skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a user of some public sector German IT Services (provided by dataport to be specific) I have to say that I wouldn't work on them for double my current wage.

The jank was incredible and just using them you could feel the spaghetti code, incompetence and age. My advice would be to stay away as far as possible. As a user and as a developer.
Most people writing in this comment section at the time of writing didn't have all the facts. It would have been much better if they held off commenting until today when we know much, much more. That was my only request. Was that unreasonable?
Many don't realise that they aren't even storing the full quality originals on Google at all.

To be sure I backup my phone's photos using rsync (via termux) to my own backup locations.
Apple customer support isn’t as great as it used to be, but it’s still very good.

You can get to a human pretty fast, you have to go through an annoying script, but at least it’s with human and not a badly written automation.
Also it is wrong tool for other than actually fraudulent as in stolen cc details. Sadly the expensive way is court or arbitration. I wish there was some reasonable method like insurance I could buy that would fight for me instead in these cases.
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You're doing the same thing, dragging the original conversation off into berating the commentor for not fixing it themselves because you owe them nothing and they shouldn't be so entitled.

> "Still better than the competition, where such problems will never be fixed unless it generates sufficient bad PR..."

The competition comes under "pay someone else to do it".
> Am i making sense?

Absolutely. And I agree with your assessment that you can't just say "CIA". I usually think things like this are 1 - 10 bad apples.

HOWEVER, I think you do get loads of cowardly leaders who later learn the truth and turn a blind eye (perhaps they think it's the lesser of two evils to just let past lies be and focus on their positive agendas). See the Catholic Church for an example.

Eventually those lies fester and turn into infections and you have to deal with them. A lot of leaders just hope to get out so they aren't the ones that have to clean up the messes of their predecessors.

Or in other words, 1% bad apples, 88% Switzerlands, and 1% Churchill's. (The 10% is reserved for my uncertainties)
You may find that pages ix through xv of The Timeless Way of Building will give you a deep, useful, and quick introduction.
No one said longer books are better? Good writing is often concise. And the article doesn’t at all conclude “society is in decline”. You seem to be the only one making these leaps and drawing these conclusions.
Like Bedon292 said, I think you misread my comment. I was saying thanks to encryption they don't have access.

Most well paid engineers at AWS won't have access either. Presumably some minimal set would, but they would likely be pretty senior, and well paid.

But ideally you'd want one set of people with access to the keys, another with access to the data, and a third with physical access, and no overlap. That way you need three people to conspire.

But that's going to be very hard to achieve in practice. But it's not all or nothing. The closer you get to this goal the harder it'll be for someone to not just do it, but do it without triggering a tripwire from the security folks, or at least persist a log entry that if found would get them thrown in prison.

Public cloud companies are not like a small startup where everyone has root.

(sounds like twitter kinda was, according to recent reports)
It's not only Google. Same thing happened to us with Hertz (car rental). We rented a card when we got home we found extra charges on our card. Contacted Hertz and fell into the black hole of customer support. After a month or so gave up and issued a chargeback. Went to rent a car again a few months later only to find out we're black listed.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's standard practice at a lot of companies to black list you if you make a chargeback.
This is the kind of spiteful behaviour I’d expect from someone like Elon Musk…

“Oh you think you can do a chargeback on us?!… We will fu#king destroy you at the touch of a button. We are untouchable. We are Google motherf#ker!”
It certainly hasn't been w/o growing pains or detractors.

I still occasionally get rooms or spaces borked, and that frequency increases if E2EE is enabled.

The current server implementation is not svelte in the least, but that's a problem that's being solved with new server implementations that are already 90% of the way there (look-up Dendrite and Conduit if you haven't heard of them).
nitpick: Elm was and is written in Haskell.
There hasn't been reliable benchmarks to that effect.

In fact, Oracle and MS SQL specifically disallow posting benchmark comparisons publicly
Indeed, if I had the time to run two workstations side-by-side, I'd be looking at building a POWER9 workstation.
It won't be long before Musk will realize that the only way to stop Twitter be used for criticizing him is to shut it down completely. That will be an interesting moment.
Ask HN: What would an ideal version of the internet look like?
As a thought experiment what would the ideal version of the internet look like disregarding any perceived hurdles? Think of what a typical experience is today and take away all of the cruft and things that diminish the experience.

Some initial thoughts: no pay walls, no ads, no pop ups and transparent identities.

In what ways is the current path deviating or coalescing to the ideal vision?
Demand and sales forecasting are of paramount importance in retail. Without this tool, companies encounter disruption of the inventory balance, through ordering too much or not enough products for a certain period of time. In the case of surplus, a company is forced to offer discounts to sell products. Otherwise, it may face inventory issues. A shortage, in turn, results in lost profits. However, these problems can be solved by applying demand and sales forecasting to increase the return on inventory and determine the intention of future consumers to buy a specific product at a specific price.

