skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You need a PKI which exposes a SCEP endpoint (ejbca or dogtag supports this).

Uhh...

> [...] ejbca [...]

Now you have two problems.

What I mean is, if you’ve been already running EJBCA for whatever reason then this is perhaps reasonable, but if your current setup is at the level of typing `openssl req` into a terminal (whether that’s a good idea or not), it sounds like a lot of additional complexity. (Can’t say anything about dogtag.)

I’ve been waiting forever for somebody to add an ACME backend to the Go SCEP library[1], but it doesn’t look like that has happened. In the meantime it includes a fairly competent standalone CA server at the abovementioned invoke-openssl-by-hand level.

Note that SCEP basically requires a trusted network, though, from what I remember.

[1] https://github.com/micromdm/scep
Plenty of people watch movies more than once, and I’d prefer to not pay over and over.

I buy movies that I know I’ll watch repeatedly, e.g. LOTR extended editions, Alien anthology, The Matrix, Die Hard is a Christmas movie tradition, etc.
Mine has a dodgy power connection somehow, and will refuse to turn on most of the time (depending on star alignment and where it was plugged in). Maybe if I could remove the power cable, I could check if that's the issue.

Okay, I guess anything's removable if you try hard enough.
But is the most economically efficient number of deaths on trains really zero?

If a million people get to work a few minutes faster every day for 40 years, is that worth one life?

No, but I have actually heard this argument before and regard it as unhinged.
The Impact of 9/11 on Freedom of Expression in the United States (2022)
An ESG Loophole Helps Drive Billions into Gulf Fossil Fuel Giants
> Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, has become an unlikely beneficiary of funds earmarked for sustainable investments thanks to a complex web of financial structures it used to raise money from its pipelines.

> The unlikely tie-up between Aramco and ESG began with the creation of two subsidiaries — the Aramco Oil Pipelines Company and the Aramco Gas Pipelines Company. Aramco sold 49% of the shares in each unit to consortiums led by EIG Global Energy Partners LLC and BlackRock Inc., respectively. These investors used bridge loans from banks to fund those transactions.

> In order to generate cash to repay the bank loans, the EIG and BlackRock consortiums created two special purpose vehicles: EIG Pearl Holdings and GreenSaif Pipelines Bidco, both registered at the same Luxembourg address. These SPVs then sold bonds, which, since they had no direct links to the fossil-fuel industry, ended up getting an above-average score in a widely-used JPMorgan Chase & Co. sustainability screening based on third-party ESG scores.

> From there, the bonds made their way into JPMorgan’s ESG indexes, which are cumulatively tracked by about $40 billion of assets under management. Investors in the SPV bonds include funds managed by UBS Group AG, Legal & General Investment Management and the investment arm of HSBC Holdings Plc.
Last night I used some 100+ year old tools to poke a hole in something. But I almost bought a $10 awl last time I was in the store because the old tools aren't really fit for purpose, and they're really just decorations.
Elektra – The Configuration Framework for Everyone
Still, there aren't any people hanging out at the pad during a launch.
Set up SAML authentication with FusionAuth
Guessing it's whatever the smash rooms find easily available at the local thrift stores. Perhaps HPs get tossed out the most though for reasons you mention.
If the US tech companies are shut out I would say it is very likely.
The website design of a tool for copying website designs gets copied by another tool for copying website designs. Oh, well.
We want meaningful jobs that are productive and profitable.
In my country there used to be some 5 years (realistically 6 for most students) Computer Engineering programs that were basically electronic engineering with selected classes from computer science tackled on top of it.
And as Electronic Engineering programs used to have a lot of classes from Civil Engineering tackled upon it, legally said Computer Engineers were legally licensed to build small 3 floor buildings.
> The answer is almost invariably 'efficient at making money'

That's because it's a more general category, not because it's a better category. Going the other way: privatisation can for example invest money up front to make operations cheaper.

