skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Opera GX's Twitter marketing is so insane...Probably to help push their games site: https://gx.games/
They are making a billion dollars loss a year. So with no vc cash available they need to get profitable if they want to survive. You can argue this is wrong way to go about it but they do need to get profitable.
It doesn't take much outlandish theorizing to wonder who might be interested in character assassination of people challenging surveillance
Oh boy do I have a great news for you!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(network_protocol)

Some IoT devices are now IPv6-required.
If you reconfigure the sensor without cropping you do not end up with a zoomed image, just with a reduced resolution one. With a fixed focal length in order to zoom you need to decrease the sensor size, therefore cropping, so digital zoom
It has to do more with regulatory burdens in Democrat strongholds
https://youtu.be/ExgxwKnH8y4
Can't have your building cast a shadow on a school playground (you haven't paid bribes to the right city officials to get rid of their roadblocks)
Hard drive manufacturers I have stocks of?
> For storage this can be done much more efficiently with erasure coding and hashing.

More efficient that what exactly? It's still far less efficient than not having to hash and run erasure coding…

> For compute, reputation. A node with no reputation has all of its output verified (and so gets paid less). A node with a good reputation history only gets random spot checks, but fail a spot check and you're back to getting paid less, maybe even retroactively.

That only works if the attacker cannot make big gains from a single cheat after a period of building reputation. There's a reason why this isn't being used in the wild by blockchains…

> So it costs too much and it's too cheap?

Yes, it costs too much to operate, and it's too cheap as a product so operators are losing money. The only reason why there's an offering at all is that some people invested lots of money on hardware in 2021 when the token price was 50 times higher (but then the storage cost was prohibitive).

> It sounds like the network is providing several exabytes of storage for an extremely competitive price. How is that not a success?

Barely anyone using it despite a price so low that it doesn't even allow operators to break even, how is that supposed to be a success?
That is by definition not compensation.

I have to say I'm disappointed seeing you defend exploitative labor practices.
Awesome! They can finally track and sell my ingenious chess strategies to the highest bidder.
Ok, let's try this, if this was (fully) open-source, would you pay $5/month for an access to a premium discord/formus with videos, examples, ability to propose new features or vote on the backlog?
Milk dry, or try to start making money?
Initials also include Sh. which means Shriman or Shri for males and Smt. which mean Shrimati
German administration is already understaffed, and this will get much worse due to increasing retirement and additional complex regulations and laws.

They only chance is simplifying processes and make them more efficient (which includes "digitization"). But apart from staff, this needs strong leadership and expertise, and is made complex by the federal structure.
Encryption is helpful but, I'm increasingly convinced, insufficient.

Much email traffic is already encrypted through TLS, as data-in-flight.

A fair amount of email storage is encrypted as data-at-rest, but the problem is that email processing systems need access to that, so the encrypted storage itself is available as cleartext either at specific moments (spam and ad processing, for example), or within applications.

Sideband attacks such as phishing / spearphishing are used to obtain credentials, at which point GAME OVER: YOU LOSE.

Even with encryption, metadata related to email (sender, recipient(s), subject, date, references and other headers) are transmitted in the clear, at least at the server level, and often at the network level. Monitoring these is often more valuable than acquiring the full message contents themselves. "We kill people based on metadata", former NSA director General Michael Hayden <https://www.nybooks.com/online/2014/05/10/we-kill-people-bas...>.

Tools for using and managing email, including forwarding (often to systems which don't employ similar, or any, encryption), searching (difficult on an encrypted corpus), printing (hardcopy hole, as well as potential attacks within local networks, WiFi, or the printer itself, which is in fact a general-purpose computer whose principle display mechanism is hardcopy, but which is networked and often has considerable storage), etc., etc.

A general case of the problem is that bulk data archival directly connected to high-speed and difficult-to-monitor networking capabilities[1] seems increasingly to me a catastrophic own goal. How to effectively mitigate this isn't entirely clear, but the practices of those who avoid email, don't carry smart or any otherwise mobile phones, airgap critical systems, and rely increasingly on paper-based information systems ... seems increasingly prescient and sensible. A side-branch of the US intelligence agencies (CIA grew from the State Department, diplomatic cover continues to be used by spies), military branches, attorneys general (at national and state levels), political parties, political campaigns to the chief executive level, courts, and One of the World's Richest Men have all been very high profile victims of data breaches and exploits. I see the news of this as less due to their technical naivete and far more a matter of general vulnerability* combined with the obligation for such entities to disclose, and the interest in news media in reporting, such attacks.

For reasons expressed above, bolting encryption onto extant email systems is unlikely to work. Instead, an alternative general, open standards, open source alternate messaging protocol and system must be devised in which both encryption and security-conscious practices and management of messaging are inherent. Even then I'll have my doubts.

