skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
.gc.ca exists for that exact purpose. It has the advantage of being bilingual ("GC" expands to both "Government of Canada" and "Gouvernement du Canada", .gov.ca omits the "u" in the French word gouvernement).

I believe the canada.ca thing relates to the centralization of federal government IT under Shared Services Canada (SSC) in 2011. SSC is an attempt to make a "one stop shop" for government IT services, and Canada.ca is an extension of that philosophy to web presence.

As an aside, SSC is very controversial in the Canadian federal government. They have a reputation for glacially slow delivery of services and inflexibility in IT policies. The head of StatCan actually resigned in 2016 in protest as a result of problems with SSC [1]. They have gotten better since then but it's still rocky.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/statistics-canada-interview...
Plumbing and windows are too hard. So, let’s not do it.
Agreed. This belongs in a museum
Between 15-26 million people protested at some point during this period. You are from your own mouth claiming that out of millions of people "hundreds" committed crimes. You are essentially making my point for me.

EG means for example it is meant to serve as an example of a a large number protesting a small number committing crimes not serve as a literal description of the exact number of criminals kind of like the entire protest didn't take place at a singular Walmart.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george-flo...
What exactly are you (or they) afraid of? NSA/FBI/CIA/DHS/etc impersonating other sites using the government CA?

Before Certificate Transparency, I'm pretty sure they already could do that relatively easily by forcing a private CA to make them a cert. (National Security Letters and all that fun)

Even now, with CT, I think they'd be more inclined to use a private or at least an "unofficial" CA, instead of basically leaving "your's truly, The Government" in the CT log. If you already know you'll leave a trace, why would you want to make that trace extra obvious?
1Password will support Orion with the next release (already available in nightly)
> > primary
English version:

https://events.ccc.de/2023/07/23/camp23-isdn/#camp2023-isdn-...
Cool product
the gov TLD is managed by the US government. It's very rare that you renew anything with ICANN, since you're almost always going at least to the entity that manages a TLD (unless you run a TLD, then I guess there'd be an ICANN fee).

If you have a .com domain, you're renewing with VeriSign, the company that owns the com TLD.
power outages that aren't weather related are not increasing. https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/surging-weath...
This is an interesting talk! I love reading about applications of math/computer science to ecology. The parent page has links to relevant papers that are worth reading, too. [0] The species similarity paper has some concrete examples on coral, butterflies, and gut microbiomes that I felt missing from the slides. [1]

[0] https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~tl/genova/

[1] https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~tl/mdiss.pdf
When there's a gold rush sell shovels.
When travelling long distances it's also important to derate the range for safety and comfort.

For example, it's well known that EV range decreases by 20-30% in cold weather and a recent study is claiming about the same loss in hot weather. And on long drives you tend to be more heavily loaded than normal, also cutting a few percent off actual range. Further, you need a reserve in case you get stuck on the road for some reason. Also you need a further reserve to ensure you can make it to the next next charger should the next charger be unavailable for some reason. And the advertised ranges are in better-than-average driving conditions at slower-than-average speeds, so you lose another few percent there as well.

All these derates stack which means if you want to ensure low stress in an EV you might have to derate the advertised range 50% or more depending on charger density for long drives when you decide to purchase. ICEs also need derating, but 25% is usually lots and ICEs tend to have much longer ranges to begin with.
Another excellent example on this front is Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson, by any sort of fundamental interpretation of religion, would have been a heretic, or worse, in a time when religion was still a fundamental component of society. He espoused Christianity, but rejected the virgin birth, resurrection, and various other miracles in the Bible. He actually even composed his own 'bible' by [literally] cutting and pasting sections of the bible (across multiple languages no less) into a new book - the 'Jefferson Bible.' [1] And he made no secret of his views. Discovering this increased my respect for him by orders of magnitude.

If we all abided values only because those values made sense to us, then I think the world would not only be a much more interesting place, but also probably a much better one. It's so weird to see so many people simply claim to believe things that they probably don't, simply because it's socially expected or convenient to claim to believe them. We're only here for ~80 years, spending this time deceiving others, or even worse - yourself, just doesn't make any sense.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible
What type of organization are you operating where you'd need a .gov? Is this a government organization (like a local government or city hall)? Or is it possible for even random non-government related non-profits to have legitimate uses for .govs?

Edit: I was mostly commenting on this.

> In fact, the most difficult part is convincing management that we should make the full migration to the .gov

It sounds like the most difficult part of getting a .gov is having a legitimate government entity and having a purpose that needs one.
Not looking forward to having to jailbreak a chat bot on the phone just to force it to cancel my account.
The WWW was invented at CERN in 1990, whereas the .gov TLD dates from 1985.
I imagine they expect that if you’ll be using Elixir at any capacity, you’ll have the docs in front of you, which details all the functions available in the modules, as well as the parameters they expect.