That example does result in "better at making money" but that money can then be used to lower prices / increase quality / pay shareholders dividends / pay employees higher wages.
Anecdata: I used to work for public academia. I got out after a burnout due to massive overwork. I've worked in a couple of start-ups, among others, and found them all much more relaxing.

Sure, there's lots of pressure, but, at least for someone with my profile, it's limited by the fact that it's easier to walk away.
I can’t speak to Godot specifically, but a recent switch from Nvidia to AMD on my Ubuntu machine magically fixed a whole bunch of random jankiness that I wouldn’t otherwise have assumed was directly related to the GPU. Beforehand I would have said that running on Nvidia was “just fine”–I only switched because I got a good deal on an AMD card, but it has been a great improvement.
I tried this about a year ago and it was alright. I wanted to like Photonix, as it was a python library and I expected would be easier to hack, but I couldn't lie to myself. PhotoPrism is very clearly and very obviously the most mature of the available projects for this.
The problem with the data transfer was never the (lack of) regulation of big tech. If a company doesn't have sufficient privacy safeguards and controls for the data, it'd be a problem no matter where the data is stored. And the EU is perfectly capable and willing to fine them for billions or more for it.

The problem was with insufficient safeguards for data requests by the US government -- law enforcement and spy agencies. That's supposedly been addressed by the Biden executive order, but we'll see if the CJEU actually buys that argument.
I buy Brother Laser as they used to be good.
No one's fault but their own. Europe wants to form businesses created in other countries to their laws. Instead, they should focus on building infrastructure themselves and not always just getting 2nd hand US products. They sit idly by while these companies get made when they could be building their own alternatives.
The same goes for upvotes. I'm never really sure whether I actually upvoted or accidentally downvoted a comment. This is bad UI.
Maybe. We'll have more clarity when we see what Threads looks like in 3 months.
Professional pride?
Status/bragging. Same reason people who rent or live in a tiny house in CA drive BMWs.
> Why is this so popular

Grifters. I won't say that the person working on this is a grifter. Instead, it's so popular right now because of grifters. The same type of NFT grifters and crypto grifters who are mostly silent now. They've moved on.

How ethical would it be to sell things to these grifters, to sell the shovels they will use? But I'm always hung up on the idea that they will use those shovels on others and exploit them.
<< Maybe I'm overstating this but it's a real concern of mine.

I don't think you are. I live in US and its version of 'privacy' has been normalized to a horrifying degree ( click this button so that we can do whatever we want ). We are basically at a point where 'enemy of the state' movie comparison is not even apt, because in that movie the audience would be petrified by it. Most are comfortably post-privacy.
https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides

you can use NDK to create an app with c++
I usually keep my iPhones for about 3 years and use them heavily. That's less than $0.75 per day difference in cost, and if the improved experience (which I get every day for the 3 years) translates directly to cost (admittedly a little silly), 5% of $200 is $10, so that seems worth it.
It's interesting to look at the app privacy compared to the Twitter app privacy in the App Store. It looks like Threads just just getting everything and Twitter is at least trying to limit access.

Twitter

- Data Used to Track You: Purchases, Contact info, Browsing History, Usage Data, Location, User Content, identifier

- Data Linked to You: Purchases, Contact Info, User Content, Browsing History,
Usage Data, Location, Contacts, Search History, Identifiers, Diagnostics

- Data Not Linked to You: Contact Info, User Content, Other Data

Threads

- Data Linked to You: Health & Fitness, Financial Info, Contact Info, User Content, Browsing History, Usage Data, Diagnostics, Purchases, Location, Contacts, Search History, Identifiers, Sensitive Info, Other Data
And go work for them because they were busy working instead of backstabbing politics?

Meanwhile the most useless people are failing upward into CEO.
This is a pet peeve when market maximalists talk about how public services are "inefficient". Efficiency in economics refers to profitability. If a public service isn't profitable, that actually makes it efficient in a practical sense because a public service being profitable would mean it is overfunded (i.e. it's receiving more funding than it needs to operate).

