skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember when Hans Reiser successfully destroyed all definitive forensic evidence of his murder of his ex and then got convicted anyway because nobody believed he was innocent then traded handing over her body for a lighter sentence?

Even if you could theoretically create a mathematically plausible doubt it doesn't matter if a judge and or jury doesn't believe it.

Also both Google and the recipient can attest the message hit the server prior to the key being published. You MAY be in a position where your email provider is in a different jurisdiction and not inclined to cooperate but if bob the witness already gave up your message won't he give up the timeline breaking any hope of repudiation?

So all hope of an upside is basically a pipe dream. Lets talk about the downside you can now sign crap with Googles already published key and lie about the timeline. You can have "experts" go on TV and lie about authentication. Since most people know less than nothing on the topic it sounds on its face believable.
I’m talking about wheat. But now I want to go read Bronze Rank Brewer again…
making over 10 million a year... i feel like that is fair
well, current complain in Myanmar community is facebook randomly banning posts that not related to any kind of voilence.

many had moved to telegram because facebook very strict moderation
Yup. This has big-time "junior engineer wanting to make a splash on a mailing list" energy.
It would be more prudent indeed to just force hardware vendors to release the specs, and it would be even more prudent still to just disallow lock-out. I would start there like you suggest.

I do suspect however that we'd miss out on many benefits if we don't go all the way the way to disallowing vertical integration eventually. It's also something I rarely see spoken of.
It's certainly plausible, but there's a lot of confounds.

Broad-spectrum vs tanning.

And outside also gets lower CO2 and VOC.
I had a friend that used to go in the staircase in the back of the office after lunch so he could take a nap. IMO that’s the biggest downside of “working”, alongside commute and timezones.
Why is the phone always automatically higher priority than the guy you're talking to?

Seems messed up. What's the psychology with that?

Is it a FOMO thing? Should we feel insulted?
This is why I put a lot of games I’m not sure about on my Steam wishlist. Then when a game is “cheap enough” I buy it.

If my hunch was right and the game is only “ok”, but I got a few hours of enjoyment out of it for only a few bucks, I don’t have any buyers remorse.
Obviously such a generalization can't be true.

When the Olympics come to town?

When Fleet Week comes to town?

When the giant music festivals happen in the parks?

When the big awards show takes over the tourist area?

When SF tourists make our ski mountains require paid parking on the weekends?

People grumble..
Japan's islands introducing 'entrance tax' to beat overtourism
It was. But then it turns out databases were bad at handling or were expensive when there were multiple users connected. Setting up database connections didn't perform, so they had to be pooled. Row and field level security wasn't there, or with limitations. So we all migrated away to a different architecture. And perhaps we'll go back again, like we always do..

Chasing our tech-tail.
If only adults had agency to make their own decisions about lightbulbs without depending on the government…
The last couple of pictures, of the eyes and the bird, are really neat. Göbeklitepe continues to provide interesting results.

It's kind of comforting and exciting that we have so much yet to uncover about the past.
> the key can obviously be extracted from the HSM, making publishing it possible.

As I understand it, it should be impossible to export a private key from an HSM.

I'm not very familiar with HSMs though, so I might be wrong about this.
At Apple we would see this tone all the time from people on the VLC project. It got so bad that the senior people would refer to them as DCS, Drunken College Student.

It got so bad that we mostly ignored them. It wasn't good for either VLC or QuickTime.
One of my favorite things about running GrapheneOS without Google Play Services is that most apps aren't even set up to push a notification to me this way.

Signal is, and it's the only app I care to be notified by!
"Look, you're just FORCING me to become a 'neo-nazi follower' by helping these people too much!"
So I'll advocate "Stolen Focus" by Johann Hari [0] and my "Digtal Vegan" [1]

Johann's book has some surprises toward the end, that go way deeper into environmental
and cultural factors. He ultimately sees it as a collective/societal problem
with collective solutions. Mine tries to advocate for mindful control and rejection of
toxic tech and makes it a more individual battle.

