jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"DRM is absolutely to do with piracy, that's the whole point of the technology."

DRM's stated goal was dealing with piracy, 20+ years ago. That does not mean that that is what it does now. Goals aren't results, to say nothing of the fact that goals 20 years ago aren't necessarily goals today. It is highly arguable that, given that it has failed to stop piracy comprehensively, that its primary utility to the people that use it is actually platform control. For instance, please see and think about the stuff discussed in http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/04/understa...

One of the reasons I don't accept "DRM is about piracy and nothing else" is that it doesn't make sense of the observable facts. DRM costs money and basically doesn't work. If it were really about piracy, I think the "DRM is about piracy" theory would see one of two reactions to that fact: Either we'd see a great deal more investment into DRM than we do now to the point where it could actually be relied upon [1], or it would get dropped to save money. Neither is happening; DRM continues, its advancements are quite perfunctory overall, and breaks proliferate. On the other hand, "DRM as platform control" implies that the currently level of DRM tech and investment makes perfect sense, it's already the correct amount as investing a whole bunch more would not increase the already absolute control over platforms that it yields. So I am inclined towards the platform control theory, as it seems to match reality better.

As for the fact that the DRM users "say" it's about piracy... feh. Words. Words are meaningless nowadays. Look to the actions.

[1]: While "it can always be cracked" triumphalists haven't been looking, the previous gen consoles took an awful long time to be cracked. I'd say there's evidence that this could in practice be made to work for software, at least. The 3DS is still only pried open a bit, just shy of 4 years after its release, and that only recently! I wouldn't care to bet when the XBone or the PS4 get cracked; a straight interpolation of existing trends can easily suggest six or seven years. Music and movies are still going to be hard to fully protect due to the fact that what is output to the AV system is the content. Software allows for more opportunities for DRM.
I think the lesson from "web 2.0" apps is that if you make something easy to use and useful, people will use it. So the rise of folksonomies is about usability, not doing away with structure.

In my experience, if you can make entering more structured metadata just as easy, people will enter it, and you get a big return in the ability to use the information you've collected.
I always like to take these opportunities to remind my fellow Americans that the US Government has its own writing guide, and that it’s pretty good.
www.plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/
> so at best this is someone skilled at soldering BGA parts.

It is, but I am afraid the next thing Apple will do now would be to DRM the memory chips.

> I'd be more interested if someone had managed to get 32GB RAM working.

I believe there is no 16GB LPDDR4 on the market at the moment.
I'm typing this in chromium on ubuntu/xfce, alongside an Eclipse window open working on some Go code, inside of a crouton chroot, on a $250 Samsung Chromebook that has better battery life than any of my previous laptops. I disagree.
So it's just coincidence that, out of all the common topics on HN, this is the only one you've complained about?

The reason some of us talk about it is that it's important to us. Just like every article here. Do you complain about every post on HN that isn't personally important to you? No, you skim on by. Why would you click through and comment negatively on this one? Because you want us to stop talking about it. You might ask yourself why.
I need a break at lunchtime. For me that means sitting quietly, spending some time away from the effort of conversation, catching up on reading or taking the opportunity to think about ideas that have been on the back burner.

There goes my career at Fog Creek!
Yes, but the blogger is right: that's the accepted medical and dietarian wisdom, and it is backed by government programs like the one from Michelle Obama.

No wonder why so many people has weight issues.
I think i've read something about a catering firm in of of joels earlier posts... It will handle all that stuff...additionally they have a small kitchen with softdrinks, fruits and such..
What app? How well known is it? What is your competition on both platforms? Have you marketed the Android version as much as the iOS version?
MBP works fine in FireFox only - Chrome is a no go. <3 Kraddy as the audio. It's a nice throwback to the c64 Demo Scene. I think it lacks some interactivity though, nice to watch by rather see how I can interact past the load screen.
Of course not. Workers generate profit for companies. When a company needs more profit, they hire more workers, not less.
Not if this extra bit space is cheap (and it is, both on the wire and in routing tables / TCAMs / tries).
If dwarfism becomes something that's routinely treated in childhood, like a cleft palate, then there will still be people who have it, but no one with access to basic health care will be affected by it.
My experience is they don't have enough room for two grills without melting some ceiling tiles because the kitchen ventilation is made for one. They used to (may still) cook the chicken sandwich on the same grill and claim it was gluten free.
Fine, require disclosure of some sort in the event of possible procreation.
My optimization is OMAD... only focus on one meal per day, I try to keep it keto-ish. But not required. When food has less daily focus weight falls off. Lost 95 pounds last year. Hoping for another 95 in 2020.
> I believe it has solutions that don't rely on exclusivity.