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Notes:

1. The same encryption which protects your own data works to the attackers advantage in shielding theirs, and disrupting monitoring and detection.
It could activate after ejection, certain acceleration pattern (i.e. crash) or could start broadcasting only after receiving very specific signal (one-time code) on a specific frequency. There are probably plenty more options, it doesn't seem like a hard problem from engineering standpoint.
With msft money, I do expect bethesda to have "horizon forbidden west" mopcap grade in for all their future games (including side quests).

Going to be hard to play them, I run elf/linux, and proton from valve is told to be actually windows, then I have only lean wine+vkd3d build (hope valve do backport everything in plain and simple C in from proton to wine).
> German apartments don’t have apartment numbers

They do (at least sometimes?). They are just not listed anywhere and barely used. I have my number in my contract, and e.g. Vatenfall have it to connect the meter number to the flat number.
Didn't anybody think to stick an AirTag or such similar gadget onto a $150 million plane?
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I use it when ChatGPT is down. Code generation is definitely worse.
In 2020 I did my Anmeldung by just sending them an email and not going in-person. Too bad they didn't keep the Covid workaround even after setting it up.
I didn't really either way. Which given a) how long ago that was and, b) I specifically declined to look at bounties - the only thing I'm close to being sure about is that I don't remember any drama nor ruin from that.
Bureaucracy in Germany felt to be equal in magnitude to what I was used to from the United States (which is to say: bad), but the character of the bureaucracy's toil in Germany felt incredibly archaic.

I hate to give the author of this tool any despair: if you think managing your Wohnsitzanmeldung is hard, wait until you decide to move away from Germany (to another country) and attempt to sever/cancel your contracts. The cancellation process is nightmare mode.
That’s what happens when the electricity monopoly, Eskom, is run by corrupt and utter idiots along with the whole country.

What a shame to see South Africa morph into just another African basket case…no successful country in the whole continent, what a shame.
Freedom-wise, Unity is a Delphi/PowerBuilder/Clarion/ColdFusion of game development. The "free as in beer" licensing was the main reason it stayed relevant until now.
The guidance on Japanese names is a bit simplistic. Yes, the Japanese government has announced a surname-first policy, but Japanese people are not bound by that policy. I have hundreds of name cards (meishi) that I have received from Japanese businesspeople, academics, and government officials over the years, and my rough estimate is that more than half who indicated their name in English on the card put their surname last.

For more nuanced guidelines, I recommend the Japan Style Sheet published by the Society of Writers, Editors, and Translators in Tokyo. It can be downloaded for free at [1]. An excerpt:

“Japanese write their names in their own language surname first, as do Chinese and Koreans. After contact with the West was reestablished in the mid-nineteenth century, many Japanese adopted the practice of giving their surname last in international contexts. Japanese learn in school to reverse their names when writing or speaking in English and their domestic English-language media follow this practice, as do almost all other media around the world. Especially in translations, either name order may be adopted. Writers and editors may also choose a hybrid approach.” (p. 37)

[1] https://japanstylesheet.com/download-jss/
We should abandon the very idea of "public" and "private" addresses. An IP address is just an IP address, a globally-unique number that identifies a networked device. If you want a device to be inaccessible by other devices, throw in a firewall. NAT is just a firewall with packet-modifying capabilities anyways.
It is pretty safe to assume that it was. Especially since it is so repeatable and the same method also shows back my own custom instruction prompts.
I guess simpler the same way a tractor is simpler than a mini van...
Static PDF or text is a good protection against Murphys law! Having done forms like this I have learned that the hard way. If you want to save state on the server like you mention e.g. QR code, you need to save the form as a PDF or a readable text file and not only as data that is rendered by some frontend framework.

This means you can have multiple people digitally sign or even fill it out, then they can sign the text representation which is easier than a digitally signed PDF or json. You need this because when you update the backend and frontend between logins and there is always somekind of mismatch that will happen. This is especially hard when you have non linear form entries or optional parts like the C/O part in this form, there is always something that slips through the crack in regression testing.

Last time it happend to us someone had upgraded the front end calendar month chooser. It was well tested, but that ment another optional date picker was updated and testing did not happen there. Then organizational and technical Murphys law struck meaning complete data loss for people affected by that.
The worst thing is that this differs by state. In Hessen the communal IT provider (ekom21) offers the service to fill out the entire form online in a UI that resembles yours, but then you still have to go to the "Meldeamt" to sign it (although you do that digitally on a tablet there) because currently the "schriftform" (means: manually signed) is required. It might be changed in the future to be "textform" (means: must be written down) and then it can happen completely digitally.