[0] https://stolenfocusbook.com/

[1] https://digitalvegan.net/
SQL is specifically designed for "business" computations.
it's over 9000!
Show HN: A distributed workflow engine written in Go
I'd like to share a project I've been working on for the past few months.

It's a distributed workflow engine written entirely in Go.

Some highlights:

* Tasks are executed in a Docker container
* Can run stand-alone or distributed
* Highly extensible
* Able to enforce limits (CPU/RAM) per task
* Web UI

Would love the get your feedback on it, and find out if this could be useful.
> all the breweries that operate tents are local breweries.

The brewery is local, but the profits go elsewhere:

- Löwenbräu, Spaten, Franziskaner: Anheuser-Busch-InBev

- Hacker Pschorr: doesn't even exist as a brewery, the brand is owned by a local construction baron and Heineken, the beer is brewed by Paulaner.

The only independents (made a mistake above, it's actually two) are Augustiner which is privately held and Hofbräu which belongs to the government.
Highgate Vampire
Article mentions checking the UV index. FYI, on iphone it is shown in the weather app, just need to scroll down a bit.
There are solutions. I find myself posting this [0] here on HN from time to time. It doesn’t work for everything (I’m not sure how well it would work for a pair of leather boots, though the same approach is theoretically possible there as well) but it is a step up from just continuing with the status quo.

[0]: https://www.mail-archive.com/kragen-tol@canonical.org/msg003...
> In the example given, expensive socks and cheap socks are basically the same when new (they'll keep your feet warm, padded, and wick away moisture), the only difference is how long that lasts.

As someone who swears by high quality wool socks, I’m going to have to hard-disagree on this example.
EV bikes sure. price and weight of good EV bike dropped for last 5 years.
As far as I can tell, someone has “digitised” the local buses by adding tracking and cashless payments to go along with the mobile app.

They’ve also fragmented the services even more in the process since each bus company has their own version of the app (it’s just a skinning of the base app). It means I need to check back and forth between two apps to see which buses are on time. Naturally you can only buy a pass that only works on one bus route. The ux is pretty garbage.

Dealing with public transport in rural England definitely made me appreciate the seamlessness of transport in London.
Seeing that we are at the level of anecdotes, as a Swiss I went to Germany and don’t plan to ever go back. Other friends went to the UK, Japan, the US, Canada. So there is that. And not because foreigners take our jobs, that’s an utterly absurd concept, Switzerland wouldn’t be the country it is without cross border workers and people immigrating. Our dumb isolationist and social conservative politics are costing the country and community a lot.
I think you'd find that Prometheus is way behind a number of solutions in the corporate world, including Graphite, DogStatsD, etc. Popularity on HN does not translate to real world popularity.
5000mAh battery at 3.7V nominal has roughly 18-20Wh of juice. Your crank would only be putting out 400mW of power if it truly took 48 hours to charge.

Internet seems to think most hand cranks can output somewhere between 5-15W, which would mean you'd only take 1.3-4 hours to fully charge said pack. Plenty of juice in an emergency situation, and certainly plenty for a phone call or something. Maybe that's a big giant crank thing though, and the tiny plastic crap ones only put out the wattage you're talking about though.
Could you get him a dumber phone? Maybe one of those minimalist e-ink phones. They're nice.
Long-term weight loss and breakfast in subjects in the NWCR
I muted a ton of useless Slack channels everyone is expected to be in, but some bot notifications somehow get through. It got worse lately which I assume is an Android or Slack bug, or both. Slack + bad management is the ultimate job enshittifier.
> The Balkans is sunny, taxes are low. I'd take that any day over subzero Northern Germany.

Isn't the weather still not great during the winter months? I don't care if it's 0 C or +8 C, both make me not want to go out.
There's a push these days to move towards HALEU fuel in the US; it's basically downblended submarine fuel stock [0]. It'll take about a decade to really start the downblending and distribution process at commercial scale in earnest [1], and there's some projects for instrumentation, transport containment, and so on in the works. Once commercial scale feedstock production is proven out, we'll start seeing shovels breaking ground on new reactor sites.

