skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was living in the UK I thought so to, but when I moved to another country (Poland) I realised 3 huge shortcoming of the UK's online gov system (perhaps they fixed it by now, I moved 6 years ago). These were: a unified way to authenticate oneself to all gov services, a way to sign electronic forms/documents in a legally binding way without having to buy a personal certificate and a establishing a standard "document submission receipt" that proves what and when you submitted.

I'll start why this really matters from the last item. Even after my move I kept my UK company for a while, I was making regular electronic VAT submissions until sometime in July 2021 I decided to deregister my company's VAT. I did that via HMRC's online form. In December I logged in to check to find out that any record of me doing that evaporated, and now I had an "estimated" VAT bill of around £5k. I submitted a zero return for the previous quarter I should've been deregister in and after I rang HMRC and 2 weeks later the balance "I owed" dropped to zero. I deregistered again and this time "it worked". However, I had no way whatsoever to prove I indeed deregistered before. The person I spoke to on the phone that day decided my story believable so I didn't get any fines. What if they had a worse day? Ability to reliably prove you submitted government documents when you say you did is extremely important. In the country I now live in(Poland) you get a cryptographically signed XML document you can use as proof. You get one from any level of government you submit stuff to online (taxes, local councils anything). There is an online service you can check the validity of such signature and the content is all readable with a text editor.

Then a way to electronically sign documents that is equivalent to your in person signature legally without any special equipment or software for free. And a way to authenticate oneself to government services(including national healthcare) Here any citizen (or a foreigner that registers) can do so with one "thing". There are few ways to authenticate, an app, an online bank account (all banks in the country support it), a national id with a nfc chip and a pin, or you go to a local council in person and they create an account for you with a usename/password +2FA(sms,or auth app). You can sign any document using an online service, there is a history of stuff you signed you can check and you have a "mailbox" you can use to receive documents instead of the post.

The system is mostly XML based and it uses ssl for signatures. I have no idea what they use in the backend (probably lots of java). One can also purchase certificates to use as a signature like in other EU countries. The government sites look reasonably modern with dynamic forms, but they deteriorate gracefully if all you want is to read them, but good luck getting forms to work without JS.

Personally I think they did a pretty good job with this system.
> The Jupiter supercomputer, which will cost €273 million to build, will pair SiPearl’s Rhea processor, which is based on ARM architecture, with accelerator technology from Nvidia.

An ARM and a leg, for sure.
I am in the same boat, though I don't think its the catalogue for me. All the major services have practically the same catalogue.

Its their recommendations and playlists. No one else is remotely close; the UI is absolutely dense with new music it thinks you might enjoy, left right and center, every button you press is like "hey here's a playlist" "hey what about this artist" "here's new music you'll like released this week". And: Its freakin good at it. Literally no one else in any industry has figured out recommending new products like Spotify has. Amazon recommendations suck. Netflix recommendations suck. I discover new artists legit daily via Spotify.

Apple Music and Tidal are empty in comparison. Its better at displaying the result of `GET /library` in a default SwiftUI table, if thats what you want.

Its the non-mobile experience. Apple Music is abhorrent on the web (which is necessary for AM subscribers on Linux/Windows? Maybe iTunes still works? Idk). Its better, but still pretty bad, on the Mac. Spotify has near-perfect parity across Web, Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android, in features, performance, and experience. Now; you can argue that, in an absolute sense, their UI is worse; I don't agree with this take, but its a reasonable one; at least its consistently worse across every platform.

And I'll go and say it: Its the bundling of Podcasts and Audiobooks. I don't love the UI they've built to get at all these features. But, I've switched my podcasts to Spotify, because I'm constantly shuffling between listening on Mac, iOS, Windows, and Linux; there are very few podcast apps that have a comprehensive library, have an S-Tier app on every consumer operating system + web, sync listening status/history, and are free* (because I already pay for Spotify).