Unfortunately, from the bigger cities I checked (Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Kassel, Gießen, Marburg, Wiesbaden), none of them used that service, only some smaller districts like Bad Vilbel[1] or Limburg[2] offer the service.

[1]: https://onlineantrag.ekom21.de/olav/zuziehen?mbom=6440003
[2]: https://www.limburg.de/redirect.phtml?extlink=1&La=1&url_fid... "Voranmeldung eines Zuzugs"
YouTube suspends Russell Brand’s revenues from his channel
Corresponding blog post: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-subsystem...
It makes setting up your own peer to peer VPN between your devices.

https://tailscale.com/kb/1151/what-is-tailscale/
Cite for the NY Times / paywall fall in front-page story occurrences:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36918251>
On top of your reasons (which are good ones!), there’s another good reason to avoid default zero initialization in languages like C: zero is a special value for all kinds of sensitive operations (like UID 0 for root).

In other words: a mitigation that initializes all values to 0 may make some uses of uninitialized variables worse than they were before.
Just show us your map of Tasmania.
This reminds me that recently I, here in the Netherlands, had to send a letter and made the mistake of writing it in the wrong format (to/from), but still the address in where it should be 'from' was really small, and 'to' was really big. To make things clear, I decided to just prefix "To: " and "From: " thinking it would be enough.

Surely enough, 2 days later I received the mail back at my mailbox. Wasted 2 euros ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I just needed a single stamp, but they stamped on both so I couldn't even try to reuse it. And I also posted on the mailbox for "other zip code" rather than "close by zip codes".

I don't know if OCR or a person messed up. Well, definitely a person (me)...
As someone that worked in biotech/pharma for a decade, they LOVE to roll out the sick-people porn and talk about how we’re all making the world a better place…it helps them pay people less.

They can occasionally do some good things, but the large companies are no more ethical than Comcast. The small companies vary, but often have little real goals other than making the C-suite a few extra million no matter what.

The last small pharma I left discontinued all of their RNA sequencing experiments because they were worried about the data existing and it causing issues with FDA clearance down-the-line. Basically, don’t study it because it could show bad side-effects…but all of these PhD’s are making the world a better place, good job! Make sure to get married so you can afford a crappy townhome.

Gross.
> The F35 program has overrun it's costs over and over.

Note that you need to compare with competing programs.

Notably, F35 can be actually seriously produced (unlike say its supposed competition Su-57)
No.

Any company that did this did not have customer service, they merely replaced the people they hired to give you a run-around and gaslight you and not actually handle the problem... with a cleverly written program that can be easily mistaken for a human.

At such companies, chat bots and the people that were formerly employed there have no functional difference: they are forbidden to help you, cannot effect the situation in any way, and are not given the ability to change anything.

So yeah, in that incredibly narrow use, they have found an effective way to screw customers more inexpensively.
A bit like programming: url.hostname, or hostname url.
One of the biggest reasons why digitization in Germany is so slow moving is that every municipality can (and does) decide on how to digitize individually.

There is no mandate for the upper levels of government to dictate which solutions are being used on a local level. Combine that with need for tendering on every single solution and you've got a big mess of small companies underbidding bigger companies that could unify the software landscape and instead build a cheaper, small solution that has zero interoperability with the neighboring municipality.

The need for fax et.al. is not because people don't know how to use computers, but because there's thousands of applications fulfilling the same exact job, but are incapable of talking to each other. Paper is currently the only compatibility layer that works everywhere.

There are ongoing efforts to provide a common data exchange format (technical working group) as well as redesigning how the software for government is being build (tendering processes, public money - public code movement, et. al.)

German government is currently incapable of doing its job in a way that is legally required, missing deadlines and not providing citizens with the services that they are entitled to because they are unable to manage the workload due to the paperbound processes. There is zero fear of humans being replaced by machines. It's rather that more and more humans are leaving government due to burnout.
Westernized Chinese names seem to be missing. For example, in Hong Kong it's common to have both Chinese and Western first names. This leads to a complex rule:

Using the Western name only: WESTERN-FIRST CHINESE-LAST

Using the Chinese name only: CHINESE-LAST CHINESE-FIRST

Using both: WESTERN-FIRST CHINESE-LAST CHINESE-FIRST

(CHINESE-FIRST can be one or two characters). I think I got that right?
Thank you for your kind words, I couldn't say it better.
Pork Cycle
Wait, why is it corrupt to build more power?
> So if your preferred language is set to e.g. French, then you shall see France at the top of dropdown.

If it’s French from France, yes. This is the second part of the language code: fr_FR is French from France, fr_BE from Belgium, fr_BF from Burkina Faso and so on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Negev_mid-air_collision

>Notably, the F-15, (with a crew of two), managed to land safely at a nearby airbase, despite having its right wing almost completely sheared off in the collision. The lifting body properties of the F-15, together with its overabundant engine thrust, allowed the pilot to achieve this unique feat.

