skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't, but even without any DRM you still have the delay between the moment the ripper manages to get the file and the moment it's available for download.

You're missing the streaming option. But alas, watermarking + ContentID + DRM have essentially conquered that realm. Acestream and IPTV are two surviving options, but the barrier to entry is not low for these.

> For movies and TV shows I think I can. It's just so full of holes and broken implementations that it's usually trivial to crack.

I don't know enough about current media DRM solutions to comment here. What I do know is that will likely change once TEEs/enclaves become more widespread on consumer devices.

> If people don't pirate because they don't know how why would they start ripping Netflix streams?

"Right-click > Download" versus, at the very least:

1. Finding a reliable torrent tracker

2. Downloading and installing a torrent client (viruses galore!)

3. Finding a torrent with enough seeders

4. Figuring out which version of the movie/show to download (what's a "nuke"? what's up with the quality (cam)? why is this movie split into 37 .rar files? where are the subtitles? why is the audio out of sync? etc. etc.)

You and I have already gone through all of this the hard way, but it's important to realize that it's not intuitive at all.
Well:

Tsuji et al. (2003) Thermal cracking of oils from waste plastics https://sci-hub.tw/10.1007/s10163-003-0090-x

Walendziewski (2005) Continuous flow cracking of waste https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.fuproc.2004.12.004

Das and Pandey (2007) Pyrolysis and catalytic cracking of municipal plastic waste for recovery of gasoline range hydrocarbons https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/53188820.pdf
It's immoral in a lot of cases, but is it immoral in every case? I don't think so.

Take a person who has a heart condition AND cancer that is 100% certainly going to kill him within a month and has no close family/friends to spend his dying days with. Would it be immoral for them to take a 1% chance of losing a couple crappy weeks to possibly make a huge step forward for science?

These things need to be wielded judiciously, but there are cases where the rewards outweigh the risks to a point a person of sound mind should be able to take the risk for the benefit of humanity.
That Venice train is great. Living near Paris, we can do a weekend in Venice with two full days on the ground but only one night in a hotel (which is handy since rooms start at around $400/night there.)

It’s a shame that they killed off the dozen other night train destinations from here over the years. If Sweden and Norway open up as possibilities, I’ll be dragging the family up there the first sunny weekend.
This line of thinking relies on social and mathematical assumptions. Those assumptions are both unrealistic.
Stripe's generally consistent, except for three different ways to enter a name:

name
account_holder_name
first_name + last_name

And four different structures for addresses:

address_line1
address.line1
legal_entity.line1 (a personal address, old as of new version)
legal_entity.personal_address.line1 (personal address when the prior is a business, old as of new version)
The article amounts to little more than subversion in normal speech under surveillance, it's not as if Google can't read and make at least some limited sense of most of things you do or say during your interactions with it. You can point gaping holes in that behavior but the fact is that Google has you by the balls in terms of the data it's collecting on you and as time passes it will get better at making sense of lots of it, even if you can subvert it easily enough. Maybe it's hinting that going forward the cognoscenti should exercise this sort of subversive speech to confuse the AI.

Machines thinking for humans was one of the hypotheses in Yuval Noah Harari's book Homo Deus, he calls it dataism. To me it seems to be a recipe for how can corporations can wrestle control of thinking from human beings to render them into mere drones. This seems to be on the agenda of the Silicon Valley elites as they have seemingly adopted him as their pet historian/philosopher. May you live in interesting times.

I have been thinking about this and it seems that it could work but I don't see how it could work considering that there is always a conflict of interest between what corporations want and what an individual or a business wants. So in a world where you have agents that belong to you and are required by law as through fiduciary duty to follow your interests it's possible for such agents to exist. But it will never work if Google or Facebook owns these agents or the data on which the agents make their decisions without transparency.

Also see Autofac episode of Electric Dreams on Amazon Prime Video: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6902176/
In the case of Uber/Lyft while I'm generally expensing it when I rarely use them and don't care about price much, I expect a lot of people who use them day-to-day would drop them in a heartbeat if they could use cheaper options. I'm not sure I understand why "rideshare" should be cheaper than cabs. I think it's mostly better than cabs which is why I use them. But that's maybe not the majority view.
Stripe was much more complicated than it seemed. At the end i used Chargebee which did a lot of the work.

A lot of things were abstracted away and i got a much better admin panel and can change payment processors anytime.
This isn't about supply & demand, it's about profitability and if these companies are viable long-term. There can be no gig economy jobs if there are no gig economy businesses.
Croatia to Germany is only a little less annoying with Slovenia’s ascent into Schengen.