So, yeah; I stan Spotify. I physically and deeply cannot vibe with the article. You're mad that they moved the... shuffle button? Seriously? If products don't innovate, nerds get mad. If they innovate too much, nerds get mad. The pace at which Spotify changes their product, usually for the better, is something every major company on the planet envies. Change isn't always good; but the ability to change is extremely good.
I now realize I forgot to link the plug-in!

https://github.com/nwindian/Memorization-Plugin
If we're making bets on OpenAI vs Nvidia in the hardware space, I know who I'm picking.
By that metric, you'd never want to go and see the WHO. He's probably the most recent concert example though.
I would trust more a true GAI which runs in my own, controlled devices than any cloud-backed chatbot.
Tim Sweeney, the CEO, did post a X / Twitter reply clarifying this:

@GameFromScratch: "Hey @TimSweeneyEpic, getting a lot of questions about aspiring and indie film makers and how they will be impacted by the 2024 changes to the Unreal licensing. I know details aren't set in stone, but will there be minimum revenue thresholds, so these people aren't impacted?"
https://twitter.com/gamefromscratch/status/17096060031702960...

@TimSweeneyEpic: "Won’t affect. There will be minimum revenue thresholds for commercial projecrs, and student/educator use will remain free."
https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/170973133514783131...
Nothing to be proud of, but I once won $50 through betting on ice hockey. I had no clue what I was doing, I just picked a team and put bet for draw every time that team was playing, doubling previous bet. Once I won I took the money and never came back :)
That gets complicated.

BDSM can be a positive in a healthy relationship. But I've also seen lots of abusive relationships where the abuser gaslit the target into accepting the abuse as BDSM. And the line between the two is rather fuzzy.

Therefore the fact that it is CALLED BDSM doesn't make it healthy.
>hack into your home

>hack a house

Can you just say "break into a house"? Such a weird way to put it, "hack". I get it's Hacker News, were all nerds here, but some things shouldn't be nerdwashed as a "hack", this is one of them.
> Tell that to the Taliban or the Vietcong.

That's my line. Those two kicked the USA's backside despite the superior firepower that the USA brought. Took a while, and they lost a lot of their own in the process, but they won.

> Personally I'd feel shame if other men died in my defence.

Why do you think that's a necessary, or even likely, outcome?

First: well trained forces are much less likely to die in any given encounter than random people in the same encounter. This is also part of why I asked if you're a vet: without that training, you're not really defending you and yours even a tenth as much as you think you are. (And even with: there's a reason the unit size isn't single soldiers).

Second: if you have a society worthy of the name, you can coordinate against bandits, making it harder for them to threaten the lives of anyone including those doing the groundwork of taking down criminal gangs. By way of comparison, the UK is sufficiently safe that even cops are not routinely armed — because they don't need to be.
This is really cool, and as it uses an established architecture, can benefit from the software ecosystem that exists around it.

The article focuses basically on the x86 vs. arm competition.

Any idea where to read more about the application this machine is expected to run? I guess the usual like weather forecast and such?
I have to imagine one of these big corporate hack groups asking MGM to go to their local CVS and buy $500,000 of gift cards like the old days.
Hey! Don't know if the Github repo or here is the best way to ask since the Discussions on the repo are not active.

I have started the docker-compose.yml file in WSL and it has been running for an hour slowly accumulating a few megabytes of redis data running at about 5% CPU usage. Inspecting it shows magnet links. It appears to be working.

But visiting the the web interface at localhost:3333 just yields "Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at localhost:3333." after a 30 second timeout.

Would you have a guess why?
It means Microsoft is involved too.
From consumer perspective, following the performance of Apple silicon, I am excited for this news.
I have done the same but I use funkwhale for hosting. That way I can have with close friends who have similar music taste create a decent music library.
Correct, DR-DOS had a Task Switcher, but still single processing. It was much better than the DOSSHELL Microsoft had because you could switch at the command line as opposed to having to run a bloated shell.
And all our assumptions get blown up with every new hardware generation, too.

Hardware engineers are building systems for the applications of today. And the kernel developers are optimizing as well. It's all a moving target.