Does that mean you have a solution in mind, or you have some particular reason to believe a solution exists? Or is it just a general expression of optimism?

The latter is fine, but if you have either a specific idea for a solution or a reason to believe one might be possible, then I'd love to hear it! Every time I think about this, I give up, concluding that the current system is more-or-less optimal. Ideas are shouted down not for being bad in any objective sense, but mostly just for being too far from what is currently believed to be true. This is a cheap filter, which kills a lot of really bad ideas at the price of making it hard and slow to move the needle when really necessary to do so. But any alternative I can come up with seems to require re-litigating the holocaust, every single day.
The next version of this is react-window.

https://github.com/bvaughn/react-window
Seattle, so likely very similar to SV. When I was in Richmond VA I saw a similar problem (weighted towards "senior"), though obviously smaller numbers across the board. That was 8ish years ago though, so things may well have changed.
> Then, why shouldn't other special interest groups with dietary restrictions be able to impose their will too? We can have a flame broiler with separate meatatarian, vegan, halal, kosher, and hindu conveyors, all with their own exhaust management to ensure harmful vapors don't migrate where they would contaminate the other product lines.

BK chose this product and marketing specifically to cater to a special interest group with dietary restrictions. No one is demanding that BK must serve vegan food other than by usual consumer pressure.

The problem is that BK really doesn't give one iota of damn about the strict vegans. They're not coming to BK no matter what as only an idiot would believe that there exists any surface in a BK that isn't contaminated with meat. What BK cares about are the "sorta-vegan" folks who happen to be tagging along when the whole group hits BK. However, "Vegan enough that you can be a poseur and rationalize it" doesn't have the same ad copy quality.

However, bringing this back to specifics, someone who is halal should not be able to complain about going into a BBQ joint. However, if said BBQ joint claims to be halal, then it better comply. And if a someone halal decides to sue for your restaurant not being compliant, they deserve to win.

(And, what you forget, is that a lot of the "anti-pork" proscriptions came about as a way to avoid trichinosis. So, if it weren't for modern meat handling, this would be a health issue as well as a religious one.)
Can only speak for myself personally, but having gone through a similar moment, it was 50% docker QoL improvements and 50% k8s QoL improvements -- most significantly around prod/dev parity. Every engineer in my org really did gain a significant amount of confidence around being able to spin up and deploy new services (when necessary) without being nervous about something going wrong in prod that wasn't configured properly in a lower environment.
> One of the reasons why I love working with a lot of these old unsexy technologies, is that I want any software work I'm involved in to stand the test of time with minimal toil.

Could've written a win32 program.
> chocolate bars and brownie edibles made with hemp seed oil

The article continues to refer to "hemp seed oil". Is that a mistake from the author? The seed oil has no medicinal properties. The processed oil from the flowers and to some extent that leaves is what contains medicinal value.
And an electric generator, tons of filament stores in giant ZipLoc bags, guns to protect your "free press", etc...
Hmm, I guess I should shut down my business then since I'm a solo founder using k8s exclusively for my hosting for 3+ years...

Definitely a learning curve but honestly not bad if you like ops. Absolutely possible and beneficial for any size team. As always, it depends on what your goals are and how you want to use k8s.
This article didn't mention PIM (processing in memory) which is a way of keeping the established general purpose CPU model and accelerating it by simply adding processors directly into RAM. The compute power scales with the size of your dataset. You also benefit from greater memory bandwidth and lower power consumption.

Here is an existing implementation: https://www.upmem.com/
one frontline speakeasy rep helped me figure out that I had configured my iptables on linux incorrectly and what I needed to do to fix them. they won a customer-for-life, even though a) they are much more expensive than the alternatives and b) I haven't needed much tech support since then.
This sounded so familiar, I had to go searching my external memory to make sure my internal wasn't failing. It wasn't; I described this attack three and a half years ago:

http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg075...

BTW, the cryptography @ metzdowd list was mentioned elsewhere as a decent source. It kinda goes in spurts, and Perry has pretty high standards for what is of sufficient quality and refuses to read more than one email a day from anyone; the @ randombit.net list is unmoderated.

PS: I have a free book: http://www.subspacefield.org/security/security_concepts.html

Travis H.
When he practically begged you to call, why didn't you? Those primitive chat features are not suitable for working out complicated issues. This reminds me of when people insist on discussing something a dozen messages at a time on Twitter, when it belongs in email (and would be simple there).
"We have some dedicated department for some specific technical issue like wireless, Mac or gaming console etc.They are expertise on these stuffs."

Indian English!