In practice this often means politicians will squawk about how a given public
service that is inherently a cost center is "inefficient" (which is true in the economic sense because it is designed to use its entire budget and thus doesn't extract a profit), impose austerity by cutting its "bloated" budget (which is justified by also cutting the workforce and other cost factors) and then repeating this process until the public service is inoperable and its failure is seen as a demonstration why it must deseperately be privatised and sold to the highest bidder (who can now get the monopoly position at a fraction of its potential value). Potential extra steps along the way involve creating a (government-owned) corporation to make it easier to complain about its bad business performance.

On a related note, there is an independent "tax payers' association" in my country that makes a big deal about "tax waste" by highlighting (usually fairly small) public works that most often have legitimate uses/explanations but may seem absurd/wasteful at first glance but largely prefers to stay silent when it comes to business subsidies and such. They have a clear ideological bias and while the media seems to be somewhat aware of this, it's always interesting to see journalist report on inadequate welfare programs in the same breath as mentioning (and using b-roll of) the public "national debt clock"[1] installed by this association.

[1] The most recent example was a segment on youth debt stemming from welfare overpayments their parents received (which under the legal system at the time was partially imposed on underage children in the same household even if they didn't have any money - the law was recently changed so they could only be held liable for the amount of money they owned at their birthday when reaching the age of maturity). Ironically this debt was the direct result of the kind of legislation to cut "tax waste" (in this case: welfare overpayments) the association generally advocates for. The hook was something like "the government can be billions in debt but for a young person a much smaller amount can be life-ruining" but the lack of reflection was astonishing.
Modes (Part 5)
The day my ping took countermeasures
Remember when MS changed from being heavily against Linux to "Microsoft loves open source"?

Whatever benefits their bottom line.
F9 is a combination of simplicity, reusability, and high cadence. Simplicity reduces the cost of the expended components and the cost of refurbishment. Reusability amortizes the cost of the components over more launches. And high cadence means both that fixed costs are amortized over more launches, and also that the expendable parts are produced at higher volume, reducing their cost. They must be really good at making a second stage now.
What’s Next for CSS?
Currently it supports ledger and hledger natively. If your file is compatible with any of the two, it would work.

There is a clear separation between the cmd line tool and paisa. It should be relatively straightforward to add support for more. I will look into it later.
If it's genuinely news to you that exploitation is a normal day-to-day part of any industry, perhaps these pointless replies should end here.

Yes, writers have been working for free [1].

[1] "In October 2015, Wil Wheaton created a stir when he declared that he had turned down an offer to write for the Huffington Post. He refused, according to him, because they had declined to pay for his work, in keeping with their policy of reimbursing writers with "exposure" in lieu of payment." https://www.vox.com/2016/2/26/11106006/writing-for-free Guess what writers who aren't famous have to do? Work for free, for "exposure".
Then you're in for a treat!
Profit maximization does not inherently create efficiency for all consumers.

A profit maximizing company may reasonably say "oh this population is super expensive to serve so we will let services there stagnate or even remove services for that population because it is more efficient for us to focus elsewhere."

Or consider a subscription service that makes it considerably more difficult to unsubscribe. That increases profit while making the product actively worse.

Profit incentive leads to efficiency of profit extraction, which is only loosely correlated to efficiency of services for consumers and occasionally runs in total opposition to efficiency of services for consumers.
"Govt is subsidising infrastructure providers to the tune of £3000 to £4000"

I live in a rural area in Scotland, until recently we only had 20 Mbps down and 1 up. I had enquired to a specialist ISP about installing fibre and they quoted £7000 to do an estimate - which I interpreted as "please go away".