Dogma has no place here.
So would the Turkish government be happy to let you sell something that was pro Kurd?
Can report Jülich is not near Munich.... Anyway will be fascinating to see how the SiPearl chip works out.
Any options for an ancient iPad?
Or the free Spacedesk, does the same.
You can use https://github.com/spicetify to customize the appearance
Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) Effectively Defeats Pirate Site Blocking
That SWE salaries, especially at some companies, are high in the aggregate doesn't mean that companies will necessarily bend their policies too far to accommodate a specific SWE who thinks they're special enough that the policies don't apply to them.
The CCC being political and left-wing is a feature and not a bug.
> Someone taking the time to use it well will use it well, someone lazy will still be lazy.

Exactly. It's a self-solving problem as long as draconian luddites don't outright ban LLMs.
Where were we talking exclusively about enterprise?
Both of them got it for not being Bush.
I’d guess that’s true in the US too, if you modify the engine or transmission or exhaust system, etc. But adding something to your car without modifying the existing systems has no regulation and no certification process, which he sorta talks about in the article re: police inability to enforce. As long as there aren’t other laws you violate, hanging a big fan out the window might not count as modifying the car.
An Everything Minifier for Websites
The conditions in the disclaimer only apply to the French government. Translated with Firefox (which apparently still makes some typos):

> Conditions for the use of the Components by the Other Users

> All Other Users are allowed to use the source code according to the terms of the MIT license.

> Other Users are expressly reminded that any use of the Components outside the limits referred to herein or for the purpose of diverting them and otherwise appropriateing the State Mark is punishable by civil and/or criminal sanctions.
In a company where we chose to do production SQL shenanigans in the spirit of "move fast, break things", I developed a habit of starting those with "BEGIN;" and paying careful attention to the number of records modified before calling it a "COMMIT;". In case of unexpected numbers, immediate "ROLLBACK;" so as to not hog the resources and make the applications suffer.

Even fatigued, "DELETE 1182900" tends to stick out, if you're used to, and expecting to, see "DELETE 1".

("BEGIN" appears to be PostgreSQLism, "START TRANSACTION" is more standard.)
... and Van Halen's "5150" in the background?
They've done a lot worse [0]!

Despite what the quote in the article from a spotify rep says, the desktop app continued to burn massive amounts of write into hard drives for quite a while. From what I saw in the year or so after, the "fix" seemed to throttle the pointless write frequency based on disk IO. Not so bad if you were trudging along on platters. If your SSD was fast/expensive enough it could top a TB of write in 24 hours.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/for-f...
That's an interesting view and one I agree with. Surely if context switch = expensive is common knowledge for a long time in computing, the kernel people and CPU companies would have tried optimizing it to the fullest, no?
Ireland would be excluded because GDP estimations for Ireland vastly over-estimate wealth due to many corporations being resident in Ireland for tax purposes.

Otherwise, I have long suspected that using the US/US dollar as a baseline results in some skewing of the data. For example, GDP per capita PPP comparisons would place Mississippi as wealthier than the UK (as mentioned in the OP). However human development indices paint a very different picture, and would place Mississippi on par with Eastern Europe [0].

[0] https://i.imgur.com/yPkHUNt.jpg Source: https://vividmaps.com/human-development-index-us-vs-europe/
Palantir is nowhere compared to Thales ( French compagny ): https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/markets/digital-identity-and-...

They even serve cards for the DoD: https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/markets/digital-identity-and-...
> how often he even gets the most basic stuff wrong

Such as? That's an outlandish claim unless you have receipts to back it up.

He does get things wrong occasionally, he's only human after all, but he tends to publish very public retractions which is more than can be said for professional journalists.
Yes exactly. Not everything seeking concurrency is a web server. In an OS, every single system service must concurrently serve IPC requests, but the vast majority of them do so single threaded to reduce overall CPU consumption. Making dozens of services thread per core on a four core device would be a waste of CPU and RAM.
chat GPT has the same behaviour, no? I've had it send most or all of a response before the censor system triggers it to be redacted.
Bing does the same thing, I think just optimizing for latency. Admittedly it probably shaves off 10-15s in the usual response, I’d probably make the same decision.
> Laundering USD is significantly harder than laundering Bitcoin.