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.15.4/String.html
RISC-V Is Now an Official Debian Architecture
I should also point out that comments are a code smell. The vast majority of the time you feel the need to add a comment, you should probably refactor your code into a well-named function — whether a closure or a method. Your code should read well even without comments!

(There are some exceptions, that have to do with notes eg for security implications, or optimization techniques, or side effects. And also to document parameters in duck-typed languages. But even those should be put into structured comments, like DocBlock or YUIdoc or whatever kids use these days.)

I have learned this with time. Like when you are procrastinating and putting off doing something, that’s a sign you need to attract partners.
But the gallon of gas isn’t refined in my neighborhood, every night. It’s made in a centralized location, in advance, and if for some reason that location loses power, another location will make it and distribute to my local gas stations.
Finding the Bottom Turtle (2021)
SQL is like Javascript: it succeeds by ubiquity, not quality.
This is really a non sequitur. It's perfectly easy to imagine a large organization which has a disorganized and mismanaged mess for their IT infrastructure, but a great compliance and regulatory culture, or vice versa.

DB happens to have both a broken engineering culture and (at least historically) an even more broken culture of mis-selling and fraud, but there's nothing to say that one always engenders the other.
"Web3" is mostly just a tech-bro narrative (scam) pushed by VC.

It's just a few people piggy-backing of the cypherpunk ideas.

If your to read original cypherpunk texts it like the work of Nick Szabo, Timothy C. May, David Chaum. It was never about having a decentralised AWS.

The core idea was to be able to build political institutions that;

a) Don't depend on government institutions to enforce agreements made on the internet. (i.e Smart contracts)

b) Have censorship resistant money money & means of communications that government or coporations cannot sanction.

The problem is that very little of what you see in web3 is about those ideas. Its about garbage like NFT digital apes & GameFi
I know a lot about what the BEAM is good for, I'm curious about actual things people are doing with it.

The last time I used it seriously, we used Erlang as the high level language for these: https://www.icare-world.com/us/product/icare-eidon/ and it was a great fit for that kind of semi-embedded environment.
On Legitimacy and Software Engineering
It is easier to keep warm than to cool down, but surprisingly these cities use less energy than their cold brethren. Also the cooling needs greatly correlate to solar availability so the potential to be very climate friendly is there. Cold northern climates mostly burn gas for heat which very climate unfriendly. In the US cold weather state use the most energy per capita, followed by hot states, and then of course temperate climates use the least.
> It is not quite right to say that "they haven't released anything", there is e.g, the Toyota bZ4X, widely regarded as a really bad car (1). And other EVs that have made no impact (2)

So technically they have "joined the party". Granted they don't seem fully committed yet and don't seem to be trying very hard - based on the review you linked, they have QC problems ... on the wheels; and they haven't put much marketing muscle behind the others. At least they have a foot in the door.
Hey this is awesome! I got started on an MVP[1] of this earlier this year, but gave up simply because of all the additional mail features required to get this to a full product.

Especially in startups, this is super annoying process. Say I want to test out a feature with 100 random users who have done XYZ before. Right now I have to do a SQL query, export that to a CSV, import to MailChimp, send.

[1] https://github.com/tylermaran/pigeon
That's settled, we're even.

> Why doesn't the United Kingdom have the name of the country on its stamps?

> Because the United Kingdom had the privilege of being the first country in the world to introduce postage stamps, meaning that they did not need to be identified as coming from that country, especially when used domestically.
No, I actually meant what I wrote the first time.
There are cars like the Lucid Air which actually offer significantly more range than even the long range Teslas, while using the same battery tech (at a higher price point of course). They just recently had to scale down production because demand was waaaay below expectations. Tesla's best selling variants are also not the long range models, so it's not surprising that people won't pay for another 30% premium on something they barely ever need.
I might be wrong, but I feel like writing SCIP on JS is like "Sustainable Energy using Oil."

Not quite the right analogy... JS isn't as bad as Oil. But you get the idea...

Kinda... don't make sense?
Xenogears - great story. It introduced me to various concepts from different philosophies, psychology, etc.

Tomb Raider - it was my first 3D game. The sense of adventure and danger was so intense.

Uncharted - like Tomb Raider but with jokes and lighter. Really enjoyed storyline.

Last of Us - this game was able to recreate the same intense feeling of danger and adventure that the first Tomb Raider game did.

God of War (PS4) - first game I played during my paternity leave after becoming father. Felt very connected with story as it deals with some parenting questions.

The longest journey - I don’t remember the story but I remember I was very moved by it. One of few games that are on my play again list.
The second is true, but it is also letting your customers have root (as the OP said.)