Let’s go through the process of implementing ML forecasting in retail together, discovering the key steps of building forecasting software.
US lawmakers take aim at gaming’s “harassment and extremism” problem
LabGPT says: Your chemistry set has been optimized to produce nerve gas. Be sure to wear goggles!
The success of any initial offering will lead to long term dilution. If Donal Trump believes he can mint money from the sky - then he will do that until this grift ends.
It's amazing how much money is spent on abusing perception. A great justification of why it should be progressively harder to accumulate wealth, not easier.
Must be a heavily abridged version. My full edition of RaFotRE is over 2000 pages in 3 volumes.
A lot of non-fiction books are IMO longer than they need to be, especially "business" books and things in that vein. Really fleshing out an idea takes more than a magazine article but a lot of the time it also doesn't really need a 250+ page book--but that's about the minimum that publishers will generally take on. One might have hoped that ebooks would have changed that but a lot of readers presumably would feel shortchanged paying regular book price for a 75-100 page book. But, as a publisher, my costs are pretty similar whether the book is 100 pages or 300 pages.
It sounds like you might want to read "Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth".

If you want to go deep his magnus opus is "Nature of Order". It's transcendent.
The official app is already open-source:

https://github.com/Governikus/AusweisApp2
What about containers like these? Or does it really need to be a can?
https://i.etsystatic.com/11926405/r/il/4bda58/2256627826/il_...
You must install Ford's "home integration system" that costs $4k to use the truck as home power backup. It's a transfer switch, small battery to power it, etc.
I have no idea if you're being serious, but of course code can be overridden and of course you can hire someone to override it. Google has apparently chosen not to.
If we can't drill for more oil and gas[0], build more (or keep open) nuke plants[1][2], and can't build solar and wind farms fast enough, what other options are there? People aren't willing let their quality of life deteriorate because of a mostly invisible catastrophe.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/biden-suspends-oil-and-gas-d...

[1] https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-04-29/califor...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/france-braces-uncertain-winter...
There are differences as these two products have different backgrounds, but based on what I see there is strong movement from Oracle. It will take sometime for application vendors to port their products on open source databases, when this happens the landscape will be different.
However this is all Unix and academia based. If you wrote code for Windows and OS/2 in the commercial world you were using threads sine '89 and thus did not want to use the languages that did not use threads e.g. python, OCaml
Believe me if you have the first thing the latter things will eventually follow. At least in the EU "universally mandated" has been a reality for a very long time.
Yep! Count of Monte Cristo is known as a long read but it was originally serialized. You can kinda tell too, the plot meanders a couple times. Nonetheless extremely entertaining, I'd highly recommend.
The law obviously does not say anything about price improvement compared to counterfactuals either.

Are you saying that if makers' profitability at lit venues was greatly improved, they wouldn't compete to offer tighter spreads at all?
Deserialized web security roundup – Fortinet, Citrix bugs; another Uber breach;
They added them in a software update at some point in 2019. It gets recorded to a usb drive that you keep attached. Any drive works, I personally prefer an external ssd.

When you press the record button, it dumps the past 10 mins of video from 4 external cameras onto the drive. When the car is fully stopped, you can either watch the video on the screen inside the car or unplug the drive and watch it on your laptop or on any other device that can read from usb/external drives.

There is also an automatic (aka sentry) mode that triggers dumping a video by any nearby action, but that's only when the car is parked and left unattended.
Tell HN: I am starting Mastering Emacs book club today. You are welcome to join.
Hello! I am starting a book club to study and discuss the book Mastering Emacs written by Mickey Petersen.

I did a book club like this about analytic number theory in 2021. Thanks to participants from the HN community and Libera IRC, that was completed successfully after 120 book club meetings.

This new book club is going to focus on the book Mastering Emacs. If you are interested in learning Emacs or in studying this book together with a group, you are very welcome to join!

The first meeting is today at 20:00 UTC. Schedule, meeting link, and more details are available here: https://susam.net/club/mastering-emacs/
Hungry, uninspired or simply spoilt for choice? Pizza, burgers or egg fried rice. It's time to roll the Takeaway Dice.
You might appreciate the documentary Fit to Print, which details the decades long deterioration of the newspaper industry.

https://tubitv.com/movies/682467/fit-to-print

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2721376/

The first section about the importance of investigative journalism is quite good. And ends on an unexpectedly positive note.

