skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People think things are getting worse, and that their friends and neighbours with different political views are their enemies, or outright traitors. They think these things because that’s what they are constantly being told in the media, on the left and right. Fear sells.

My mother is a good example, she’s a comfortably retired ex teacher who owns her own house, has a cottage in France and lives in an idyllic country village in rural Britain. Yet she lives in fear of immigrants and refugees coming to rape and steal, and socialists destroying everything good and right, because the Daily Mail is keeping her in a state of constant terror.
Also "Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured." was complete securities fraud and he paid for the charges.

So by paying for the charges, he told the SEC he is a fraudster without telling them he is a fraudster.
Yes, to an extent, but given the state of certificate revocation, some might say this is "by design".

There are 2 main ways to revoke a certificate - one is by listing it on a certificate revocation list (CRL), whose URL is inside the CA certificate. This means to check the CRL, the client leaks their IP to the CA operator every time they check. The list of revoked certificates can be as long as the list of certificates issued which are still unexpired - that could be a large download, and you'll need to refresh it periodically.

A lot of implementations don't bother using CRLs as a result.

The alternative is OCSP, where you can query (in real-time) with the CA whether a given certificate is still valid or not. This means you're revealing which certificate you're checking, so you're telling a third party every time you visit a site. Since OCSP is just a way of getting a refreshed signed confirmation the certificate isn't expired, OCSP stapling is an option, where your web server requests a timestamped OCSP statement and serves it to all requesters - they can check the signature on the OCSP response, and know the certificate wasn't revoked at the time of the CA-signed timestamp.

OCSP stapling solves the privacy issue of leaking the sites you visit in real time, and also avoids browsers having to fetch a large CRL list regularly.

Revocation is a challenge any time you do certificates or signed data - same with JWT/Paseto - in a distributed system a signed bearer token can solve state sync challenges, but then your new state sync challenge is syncing token revocation!
Isnt the stereotype 'deutsche Gruendlichkeit' which is not efficiancy but thoroughness, which just mean that a few thousand pages need to be filled out, signed and countersigned for the 400 mill order.
For anyone who doesn't read German, here is a summary: The company in charge of the connectors for the health care system "Telematik" built devices with certificates that expire after 5 years. Instead of updating thousands of machines with new certificates, the company claims these need to be replaced for a total cost of 400M Euro. The CCC showed how the firmware can be changed to accept new certificates, making the hardware replacement unnecessary, and offers to assist hospitals and doctor's offices with the software patch. However, the company "gematik" who delivers these connection endpoints first has to sign the new certificates, which they so far haven't agreed to.

What's worse about this story is that the company apparently planned the hardware replacement in a way that it would have to be replaced again in 2027, and they still were awarded the contracts for this multi-million dollar project.
tweetdeck, personalize many feed of yours.
Define primary sources, you mean the Qatari government?, the one that blocks the autopsies?.
Because news around are easily found about it: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/25/revealed-qatar...
I know we can only talk human rights when is about China, Iran or Russia, Qatar, Emirates and Saudi Arabia are off limits because they are our economic allies.
I don't get the original sin rethoric at all. We made it harder for crabs to live now they are gone and we want them back. The expectation should be that humans do whatever is necessary to bring them back themselves rather than expecting the crabs to do our work for us.
> Pyffi automatically exports Python modules as scheme objects and that's quite
> practical.

I'm quite pleased how well that feature works.

> We worked on this briefly while building the Gambit interface to
> CPython (https://github.com/gambit/python), but ran into some quirks with the
> current Gambit macro and module systems that forced us to postpone. It is
> definitely something we want!

I just watched your video from Scheme 22 and I liked how you handled "passthroughs" and threads. Currently pyffi if more "one sided".
The motivation was mainly to use Numpy (and friends) from Racket.
The authorities actively hunt down those who do it
> about a tenth of what is currently used for the ethanol additive for unleaded

To be fair, that is a metric fuckton of land to start with. In the end there's only so many watts per square meter available and a physical limit on conversion efficiency, so you eventually have to expand outwards to to compensate for ever growing demand + land used for battery capacity (which may or may not be negligible). Meanwhile population increases also keep continuously driving up the scarcity of land.

Sounds like an interesting calculation though, do you still have any notes on that?
Yeah spending some time to set up a tool you will probably use for the next 30+ years is outrageous.
Are buildings in Antwerp allowed to have windows? This data from Canada in 2013 says for every bird killed by a wind mill about 1000 are killed by "Collisions with Houses".

https://birdwatchingbuzz.com/do-windmills-kill-birds/

Interestingly the article claims that the power lines that connect the wind mills kill more birds than the wind mills themselves.
Any example how to call android APIs like intents?
Rational wiki are well known cranks therefore you should not cite them for anything. There, done, you have no possible answer to that. Do you now wish to address the actual data?
Incarcerated: US puts too many young men in prison
Living in both Germany and Austria, I've learned that the excessive paper based bureaucracy is mostly there so that people in charge have their butts always covered. "It's not my fault, I did everything by the book, here look, I've got the paperwork to prove it".