[0] https://www.nrc.gov/materials/new-fuels/haleu.html
[1] https://www.orano.group/usa/en/our-portfolio-expertise/advan...
That only holds when you have unused money. Eg the "cost" of spending $8 doesn't remove another source of happiness, like a few days in Bora Bora.

I have a buddy who is constantly buying shit. Every day is a new "thing" and he talks about how he just buys what he wants.

Then I'll go on a nice trip or buy an expensive item and he'll be a bit jealous about it - but I actually spend less per year than he does on these things.
> positive externalities

I really don't think you meant to use the word externality here. And the other replies so far are not about positive externalities.

Perhaps roads are an indirect positive externality - roads are useful for bikes and buses, also useful for demarcation between properties or areas and addressing!!!

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/externality.asp
Can’t edit now, but it should be initialized to lowerBits - (1 << (pageIndex + BASE_PAGE_BITS - 1)) for pageIndex > 0, or just lowerBits if pageIndex = 0.
There is definitely a shut-down procedure that the body goes through and it appears to be peaceful. But in many cases I do think there is a terrible moment when your conscious brain is still alive and you realize you are dying. It looks when you see it exactly like a scared animal looks, if you’ve ever seen that.

I’ve only seen it twice but it doesn’t leave you.
Can you link to an example of a lease that requires a certain number of people be there every day? I used to have a business that needed office space, and of the several buildings we used over the course of about 10 years, not a single lease ever cared about how many people would show up every day. The closest thing to that would be related to max occupancy and parking spaces. The leases would always have to specify how many people could be in the building at most for fire code compliance, and that number determined the number of accessible and normal parking spaces.

Regarding tax breaks, I never saw any, but that was pre-pandemic. That makes more sense to me, but leases requiring minimum attendance counts seems like it could be an oft-repeated myth.
Starbucks is like this. They deliberately bundle together "Promotions & Order Status" to make sure you receive their junk.
> Because we don't have blatant, in your face off-by-one bugs in our DSP and we actually check the output to make sure it's good

This makes me cringe. I consider myself an experienced software engineer, but I don't think I'll ever criticize other's code like that.
Whilst reading about notable people who share my surname, I discovered this bizarre article on the Highgate Vampire media sensation of the 1970s.

> There was more publicity about Farrant and Manchester when rumours spread that they would meet in a "magicians' duel" on Parliament Hill on Friday 13 April 1973, which never occurred.
Hilariously, this isn’t Apple’s first time with funny acronyms. The “Sagan” project got sued, so it was internally renamed to the “BHA” project. Sagan then sued Apple again once he figured out that meant “Butt-Head Astronomer.” He lost because it wasn’t even a publicly facing name, and even if it was, that’s hardly defamation.
I feel like they should prescribe sunlight for prisoners. I was held for 10 years without seeing the sun, and many jails and prisons are built on budgets that don't allow for any sunlight.
Maybe they could use the click-to-dismiss ratio as a spam signal? Or even speed-to-dismiss (people probably tend to dismiss spam notifications more quickly).
> Only 114 subjects (4%) reported never eating breakfast
When you buy your kid a smartphone you are literally inviting a squad of marketing PhDs to stalk him 24-7.
Discussed at the time:

Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2481213 - April 2011 (36 comments)
the City and County of Los Angeles also spent $700 million dollars on ONE public school rebuild.. it might have been an elementary school with an associated building IIR
Please do watch & internally digest the explanatory videos at https://xiph.org/video/

It explains why you’re wrong in easily digestible terms & how a 44kHz sample rate will accurately encode signals right up to the Nyquist limit. The second video is an end to end demo showing the process in action.
> 40-50$ per person in a restaurant is a flat out lie so I'm not gonna even bother with that.

