Second World War and cost the lives of 72 people. Subsequent inquiry determined that the negligent use of combustible cladding and insulation caused the rapid spread of the fire up the building exterior. The tower consisted of a 24-storey concrete structure with a single central exit stair, for which the shelter-in-place evacuation policy was sustained for more than 80 minutes before a general evacuation was ordered.”

https://secondegress.ca/A-Wicked-Problem
Someone needs to say “parking lot” and move on. A bit of agenda control helps the team. You can always multitask when you’re on Zoom.
What proof is required that the money is legally obtained?

Or is it simply open money laundering for international criminals?
The idea of having a computers integrated with the home seems great, but to me the voice interface is awkward at best.

I’d much rather have a uniform interface for controlling house devices via their APIs as wall mounted touchscreens (connected to mics, speakers, etc. as desired)

An iPad is close hardware wise but a uniform and customizable UI would be ideal.

Just seems like a lot has been built via voice because a voice OS didn't exist, as opposed to voice actually being the best way to receive commands and output information.
> they could even have individual military tents with cots and plastic outhouses, while not exactly luxury, it could accommodate almost anyone, and most people esp. those under 35 wouldn't have a problem.

> They could even do a rapid build of low quality structures i.e. mini-huts, pre-fab style, put them in locations outside the city.

> Though a bit authoritarian, even ankle bracelets could be used in some case maybe for home quarantine.

Though this might be in theory better (after all being allowed in at all is better than be stranded outside), this seems far worse of a PR nightmare. The headlines and accompanying pictures would be atrocious.
I wonder what kind of world we would have if all future unread contracts and website ToS agreements were declared by the government/courts to be null and void.
Cálmate, my friend...pretty sure the comment was a light hearted joke.
I'm a coder turned contract lawyer turned coder again. People often ask me why I switched from law back to software.

My answer: The meat of the job is basically the same thing. You spend a lot of time writing things in highly precise pseudo-English where syntax errors can get you in trouble.

The biggest difference is that with software, you spend a lot less time arguing what the code does. You just run the damn thing and observe the output. With law, that requires a multi-year journey through the court system.
If we're talking about cost reduction, "expand roadways, sewage, water, power and public transit rather than build extra stairwells" is an argument that falls apart quickly.
> think of all the wasted space and weight having 8 exit doors on a airplane

If we could choose to fly on the same plane with 4 doors that would give us more legroom and get us to our destination in less time, I believe a lot of us would make that choice.
When COVID is over, the state will not willingly dismantle the new surveillance and information propagation/censorship systems it has built. The loss in liberty from COVID will make 9/11 and the Patriot Act look like a drop in the bucket. I used to think that as people who were more familiar with these issues we might be able to do something. It feels now more like we just won't be anesthetized when the doctor gets the hacksaw out.
What does "de-identified" mean, precisely? Does it simply remove the legal name but retain the uniqueness?

Ie, can they tell that one person traveled from Victoria, to Vancouver, to the Wetsuweten territory; but not know who, specifically, that person is?
I respect their move and I respect yours. I am interested in open positions myself.
If there's widespread censorship then I assume you can give some supporting examples?

The only notable "movie" that I'm aware of being censored in NZ was the live stream of the Christchurch mosque shooting that killed 51 people.
The OBE is much much nicer in IDEA - it figured out what I was doing (when I didn’t even know) and worked fine out of the box with Java8.

VSCode got into some loop where it demands Java 11 for highlighting code but then explodes on a Java 8 project and I’ll be arsed if I’m going to spend time debugging what’s wrong

I do use vscode for config files and other “quick load” things - it’s beating BBEdit there.
I use sudoku for this as well!
A scissor stair can fit 2 stairways very compactly, looks like this is used on 432 park ave, for instance.

https://images.app.goo.gl/kz1826Y8xydc9G9L8
Lmao, sounds like it went viral with a certain demographic
> Worse, since this was changed in a common function that all kinds of programs at the company used, it meant that anything that created a directory in that language (with that library) was now vulnerable to this kind of injection.

Low-level libraries that are used all over the company should probably have a strict code review process that's overseen by a group of experienced maintainers who have a good knowledge of security, performance, etc.
Is it beneath me? I don't know, sure, it doesn't matter. Would I want to do it? No. And that's the main/only reason. I like being a software engineer, I wouldn't like delivering food.
P.S: not to mention how insulting this is to the actual delivery and service people who are STILL paid low wages and have to do it day after day after day after day...and now entitled tech bros can claim that they have experienced the same conditions while drawing ‘poverty wages’ of 250k/month. Whoever thought of this must be super perverted.