The rest of the movie is a true crime story. How perfidy and obstinance sacrificed journalism on the alter of corporate greed, beginning in the 50s. The rise of the internet was just the final blow.
Can confirm. I work for a company that spends >$10MM on google cloud compute every year, and it's a common internal joke that "talk to google support" means "get fucked." Their support is outrageously bad.
Curiously many of the messengers you mentioned are or were at least initially based on the same protocol, XMPP, some of them even were interoperable for a time[0]. There are still attempts at realising interoperability, notably libpurple[1], but they are fighting a constant uphill battle. Sadly companies usually just have more incentives to either keep their services walled off or extend only theirs in functionality, rather then keeping them interoperable. This would only change through regulation, or I suppose if a federated service gains enough traction to become the de-facto standard, but given the fate of XMPP that seems unlikely.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP#Non-native_deployments

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin_(software)
It might be a relative perspective they had. I've heard that AWS and Azure provide much better support. I can't say firsthand, but I've heard that fairly consistently.
> go to the moon. To die or not would be up to him

The moon is an extremely harsh environment. Dying fairly soon is the default outcome.

If a billionaire wanted to die on the moon, they could do that within maybe 5 years of announcing the plan. For EM, less time than that, as his personal space program already exists.

Realistic plans to survive in a small metal box on the moon for some time, might take longer.
Think China, surveillance society at its best. Don't need a conspiracy vision to see the effects. It's where we're all going anyway, so you'll get your dream state soon.
I'm very okay with books being shorter. Most non-fiction bestsellers can be summarized in a blog post, and (in my opinion) most of them should be. With fiction, there is nothing inherently better about a long novel, nor is it intrinsic to the form. There are great long novels, and great short ones, but in general it seems like most of the long ones have some fat on them. Usually, with a really long novel, I don't think "they couldn't have cut out a single word!" Instead, it's "oh, this author has enough power that they can just ignore their editor."
This is amazing, thank you. Been a user of Readwise for a while because it's the best highlight aggregator out there. Now that there's a reader with highlights + Obsidian.md highlight export, I can get rid of a whole stack of other apps I had glued together (https://github.com/zdwolfe/reading).
> But now that others are getting banned, it’s suddenly not ok.

No. Ol' Muskie can do what he wants - if he's bored, he can throw 19 d10s and ban the user who posted that status id and get GPT-3 to generate the reason why they're banned. It's his company. Go nuts, Ol' Muskie!

What he can't do, though, without pushback or commentary, is turn up pronouncing that "FREE SPEECH IS HERE", "BOTS ARE BAD", "ONLY ILLEGAL SPEECH WILL BE CENSORED", etc., immediately go back on all three of those, enable and promote bigots, take a hard turn into transphobia, and then start throwing hissy fits at people who call him out on his hypocrisy and lies by banning people with post-hoc rationales.

If he doesn't like people calling him on his bullshit decisions, there's a simple solution. Hell, liberals and progressives would have -some- respect for him if he just owned his bullshit and said "Yes, I'm a petty narcissist who is now pandering to conservatives and bigots because they'll stroke my ego if I punch down."
Git appears to be a tool to manage merges using deltas. Git is actually a tool that simply stores everything in the current commit, and makes a nice graph showing Connections between those commits which theoretically represent deltas.

All trouble arises when this abstraction breaks. It seems to me that the purpose of git merge is to simply allow you to work around broken abstractions. You can make the graph appear how you want, without having to jump through a bazillion unnecessary hoops to make a nice set of deltas.

Or... I'm wrong and about to find out after hitting "add comment"
Narcissus' downfall is that he loved himself too much. Musk's downfall will be that he seeks the validation of the terminally online. A "Musk" wouldn't be a flower fed by the light of its own reflection, but something like a spam bot using all of its nearly unlimited resources to just ask people via email, web forums, other social media, "check out this meme I found. Do you like me yet?"
The Emacs package from Nix. It’s the only macOS build of Emacs I used that was fully featured, provided in binary form, distributed from a reputable source, and not broken. I initially used Homebrew Emacs, but it removed GUI support a while back. I then briefly tried the emacsformacosx build, the one Homebrew Cask points to, but I stopped using that too because it’s not compiled with the full set of dependencies and isn’t supported by DoomEmacs [1]. I then moved to emacs-plus, but that too had issues like the lack of binary packages and unreliable updates. I finally settled on Nix and it hasn’t given me problems since.

The current situation personally came off as a surprise considering the popularity of Emacs.

[1]: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs/blob/085b5563fc73daf5...
I tend to write with an excessive amount of parenthesis with context/tangents. I used to joke it was due to Lisp/Scheme being one of my first languages. Took me a few years to realize the ADD connection.
I clicked on the link and it sent me to the warning page. Do you want me to record a screen capture video for you?