What exactly do you think people "launder" Bitcoin to? Why would it be harder to launder dirty USD than Bitcoin?

The end goal is the same, clean money you can use for any purpose. With USD, you only need to nestle it into a clean business that doesn't get scrutinized. Add in a step between with Bitcoin and suddenly it becomes harder.

I think the main issue is that with USD you need a dirty entry point that could compromise you at the moment of transfer, rather than with Bitcoin where you can chose the exit point whenever you want, and the entry is less risky. But still, adding Bitcoin to mix further complicates and adds risk to the overall process.

> without cryptocurrencies, it would certainly be much less

Isn't the (estimated) USD black market without cryptocurrencies vastly bigger than the black market of Bitcoin already, has been since forever and seems to continue to be like this for the foreseeable future?
10 and 11 sure, but 7 and 11 have quite a few differences under the hood. WSL, the new terminal system, hardware scheduling for GPUs, direct storage, REBAR, etc.
If the IP is that valuable, why can't they pay those that are familiar with it enough to keep them at the company and happy? And if that's not enough, maybe building an entire business model based around a reproducible IP isn't a great idea.

In any way you look at it, a business using non-compete clauses is trying to have the employees bear the weight of questionable business practices.
> The folks making these decisions are not sophisticated and competent in risk management

Aren't they pretty good at financial risk? isnt that like their only job a lot of the time?

Idk it seems to me it must be possible to make a good argument for this stuff - How do cybersecurity consulting firms pitch to clients? Could McKinsey etc get in on it?

It's just hard internally because a lot of the time it requires the culture to have been there from the beginning. Changing the culture if it's not present already is like trying turning a supertanker with a desk fan. People resent loss of freedoms, and operational restrictions prevent getting everyone to understand the whys
What is the soonest supernova explosion we can observe?
Oh, interesting thought.
That's a broad claim, you have to prove your case. You're asking for a ban on vertical integration as a business strategy.
It seems be worth a good six figures to my employer and appreciated by the thousands who play the MMO I worked on for free. Try again.
An accountability partner isn't a coach. It could be, but it certainly doesn't have to be.

For example, an accountability partner could be a potential client/user that you're building a tool targeting. You keep them in the loop with regular updates, and that activity alone can help keep you moving forward even when you might have moments of doubt. If you know you _have_ to report status to someone weekly, you're less likely to blow a week off entirely. At minimum, you might wait until an hour before the meeting and hustle to do at least something.
> Conversely, a long term relationship without any sexual chemistry is very likely to end badly.

In a relationship built around a sex fetish that involves sadism, sure, that's 100% true.
Why make the award reasonable when it can be a feel-good self-congratulatory propaganda fest?
Every company is going to want to avoid paying rent on key infrastructure that they rely on for their business, thus the push to own their own IP and means of production in that regard.

It doesn't work out all the time, for sure. In fact it probably fails more than it succeeds. But the motivation is pretty clear.
> Saudi Arabia and Iran struck a peace deal this year, brokered with Chinese help.

It wasn't a peace deal - it was a normalization of relations (aka they've reestablished diplomatic contact) [0]. Iranian and Saudi proxies are still killing each other in Syria and Iraq.

> We haven't heard about Yemen since.

That's because of Oman acting as a mediator between the Houthis and Saudis [1]

[0] - https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/06/12/saudi-iran-rapprochemen...

[1] - https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/war-yem...
I clearly remember getting in trouble in class each year for using Wikipedia.

My podunk teachers couldn't fathom the difference between directly citing Wikipedia (just cite the source it references instead) and merely reading it.

Pain.
> Yeah, that problem still remains, of course. But you could align the package update cadence to the rotation cadence. If in practice this happens to be a anything beyond a few weeks, I'd say that's not a bad tradeoff.