Unfortunately things here in Bucharest are pretty much getting there, maybe not in the range of 40-50$ per person but most definitely in the 35-40$ range, and I'm talking a regular restaurant. Before the pandemic I'd say that that price was in the 20-25$ range.

Though I can see how prices in cities like Belgrade, Sofia or Skopje might still be lower, as even Athens is now cheaper than Bucharest when it comes to eating out (I've experienced that myself recently), in which case enjoy it while it still lasts.
But how many are bundled with Windows???
I have "Cite sources whenever possible, and include URLs if possible (at the end of the answer, not inline)" in my custom instructions and nearly always get citations from chatGPT.
Is it just full spectrum light or specific UV sections?

I wonder if future building codes will require some type of intermittent full spectrum or UV light in certain areas. Maybe in a bathroom with a timer that shuts it off a few seconds after someone enters.
> in the hands of a kid, today's phone technology and it's inability to stop this crap it's the incarnation of evil.

I'm going to be that guy: this honestly just sounds like you're abdicating your parental responsibility and placing the blame on the tech. Yes, the tech is bad, but there's no reason why your kid should be subjected to the full weight of its awfulness besides that you let him.

Step one is to question whether a smartphone is even necessary at this age. I understand feeling the need to have them be able to reach you, and pay phones and school landlines are less accessible than they once were. But why a smartphone? Peer pressure is not a good enough answer.

If there is a compelling reason for a smartphone (like the other commenter whose school bus system inexplicably requires kids to have an app) then iOS has pretty robust parental controls from what I understand, but I personally would go further and buy an Android phone and install even stronger controls. There are FOSS Android apps that allow you to block everything except for a few whitelisted apps, and there are others that can impose time limits.

A pretty simple combination of apps can create an experience that is suitable to any age, gradually enabling more functionality as you trust him more. We've even done this with our 4-year-old and an old tablet, giving him access to Khan Academy Kids with a time limit.
A huge portion of this is nits. A considerable amount of this is not challenging what is stated, but instead is just saying "well that's good, actually."

> I know he has an anti-capitalist, probably socialist bent.

Oh no.
It looks like FFP3 are analogous to N99 masks.

A mask mandate that permits "wrap a piece of T-shirt over your mouth, some of the time, sometimes even covering your nose" (which is not far from what I saw for much of 2020) is, unsurprisingly, going to be more effective at ensuring grudging compliance with a mandate than it is to reduce the spread of an airborne virus.
If we retain a functional society with reasonable rights for all aren't the "victims" of non-repudiation going to be virtually exclusively bad actors?

People at real risk should probably be using something more secure like signal whereas people like US senators using a platform to communicate that can't be audited at need should probably go straight to prison on principal.
That's interesting, I didn't know that.

How much is the rent for a studio in Northern Germany?
In-Water Tests for DARPA Manta Ray Scaled Prototype
Good question. I have no idea why people allow their attentionto be hijacked by algorithms. My guess is they just don't realize what is happening.
Ask HN: Will Bootstrapping See a Resurgence?
As we make it through 2023, we're slowly seeing some younger venture funded startups unwind, as they struggle to meet the inflated valuations of the last few years. This isn't really surprising.

So what are the second order effects we're going to see? Will bootstrapping businesses surge a bit? Something else?
It's not an official Asahi communication.

It's a dev enjoying some hyperbole for something cool they fixed on a chat platform.
And it’s worth noting that if you’re of a certain age - and generally that age correlates closely with the ability to afford equipment that can reproduce the very high quality you’re demanding - your hearing has likely deteriorated past the ability to discern the difference.
I find it interesting and amusing to walk by the imported shelf-stable food at KaDeWe. Let's me know what somebody thinks is consumed.

And reading the blurb on the back of the Kriket package is hilarious!
> It doesn't make sense to tax companies! They are unselfish entities designed to serve society why would we tax them??????

What world are you living in? These companies are absolutely selfish, by definition. Publicly traded companies have a "fiduciary duty" to their shareholders to act solely in the companies interest (i.e. maximizing profits). They are not "designed to serve society" - that is the purpose of democratic government - they are designed to make as much money as possible.

