skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
German here. I'll have to dissent on the buddy-business part. That's not how Germany works. It's the opposite, which turns out to be even worse:

As a bureaucrat that wants to solve a specific problem, you form a project and are required to make a public submission. Those submissions have to adhere to very formal predefined legal standards (in order to omit corruption) which make them incredibly time-consuming paperwork. For some projects you'll be even legally required to make a EU submission which is even worse.
Some German smart-asses "solved" that by creating a skeleton agreement with a handful of BS consulting companies (McKinsey et al.) which therefore win projects in a round robin fashion whilst adhering to some random requirements, e.g. "cheapest wins".

So what we get after all is 20 years of all federal states and municipalities being bullish of their own solutions, hundreds of failed digitization attempts for minor features as well as major services, ~3.5B EUR poured into BS consulting shops and nothing that remotely works end-to-end.
As a reflection of my passion for plants, every time I trek through a forest, I gather seeds and nurture sprouts from them, replanting them each year. Last year, I successfully planted 25 trees, and over the course of four years, I've planted approximately 100. This year, in the upcoming spring, I aspire to plant 50 more.
Like a "union" of European countries, you mean? Any suggestions of how we could name it? Let's try to come up with a simple name and a 2 letters acronym so that it is simple for people to refer to it? /s
> I didn't buy the macbook expecting to install linux on it, but if I can later, that's just an extra win.

Except that was exactly the point of the discussion. People who buy an Apple laptop with the expectation of having a perfectly functionnal linux on it.
We tested PowerApps at work. It looks fine at a first glance but comes off as really rough around the edges.

It's a fine tool for the business if you want to avoid shadow IT, I suppose, but you have to be aware that sooner or later you will need to integrate it with .NET because of feature creep and by that point you end up maintaning PowersApps, .NET and a lot of duct tape in between.
U.S. business optimism about China outlook falls to record low
I'm seeing that they just updated it today on the URL you linked
Romania has better and cheaper internet because of the wild Wild West when everybody and every firm were allowed to pull cables anywhere they pleased. People would buy a 100-200mbit b2b connection for 40 euros and would split it between 15-20 people for 3-5 euro each. It was deregulated for so much time that when the regulations finally came everybody was already connected to fast and cheap internet and they were so used to it that whichever company tried to increase the price and lower the speed would see really shitty returns.

That’s why Digi exploded and Telekom (Romtelecom) needed years to take off. The Greek CEO of Romtelecom would hold meetings in 2008 with upper management where he would dictate loudly that Romanians only want stable internet with great customer care and that’s the direction he is leading the company. That proved not to actually be the case and he unceremoniously left the company afterwards.

Source: I lived all this and was close with the domain
> If F-35 is such a failure, how come many countries have chosen to buy it?

The F-35's "killer feature" is non other than the US nuclear umbrella.
> Adding the address to the server is the easiest part of the whole process. Upgrading the software is probably the biggest hurdle with people just hardcoding things to 32-bit left and right (and some badly designed APIs which do either IPv4 or IPv6 but not both in a transparent fashion). And next is actually setting up ipv6 connectivity.

Funny, because the reality is that the software has for the most part been written and the hard part is acquiring v6 addresses. The problem is it isn't just a matter of acquiring a v6 address, it's also supporting the software that the v6 address runs on, and having it work the exact same way as v4.

The answer is that I'm actually talking about a huge number of IPv4 sites. There's nothing special about my site. When the same situation is repeated at N sites, the code is written only once, while the trivial requests and the trivial configuration changes are repeated N times.
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Well, I'm looking at a much larger group of users, and most of them aren't putting even five seconds into IPv6. They have better things to do. If the IPv6 configuration isn't automatic, it won't happen.

> So why not go for the inverse approach for new servers? Only give the servers IPv6 addresses and for those servers that still need to be reached via the public IPv4 internet (most internal ones probably have no need of this) can be accessed via SIIT, which performs stateless mapping between IPv4 and IPv6 (for example IPv4 1.2.3.4 gets translated to IPv6 2001:db8::1.2.3.4 and vice versa).

I'm unfamiliar with SIIT, but I bet it doesn't get us closer to the "magic moment" or we would be flocking to IPv6 addresses:

The magic moment for IPv6 will be the moment when people can start relying on public IPv6 addresses as replacements for public IPv4 addresses. That's the moment when the Internet will no longer be threatened by the IPv4 address crunch.
Assertive US unions pose a challenge for Joe Biden
Having done some research on this for internal use in the past I would recommend AppSmith as the best of the bunch given it's mostly open source.

We had to give it a past in the end due to no i18n or equivalent support.
https://archive.ph/xdQl4
I read the Caves of Qud post. What exactly is he using a game engine for in the first place? If it can be completely swapped out like that then maybe it wasn't that important in the first place.
Don't forget Priests.