BT/Openreach came along and installed full FTTP - which I am very happy about but I did wonder how commercially sensible it was with us paying £50 a month or so...
So as a daily desktop user, how different are they in a professional environment?
I never thought about the 32X as contributing to the poor launch of the Saturn. I am not sure if jumping straight to the Saturn in America would have saved Sega, but it probably would have made it a more competitive console. Sega Genesis was wildly popular in America, but no one seemed to even be aware of the Saturn. PlayStation and N64 dominated the conversation.
I doubt it's an oversight, it's probably a conscious choice most of the time. I agree with you some pieces are highly questionable, as there's literally zero affordance and absolutely no way to discover them. But to be fair, you definitely don't need user manual to start using iOS. It's slightly more difficult to MacOS due to most of first time users coming from Windows environments.
We put a distributed database in the browser and made a game of it
Noted mathematician John Baez has been investigating the properties of modes in music and posting about it on his blog. This is the fifth post of the series.
That's cope.
Why can't we just plug an LLM into these cars? LLMs can do anything. /s
So you shared your experience with one co-op, do you think they are inherently worse than other types of business organizations? If so, why?
Managers who manage like you describe devs should be tested are bad managers.

Size of the empire isn't something a manager does, it's a reward senior management gives. This is true unless the company has open allocation, as Google did before it started eating its own corpse.
Honestly I don't think this is playing silly games with words, I think it's just a website knowing their readership.

Linux is two things: a kernel and an ecosystem of distributions. This website is clearly targeting users of distributions that brand themselves as "Linux distributions". In that way, ChromeOS is obviously not a Linux distribution to anyone that cares about Linux distributions.
Because of the Thatcher government wanting to "open the market" to American telecoms, in the 1980s they stopped the world leading Fibre rollout that BT had already started.

Decades later the UK is still behind the countries that took all the tech and continued what we'd started.
> There is a paper on arxiv saying that GPT4 correlation with human evaluators on a variety of tasks with strongly positive

Could you post the link please
I can buy conduit cheaply. But I'm thinking make the entire wall from plastic panels, plaster was the only solution 200 years ago, surely we can do better now
Shell Integration in the Windows Terminal
I had maintained a collection of BBS era "anarchy" text files online for several years at that point; but by October 2001 my employer felt that they needed me to take that down to stay employed.

I'm pretty sure textfiles.com has everything I ever did and more, thankfully.
And if your reports hate you, you are failing at that hard job, your job.
Is there any android phone any the size of an iphone mini? I don’t need a giant 9” screen. I’m ready to switch back to android.
This is a very naive reading of the situation - it almost comes across as twisting in knots to avoid placing the blame on the responsible party: the company and its owners who were responsible for this.

> Your options are to acquire appreciating assets quicker than your competitor, or you get left behind.

This is wrong twice over! First of all, they are effectively monopolies, they have no competitors in their industry. The only thing they are competing against is which company can extract money the fastest (at the expense of the company and English citizens). Second of all, from the article, they aren't spending the raised money on capital investments.

> For example, South East Water—thousands of whose customers were left without running water this summer—spent more on dividends and servicing its debt than on infrastructure in the two years to March 2022. Water bills for Britain as a whole have increased by around 360%, more than double the rate of inflation, since privatisation. Over that time, annual capital investment by the ten largest water and sewage companies has fallen by some 15%, according to research by the Financial Times (FT).

Privatization is an utter failure here, just as would be predicted given the situation, and it's crazy to see an attempt to rationalize it away.
Agreed. It's a trivial change, certainly not a justification for using langchain.
It was found during code review AND it revealed a gap in our unit tests.

So, 50% success, I guess.

Belt and suspenders.
My experience with the public sector is the same. People must spend all their budget or it will be cut next year, so they do. Processes calcify and no one is incentivised to improve them. It's hard to fire people or make them redundant, so people get shuffled around between departments, costing far more than they contribute. Pensions are often very expensive. Strike action is more likely, as it's a big mass of people who can shut things down.