Just posting here because it is awesome.
Thanks for your detailed reply. I am yet to try other EVs other than a Nissan Leaf and an eNV200, but I think both of these fit my driving style a bit more than the MY (I used B mode in other EVs and love regen braking).

Giving credit where it is due, I do agree that the Tesla cruise control is great. I was driving it in Germany and Austria and it maintaining correct speed going down mountains and hills was just chefs-kiss perfect.

But - I think it is not correct to say that you don't need a speed limiter because of TACC or that it can replace a speed limiter. And I believe I got into a good rhythm with the Tesla (with TACC on, hold stick down when approaching a speed change sign, release when I pass it, no beeps of disable/re-enable- although this still causes overspeed alert even if car is slowing to match new speed).

I had the overspeed alert set very strict - which is why it was beeping at me - but without a speed limiter this is the only way to force myself to not go overspeed everytime I accelerate while looking at traffic rather than the speedometer.

Driving in 20kmh areas, TACC didn't switch on for me, and I hated having to re-engage TACC every time I slowed to enter a roundabout. I literally just want to concentrate on driving in these complex suburban situations, but I don't want to have my photo taken by radar, I just want the car to limit my speed, or have the speed available if I really need it suddenly (at the extreme end of the throttle range)

Have you used speed limiters in other vehicles? I know I have driven a Peugeot 2008 which could read speed signs then you could double press a button to set your limiter to that speed.

I want that, but without needing to press a button. I actually want to remap throttle response over the range of the throttle, and have a particular range of the throttle which is "sticky" at the speed limit... like a "gravity well" of throttle range that will maintain the speed limit. Does that make sense?
I mean the more likely explanation is that a lot of HN readers have subscriptions to these publications.
can you explain what these integrity protections are and why they're needed, or give a link? TIA
They can only get anything from it if the stock price goes up though. So far this isn't helping. Also it won't be several quarters until the additional revenue kicks in, by the time they might already be losing significant numbers of customers which the market won't like even if the financial start looking a bit better.
Unity got a stigma for delivering half baked features and dropping support for existing features without a replacement. The epitome of this was where in Netcode, where I believe they had no officially supported solution despite the engine having 2 different packages which were both half-baked, all while the DOTS variant was far from release.

I don't think Godot should go that route.
I don’t think this was so much a privacy concern as it was a bit challenging in terms of revoking keys and they, like they often do, opted for a basic implementation first to be refined later.
I'm still hoping someone will create the ultimate linter that can format source code in your desired style on checkout, and formats it back to the repository's style after a push
This Opera bashing. You are right: what exactly makes Opera less privacy friendly compared to the other browsers? Me wonders...
My experience as an embedded software programmer is quite the opposite. We do care about releasing our Linux modifications under GPLv2, and we do contribute to community when it makes sense.

> see vmware

from https://lwn.net/Articles/696936/: "The court ruled that he had not provided enough specificity about the code he was claiming had been used by the company. The merits of the GPL and whether the two main parts of VMware's product constitute a derived work of the kernel were not even considered."

That doesn't seem to prove anything.

> various chinese companies

HiSilicon (https://github.com/hisilicon/linux-hisi) releases its fork.
Just use https://86box.net/ it's updated regularly and works wonders!
None of that is true.

They'd love to "digitise" but their problem is that there is ZERO Software culture in Germany. Likely they'd have some shitty accounting or consulting firm with their 24 yr old associate who can do some Java code something for 10 Billion EUR. It'll take 10 years and obviously won't scale or work properly.

That's why it still hasn't happened. There is no one who can write a requirements doc with much useful content in it besides "make it digital" either.

When they wanted a mobile app to warn of Covid risks nearby they found no one who could write mobile apps besides SAP (not a mobile nor end-user company) and Deutsche Telekom (a Telco, used to be state-owned back in the day). That'll tell you how this will go.

https://news.sap.com/2020/06/corona-warn-app-deutsche-teleko...
Not for people like me who always set their browser language to en-us (or just “en”) because they mostly peruse the internet in English.
There are times when website styling and design really go beyond the pale, and this is one of those cases.

The content may be excellent. The packaging utterly frustrates accessing that, and flouts all standard conventions of design. The author took a risk. The author lost.
Wikipedia summarises it quite well. In short, they attempt to prevent code-reuse attacks (ROP/JOP) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-flow_integrity
IMHO, if the requirement is just for Linux CLI tools, WSL1 - it still exists - may have been a better experience. It gives access to a complete distro without having to deal with WSL2 hibernation issues.