It's control through the threat of ending a relationship, which Redhat is also trying now. You can't really say that it's allowed for in the GPL (there's no text in the GPL that says that it is allowed), it's just something that the GPL does not cover.
What are parents going to feed their baby if it is all stolen?
I wrote an ebook [1] about interface design for engineers after seeing time and time again that the best interfaces I worked on all came about when engineers and designers both contributed to the process.

[1] https://uidesignforengineers.com/
I would hope that random "non-government related non-profits" aren't using .gov domains. Isn't the whole point of the domain that it's just for government entities?
it's supposed to redirect to https://sourceacademy.org/sicpjs/index
The office reality presented in Dilbert is hell on earth. There are some references to hell in Dilbert but I don't think they are very specific.
That's why in most countries the government has the monopoly and no one else is allowed to run lotteries. It's like an opt-in tax with a gambling element, you can choose to give the government even more money and most likely won't get much in return.
Any vendor supplied distribution will be abandon and become horribly out of date. Maintaining it would be much harder than a similar Yocto system. They would better off embracing their reality than denying it: embedded engineering requires embedded engineers.

Source: paid to work on bringing up and maintaining Yocto systems every day.
“Human Error” Is the Scapegoat for Systemic and Organizational Failures
a couple of reason not to focus:

1. on mobile devices, a focused <input> also triggers Keyboard to open, that in turn may cause the page/content to scroll suddenly etc. that could annoy the user,
2. if there's content to read (a message, Terms etc), the user may end up not fill the form at all
The dark side of the AI boom: social and environmental impacts
I'm building a multiplayer real time web based game (io style, 2 ticks per second, so not 64 like a true realtime game). It seems to work quite well so far. I'm using https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte for the frontend with pixi.js for the rendering.
I was pretty sure there is already one for the US Gov but according to [1] only the Gov of HK, Spain, Netherlands and Turkey [2] have one.

[1] https://ccadb.my.salesforce-sites.com/mozilla/IncludedCACert...
[2] There seems to be a Mozilla applied constraint for .tr only
I'm not suggesting that SuperH would become an official port today when it is clearly dead. But the question is why it was never an official port even when it was in its prime. As for the installed base, it is absolutely terrifyingly large. They had a lot of wins in automotive, and popular consumer products like Sonos are based on it, or were for the first decade of that product line, and those products also run Linux.
I suspect it depends on whether you know your early Internet history. The Internet was a US research and military project at first. It was US-centric for a long time. The original top level domains are all US-centric. Walmart.ca is Walmart Canada. Walmart.com is Walmart America. Similarly, .mil, .edu are for the US military and American universities. .gov fits into that scheme and if you know the rest it would follow that it's for the US gov.
I think the difference is, as a customer I don't care how dysfunctional their internal IT is, as long as the customer facing IT and support "works".
.com and .net and .org are only "internationally available" because the registrars didn't care to restrict them (IIRC, one of them was moderately restrictive in the beginning, perhaps .org requiring an actual organization of some sort).

.mil is also US only.

The real hotness is to host on .arpa - https://blog.fhrnet.eu/2019/03/13/fun-with-arpa-domains/
Very informative. Needless to say that most "brand" capacitors sold online from non reputable vendors are relabeled knock offs that would exhibit inferior characteristics and last a lot less than the real ones. There's no way you can buy a genuine Nippon Chemicon or Panasonic capacitor on Aliexpress, but beware also of unknown sellers on Amazon and Ebay. Always go to reputable vendors (RS, Mouser, TME, Farnell, etc) to be 100% safe. The cost of repairing a device that failed because of bad capacitors is always higher than the difference in price of the real capacitors.
Indeed. A way to communicate, reduce mistakes, all the while; hopefully; without restricting the task at hand.

Basically, the opposite of a modern microwave.
Finally an excuse for all those abandoned git repos
I never saw it installed by default back then. Maybe it’s region specific?

Chromebooks didn’t come out until 2011, they aren’t really a part of this discussion.
NameConstraints seem to be well supported now, although the farther away from browsers you go, the harder it is to know for sure. That said, I'm not aware of any active use. Some root programs constrain some of the roots within, but afaik, not by having an x.509 cert with name constraints.
You may be referring to California who had issues last year during an historically high heat wave. This year, they are not having the same trouble. Part of the reason is that they increased production capacity since last year.
seems to be some sort of loader, I got that but then it turned to the SICP in JavaScript cover - I did scroll so maybe it was the onScroll event.
Czech "opice" seems to have a common root with "ape". The older version thereof was "op", even closer to "ape".

So the origin might actually be Indo-European.
Definitely taking all the security measures I can, but you're right, things can go wrong. I do encourage (and would like to enforce) that db credentials provided should have very limited read access to only the tables/columns that the user wants to query.

Having said that, it's totally understandable that some orgs won't want do open up their db. The idea with going open source would be that they can host the platform in their VPC so that their data is never leaving the premises.