But before that, it was stop for Croatian exit controls, deal with Slovenian EU immigration, then Slovenian/EU customs, then Schengen once entering Austria.

A lot of interruption for an overnight train when travelling solo.

Then the equipment problems where I had to board a coach train and transfer to a bus before getting on the sleeper some hours later.

Ugh.
Just plugged it in to SJ.se (Swedish rail). Doesn’t even have Hamburg as a selection.

So I need to somehow know that Deutsche Bahn ofers the search capability. True two to three train changes, 90 to 220 euro.

I guess I’ll use bahn.de from now on (and learn some German :) )
Readdle's Experience Developing for Android with Swift
In all likelihood the project got some federal or other funding, like most of them do.

Second, in a way it is subsidized because there's no guarantee they can supply any amount of energy over a given period of time, so traditional energy producers still need to be able to build for 100% of demand, and idle it when there is sun (which in turn makes them lower utilized and seemingly relatively more expensive).

Yeah there are some batteries but how much supply these solar boys they guarantee after 3 rainy days? Likely none whatsoever.

It is therefore almost almost completely useless but the sleezebags who pulled this off get a multi-decade commitment to get paid for 100% of the paltry amount they manage to generate over a long period of time, although there is no actual justification for it because all power generating capacity still must be built using traditional, reliable energy sources for time when the charlatans can't deliver.

What's cheaper, run a power plant at 83% instead of 80%, or run the same power plant at 80% utilization and commit to paying these guys millions more just because?
Although it is difficult to do so, maintaining your calm when faced by intimidation by government agents generally works out. Andreas did exactly the right thing - followed his gut calmly then, filed a case in the courts later.
Hm, I'd heard the Amazon consumes at least as much O2 as it produces; it's basically in equilibrium. Unfortunately I don't remember the source but it was something like Planet Earth.

I found a lot of sources quoting your 20% number, but it seems like that's not net produced O2 but rather gross.

I'd be interested if anyone can find a source that says either way about the net O2/CO2 of the Amazon.
Make the 10 users who need those install a plugin.
The trends in future of work, particularly remote / non-office work, would favor people being more economical and de-peaking usage.

Working at home saves you daycare. It takes a commuter off the road and off public transport. It lets people eat lunch at 11am or 2pm. It lets you build houses instead of empty office buildings. It lets you spend a lot more time with your partner. It keeps you cleaner and healthier. It makes you care about your local community a lot more.

Peaky demand will still exist for longer cycles, like school enrollment, housing, vacations, entertainment. It will settle down a lot for our office day. This is the condition where subsidizes can decrease and the way our time is squeezed will change favorably for everyone.
Chinese national charged after entering Mar-a-Lago resort carrying thumb drive
C++ State Machines
One of my favorite (short) talks on this topic. Well worth a few minutes of your time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coNDCIMH8bk
How does a VM even have 416 CPUs and 12TB of RAM? What does the host machine look like? Amazing.
At this point, I think Pipdig are just hoping that it goes away quietly so they don't have to explain what really happened.
Author here, ask me anything about savant seals.
Does that work with allergy to electricity as well? Not all doctors here believe in that so it’s a hot topic
Usually the decision of selling someting cannot be revoked by the selling party, at least not when we are talking of (physical) property. Licenses are trickier ;)
I guess I was thinking more in terms of what's going to happen when you can literally play a game with the click of a button in a browser like you could in flash. My thought is there will be massive amounts of games flooding the market in much the same ways there are on mobile devices and the price will trend towards zero with microtransactions in the same fashion.
OKR: Objectives and Key Results and HN Updates
Uber and Lyft can be profitable today. They are in their most mature markets like SF and NYC. If they need to get to profitability they scale back and cut certain cities. That’s it.
Well this is a wrong metric to check. There are lot of startup which didn't do well on Show HN, but did great as startups. Also, a few which did well on Show HN, but not that great as start up.
I guess we should take Show HN as one of the many metrics available to see if your product is needed by the users.
The real cost to Apple is long-term/permanent loss of customers, and not just MacBook customers. I've never been an Apple zealot. For a while, they simply offered the most functional products. You paid through the nose, but the products worked well out of the box, were sturdy, and offered innovative solutions.

Over time, I amassed a full collection of Apple products: iPhone, MacBook, iPad, Apple TV. They worked together seamlessly, and in their first iterations, offered something that had little if any competition.

For the MacBook, which has always been computationally weak for the price, the big win for me was the hardware. OSX/MacOS are nice and all, but I've always been a browser-and-terminal developer, so having Unix under the covers is a minor perk; I can just SSH into a Linux machine to do any serious work. What I wanted from the laptop was a good user interface. The MacBook was sturdy, elegant, fairly light, had a great touchpad, great battery life, great display, and while I was never a big fan of the keyboard, it was perfectly fine in earlier models.

The new MacBook keyboard is completely defective. Brand new, it has a poor feel to it, keys stick, the TouchBar is unwanted and buggy. I've worked with at least a dozen of the new models, and they're all like that. I had one completely replaced by Apple, and it died within days.

The problem for Apple is that now I've bought a ThinkPad. I needed a reliable machine, Apple didn't offer one, so I researched and bought something else. Now, after blindly wandering the Apple forest for a decade, I've realized that the rest of the world has not only caught up, but surpassed Apple, across the board.

I'm not going back. I'm probably never going back. Now I have a Google Pixel phone, which is way better than the iPhone. I'll likely get a ChomeOS-based tablet when my iPad finally dies.

Without the MacBook to tie everything together, and with the realization that for years I've been paying twice as much for hardware as I should, and that the competition has more than caught up to Apple's early innovations, they've lost a customer across the board.

I'm not skipping just this bad batch of MacBooks, I'm ditching Apple entirely. And I'm not the only one.
If I thought CIA/NSA hacking was truly white-hat to increase the security of Apple devices, then I would agree. However, 3DES seems to be one of the last times that actual info-sec as opposed to spying (on local citizens) with questionable legal standing (in the US) was the purpose.

Sadly, the omniscient and incorruptable rep of the NSA/CIA and associated TLA have been significantly tarnished by Snowden and the current external political interference. This is a crisis, because there are likely people in powerful positions of those orgamizations who do not have their countries interests at heart. Whatever ideology (white nationalist or communist) or external subversion they are not being adequately policed in the current situation.

I would prefer they spend their efforts spying externally rather than internally and keeping everyone's private information safe. For example focus on vulns in Huawei 5G base stations or foreign anti-virus installations instead. I think that's safer for us tax payers. Heck, use the social credit system for your own ends, as they did with Tindr.
In my experience its pretty common? Aside from projects like https://opencensus.io a lot of other technologies not primarily about tracing like service proxies (Envoy, linkerd, etc.) also support various types of tracing based on message id's.
I guess Silicon Valley's Sliceline plot line really was accurate
A Challenge to the Information Technology Community
Doctors won't prescribe enhancers just for enhancements, but all stimulants (except modafinil I guess) were OTC for at least a time, so we'd expect an enhancer (if safe) to be regulated as a supplement. Caffeine is "the one good drug" and I don't see that changing, and that's even though there are fatal overdoses on it and the side effects are pretty bad (but not psychosis bad), so it's not a terribly high bar to clear for a new compound.

It'll be interesting to see if new compounds have tolerance or withdrawal effects -- something that made you smarter for 4 hours but unable to tie your shoes for 2 days would be a non-starter, as would a smart drug that then permanently lowered your non-drug IQ and raised your chance of Alzheimer's. If anything if I remember my course on the subject correctly pretty much all psychiatric drugs have withdrawal effects that are worse or longer lasting than stimulants do, and while that's not something that would cause them to be made illegal, it would make doctors very reluctant to prescribe them "just to try" the way some have with ADD. (I also don't think a compound that has fatal withdrawals would be allowed as a food or supplement today, alcohol is pretty much grandfathered in.)
Looks like commento can be self hosted. https://gitlab.com/commento/docs/tree/master/installation/se...
Capture this. PRs is already on review.

Thanks.
What version of OneNote were you copying from? And what app were to pasting to?
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Couldn't you carry one as long as it was a burner you bought with cash? Is that still possible?
FireHydrant – A tool to manage incidents
Note that whilst GMail, YouTube and Search might not be going anywhere they also are not being improved or developed upon. Just being kept running which is the same symptom
Hacker News had a spirited discussion yesterday about Objectives and Key Results (OKR).

Many people asked questions about what they are, or how to use them.

I've aggregated comments into an ongoing OKR introduction:

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/objectives_and_key_re...

Constructive criticism welcome.
Introducing the new Golem Docs and sharing our findings
Fantastic that he posted his experience, but it sounded like a pretty standard experience with authorities for many Americans. Genuinely curious why this is news compared to what happens to many other people?
Is this something we need to petition congress to fix? Do CBP agents have the right to search the electronic devices of US citizens without a search warrant or not?
It's horrible but the case-law seems fairly well settled; various courts have ruled that lots of searches that would otherwise violate the 4th Amendment are totally permissible for CBP agents within 100 miles of the border and at customs checkpoints within international airports. I'd love to be surprised if there is a legitimate case here.
With that particular example, a citizen could very well also be an armed insurgent. Whether that citizen/insurgent is an ally or neutral or enemy is the distinction worth solving (even if it's significantly harder for an AI).

Of course, that matters far less when Skynet decides that every human is a hostile armed insurgent...
completely off-topic but you could stay in mestre and take the very cheap train into SL; takes 11 minutes. for example Best Western Plus Hotel Bologna is right next to the station and when i went there in october was 84 euros a night...
You write "_ferry_" like it's something weird, but it's a completely normal transport option for a huge number of Europeans -- usually for longer journeys, but sometimes to cover a short distance in 20-30 minutes. There are many ferry connections across the Irish, North, Baltic and Mediterranean seas.

Ignoring the price, I'd choose an overnight ferry over an overnight train. The worst room on a ferry is probably as large as the best room on an overnight train.

The food menu for Oslo-Copenhagen is [1], the prices seem in-line with what I'd expect to pay at a restaurant in either city, though I don't know what the quality is like.

[1] https://www.dfdsseaways.co.uk/onboard-our-ferries/copenhagen...
The ACLU is involved: https://www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-files-complaint-department-...
Well I said "might be" on purpose because hanlon's razor applies very well here.
You can simply use ripgrep to search. Either from a terminal, or from an editor it is integrated with.

I favor the same approach. In my case, I use org-mode instead of markdown as it offers a few niceties when editing from Emacs. But irrespective of that, IMHO plain text overrules any other choice as it is future-proof and can be composed with your favorite tools. For example, a VCS like Git.

I have many files in a flat zettelkasten-like structure [1]. That means, essentially, having one file per concept and using links to chain them.

[1] https://qr.ae/TW8ieU
Huh, I came _very_ close to doing it, but saw enough negative reviews to put me off. To be fair, most of them seemed to be people who had bad experiences in the shared (hostel) sleepers, though, most of which seemed to not really be the fault of the train (just lots of complaints about snoring and such, which, like, is why I always have ear plugs when I travel), but some complained about broken AC and busted toilets which sounded like... well, a normal Amtrak experience, but not something I really wanted on my vacation.
Overnight trains are awesome and I am glad they are making a resurgence but is $5.3mm really "a major shot in the arm for Europe’s night trains overall"? That's not very much money for infrastructure. Perhaps the important thing here is that the Swedes are publicly announcing that they're spending money on this, in general.

The cooler night train story is what is going on in Asia -- lots of projects in the works such as an Istanbul-Baku luxury sleeper train and major new Chinese routes such as Dushanbe-Kashgar and Lhasa-Yunnan.
bahn.de has an English version fwiw. But yeah it's non-obvious that it's the de-facto pan-Europe rail search engine. Other European train companies generally have pretty spotty cross-border information, while DB has almost everything. Even with tickets it can't book for you, it still usually has timetables and can show you an itinerary.
The most shocking of this all is that these big tech companies are communicating in a way you see in dictorial countries.
There is hardly any dialog possible. Disputes are ignored. the right to a fair dialog and the principle of an adversarial process is completely ignored by these giants.
And that is quite a bad thing. We see it now happening quite often with smaller but also bigger companies.
Sooner or later even individuals will get to face the strong negative influence these companies can give.
For many centuries we killed each other to fight for proper humane rights. Individuals but also companies. And now some kind of new virtual world is created where local laws are completely ignored. Not good!!!
Reminds me of the bit from Cryptonomicon, which as it happens was published in 1999:

> [Randy] has pointed out to Avi, in an encrypted e-mail message, that if every particle of matter in the universe could be used to construct one single cosmic supercomputer, and this computer was put to work trying to break a 4096-bit encryption key, it would take longer than the lifespan of the universe.

> "Using today's technology," Avi shot back, "that is true. But what about quantum computers? And what if new mathematical techniques are developed that can simplify the factoring of large prime numbers?"

> "How long do you want these messages to remain secret?" Randy asked, in his last message before leaving San Francisco. "Five years? Ten years? Twenty-five years?"

> After he got to the hotel this afternoon, Randy decrypted and read Avi's answer. It is still hanging in front of his eyes, like the after image of a strobe:

> I want them to remain secret for as long as men are capable of evil.
Which would mean eliminating upwards of 90% of their workforce. Thus not sustainable, and the jobs disappear.
You should look at the S-1 filed by Lyft - their marketing budget losses was huge - $800M last year, compared to the operating deficit of $977M for that year.

Doesn't seem like it would take a business magician to get this company into the black, albeit at the cost of running red for a year or two more to the tune of a couple more billion dollars burned.