Tip for anyone living or wanting to move there: keep digital copies of all important letters, bills, documents, contracts and paperwork you get. It's not unheard of for a company or government institution to make mistakes and you ending up on the hook with huge fines or bills to pay, so having copies of all possible paperwork from the beginning of time could save your ass one day.
It's also not possible on Android to access other apps' data. (even as a user which is frustrating). But it can ask for access to all common storage which usually contains images, downloads and some other stuff.
Housing Market Predictions for 2023
Hmm. Maybe my friend knew exactly where he was then.

Too bad I can't edit the original comment any more.

Never trust friends :)
+1 for paying for good information, which is what the author Yuval Harari recommends. He asks why we are willing to pay for high quality food, clothes etc., but not for high quality information.
Yeah, but old framework needed one permission that split into 3. Now it asks for all 3 permissions because they didn't hold to think that they only need 2 of them, and even those not always.
You don’t think the Surface Pro and Surface Laptop are competing with the Mac and iPad lineup? They seem like direct competitors to me.
Far bigger frauds have happened. I'd argue Nikola's fraud was pretty minor in comparison to the likes of Madoff, Enron, or Theranos.

At least the only victims here were investors - many of whom probably realised or suspected that Milton was exaggerating the company's progress, but were happy to play along as long as it kept pumping the value of their investments.
The surprising thing is that it takes so long for a thoughtful link-aggregator to manifest. https://lemmy.ml is an approach but it's more a copy of reddit with all its problems.

It seems like the people who could create it have no need to discover more thoughtful content.
There isn't a resource problem for batteries.

Lithium is best for mobility applications and lithium formulations are much further down the learning curve than other chemistries.

However, all of vanadium redox, iron-air, organic polymer-based, calcium salt, and sodium chemistries are very nearly competitive, or actually competitive with lithium in various grid storage niches despite being at the very beginning of their learning curves. Is there ever going to be a shortage of iron or sodium? Or calcium or carbon, for that matter? No.
The fact that the agency is public or private has no innate meaning in terms of efficiency. The people in the organization and the processes make it more or less efficient and this is true independently from where the funding is coming from.

Can public organizations be made more efficient? Of course, as any organization can.

Finally, in this case is it not a private firm that is promoting inefficiency via dishonest market practices?

The real issue here is that the public agency has to buy services and products from private firms. Why can't the German state produce cost efficient routers on its own?
But the answer is obvious, isn't it? Information is almost free to reproduce. Food, clothes, etc. are not. I'm not saying that's why information should be free, but that's why most people expect it to be free.
The cited article says "a bridge for a limited transition period" and not "green energy".

So no, they don't want to label it green energy, they only prefer it to other fossil fuels and nuclear but the goal is to phase out natural gas as well.
I've been watching through Lost, with all the Dharma Initiative branded food in generic black and white boxes.
It’s unconscionably incompetent how a financially-stressed federal government appears to be unable to immediately seize an opportunity like this, along with doling out harsh repercussions for the executives who have decided (and still do) to cash in on this scheme.

This has become a repeating pattern to such a degree that claiming plain incompetence cannot plausibly explain it any more. Maybe it’s not outright malice but corruption and fraud indeed.
tl;dr

To transfer patient data between doctors and (state) insurance companies, doctor‘s offices need to have a hardware VPN device. The system was implemented by the company „gematic“. A small number of companies produce these devices.

The certificates on these devices expire after five years. Now, instead of simply updating the certificates, the companies want the state and the doctors to buy new devices which costs around 400 million.

The CCC firstly explained that this is bullshit and a total waste of money and secondly showed that it is easy to update the devices. They could do it themselves but only need the private key from gematic.
In almost every country there is a number of well connected companies who make a living exclusively by specializing at navigating through the complicated layers of bureaucracy and swindling the taxpayer by selling overpriced and unnecessary proprietary products and services to a government who by cluelessness or corruption, has no idea or doesn't care about sensible technical solutions and just agrees with whatever those preferential suppliers offer.

It's hilarious when you look at the web pages of such companies and see that their only customers in the last decades are various government agencies and state enterprises which are their bread an butter as they would never be competitive on the free market. Working at such companies is even more toxic. Extremely outdated tech, poorly qualified staff, huge bureaucracy yet poor management and poor understanding of the work going on, and so many people doing nothing all day than keeping seats warm and answering a couple of emails per week.