It’s like everyone lets mom sleep in on mothers’ day to make breakfast in bed for ONE day and leave behind a mess and an overworked mom for the rest of the year…while feeling virtuous and glowy for one single day. Sounds familiar? I would wager..not?
I understand the point you're making but it doesn't consider that fire safety is made up of layers, including (but not limited to) construction, equipment, policy and response. "Ah shit my building is on fire, I better run" makes so many assumptions that it cannot be considered a meaningful fire safety strategy. For example, what if I am asleep? what if I am deaf? what if I cannot walk?

Certainly, there's disasters where multiple catastrophic failures result in horrific outcomes, but if we design policy around "absolute safety is impossible, so run" then we'll be less safe and more anxious. The safest buildings are big well-managed apartment buildings with shelter in place policies, because robust strategies that have been implemented from the ground-up are always going to beat half-baked strategies implemented based on an approximate understanding of single family home building regulations.

As glib as it is to acknowledge, apartment buildings are so safe because safety is built on the back of loss. I am benefiting from the lessons learned from every disaster that has come before.
Already happened. The resistance to a lot of the public policies in NA (both US/Canada) during the pandemic is directly due to instances of overreach such as this.
I think it's too late.
It was the same thing with Bluetooth headsets a decade and a half ago. People were walking around randomly talking to themselves. Nowadays it's just normal.

I personally don't want to talk to machines all that much either, but in for your reason. It's because the utility of such an interface sucks. The things can't actually do much other than bring something up on a screen. And they make mistakes half the time.
I’ve used Alexa since shortly after its release. We use it daily for music, lights, timers, and random questions like what internal temperature to cook chicken to. All our use cases are either when our hands aren’t free or the request is room-related.
Is this just a personal attack on the expanse? I've not seen asteroid mining in anything else really
They literally broke all plug-ins for months because of a regression in stripping white space from config files. The whole product is incredibly poorly tested and is only dominant because it’s the least terrible.
I hope this is wry humor and not more 10x denialism.
This page makes a claim and has links to sources at the bottom:

“International Fire Death Rate statistics show no correlation between the allowable building height for residential buildings with a single egress stair and fatality rates. The U.S. NFPA attributes the worldwide trend in decreased fatality rates between 1979 and 2007 to improved in firefighting capacities, stringent regulation of combustible materials in construction and increased requirements for modern fire safety measures like sprinklering and automatic fire alarm systems.”

https://secondegress.ca/Jurisdictions-1
there's so much literature about soviet people desiring democracy and the 'colorful' west. is there literature where the soviet people were happy with their lot in the soviet union?
auctioning visas to the highest bidder seems like the fairest system
That’s really quite hyperbolic, given that it’s the cell provider’s anonymized aggregate data, for sale to anyone who cares to pay.
They make great alarm clocks, timers, etc. Maybe good for podcasts if that's your thing.
Doesn't that just mean that NZ outsourced taking care of the expat NZ nationals that have Covid - and the cost of part of the Covid epidemic - to other countries though?

Not allowing your own citizen to return home is something that should be unthinkable really.
Not sure of the moral here, but this looks like something that could benefit from a peer review process.
The amount of available space isn't the only benefit of using only one staircase. It also means the units can face outward in multiple directions and there's a more central common area.
That's unnecessary. The information they are collecting at travel points (trains/planes/ports) with these vaccine passports they already have that information.
I'm going to guess that codes don't require two stairwells if there is only one apartment per floor.
Typically standard KYC/AML.

Standard meaning that if it made it into a licensed institution that also does KYC/AML then its good enough for us!

Basically the concept is that its up to the customer to get money magically graced and cleared by their host government, and if there is not currently a problem its not anyone’s problem.

Think about it: what is legal?

China says that people with their currency cant move more than an equivalent of $50k/year out. If someone only earns Yuan on mainland China but has enough liquid money elsewhere to invest in this program, is it your problem to care about China’s currency controls to suggest this money violated that?

Well the same standard applies even if you were imagining terrorist financing and cartels.

There is no adequate system to know or care.
*This* is your pick for a top-N conference in engineering? Seriously, a random conference with motley of papers from all kinds of EE topics self-hosted in China. If you are making a joke argument for argument's sake, merry Christmas & please humor yourself elsewhere.

IEEE does not provide checking or process their sources because they pay only the token amount to keep IEEE banner. (IEEE recognition for local events and their commission/fees is a scam, but that's not what we are here for. These institutions pay a base charge of ~$3000 USD to get their paper indexed in IEEE Explore. It also gives name rights to use IEEE in conference name. For several other conferences, they also take 25% of the attendee's registration fee).