Not the "Are expertise" bit which is just wrong, and maybe just a typo, but "some dedicated department" and "these stuffs" are good markers. (FWIW: I am Indian, and not mocking anyone, just noting what I perceived)
This is a follow up to last week's post on session manager, a bunch of people had questions on SSH tunneling. Last week's post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22592875
I think in terms of difficulty, law enforcement has much more skin in the game- both jobs have to deal with potential guilt from screwing up but if a surgeon misjudges a situation pretty much the worst outcome is that they get sued and in egregious cases lose their job. Whereas in law enforcement you're more likely to have adversarial interactions with armed people, drunk drivers, etc where your own life is in danger.

Based on my (definitely incomplete so feel free to fill in any blanks I have!) knowledge of places that don't have formal law enforcement, it's impossible to make a good faith argument that they're better places because of it.
I don't know timidity but I didn't have that issue with the options I tried.
Yes I too am interested about that extension.
Early game, no. Late game, it can take 5 or 10 minutes per turn and you may be capturing more than one city per turn during an invasion, I can see it working.
Cisco can probably afford it.

But remember, we're only talking about SSL-based VPN boxes here. Joe Average does not buy these, and the people that do are willing to pay; handling more than one connection does require some not-tiny hardware. (I have a Soekris router, and Gigabit Ethernet makes pf max-out the CPU at around 300Mbps. OpenVPN... sooner. And this thing was $300. :)
In one of my first jobs as a coder we had little crappy PCs for development. They were ok, but a bit slow. When I left I wrote a polite email to the CEO pointing out the same thing - lag time x wages per hour x number of people in the team. A week later one of the devs emailed me and said they'd just recieved amazing new machines.
Avoiding the appearance (and reality) of obvious bad faith, (even extortionate?), non-open source licensing terms probably.
we're not anywhere close to the natural limits, as we have plenty of technology and policy we could implement yet around resources like clean water, air, energy, and even space. the primary reason we don't is cost, both for externalities and for the remedies themselves.

the 50-year plan for LA (the city) from about 50 years ago was projecting something like 7-8 million residents being housed here by now with basically the same current infrastructure. instead, we've only grown from 3 to 4 million in that time, largely because of various restrictions on development (zoning, prop 13, etc.). note that LA city is ~470 sq mi, in contrast to NYC which is twice the population and ~300 sq mi.
Can you explain it? My understanding is they bought the stock from another investor, held on to it, and then sold it. I'm not sure where the value was created.

Maybe if the company was creating more shares and the investor bought them directly from the company, then the company use the new funding to create value, but I'm not sure that is what actually happened.
The challenge is that there is a lag between consuming the resource and counting the price.
Puppeteer does a few more things, but only works for chrome.

Both of them are essentially wrapping devtools protocols. AFAIK, much of the playwright approach was guided by trying to Hew as closely to the puppeteer approach, but cross-platform. Both the APIs are very similar.
And at the very least is a way to create new enemies. You know, wars and military expenses need to be motivated somehow.
In comparison, Telegram offers APIs and libraries that allow you to create clients for any platform [0].

[0] https://core.telegram.org/tdlib
But at 1/4 the claimed density of the gen3 lithium sulfur crystal.
I was having issues with slow load times, high latency, dropped packets, the works. I had been profiling it and logging my bandwidth with (iirc) iperf on a raspi, over the past 48h. When I felt like I had collected enough data, I called Spectrum to give em a piece of my mind. One of the first things they had me do was use their online speedtest. Came up with 100Mbps...I had been getting 10 on iperf.

Suddenly, my traffic quality was mysteriously better.

No idea what was actually going on, but the whole thing was a bit sus.

I definitely recommend using your own server and profiling tools if you are suspicious of speedtest.
This is the second time I've seen the word "isomorphic" used like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8238239

Not trying to be a snob, but this usage is annoying. I use and like JavaScript, unlike other math snobs :)
Well, ZigBee or zWave won't necessarily save you from a proprietary hub or from cloud-reliance. Though they most likely are better than many alternatives, including WiFi.
Classic story where this is related: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

tl;dr timeout was sufficiently low and user sufficiently skilled to work out his emails could be delivered only within 500 miles
The vast majority of people have families, and everyone has bills to pay. That doesn't change the fact that he's risking the financial future of dozens/hundreds/thousands of people by failing to take even the most basic precautions.

This is dangerous and if the fastest way to fix it puts him out of business, so be it. I would absolutely put the financial safety of thousands of customers over the financial safety of one business owner.
> It's no longer possible to find organic high quality ad supported content(except maybe on YouTube, it still has some great stuff).