This is especially true in Germany. I remember the story from a former colleague who worked at the German information security government office (BSI) which had a cipher calculator on their website and it turned out to have a flaw in the calculation, and since the guy who implemented it didn't work there anymore and nobody on the staff knew where the code was, so instead of fixing the calculator or removing it from the website, they instead put a warning on the webpage that this calculator is wrong and shouldn't be used and called it a day lol. Hilarious but also sad for the German taxpayer.
Why should we change city infrastructure to work with less than AGI driven cars? It sounds instead like yes, AV companies are over selling what they can do and they should be restricted to things like highways and the like where the easier, less complex driving environment already exists.

Cities are by far the most complex relative to every other driving environment, in fact there is a good argument that, in cities, cars should be much more restricted because of health effects and traffic deaths, and the less complex areas (highways) are already the bulk of the drudgery in driving, but are much easier to automate, so why not do it for there?
Apologies for my ignorance, but don't you need NVLink to pool the memory of the cards together?
Probably is related to the fact that UNIX and Windows were intrisically C systems. While obviously you could program Modula-2 on both, it was a second-class citizen
That's fine, my focus is on mastering software engineering (rather than text editing) :p
I'll bite. How so?
https://archive.ph/sMhUt
There are tons of independent lines of evidence. Climate models are but one, and the code quality isn't really relevant. If they can successully simulate past climate, then bad coding practices is irrelevant to their proposed predictive ability.

Plus, all the reports have been WAY too optimistic. Year after year there actual measurments come out and it's worse than the climate models.
Can car manufacturers sell cars with a sealed tank, and you would have to buy a new car if it runs out of fuel?
WIPO Tunis Model Law on Copyright (1976)
This is a great development. Sadly there is no support for IPv6. Hopefully that will come soon.
Good write up.

Sometimes novelty comes from outside the team. For example, cross-department re-platforming efforts, vendor changes, and long running migration projects. This can all lead to inconsistency, which needs to be managed so it doesn't get out of hand.

This should be factored in to a 'novelty budget' too in my opinion. A large department may have a slice of applications considered legacy-legacy, others just legacy, and some starting to move to the new stuff.

I think this is more likely to happen in companies which have been around longer - there's more accrued tech debt to deal with, there are more applications to migrate, and projects to add new functionality don't go away.

Another drawback to novelty is when keeping up to date with security vulnerabilities. If you have a common stack, then the problem is less granular.

Google have their monorepo, which (I believe) means their applications are all built against the same dependency tree, so it's simpler to keep track of upgrades.

Novelty is essential though to keep up with the innovation around us. The question is how to find the right blend of novelty (high benefit, low risk) and stability (easier to manage, maintain, and onboard engineers).
>What if Westinghouse had just completely failed and ceased operations?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Nuclear_Power_Technolo...
> To be clear, those three categories combined probably represent (spitball) less than 7% of total global emissions. We have a pretty clear path towards eliminating 80%+ of overall emissions, and that would buy us some time to figure out solutions for the remaining 20%.

This is a problem that is going to take care of itself. World population is peaking and there's nothing that will get the world back to replacement fertility (2.1 children per woman) in the near term. As the world takes its long gentle slide into depopulation, carbon emissions will taper off. Problem solved.
That's true. Except the little detail of time. We've already passed the time when that rational and sane option was viable. Now we're in a situation where we need both.
Boring and battle-tested, not antiquated, but also not some fancy new overhyped thing.

I've worked in a project with a very fancy tech stack: fancy language, fancy data stores, fancy API style. Hiring was hard (not many people know $fancyLang, most people were internal transfers working with something boring like Java), $fancyDataStore1 had weird failure conditions that made it difficult to scale, $fancyDataStore2 had even weirder failure conditions, and did I mention a custom framework for it all?

On the other hand, some level of fancy is still good for everyone: functional programming patterns can make all codebases better and more correct, async and things like fastapi in Python, perhaps Kotlin in the JVM world, the new .NET and ASP.NET Core in C#/.NET land (then again, who would want to write Web Forms in 2022?). But for datastores, relational databases are always the way to go.
I wonder how many golf trips with steak dinners and female "companions" the bureaucrats awarding the contracts got treated to...

The German government has been lauded as this great bastion, "Look, their economy is still running!", but it's also has its corrupt elements. Besides, the whole roaring economy thing is related to making the rest of Europe peg its currency to the German one by way of the Euro, making the rest of the continent suffer...
What is the source of value for the reserve assets in current QE? And how would you find that out?
Are there even any racing/sim games with solved driving AI? All the ones I can think of cheat, replay hardcoded paths, and/or are terrible. And thats with perfect information about the world and other cars.
Not quite. That is the carbon cycle.