Fundamentally, it's the principle-agent problem. The customer isn't the one paying the bills. The customer is a politician or two who can heap money on the department or not, and they get praised for heaping money rather than saving money. The people paying the bills, taxpaying individuals and businesses, must do so or they go to jail. So why be efficient when your customers cannot legally avoid buying your service?
They have a contributor licence agreement that allows them to relicense incoming contributions, so they can release the paid version under a proprietary licence, if they so wish.

https://www.photoprism.app/cla
> Every other part of the tech industry has improved dramatically.

This really isn’t true. Printing is painful but it’s rate of decline is less than:

Internet search quality.
Invasive advertising.
Invasive tracking.
Creepiness of online services.
Online buying and its timely arrival.
I worked with a large CDN provider (not that one, the other one) who would rubbish LetsEncrypt in meetings -- then note that they use LetsEncrypt themselves for domain validated certificates. So we should pay them extra for OV certificates, the logic of which only makes sense to their salespeople.

My employer isn't a heavy user of LetsEncrypt, as AWS's certificate issuance is more straightforward to use when we're already using AWS for pretty much everything. But we still have a few hundred LE certificates that are in active use.
Serverspace. New Data Center Star of Bosphorus in Turkey
Cloud provider Serverspace is expanding in the European region. Users now can order cloud servers based on the vStack virtualization platform in the advanced data center Star of Bosphorus.
All you need is a chess board
Direct link to PDF, https://ia803107.us.archive.org/16/items/richards1979bcpl/ri...
The EU has had a spotty history competing with SV. A large part of that is the different investment and regulatory environment for better or worse makes it much harder for tech startups to get going, especially after the fact when there are established players.
A cursory search reveals articles that purport Sweden has been expanding surveillance and espionage laws for the last 15 years or so.

- 2022: https://www.thelocal.se/20221116/swedens-parliament-votes-th...

- 2021: https://edri.org/our-work/the-terrifying-expansion-of-sweden...

- 2019: https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/swedish-police-gi...

- 2008: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/06/sweden-and-borders-sur...
Open Data Policy helped Mexico City reduce high-impact crime
Whereas Nixs documentation is… well. I was looking through nix package code to sort out issues with nix on Hyper-V.

I really like Nix so far (just started using it), but damn is the documentation ever shit tier.
The difference is that in science the dialectic is between you the observer or a group of observers and a "reality" that hopefully(!) remains relatively stable, because the human organism is the way that it is - just as physical reality.

But these models are changing literally every day, so there's no fixed thing to reveal.

So no one will be able to reproduce anything at all.

This makes all this "engineering" pretty ridiculous in my eyes, it's literally for one models bizarre emergent properties.
This is a strawman: I didn't say a word about free software.
Wow. Yes, they do. It happens most fiscal quarters.
Oh awesome, this does shed some light on it all. Thanks!
True, it only misses to meet number 3 (it's easily copied and just getting cheaper to build software as technology advances).
I think the document also misses to mention saturation of the market, which software is also very saturated and this makes it hard for new businesses to get going...
Oh that was a typo from me. I meant to say more updated than Samsung. Sorry!
I like the dark part of histories (in this case the history of historical research). For me, the hope I get from how we survived bad behavior is more enriching than any quasi-fictional hero narrative.
Someone should start an "illegal" printing company for printers that are so good people are willing to buy them on the black market.
That’s not how “good” answers work. If I tell you the sky is green and that makes you happier than hearing that it’s actually blue, your site no longer has value for getting or understanding answers. That is a fatal flaw, and I’m not sure what you’re offering that, say, Reddit isn’t, aside from an inability for anyone else to correct clear mis/dis-information.
Simple, instant, and elegant. I hope search works in the same way. Life would be much easier if I started typing and a bunch of answers appeared immediately. I don't have to visit search results one by one just to find out it's a curation site of stack overflow.
It's simpler then that. Who fights for outsizedly high paying jobs relative to peers of the same talent? Greedy, selfish people who have no respect for others. They act as expected in the job.