It's definitely good that they're realistic about it, it at least gives a sense that they're taking it seriously, as opposed to having a couple of scapegoats and calling "job done, we're good now, you owe us your trust again".

As I get older, I've found this to be true for a number of things: "don't worry, it's only for the rest of your life".

This should be a permanent effort.
I didn't know the EU had a centralised platform for recalls like this.

It's quite interesting to see toxic perfume bottles listed right next to cars (https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/ale...). That's a lot of recall variety for one single platform!
Ask HN: How much of your monitoring stack is part of your infrastructure costs
UK researchers can participate in larger Horizon projects if UK is a Horizon members. Much more easy to have joint research projects if the budget can be shared across the project, rather than split up with research outcomes/outputs having to be accounted for across UK/Horizon boundaries. In reality many UK institutions that were part of Horizon projects simply left them or didn't join as partners on applications.
As long as the postcode is complete, there are only few full addresses that the postie needs to check against. If you got a letter the same day to your full address and your name is unique, then it would be fairly quick to find you.

BTW in Scotland at least, during the Christmas period, it is customary to leave a Christmas card for the postie outside with a small bank note in it. An easy way to say thank you for their efforts and to ensure that the postie will remember your name even better next time ;)
Your attitude is strange. If you break a friendship in a painful way, you don't at the same time think "oh but I can surely resume borrowing his record collection in the future".

> There is clearly room for close cooperation in many areas without surrendering sovereign control over your nation.

Are you sure you voted remain? This is basically the prototypical pro-leave argument.
Like Starfield, for example. Or the recent Quake 2 remaster. Microsoft owns Bethesda, Obsidian, id and plenty of other big name studios.
> Another problem is data protection law

I want to emphasise this for non-German readers. "Datenschutz!" has become a sort of one-word meme to explain why everything still runs on fax.
No it's not, it is an intentional misspelling of "googol" and means nothing - not in English or any other language. "Spotify" is also not a "normal word" in any language. And for those not native in English (there's supposedly only some 400 million of those), it's just a random sound sequence like any other.

mwmbl is a shortening of the welsh writing of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbles. Only tricky part is knowing that the w is pronounced as a u. Maybe it would be slightly easier if one followed the fad of leaving out vowels, but guessing a vowel and having a tricky vowel does not seem much different.
Given the project will probably take 10 to 15 years to be completed, honestly, they are probably not wrong.

By the time it's ready for production, the latest Raspberry Pi will probably be about as powerful as the fancy cluster.
Don't worry, Nintendo is pretty skilled at destroying itself the way it treats its fans, by suing them.
Yeah it was a useful approach, "disprove me with code"

>> Don't forget to disable sftp in your sshd_config
>Doing `strace -fp $(pgrep sshd)` then `sftp userfoo@localhost` in another terminal, I see: [...]
>execve("/tmp/custom-shell.sh", ["custom-shell.sh", "-c", "/usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server"]

If your sshd_config had "Subsystem sftp internal-sftp" as a shipped default, then I don't think it would have gone through the user's shell. Not a major issue, but there are just so many little points to be certain are locked down

>I'd love to see a `ssh/sftp userfoo@localhost` call that does something other than call cmd_foo, cmd_bar, or erring out.

The reference to LD_PRELOAD was to hint at that (since if the attacker can get a binary on the system -- e.g. in a git repo or config file) they could change what functions bash is invoking... I'm not a wiley enough attacker, but I bet if you put something valuable behind it and put out a public challenge you'd be impressed with the opensshd vulnerabilities and other interesting features of ssh/tty/environment variables.

As you probably guessed, my comment was just listing a few of the things (today) that you're playing whack-a-mole with when it comes to making sure everything is secure. I think your "disprove me with code" approach is a great basis for a discussion.

Writing their own 'ssh server and shell' program is a different set of tradeoffs vs trying to fully lock down programs that are intended to be general-purpose... to be perfectly honest I don't think I'd want to be involved in either route, the stakes are stressfully high... but there sure is a lot less code to audit and test in writing your own ssh+shell than there is trying to secure and keep up-to-date sshd, pam, bash, etc. (especially since they'll be adding features that you explicitly do not want for your purposes)
I think they still use that stadium for HS and maybe even some special event college games?
Forza is awesome
Elster is still among the best digital products Germany has to offer. Pretty much everything else is worse.
Because research projects are multinational collaborations.

How do you get your brightest to stay in UK (or come here from other places) if all your research are isolated to your island??
And I imagine, data/info right into China's hands.
This is probably a dumb comment, but have you looked into using WSLg? I.e. also run the GUI inside WSL? The integration between Win and WSLg is pretty seamless!
By last name, you mean family name, right?

In Indonesia we always use an honorific followed by a person's preferred name. Very simple!
> 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.