Was it ever possible? I've been on the Internet for quite a while, and since the earliest days, my heuristic was, if it's ad-supported, it's garbage. There's very few exceptions to that rule. Good content, written by people who care, is either paid, done for non-monetary reasons, or a loss leader billed under some company's marketing budget (though there's of course also some garbage in that last category too).
I’m not saying Jordan is a moral hero, but that he isn’t a hypocrite. I appreciate the cold professionalism far more than the hypocrisy of someone like LeBron.
I'd like to know more about this. Do you have any links?
>the magnesium sacrificial anode cannot be removed, too close to the ceiling

I was contemplating what to do about that with my water heater, but I think maybe the procedure is that you cut it up as it comes out, if it is one long piece, and there are replacements that are segmented so you can get them back in with limited clearance.

https://images.app.goo.gl/KtLKGEG3h8rfT93k6
> Verbosity is an existential threat.

.. maybe I likes the verbosity?

Asteroids are an existential threat. Verbosity is a style that some people enjoy.
Implications:

statistics only say very little, data visualization may help understanding.
Hidden correlations are a thing. Hidden variabilities too.
This threw me for a few minutes, I thought it was about the programming language itself but it is about something completely different!
I am looking over mikeash.com Getting Answers. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Before Ballmer, Microsoft was a company that had accomplished the incredible, world-changing feat of democratizing computing, bringing a PC into every household and on every office desk, and generally changing the way people think about using computers in their daily lives.

After Ballmer, Microsoft is yet another directionless corporate shitshow that has found out that selling enterprise shlockware to enterprise clients is a good short term revenue model.

This is exactly what Microsoft did to IBM 25 years ago. In this round however, Microsoft is playing the role of IBM.
CoralCDN is far more superior. AKAIK, one its main main goals is to help survive front-page placements on popular sites. Its also far more easier to use. Since you mention it here is the CoralCDN for this article: http://www.avos.com.nyud.net/delicious-press-release/ . The only problem I find with CoralCDN is that if you try accessing a URL that is already down with CoralCDN and has not been cached by Coral it probably won't work. The Google cache would be far more effective in such a case.
> "The enemy of my enemy..."

Is still very much my enemy, and I'd be a fool to let my guard down.
We have cameras on driveways, etc where there is no power or ethernet. These cameras (and perhaps a solar powered wifi mesh network, which these could form if they had the right software) are a reasonable solution to that problem:

https://m.reolink.com/

I’d love to have it take video feeds from something like those. (Perhaps via a standard network protocol.)

Store + ml recognize them locally, and simultaneously client-side encrypt and stream them to an s3-compatible bucket (eg backblaze b2).

Bonus points if the gizmo has a sim card and backup battery so it keeps working if power / internet are cut. (Most of the time it’d upload via residential broadband (wifi/ethernet), but while the house is being broken into, it’s fine if it burns a few GB of cell plan data.)

Make sure the box is compatible with some sort of ssd/nvme drive (no moving parts), and not just hdd.

One model for monetizing it: AGPL or BSL it, and offer some cloud side services for convenience features like managing the encrypted bucket, pruning “boring” videos after 30 days, etc. edit: or, provide a nice (open source, simple) nat hole punching vpn service so phones can see the video in real time. Maybe charge for access to bounce servers and automatic setup.
Linux on the desktop is a huge success. It’s called ChromeOS.
Can you point to any examples?
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i'm trying to create a web page with links to information by people that made it to the interview round:

http://ycuniverse.com/interviewees.php

If you have links to posts/blogs/etc about the interview experience, please forward the links to me. thanks.
From NYT:
> It was unclear how Parler had figured out how to host its site on computer servers, the central technology underpinning any website. Many of the large web-hosting firms had previously rejected it. For other services required to run a large website, Parler relied on help from a Russian firm that once worked for the Russian government and a Seattle firm that once supported a neo-Nazi site.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/technology/parler-back-on...

Wondering how they reached this conclusion and based on what the report didn't even mention the company name.
The ironic thing is, 1980s era feminists were often deeper into woo than your average woman; they were the ones talking about how the vulva (or "yoni") acted as a special conduit for psychic powers and the like.
Teachers here in the UK have it really bad; a lot of the IT infrastructure is farmed out to BT or other completely useless corporates. Either what happens is they can't cope and so are dropped after a few months or they keep having to replace all the poorly configured laptops.

My Mum has been through about 8 new laptops in the last 14 months...

(the best one is when the laptop leads all went missing [never found out who did it] and their response was... ...to replace the laptops. rolls eyes)

And lets not even start to talk about the restrictions imposed on these laptops.... (I mean; I can understand it for the kids, but the teachers?)
Ah okay. Well for starters, claiming they are using open standards and then trying to block based on user-agent for only Safari.