Whose rotation cadence? GitHub's is going to be different from Azure's, Google's, etc. JWKS itself doesn't include any expiry or rotation metadata[1] (example here[2]), so it's not clear how OKP (or any scheme) can establish a cadence policy around multiple IdPs without getting their explicit cooperation (which they'll be unlikely to offer, given that it artificially constrains their ability to revoke potentially compromised key material in service of an unintended use case).

> You go from trusting a central signing server, to somewhat auditable (and probably reproducible) package publishing infrastructure.

Again sorry if I'm misunderstanding what you mean, but Sigstore doesn't involve trusting a central signing server. The primary trust members in Sigstore are (1) a free CA, and (2) transparency services for certificates and signatures. Signatures themselves look very similar to what OKP does (ephemeral, client-side keys) but with the OIDC impermanence problem solved by a managed, transparent PKI. This is ugly and complicated, but it is sound; I don't think the same can be said for OKP's current design.

That's all to say that I'm happy if they succeed, and I'll also be happy to be wrong here. But I'm going to be a little miffed if they go through the process of building a "smaller" Sigstore, only to realize that (1) OIDC IdPs aren't going to encourage weird uses of their tokens, and (2) they need an online transparency service anyways :-)

[1]: https://auth0.com/docs/secure/tokens/json-web-tokens/json-we...

[2]: https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com/.well-known/jwks
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Tao Te Ching, or Meditations.

As for stories, Greek or Norse mythology. Many of the concepts in the book above come from these myths.
Crud, you're right!
Video Mailing
Have you ever tried onemob.com for videosales? What is your experience?
An easy rule of thumb to remember this for temperature units; °F for "Freedom", °C for "Science".
Classifying partisan text using only a ZSTD-based compressor
And CVS doesn’t have major power when it comes to selling drugs and knowing which ones it should knock off with home brands? Every single store knows what to knock off based on what it sells.

And Walmart sells a lot more than Amazon.

You don’t think that every store knows how to undercut other products in its own store with house brands?
Gandhi - whose name has become synonymous with peace and non-violence - was nominated 3 times but didn't win.

The evidence strongly suggests that the Nobel committee doesn't like giving the prize against anti-western dissidents until they absolutely have to, i.e. when not giving the prize would raise more eyebrows and damage the Nobel's reputation. The two anti-western dissidents that come to mind are Nelson Mandela and (arguably) Martin Luther King. Again, they received the prize after achieving global fame and recognition.

ElBaradei won the prize for his work in the IAEA (whose primary focus has been on non-western nations) -not for his opposition to the Iraq war - whose primary focus has been on non-western nations.

Tawakkol Karman (2011) is another dissident against a non-western country.

Willy Brandt wasn't a dissident of the West. Far from it in fact - known for fierce anti-communist domestic policies , support for right-wing governments, the Vietnam war and for promoting greater European and western integration.

Nobel prizes given to anti-apartheid South African activists seem to be a laudable counter-example to the rule though.
Casinos charge for parking now???
11 was meant to be Microsoft's "Windows 10X" for a Surface brand dual-screen folding product. The product folded before launch and they decided to merge Windows 10 stable to the 10X as an outcome of their infighting around the fold.
God damn it. I really like the Windows ecosystem I grew up in. Feel so much at home on Windows; I dislike macOS profoundly, and can barely function in a Linux UI distro (feels like I'm working with one hand tied behind my back).

But there's no way I'm buying into more ads and bullshit from MS; if this comes to fruition I'll hold on to debloated Windows 10/11 for as long as I can then begrudgingly move over to the least disruptive distro of Linux I can find :(
Conveniently ignoring the persecution of minorities. This has been going on for decades and continues to this day.

E.g. the Baha’is

From 2008. Just the first paragraph will do.

https://news.bahai.org/story/632/

2018.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/10/16/iran-arrests-harassment-...

2022. The same ones imprisoned in 2008.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-throws-leading-bahai-acti...

Tip of the iceberg.