I find myself chuckling a little at this, because this is a common excuse for things being slow moving (or just wildly inconsistent from place to place) in the US. It's somehow comforting to know that countries of all size and population that are organized like this will still have the same problems.

To be fair, though, the US and many decent-sized municipalities do actually have a pretty good digitization story. I'm actually having trouble thinking of routine government-related things that have to be done in person... or even by mail. I guess you have to send mail to apply for or renew your passport (though the State Department already has an online form that fills out a printable application for you). And you have to go in person to get a marriage license (but I think that's a feature, not a bug; and hopefully that's not a routine activity, anyway). I had to do an interview to get my Global Entry (eliminates most of the wait at immigration when re-entering the US) thing approved, but the application process was all online, and my recent renewal was completed from my couch.

Otherwise...? I've set foot in a DMV perhaps 3 times since I moved to California 19 years ago (once when I first moved, to take the written driving test; once when I lost my driver's license and had to prove who I was to get a new one; and once when I had to apply for the ridiculous new "REAL ID"). I file my income taxes online, and whatever money I'm due or owed gets electronically transferred. I pay my property taxes online. I activated the electric and gas utility service (not quite government, but adjacent) online when I last moved. Mail forwarding when your address changes is done at the Postal Service's website. I even signed all the paperwork to buy a new home online (if you have a mortgage lender, they'll want some things signed in person, but they can someone to your house for that, and at any rate the government-related paperwork is all handled by a title company for you, at least where I live). You can even pay parking ticket and driving infraction fines online, if you don't want to contest them.

The online systems to take care of this stuff do all vary in clunkiness to some degree, but some of them are quite modern-looking and have decent or even good UX. The federal government even has 'login.gov' now, which they're slowly (very slowly) getting various agencies to adopt so you have a single sign-in. I don't think states and municipalities are allowed to use it, though.
I think a directory of 10000 files is worse than a file of 10000 lines.
The ads I get in Youtube are full of obvious lies, AI generated garbage, clear copyright violations, and worse.

What makes matters worse is that comments get disabled aa does sharing. I can't even link to the problem. If I report the ad, it is there again tomorrow. It's almost as if that counts as interaction worthy of trying the ad again.

I personally don't like RB. I find the whole act to be off-putting. Though that is most often a sign of others liking the content.

I don't think letting the "reason" go unchallenged is responsible given the above.
For me the key point in this discussion is the phrase "consumer relevance" .. Microsoft seem to be aware that they are becoming less and less relevant, and making big buys in the gaming industry seems to be a very unique means by which they can maintain their hegemony.

Lets hope this doesn't happen. Microsofts' aggressive business practices and its classist culture are really undeserving of future childrens' devoted eyeballs ..
Well it isn't that we wouldn't want to participate but the EU is connecting our Horizon participation with other topics that have nothing to do with it. So I don't really see us rejoining it anytime soon.
I do not disagree that sometimes German bureaucracy is not the most efficient.

But. I have used Elster and, while it is true it looks old and overly complicated, it actually works great.

You get _a lot_ of very useful warnings about fields that cannot be 0 or must at least be x, based on some other distant field. You can save previous forms and start from them (for recurrent things like VAT quarterly declaration). You can save progress and log in using certificates, change to be notified electronically instead of per physical mail.

IMO Elster would be even better if they would _never_ change the number of the fields. If you buy a book about German taxes (I know, fun) they can say fill in field 47, and it it prob now 49 because the fields changed.
Yes, family name, my mistake.
Yes.

(You expected detail, to further argue/troll with?)
Just a reminder that WINE [0] runs a lot of new and old Windows software pretty well, so that anyone wanting to consult the database could either load it either from a desktop Linux machine, a Linux VM, or even have it boot it directly to the database software since it can be easily embedded in a self booting Linux distro contained in a pendrive along the CD's data.

0: https://www.winehq.org/
Are you familiar with the Indonesian genocide? It was pretty awful but it seems like the world at large is unaware of what happened.
I wrote a tool for that: https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/berlin-burgeramt-appointme...

It's officially sanctioned by the city, but it's capped to one request every 3 minutes to avoid replacing the official website. Every few months, I ask them for permission to add other services, and I get ghosted.

However, the tool is open source, so you can just `pip install` it and run it on any appointment type you want.

https://github.com/nicbou/burgeramt-appointments-websockets
Should we not simply be following the rules of the language spoken at the time? When speaking English, use the English convention. When speaking Japanese, use the Japanese convention etc.
They are isolated because that scheme is designed to isolate non-members.

But nothing prevents the UK from being part of international collaborations in general.
Reminds me of last year when I made a small site to help find appointments slots for the municipality in Brussels.