Not against having an SDK or API at all, but I would need to think about would work because the whole syncing issue is one that I'm focused on addressing here.
I kind of get it.

A) improving the eMPG (or is it MPGe?) of more cars on the road to reduce their fossil fuel consumption is better than giving a few cars zero-emission powertrains, courtesy of the 80-20 rule. (Hence the riddle about you having two cars you use equally and someone offering to magically take one from 40mpg to 1000mpg or the other from 10mpg to 40mpg - you are better off financially with taking the latter option.)

B) The infrastructure for fossil fuel mining is here but scaling up lithium mining is going to add new horrors to the environment and the developing world.
YOShInOn is (mostly) an RSS reader, I have it pointed at 93 RSS feeds right now so I have a $9.30 cent monthly bill for Feedburner.

I get a lot of interest from people who would like a similar product, it is something I think about productizing but I am not ready to quit my day job.

It has the problem that it takes 1000 or so judgements to build a good model of your preferences, I am sure with effort it could be improved somewhat in the “few shot” case but since I am swimming in judgements I don’t have any personal motivation to do so. If i were going to make a cloud version of it I’d end up doing collaborative filtering anyway because it would do better with “few shot”.

An open source version is also interesting but it involves stopping what I am doing to make it better for me to make it something just anybody can install, in the long term I am modularizing it to make it possible but it competes with other side projects.
Fix the root causes of the homeless crisis. Home affordability, employment, mental health treatment (with consent).
That aside, a WAF would have stopped this.
Sheeple – cheeky prototypes for Common Lisp
Totally. Frankly, you will never find the perfect interface. It’s an ever evolving process that changes as the market and user behaviors and expectations change.
> Historically I tend to try something on with employment contracts too - I return an unsigned copy to the company

That doesn't necessarily mean that you don't have a contract. Barring specific law regulating the form (such as often happens for property exchanges), the contract is sealed with acceptance. An act of acceptance can be overt such as via signature, but it can also be implied.

By returning the contract as if signed, performing the work specified under the contract, and receiving pay, both you and the employer are acting as if you both have accepted the contract. If a court was asked to adjudicate a dispute (such as over a termination issue like severance pay), a judge could reasonably hold you and the company bound to the terms.

> It must be the full document plaintext and date signed with your private key and should be verifiable with your public key by a court before a claim is even approachable.

Why? Most contract disputes don't turn on whether the text of the contract is authentic. That's resolved by a full PKI-based signature, but such a signature can't decide whether the interpretation of the terms is correct, or whether the contract has been performed, or whether the contract was signed under duress (perhaps making acceptance invalid), or whether the contract is conscionable and consistent with public policy.
But that’s highly localized. And one of the most reported areas where this happens is Texas, who decided to roll their own grid, and is now paying the price for that stupidity.
> Many of the speakers, already busy studying COVID-19 and under pressure from the transition to remote teaching, did not notice these clauses. The pandemic “meant working 11 to 12 hours per day,” says another speaker, Johannes Müller, a mathematician at the Technical University of Munich. “The contract was unreadable [but] I eventually sent it.”

Maybe I am cold hearted, but I don’t feel any sympathy for their position. They were busy, so they should get out of the contract they willingly entered? These are educated adults that should have known better than to sign something without reading it.

Now the counter argument is that no one reads EULAs, but courts have held at common law that only abnormal clauses not in line with industry standards need to be highlighted to draw attention, or otherwise explicitly initialled. In this case based on at least one researcher asking if there were conference fees, it seems that there is at least some precedent for fees being charged to speakers (something that surprises me, but I guess it adds value to the speaker’s CV), so again, I have a really hard time feeling like this isn’t the result of a bunch of people not reading their contracts closely and treating their signature as something less valuable than it is - a binding commitment.
This thread is fantastic with a lot of great resources!

I have a related question but I don't want to start a new Ask HN for it. I have been using Machato app on Mac (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35471091) for the last few months. This is a very nice app but with limited functionality. For example, it doesn't allow uploading PDF documents and asking questions on them as described in so many responses in this thread. I tried to search for a Mac app with this capability but my search came up empty. All the results I got are for web apps. Has anyone come across such an app? Paid/free doesn't matter.
Homepage is beautiful. Product is clear. Very nice.
BSDs (FreeBSD in this case) are used in production today, a notable example is Netflix:

https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/euro2021.pdf
Judeo-Christian roots will ensure US military AI is used ethically, general says
The pentagon takes approach 2. Most people never need to access a .mil anyways, but if you need to work with their office (I had a dealership leasing cars to them needing to use a web portal) then you have to install their cert bundle.
The ideal way to accomplish this would be to get your customers to install a tiny proxy Worker in their own account and then just connect your service to it.

https://support.mailchannels.com/hc/en-us/articles/456589835...