Edit: Adding screen capture: https://imgur.io/a/RGk5Jx6
That tangent was regarding the data sources used by the twitter account.
No, when you encounter something contradictory your mind goes from 'all sweet things are calorie dense' to 'not all sweet things are calorie dense' :)
As I explained, and elaborated here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34017654) it's not as simple as that.

But also.

> The author is not talking about getting someone with physical access.

Right. The author missed this as one of the major attack vectors that this aims to protect against. I don't think leaving out a real justification for it when saying it's snake oil speaks in favour of the author's point.
> I'm not sure how a quote by a musical composer about how he imagines conservatives must think is very helpful or convincing

I don't think the OP claims to know what anyone is thinking. Please don't attack a straw-man. If your goal is to prove the OP wrong, you could try to find examples that contradict it. (Off the top of my head, I couldn't find any examples that contradict it.)
This article also names the Top 5 industries that will be affected by AI trends in 2023 and comments on their progress. Your company will be able to use this information to plan to create additional value, optimize costs, and strengthen customer focus. You will learn how to do this using tools developed in subfields of AI such as Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Expert Systems, Natural Language Processing, and Speech Processing.
Is the remote editing better than emacs?
>He’s tweeting “my pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci.”

"I really expected the wholesale firing of Twitter staff and mass microservice-removal to crash Twitter immediately, but everything (er, barring some stuff like 2FA) seems to be basically OK. I guess I shouldn't have doubted Elon when moving-fast-and-breaking-things; you've really got to hand it to Fauci."
You can play the expansion now! It's available for a few days in preview mode, named Plunder. Very money focused, with a 'loot' pile that's essentially 30 golds with actions like Discard down to 4, play an Action from your hand, etc! Very good fun.
Disney+ ad-supported plan is currently unavailable on Roku devices
Thanks for the heads up about that site!
> without accounting for the curvature of the Earth) is 768 and a quarter

After accounting for the curvature of the Earth, the distance between (53.92085665, 14.2861684) and (49.0080789, 22.88022362) is 806 km, and the line is very different from what's shown in the article.
How to Live with a Neurotic (1957)
Should they be able to retaliate against an invalid chargeback? Chargeback fraud is a thing.
You've hit the nail right on the head with this question on how hard group encryption is, and we don't have all the answers yet as we are still working the use cases around it. We are hoping to reach a level of security that you mention in your SE question using something similar to the excellent accepted answer, distributed private key sharing among trusted participants.

The basis we are exploring is using an algorithm called Signcryption (https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium-signcryption) that is already included in pgsodium. This doesn't solve any of the shared private key issues you mention above, but it is a useful foundation for distributing encrypted messages that separate out sender and receiver identifiers from their keys, a sort of lower level foundation on top of which distributed key sharing can occur.

I also think signcryption is a great foundation for a better token format than JWT or PASETO, as it covers all of their use cases without algorithm confusion attacks (despite PASETO's insistence on "Algorithm Lucidity") and supports more features such as third party verification and streaming shared key generation from any token without having to exchange the key, we hope to use these tokens so that end-to-end peers can exchange tokens, derive streaming shared keys, and then do direct point-to-point message exchange using libsodium crypto_secretstream API which supports key ratcheting for forward secrecy.

Would love to discuss more about your research with you and include it with attribution into our future work, send me an intro at michel@supabase.io when any other ideas or resources you'd like us to see!
Do you mean WeWork needs privacy or the users of WeWork need privacy? Regarding the latter, coworking has been a thing since before WeWork and will certainly remain a thing after WeWork.
I swear this site will make you a nervous wreck about eating or bringing anything into your home if you took it too seriously.
In that case, you might still want to use a similar trick as a first pass (like a bloom filter), and go over the window that is potentially unique again with the HashSet. This should still be faster than using the HashSet for all windows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
I guess I don't understand your distinction here on purely logical terms, why the uneven burden of proof? The Warren Report is just that, a report written by humans. Even if you firmly want to believe it, if you read it you'd understand its not really doing anything differently than the tin-foil heads and their books (of the better ones at least). It did not create the reality of its hypothesis along with it, it can't really know what Oswald was thinking.
> Not sure if our history has something to do with it so that many feel uneasy about giving away too much control about our personal data, but maybe it does.

Germany has seen two dictatorships in the last century. The first one was more brutal, but the second one maintained a gigantic spying apparatus on its citizens, that took a large fraction of the state's budget.
New Tesla Update Includes Steam Video Games
That's assuming you never need the range/capacity of the bigger truck (which may be the case if you have multiple trucks).