Website was taking so much effort to see the appointments and people said throughout they day they randomly opened so many of my classmates were checking all the time. So I made this to see appointments on one page instead of clicking many boxes.

https://blog.rayberger.org/automating-ixelles-appointment-ch...
As a Japanese native I'm torn on this. On one hand, respecting the local ordering & notation seems to be good manners. On the other hand, this creates an ambiguity where some people are writing Asian names in local notation and some others writing in western notation. (This is even true for Japanese people themselves, as mentioned in the other comments.)

At least things were consistent when everyone wrote them in western notation; now we can't be sure which part is the family name and which part is the given name, especially if it's from a country that you're not familiar with the order/notation rules. There's the "write the family name in all caps" rule to assist with it, but not everyone follows that rule either.
My favourite, taking a photo of a nice outdoor scene with random people in the background, someone will always run up to you shouting "Datenschutz!"
Most of these shitty online services are already run by private consulting companies that burn your tax money.
Have you already completely forgotten the launch of the Xbox One? The Xbox division is reasonably well managed now but they're still pushing towards a rental model over actual ownership. The Microsoft store is a cesspool of malware, and Windows 11 is actively user hostile. Their game studios have next to no quality control. Not to mention previous genius management ideas like stack ranking.

What do you think will happen to Nintendo if they are assimilated by such a company and milked for all they are worth? Mario Odyssey 2 will be an open world live service game riddled with bugs and missing features like the ability to jump.
SQL as the database, Budibase for app building!
Switzerland flushed tremendous amounts of goodwill in all of europe, especially eastern europe, with their ridiculous stance on weapons deliveries - or non-allowance of deliveries tangentially related to switzerland.

Don't know whether this especially is related, but expect more of that.
You have any data on that? Reading reports on European research output UK is nothing special.

Edit: those corrupt uni ranking lists mean nothing.
I'm not even sure this will help much. Yes, in addition to AWS account bot farms now would have to pay X per-bot but this is hardly an issue for state-sponsored bot-farms or bit dark net operators.

With that it's going to push out lots of human users who either can't afford to pay or don't see enough value to justify the price (e.g. casual/occasional users). And with outflow of audience value diminishes for users who might be willing to pay, pushing some of them over the edge.

I wonder whether this would actually increase bot-to-human ratio.

My prediction if would get implemented it would last a week. Like with login-wall last time numbers would plummet too much.
Motorola Defy 2: Rugged 5G smartphone with satellite connectivity
> 'significantly' is obviously a weasel word that is opened to further arguments

This is from the government announcement. I am 99.9% sure that when you read the actual text of the agreement there will be a process with exact cutoffs with the scenario laid out for how the funding would be recouped, and by whom.
No, they correctly predicted that the research funding was one of the things the government would kibosh with its "not paying the EU a penny" dick-waving, which is what happened.

The fact we can later renegotiate access to a particular programme on the same basis as NZ doesn't mean we're getting access to other EU perks like free healthcare on holiday or the right to live in Spain, or that London hasn't fallen behind Paris for size of equities market. The "sovereignty" argument put forward by Leave was much more misleading. Ask the fishermen how many of the hated EU rules they're still required to follow as part of our "independent" fishing deal...
How do you feel about Airtable's recent pricing changes?
Just tried it. “Double-check results using Google” is a great feature.
I would love to the Nintendo games on PC. So I'm all for this.
Zapier - n8n

Airtable / Retool - Budibase
How is autoMemoryReclaim not the prime takeaway from this!?

I know we just use headlines here, but that is my single greatest gripe about using WSL day to day
A fun thing about Thailand is that if your name is David Jones you will often be addressed as Mr. David. (Aka Khun David.)

Takes a minute to realize this is not a mistake.

[edit:] Also if you use a nickname, say Bunny Colvin, you will be Mr. Bunny.
As long as we hold onto the USENET tradition, that all posts pointing out a spelling or grammatical error must themselves contain such an error. Including punctuation.

:-)
Choose two

(We really are at the point where some solutions offer choose two)

But, add “robust sophisticated data access controls” to that list and its still “choose two”)
I find it fascinating that we have no way of telling if a user is human just by looking at their signal.

All the meaning we attribute to a signal depends entirely on something that is not detectable from the signal itself itself: wether an actual human is behind it.

This phenomenon intersects with philosophy, cognitive science, and information theory, and the best solution corporate automata come up with is "just let them pay for the usage".

What a weird web (no pun intended) we've spun.
Something Mysterious Appears to Be Suppressing the Universe's Growth
Yeah WSL1 is underrated - and more elegant IMHO
the missteps was thinking they could get away without so much trouble
> Citation needed

FLOSSPOLS 2004-05 found that "proprietary software" was around 28% female, whereas "free software" was around 1.5% female. A presentatation of the results can be found at [1].

I agree with you that FOSS is much larger than GNU/FSF, and that many places are actively welcoming to women - the linked slides reference Debian's efforts; the python community also seems to be fairly good at this.

[1] https://people.cs.umass.edu/~wallach/talks/flosspols.pdf