We just came along and put some faces on paper so we could stop killing each other over whose fishermen get to catch crab. Then we called it capitalism and pretended that our economic systems transcend natural science.
See the SelectDB built from Apache Doris and by the creators of Apache Doris.
the performance is amazing.
https://en.selectdb.com/blog/SelectDB%20Topped%20ClickBench%...
Renewables require backup generation. And usually that's gas burning powerplants because they have very short startup times. Main reason for wild prices of electricity in EU is gas supply crisis.
Highlander 2. I don't recommend it though heh
No one speaks of the elephants in the room
1. Russia is well known to fish illegally in bearing Seas
2.There was a boom in warm waters for warm water fish that
some fisherman switched to, if you watch a certain
Discovery series you know which fish even.
3.Alaska is one of the states that succeeded in
protecting fish populations as opposed to some other US states.
This is why [0]

> The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that Elon Musk, CEO and Chairman of Silicon Valley-based Tesla Inc., has agreed to settle the securities fraud charge brought by the SEC against him last week. The SEC also today charged Tesla with failing to have required disclosure controls and procedures relating to Musk’s tweets, a charge that Tesla has agreed to settle.

Essentially by agreeing to pay for the charges, he already told us he committed securities fraud without admitting it.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-226
Virtualbox beta now supports Apple-silicon
Again: irrelevant. Hosting costs are often quite small compared to the ops and dev costs.
Well nobody coerces you to use Google stuff or buy an Alexa etc.
I was gonna say books too. And newsletters from certain folks, usually to click into their blogs for their other long-form content.

Separately, is there a good web+mobile ebook reader (to transition from laptop to mobile)? Does Kindle app work for that?
I don't think depression is like that. Depression is not being sad but rather just blank and those are not happy pills, those are feel a bit something again pills. Which enabled you to take the hand of the stove albeit imperfectly.
Having support for those who use screen readers is a huge improvement ovet the majority of sites, surely?

May I ask, what other accessibility conditions do you feel this site doesn't meet?

Also - for a non corporate website - why should accessibility be a relevant factor? For a personal project, I don't see why anyone has to make it targeted for every case.
The DW headline is "European Commission declares nuclear and gas to be green".

Is the state-owned DW/ARD not a trustworthy news source?
I'm not afraid of it. It just seems silly and tedious.
Always have been, it's what the Tories do or so I heard, I don't live in the country. But conservatives are the same in all Western countries, it's all about the corruption and the hate, populism with a lot of incompetence.

The Tories are at least funny, tax breaks for the rich and it supposed to tricle down. Fancy food for the kids with Jamie Oliver, just nobody can afford lunch anymore. £350m a week for the NHS if the people vote for Brexit when in fact the Tories are trying to systematically destroy it.

And the people keep voting for them because hating immigrants is more important than their livelihood or dignity.
One good reason is to help the AIs make better decisions through greater certainty. For example, if a road sign has machine readable data there is a greater certainty that an AI will interpret it correctly. This could affect safety and ease of implementation.
full of honeypot IoT cams
There is an SRFI for a chain macro which works like that, but the problem is that we'd need to figure out for each call whether we need to transpile it to a function or a method call.

And I agree with you that that S-expression notation is very readable, at least for us who are used to putting the parentheses in the correct spot.
No, it’s a tunnel for cheap where cars carry people. It’s not a hyperloop, no idea why you use that work in the context.
I‘m assuming the German government wouldn’t be able to compel them to turn over their private key, but they could certainly make it very clear that they would jeopardise any future contracts if they refused to cooperate.
But they said they're friendly :)
Wait, does that mean they've upgraded from fax already?
We've already been fined by the EU for refusing to work against corruption. It's a big thing here and voters only care for a few months after the news reports, if that much.
I would like to nit-pick and say you're estimating some novel metric. The value add would be somewhat higher than that because the alternative is a human driver, so the value-add of the software is approximately ($/h value of driver x hours) that it frees up to do something else. Plus all the evidence I see suggests that whatever the current state, sooner rather than later computers are going to be superhuman at driving (like they are at most other discrete tasks) and save a lot of lives. Plus reduced wear & tear on vehicles.

$365B in value is probably a serious undercall. The only reason to complain here is if only $100B has been put in to the venture so far.
It could be overfishing. That's what it was with Cod. The thing is depending on the stock assessment model used for Alaskan Crab, the data fed into said model (surveys, fishery catch etc.) they could have been over estimating abundance and setting too high quotas for years until poof there's no more.
Correct headline would be "Chaos Computer Club shows the German healthcare system how 400M Euros might be saved". Given how incompetent politics has been in the past, I wouldn't be surprised if this is ignored with some bullshit reason and the money is wasted.
When did Musk take subsidies (other than those any other competitors received to)?
At least many artists can use the same secret recipes now.