alkonaut

>The company itself is incentivized to ignore the warnings to keep things on track.

If ignoring an alarm and keeping it on track "counts" as having kept things on track, there's the perverse incentive. Change incentive to mean a train kept on track after ignoring an false alarm was worse than a late train.

Now the company is as focused, or more, on fixing the bad alarms, than keeping trains on time.

Finding incorrect incentives is usually not that hard.

Same. For me it was basically that as a body of knowledge, it kind of stabilized. I didn't work in a rapidly developing field like the newest JS frameworks, so for what I knew, most stuff simply became answered.

Whenever I took the time to make a long answer on a question, I saw some mod close the question as a duplicate of an existing one - even though the question could have some minute detail that was different, or perhaps there was some recent change in the landscape that meant an answer in 2020 would be different from one in 2013. But no: aggressive marking as duplicate even though clearly as a _community_ it would be much better to have a more recent discussion, perhaps more alternative answers and just allowing the near-duplicates.

Here's where I like working with some employment security. If they want to fire me, they'll have to buy me out WHEN that happens. It's not like I need to face some dilemma between choosing a buyout or otherwise get nothing in case I'm fired.

I'm just happy they aren't calling it "Super intelligence" in this document.

I like that. But that should be for the "cookie scenario" of using e.g. selling viewer habits. Not for wiretapping.

Wiretapping is just illegal and should be treated as such.

I mean most governments at least manage to get through most years without large scale violent protests like these. But France also has a tradition of violent protest...

These are kids who use messenger/whatsapp etc. No they won't be bothered to even switch messenger. The goal isn't to shut down some criminal network it's to just make word of mouth spread in 10 minutes instead of 1 I reckon.

> What drives people to burn shops

Simple:it's "If society doesn't work for me, then it's better that it works for no one"

> If you think the far left are beyond these types of comments

Who mentioned the far left? And why would it matter what other extremists do?

This sounds like "yes but what about..", and I see it in several comments here but I don't understand it. How does that matter? There could be a similar dump from another party or organization and people would (rightfully) be equally upset.

Of course if a party - even internally - emails really crude racism and antisemitism then people should know. Their "core" voters don't care. But for a party to get 20-25-30% of the vote, it needs a _lot_ of votes from people who are repulsed by this.

How much are the Huawei cards compared to Nvidia cards now?

I try to understand WHAT all code does rather than exactly HOW it does it. Large scale design choices, how it is tested (and that it is) etc.

Even if you have a 20 file 5k line change set, it's still not impossible to just grok what's being done, what the purpose is, and what it works like on a high level.

LLMs don't change the fact that such a review is difficult, but I'm more confident that there are no hidden off-by-one issues in 5k lines of LLM code than in 5k lines my colleague (or myself) wrote. So it's a welcome change in reviewing to do it on a higher level.

They call themselves "left authoritarian" or "left conservative". They are basically the living proof of the horseshoe idea.

I'm sure BSW have equally disgusting mail conversations (But perhaps more Russia connectoins than just rabid racism and antisemitism). If you can find them, please publish. But don't do whataboutism.

Article text:

A vast archive of hacked emails from the AfD was published online on Monday: 281 GB containing 421,179 internal party emails. And, for anyone who might have grown confused about claims of antisemitism while it was plastered over the German news media in the weeks following the Berlin election: here you can see what it really looks like.

In email after email, party supporters use racist slurs and share antisemitic theories of Jewish world domination; there are jokes about turning refugees into handbags and boots, discussions of whether refugees should be shot at the border, a Christmas card sent with a swastika and “Heil Hitler”, and an email thread signed off with “Heil und Sieg”.

The entire archive is available online – though it may be a criminal offence in Germany to torrent the material or distribute it online. Yet the journalists who’ve been able to examine parts of the hack consider it authentic. The methodology behind the leak is also quite interesting: the vast archive has not been published directly on the site. Instead, it is available via a series of AI summaries, which have been filtered according to severity (CRITICAL, HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW) and type, with categories including “racism_xenophobia”, “corruption_money”, “leadership_feud”, “conspiracy”, “violence_threats” and “antisemitism_extremism”.

The party itself has confirmed the hack to Bild: “In September 2026, a hacker attack targeted one of our party’s hosting service providers, during which portions of a few email accounts – most of which had not been used for years – were apparently illicitly copied.”

Many of the summaries are the party’s own internal disciplinary proceedings, with emails sent to party boards to decide whether to open expulsion proceedings against members. Here, what is shocking (though perhaps not surprising) is the depth and breadth of racist feeling from party members: slurs, fantasies of violence, and antisemitic statements appear commonplace. One email from 2016 appears to show Weidel forwarding a member’s antisemitic material to the federal board as the party weighed his expulsion, while including a warning to her colleagues that the Verfassungsschutz – Germany’s domestic intelligence service – might be reading.

There are some cases which do not appear to have drawn the ire of the party, including one Bavarian official urging party leaders to chant “Merkel croak” every day, or another thread in which staff at the party’s federal office apparently discuss luring a photographer to a party event and removing him by force.

The anonymous hackers claimed their motive behind the leak was to show the “degeneracy and hypocrisy” of the AfD. Among the countless acts of hate speech, there are also allegations of embezzlement and financial misconduct, according to DDoSecrets, a transparency collective which republished the archive: the site’s software flagged 34 documents for misuse of funds, 23 for off-the-books payments, 14 for undisclosed donations and seven for embezzlement.

The AfD party is currently polling at 29% nationally – even while they fight a designation by the Verfassungsschutz as a “confirmed right-wing extremist” party in court. That designation has already been made by state intelligence offices for some state branches, such as Sachsen-Anhalt — though it did not seem to hurt their electoral success. The party achieved 43.8% of the vote there in September.

> You just type "gpg -e -r [email protected] filename.txt".

I assure you it is not that simple. For example, I'm a HN user, developer since 30 years. I know that you referred to what's known as a "terminal" or "shell" here, but that's already way WAY too difficult for 99.9% of users.

And even in my terminal I can assure you it won't work: "'gpg' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."

I could install it. It would be a right pain though. and it doesn't help if the recipient of my email can't install it without me sending a long list of instructions!

Meanwhile my dad had zero problems installing signal. There's a difference to how easy it gets.