Source: Personally, in programme committee of two recognized international conferences: [International Conference on Image processing (ICIP) & International conference on Pattern recognition (ICPR). You can look up the validity of a conference on Google scholar metrics)]
I bounced off of Rainbows End but really, really liked Marooned in Realtime. It's tied with Deepness for my favorite book of his. You don't need to read it's predecessor, The Peace War, which is fine, but nothing special.
Ask HN: Why did top bar on Hacker News became darker orange today?
Hetzner? They're primarily German, I think. They have data centers in Germany, Finland, and - just recently - the USA.
Yep. I hate talking to machines. I disabled all the voice recognition on my phone. Will never own a device such as Alexa.
Sorry, I'm not really familiar with these oven/microwave combos but is it like... one compartment? Or do you store metal in your microwave when you're not using it?
Just the other day I was reading the Second Egress website (linked in the article) and found it fascinating. Lots of examples, images, details, data, etc.

https://secondegress.ca/
Christmas UTC.
You might find the "rdoc" an interesting approach from the National Institute of Mental Health. In contrast to the DSM, the rdoc isnt a way of splitting and labeling disorders as distinct entities (diagnoses). Rather, it looks at different dimensions of disorders to identify the best approaches to treatment.

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/research/research-funded-by-nimh/rd...
> censorship systems

what censorship system is installed as a pandemic measure by the gov't?
Power is rarely given up by direct request, if ever. Every inch that is given is one that must be fought tooth and nail to be reclaimed.

The silver lining of the past two years of incredible government overreach is an awakening in the minds of the common man of what’s possible if not for the push back of the determined. I’m not sure how this will all end, but I don’t see anymore widespread lockdowns or a total surveillance State taking control. At least not in the USA. There’s enough of us to reject that outright.
Ah yes, an AGI "superintelligence" piece. People who read too much scifi worry a lot about these apocalyptic AGI because they have some idea that an abstract "superintelligence" can go on self-improving exponentially using nothing but its own smartness, leaving people behind in the dust.

Curiously absent from this picture is the part where the AI is a physical thing installed somewhere. I'm sure the newborn superintelligence will immediately set about beating chip-makers like TSMC at their own game by merely imagining a better source of extreme ultraviolet for lithographic processes than the current laser-against-molten-tin solutions, to say nothing of the cleanroom manufacturing processes, the ultra-pure silicon, the various acids and even just supplies of water [1].

Meh. Worry first about firms and governments who operate computers who have good enough computers that they can spin up regular-level intelligences on demand. That's going to change more games a lot sooner and a lot faster.

[1] https://fortune.com/2021/06/12/chip-shortage-taiwan-drought-...
ISTR that was seen as huge leverage for a long time.

If people were hitting a hard paywall, Google tended to penalize the result. A lot of sites ended up with a looseness in the paywall basically to ensure people landing from a search result got "first page free" style visibility.

I feel like the key is to realize the difference between "news" and "editorial" content. A lot of "news" is begging for a race to the bottom-- I can get the latest Covid numbers, sportsball score, or the fact a water main burst on 12th street from 5 local TV channels or two or three newspaper-format sites. You can't really compete by providing a premium product for those things. On the other hand, the editorial content-- the op/eds, the bespoke columns-- that's where you can justify a paywall.
It's not the case that they would need to close.

Across the Western world the vast majority of the economic and social issues have been caused by legalities rather than pandemic reality.

For example, for better or worse, if the 10 day isolation and testing regime did not exist in the UK then staff shortages would not either. People aren't actually getting ill en masse - we've just recalibrated what ill means.
Can we not go above 2 storeys at least? It seems ridiculous when many detached houses are 3 storeys and sure don't have a 2nd stairwell.
Many states and nations built databases to track who is vaccinated, who is infected, and who their contacts are. They will not go away, and they can be used to track anything.
Thanks for your perspective
. Just to be clear, are you talking in the general or are you in an environment with coffee plantations?

Because the things I’m talking about were presented as issues specific to coffee.
I can only admire your Christmas spirit!
they don't fit the narrative... happy people are boring news.

Read Branko Milanovic take about Yugoslavia: "How I lost my past" https://glineq.blogspot.com/2017/09/how-i-lost-my-past.html
Daily I like: snacks daily, recode, today explained, and up first. If they have an interesting guest I do WTF (Marc Maron) and Smartless (Jason Bateman, Will Arnet and Sean Hayes)
I Lost My Past (2017)
One compartment. They have a heating element like a conventional oven and metal racks for baking.
I dream a future without constant complaining about cars.
> Paywall sites are going to ride that business model all the way down in flames.

What's the alternate business model they're supposed to use?
This pisses me off as a Canadian. As a health care worker I literally work going to upwards of 10 peoples homes per day. Because of this was I put under more scrutiny then others? Shame on public health who I essentially work for, shame on Telus.
>I still don't understand why it was forked, and what makes it the "clean" version.

after some digging on the repo: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean...