skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your only options are to videos from a DRM free source or remove the DRM. The later is prohibited in most jurisdictions. Just hope your vision and hearing stay unimpaired because DRM locks out all accessibility software.
You can't replace the keyboard, you have to replace basically the whole computer, including the motherboard with the SSD soldered to it.

That's why Apple was charging $700 for this repair before the 4-year keyboard warranty program started, and why all these computers are going to be basically worth their scrap value as soon as the keyboard warranty program ends.
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The photopigment absorption curve [1] shows that the red (L) cones have a slight rise at 400nm (violet wavelength). Also, Wikipedia's image shows it [2].

That's why cameras also have a bump at 400mn, as shown on this manufacturer's page (under the relative sensitivity tab) [3]. Cameras must have it so that they can capture light at 400nm the same way our eyes do. Otherwise those colors would look wrong in pictures.

That is also how computer monitors can display a color that we see as violet. They output a bit of red and lots of blue, which excites our red and blue cones and give the same stimulus as violet at 400nm wavelength. So, monitors can't output violet, but they can trick our eyes to think that there is violet.

The same happens for yellow. Monitors can't output yellow wavelength (590nm), but they output red and green, which excites our red and green cones and we think we see yellow. So, you could also say that when you see yellow on web pages, it isn't really yellow. It is just a mix of red and green.

[1] http://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/color1.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoreceptor_cell#/media/File...

[3] https://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=40...
If only we'd been warned about the risks of handing over so much influence to Google by basing everything around their browser... >-<
The government subsidies for solar (themselves not without controversy) are great examples of how we can nudge resources to be applied to areas with the greatest positive externalities.

Government absolutely has a crucial role to play. Government works best when it can offer $1 of incentive to entice $9 of private investment. We have to be very careful of proposals that work the other way around.

For example the EV tax credit offered up to $7,500 tax credit for someone to spend on average let’s say $50k on an electric car. $1 of subsidy incentivized $6.66 of spending. But to make that car someone actually wanted to buy, automakers spent many billions in R&D up front, which was also incentivized by the EV tax.

The EV tax credit is estimated to cost about $7.5 billion once all the major automakers have entered the market and sold their share (200,000) of vehicles. I’m not sure if we got a 1:10 ratio, but it’ll be in that ballpark.

This credit made particular sense because it leveraged the technology curve by allowing scale-up to occur in the face of the prohibitively high cost of batteries which now have come down to the point where EVs can be sold profitably without the subsidy. I don’t think we’d be looking at $100/kWh for the batteries without that subsidy.
My USB-C sockets were loose, so they replaced them too - and they’re attached to the motherboard, as is everything else

They did tell me, and it’s listed in the paperwork
If RH/Canonical started attacking other distros and claiming that they owned the Linux kernel, they would (rightly) get smacked down as well.
Colour Mixing: The Mystery of Magenta

The Royal Institution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPPYGJjKVco
I have a 2018 MBP 15" w/Touchbar at work.
I have not had any issues but I use the internal keyboard only as a last resort.

I really hate the internal keyboard, and I hate the touchbar.

For my personal use I went and bought a Surface Pro at a way lower price than a MBP and have been happy with that because I hate these MBP Touchbar keyboards so much.

It blows my mind that the "Type cover" on the Surface Pro has more travel and feels better than the MBP keyboard. If I was developing on it a lot I don't know if I'd be that happy with windows but I mostly don't do development on it and for that windows & OSX are basically a wash for me. I do some hack type stuff with it, music stuff, photo/video, etc.. both OSes work fine for me with a slight edge to windows occasionally for some of the hacking projects.
probably some Lyft cash being put to work.
Given the current evolution of their keyboards, they're headed to go full Tron and have just a touch screen for a keyboard.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/vj6Zk.jpg
Honestly, modern Ubuntu is pretty sweet. Fire it up from a USB or CD without installing, or even in a virtual machine. Every bit as smooth as OSX.
Given that those were torrent sites, they weren’t hosting the content. The individuals seeding the content still likely have copies of it. They just have no easy, obvious place to share it where they won’t get in trouble for doing so... for now. But if such a technology shows up later, the (already ripped and preserved) content might just show back up along with it.
> It is a bit difficult to describe what system is used to coordinate between business units

Well, now I'm interested. Could you try elaborating?
Yes. I continue to hope they make a slightly thicker Macbook with a battery that lasts twice as much (~20-24 hours). I'd buy it in an instant, since it would mean I don't have to carry the charger with me everywhere I go.
Mine are physically failing right now as well. Soon I imagine I'll have to tape the cables in place to keep them from wiggling out.
> The blame for this sits squarely on the w3c for their efforts in trying to replace flash by letting the content companies dictate standards for encrypted playback.

The blame for this sits squarely on the users for their tolerance of malware (which DRM is) in the browsers that they use.
Cambridge and the Exclusion of Jordan Peterson
Screeps – The world's first MMO sandbox game for programmers
It's a part of the French literary and artistic tradition. In France (and elsewhere on the Continent), authors and artists are considered to have inherent rights to their work that are stronger than normal copyright, including the right to be named as the author and the perpetual right (transmissible to heirs after death) to control how their work is presented and consumed to some extent -- hence the phrase droits d'auteur (authors' rights).
This seems like a lot of work, and personally, I don't see it as being much more than begging. Sure, it's begging successfully, but it's still begging. Worse, it could be considered a form of fraud. You have no intention of providing real value to your "advertisers".

Maybe I have different values, not having grown up in the US of A, but I don't think I could ever pull off such a disingenuous enterprise.

Edit: OP literally admits to stealing content. I could see something similar to this being more legitimate, but this is not it. (For the record the insta is @beautiful.[redacted] and almost all of the followers are bots)
No, that's fine. Because the "click this button in your browser" popup is part of the normal webpage DOM and can be blocked using existing tools. As opposed to this notification, which was (ab)using the browser itself to spam the user.
Also wanted to thank the HN crowd for all the positive feedback in the last few months!
I think most people would not be able to cope because they undervalue the importance to their self and sanity of brain downtime: daydreaming (and idle websurfing), zoning out (and intoxication), and sleeping (and dreaming).
Yes, I'd reach out to someone who is already in the field to see whether your ideas could be of interest.
I never got into Evernote, the UI was just horrible. I started using Bear a couple years ago and immediately fell in love with it and started paying right away.
> they'll put great emphasis on promoting their own browsers in foreign countries, force hardware vendors to preinstall their browsers on devices sold outside China

This will also help them monitor people's communications to acquire kompromat. See also the Chinese ownership of Grindr.
@akalitenya are you even in the clear with this? Some of the Old LookML syntax is an exact copy.

But more importantly, the challenge for any such tool is to go beyond use by 2-3 people. At 2-3 people anything will work. Where BI tools (open source and close source) struggle is scale: having all the right features for, essentially, a group of users who actually don't know how to work with data (did I just say that aloud?). Chartio caps at 20 people. RJ capped at 50-100 (and later became Stitch for that reason). We haven't seen where Metabase caps, but I bet it is in a similar range. Very few BI products have actually surpassed 100 users at target installations. And beyond 1,000 is a real challenge that only few, and even then with a lot of assistance, can support: Tableau, Looker, Microstrategy, maybe Birst, maybe Domo.

Also, a combination of BI with LookML is a complicated product. During my days at Looker, we were handling 50+ bugs / week, and filing 1,000+ tickets. Every day we were filing over a 100 new features.

So with all that, the question is, is it really worth the struggle? What's the end vision for supporting this? Why should someone who implements BI for a living bet on this product?
The company made me an offer, which I didn't accept, though for different reasons, mostly with me having skepticism on the sustainability of the company.

Joke's on me, I think; looks like the company is doing better than before, the stock package they had might have made me about $400k.
> The elevation drop that matters is from the top of the dam to the bottom of the dam.

> Doesn’t matter a whit whether the water that falls that 500’ has previously come from 1000’ or 10,000’.

Depends what you're counting. As you say, stopping the river entirely dissipates its accumulated flow. If you're downstream, then such a dam would lose you much more energy in the case where the water had originally come down 10,000' than in the case where it had originally come down 1,000'. The energy harvested usefully is the same, but the energy wasted is very different. And the total, the energy removed, is also very different.

I'll note, though, that a dam that completely stops the flow of the river is producing zero energy. (And also, about to cause a flood somewhere.) You only get energy by letting water through, and slowing it while it goes.
I wont use browsers with widevine. I refused to include widevine in any browser I worked on. Widevine is clearly a backdoor and chrome is often installed setuid root
Building a Brain Implant for Smell
Do you think most users even know what drm is, or that it's being run?
If you want to play programs you need to became SRE or DevOps. Guys which run code in production. In resource-constrained environements programmers also run their code in production.
Number one way for management and so-called leadership to befuddle their way into the arms of Goodhart's law
I missed a beat, is slack hated now? And how does it relate to always-on? You can log off, even better, not have it on your phone but only on your work machine.

Anyhow, even if somehow Slack is taking the blame for always-on, I think it's definitely not the culprit. The problem is a toxic company culture. Even if you were to use only email it wouldn't fix a culture where people are not allowed time off.
I'm only talking 2 years ago. And we do have netflix and it's simply tough shit!

In 2002, I had 1mbit.
Heavy progress is being made with neural networks for personalized and controllable text-to-speech (TTS). This makes it more and more feasible to generate the speech audio on the fly.

Which is a risk to professional voice actors, but a huge opportunity for indie game developers.
The most fun part is when you get to use the Jordan curve theorem (using the parity of an intersecting ray).
The settings exist, but at least on the Desktop (e.g, in a web browser), I have no confidence that the application will honor those selections.

The disappointing part of all this is I specifically remember when they fixed this in iOS 3 with one 'Archive' toggle switch that in combination with Google settings actually did what I wanted.

I'd be curious to know how G employees handle email inside the mothership given these constraints - do they fix it server side?
That's bullshit. Universities and professors have all the power; they just choose not to use it. The journal name means a lot, but so do the names of universities and well-respected researchers.
Kundera: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughable_Loves

Nietzsche: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24702467-aphorisms-on-lo...

Houellebecq: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomised

Bukowski: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38500.Women

Kundera: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Be...
Students at a NJ high school charged with jamming school’s Wi-Fi to avoid exams
It's truly amazing how few people can grasp the concept of the time/quality/cost triangle.

If you want good quality in a short time -- it'll cost more.

If you want cheap -- you have to compromise on the amount of time or the quality.

I'd argue resource is a better metric than "time", but the point holds for the most part with either.
In an absolute sense this is true, but in all practical senses the title holds.
How does firefox manage to play drm content? Maybe OP could use firefox's approach? Someone mentioned below that redistributing is not allowed, but downloading at runtime is ok. Not sure about it, but if anyone knows about this, please explain it to the rest of us.
The Macbook keyboard problems only have three possible endings:

1) Apple is able to be evasive and dishonest until it goes away, probably days after they cancel the free keyboard replacement program and people buy new computers instead of paying Apple $795 to fix Apple's mistake once or twice a year

2) Apple is able to permanently fix it retroactively, but like the trashcan Mac Pro it seems they have painted themselves in to a corner where they cannot proceed and cannot move quickly either

3) Apple offers to replace the affected laptops when they do have an alternative, this is really the best case scenario except 4th gen is coming and if it doesn't fix the issue then it's a long wait to 5th...

Even if they fix it on the next iteration I don't think they would seriously entertain number three without substantial legal action demanding they do the right thing, affected people should consider the $0 resale value on these turds when they're a bit older and get rid of these devices now instead of wait for a $100 settlement in 8 years.

One thing that's quite funny to see is nobody else is able to fix their design flaw either because of how hostile they made the machines to opening up and repairing things.
No other technology stayed on as steep an exponential improvement curve for 60 years in the way semiconductors did. They were, in fact, quite remarkable.
This.

I have one with a broken keyboard but Apple needs to keep it for at least a week to repair.

Thats a complete non-starter. I dont have backup laptops hanging around to use.
Just from creating a browser with a reasonable feature set, like, say, the ability to play non-obscure videos.
> Is it really such a big deal?

It is! Nagoya city allocated 480 million JPY (4.3m USD) of budget for modifying their system [1]. Kobe city estimates 550 million JPY (5m USD) [2]. There are about 800 cities and 800 townships in Japan, each of them will need to pay a similar amount of cost, because every date in their system is in the era calendar. The total cost is going to be enormous. Yet, as of 2019, if you ask most laypeople they don't even know what era year is the current year. It is only used within government or municipal offices.

[1] https://hicbc.com/news/detail.asp?id=00049F45
[2] https://www.kobe-np.co.jp/news/sougou/201904/0012202757.shtm...
The Art of DJing: Jeff Mills
Does anyone else find it ironic and mildly entertaining that bitcoin's success and value is being gauged entirely by a thing (the $) it was meant to replace?
TTS would in fact be better than having the samples recorded and then compressed and sent to the game. You could maybe even do procedurally generated voices speaking procedurally generated text. The quality of TTS is already better than the quality of that codec.
Is the Chrome web browser buildable from sources?

If yes, what's the difference which allows Chrome to work with DRM and doesn't allow another code to do that?

I don't think I understand the problem. What does it mean "won't allow DRM" - you can always write code which you like, right?
I did that when I was using a MacBook at my old job and it helped but the problem was that it was too easy to accidentally push the buttons on the touchbar by mistake.
Vulnerability in PostgreSQL 9.3 through 11.2 allows to execute arbitrary code
Neoliberals and Conservatives Came Together to Undo the Welfare State
I tested a few that appeared from the ashes. Ended up not liking most of them but eventually found bazqux and pay them money.
Some pre work will help you hit the ground running.
That said, pre work is not expected, and probably won't save to more than a week of ramp up time. This is your one chance for a completely distraction-free vacation. I'd recommend just ignoring the new job and enjoying your time off.
Any sort of excercise has never made me feel anything other than shit. High intensity? I feel like shit instantly. Just miles of walking? I feel like shit throughout the entire process. I don't get any sort of "high" after doing it - everything aches, and I am tired, and I feel like shit. If a doctor told me to get more excercise, I would tell them to fuck off.
Then don't give them the legal weaponry to fight back.
Are there any good, preferably open source, alternatives to Evernote/OneNote? I like Markdown but plaintext is not enough as I need support for pictures, tables, ...
Moore's law is a (awesome) example of what economists call "learning curve" specifically for transistors. Generally, economists model unit cost as Y and cumulative unit volume as X.

The industrial revolution was all about learning curves. Production grew, got better, leading to lower prices, leading to more demand, more production, more learning, lower prices, more demand... untill everyone had as many forks, socks and radios as they wanted.

But... Moore's law is usually represented as price over time instead of units. Half the unit cost every 18 months.

Early-ish in the tesla days elon went on a sort of rant. I think underlying it is/was this difference between "x as unit volume" or "x as time." "Time" made technologists think of learning curves in semi-supernatural terms. They either exist or they don't.

Moore's law was so consistent for so long, we just viewed it as a constant, but traditional economists would say it was/is a function of all the computers that got produced. Elon would say it's a function of hard work at intel, etc.

The upshot is the same though. As more batteries are made, more people work on battery manufacturing methods & R&D, the price declines.

There's no guarantee that it'll be proportional to volume but... new energy tech (batteries, solar, EVs) is now crossing price-parity thresholds in all sorts of applications (like grid power). That means more demand, more learning, lower prices, more demand.

TLDR: yes, propbably
Well said, you always get what you optimize for.
It's not the shutdowns that are the problem but the lack of vision with which these products are launched and abandoned almost right away.

Inbox is a good example of a product that was launched and almost immediately stopped evolving with big question marks about transitioning from gmail to inbox, which ultimately a lot of users did not want to do, and more users who couldn't because some features just weren't there.

The writing was on the wall when a year in there had been no meaningful updates to Inbox (i.e. somebody shut down that team almost right away) and then slowly gmail started getting new features. Inbox barely evolved and there never was a clear vision for transitioning from Gmail to Inbox. Unless of course the vision was to have two competing products with more or less the same goals out there.

Same with chat. Google seems to suffer from a chronic internal not invented here syndrome. Where teams are competing with each other instead of working with each other. Google has a gazillion chat solutions, two consumer operating systems for laptops, tablets, and phones with lots of overlap. A bunch more for watches, misc IOT stuff, etc. And another OS in the works. Which of those three will be killed? Which won't be. It doesn't even matter. What matter is that we don't know and I suspect Google leadership doesn't know either. It's not acting like a company that actually knows which of those teams are going to get some bad news pretty soon.
In my experience this is largely a function of environment.

If you give a realistic estimate and constantly get "stop padding your estimates" or "this needs to be done quicker" in response, after a while you start giving hopelessly optimistic estimates.
I tell it to my acquaintances all the time. Nearly all of them are not interested in this information.
Linux Mint 19.2 is on the way, but the developers seem defeated and depressed
What I’ve learned in 20 years with my wife
I don’t want to speculate too much on the legals of the situation, so I won’t talk about anticompetitive matters.

As for why not do this in indexing, of course they’re doing that. They’ve been doing that for a very long time, but that approach can only go so far. There’s a constant cat and mouse game between websites and search providers, and AMP is a way to end it once and for all.

It’s important to stress that the motivation here is largely user-focused. People tend to ascribe to Google these shady Oracle-like motivations around screwing users and developers, but the truth is that moves like this are largely motivated by a desire to improve the experience. Not out of any sort of altruism, mind you, but because what’s good for the user is generally good for Google.
Blame Google and Microsoft. They were the people who created the specification, and pushed for it, when Netflix came begging for a solution to their DRM conundrum. Even if the W3C hadn't approved it, that's two of the big four browser vendors who are committing to implementing it anyways, which is enough to guarantee a de facto standard anyways.
Supposedly you are right and others are wrong, which doesn't leave much to be discussed.
Firefox uses Google's Widevine for DRM content: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm

"Firefox downloads and enables the Google Widevine CDM by default to give users a smooth experience on sites that require DRM."
I would've definitely gotten a Macbook Pro if the keyboard wasn't so terrible. Not only the reliability problem, but the flat keys. Just not good for programming.