Any beneficial-to-society effects are secondary. Or only intended insofar as to generate further profit.

And so we're clear, this is the mechanism behind this popular new "enshittification" term. The name of the game is Money, or Power if you prefer. Google doesn't provide Maps for free to benefit society, they provide it because it's an enormous engine driving their digital moat (not to mention their immediate ad business revenue).

These companies are not your friends. And by this I don't mind that they are a priori your enemy, only that their actions are not intended for your benefit, and they can easily turn hostile if it is in their interest to do so. If you place implicit trust in them, and do nothing to curtail their acquisition of power, nobody will be able to oppose them when they take actions that are harmful to society.
Low nitrate MP3 is a fantastic typo.
It’s even worse than that - every class has a parent led WhatsApp group set up where people then regurgitate the same info into the chat.

I suggested maybe a calendar instead but got the standard “it’s all too hard” responses.
The Oktoberfest is the largest annual drug festival in the world, but cannabis is still illegal in Germany.
Founder of skeema.io here. GP is a fan and does not have a stake in the company.

Skeema is used by several hundred companies, including GitHub, Twilio, and Etsy. We have a lot of fans in the MySQL community, and just because someone enjoys the product does not mean they’re a shill.
If you like sun it is, we get tons of sun.
what is this link? I only saw mailing lists, but this looks like a detached email
I've became disabled two years ago. My supervisor and I filled out the Reasonable Accommodation paperwork for our EEO and HR offices. At the time, I thought we were filling it out prematurely, since I was not sure what accommodations I'd need. (And two weeks after losing my leg to Necrotizing Fasciitis and Sepsis, work was not the first thing on my mind.) We did not ask about working from home; but, that was the accommodation they came back with.

I had to catch up a lot once I got home from the hospital and rehab; but, since then, I haven't missed a beat. It became a major part of my recovery. If I couldn't work from home, I'd be basket case.
Another disgusting thing they do is push promo notifications with the title “1 new match?” where the question mark is the only difference from an actual app notification.
I agree it is a people problem but: the people are ignoring you and the tech is just asking for abuse and that tech too was implemented by a bunch of people who are ignoring you. So absent an outright block on all such messages with the significant risk that one day you'll miss something important there isn't all that much that you can do. Complaining certainly doesn't seem to work (at least: it hasn't worked for me) and the only thing that happened in terms of change is that there now are two portals (and two apps...) to be used because half the teachers refuses to switch to the new one. It is frankly incredible how little attention is given to usability and respect for the user when the user is part of a captive audience. Short of changing schools there is not much that you can do and that isn't an option for a variety of reasons.
U.S. to rein in technology that limits Medicare Advantage care
> That decision is being made by a person who you should be able to find and share your concern with.

Good point, and it generalizes to pretty much all the social problems "created by" tech. The technology is fine. Behind each misuse is a person or a group that commissioned said tech, and/or is applying it in malicious ways. Focusing on ills of technology, while ignoring the people wielding it for wrong, is just a distraction.
Posts like this make me think that we rediscover with every generation. Interesting to me that this particular author has found this, but also keenly aware that millions of people (billions?) have reached the same conclusions.
It seems that there are no real consequences here. What's the point? It's already a requirement in the US that anyone that is being paid to promote something is required to disclose this information, but that doesn't happen all the much in reality already.
I honestly do not see how the two things are related. Spending 15€ once instead of 8€ once is not really a sign of anything. You can do that even as an unemployed person on Bürgergeld.

What is worrying about the German economy is also not the current inflation but the long term outlook: the energy prices that will never be competitive, the 20 years of technological lag within almost all industries due to lack of investment and extremely risk averse financial climate, and the ever aging population, which now Germans are starting to realize, won't be so easily solved by immigration, neither illegal nor legal.
Beware the breakfast industrial complex.
There are plenty of trustworthy fathers they simply aren't the ones they are angling for