skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends who you compare to. Australia is the only advanced economy who’s laws are even more draconian. USA is a close third.

It’s to the point where I (non-sarcastically) feel safer travelling with my data over a Russia border than I do the UK/USA/AUS border.

Since anecdotally my girlfriends family live in Russia and I like to visit the US (and my homeland, the UK) so I cross those borders often.
I wonder if Netflix’s use of image subtitles is a carryover of how subtitles work on DVDs — images as well.
It's hard to imagine SF being affected by this that much anytime soon. I can imagine the Marina and places like that having issues, but SF itself is so tall and there's so much hard rock everywhere.

But I don't know much about the Sunset or the Richmond so I guess you could speak better to that. I live near Twin Peaks.
VoiceID Loss: Speech Enhancement for Speaker Verification
Working in a terminal let's me do everything with the keyboard.

Not touching a mouse is a big plus. It may not bother you now but it probably will in a few years.
interesting that part of the way Manafort was caught out is that he had his offshore company directly purchase things for him

FBI raided his home, found many bespoke suits in his closet. They traced them back to a high-end tailor and retailer in LA and went and asked them who paid for the suits. From there they located the offshore company and found it was in complete control of Manafort

Where in Beverly Hills did Manafort Spend $500,000 in suits?

https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-manafort-rode...
If Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain weren't managed by idiots no one would be talking about the failures of the Euro.
If you drained the bay you’d lose one of the most important ports on the west coast and basically all heavy industry in Northern California
> Personally, I don’t think it’s up to the government to tell you where you can / can’t live on land you purchase.

I respect your opinion, but isn’t it the very purpose of zoning to define what can and cannot be done on that purchased land ?

And it’s already used for protection of habitations, for instance not allowing houses in industrial areas. For high risk areas, this all issue could have been avoided by refusing building permits as well, but blanket deciding a whole area can’t be used for living is the easiest course of action IMO.
This is why I always remove Siri from the Touchbar first thing.
Please don't comment on whether someone read a comment. That's informationless point-scoring, and the site guidelines explicitly ask you not to do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why would SF go away without a bay? Do you mean because of tourism?

If anything it seems like SF would grow its boundaries if this happened.
I stashed away a whole lot of (expensive) graph paper. Never used it and now never will. I can easily do a log-log plot or log-lin plot on a spreadsheet. I think I even have some polar paper. I can see the point for cricket scoring paper as a way of capturing information, but for processing information, a computer is just too darn easy.
There is an extremely nice app (IOS only, I am afraid: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/72-seasons/id1059622777 ) called "72 Seasons" which collects charming pictures, poems and interesting factoids for each of the 72 seasons.
Here goes with the Android weather app on Lenovo P10 which is super-annoying
British Airways faces record £183m fine for data breach
It is now a nation in continual civil war between a warring bunch of factions. People are desperate to emigrate from there and a lot of area is controlled by human traffickers. This is the end result of military intervention against Gaddafi. This was a nation that had free health care for the public. A lot of people are dying daily, but you don't hear about it since international journalists are afraid to enter the area - they will be taken as hostages by one group or another immediately.

Instead of waging War, international negotiation for the succession of power with guarantees of safety should have been performed painstakingly - with lots of carrots offered, but there are just too many warmongers in the US and even the UN.
By that time, Amazon for example had already decided that Perl's time had passed.

Another case in point, look at the Google trend for "perl tutorial"[1]. Unfortunately, that only starts at 2004, but you can still see by that metric, Perl popularity already was in sharp decline when Tiobe still had it fluctuating around a peak.

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=p...
Resurgente of right wing nationalism? In Spain it's been alive before they even joined the European Union with regional nationalism (Catalonia nationalism has been always mostly right wing). And besides, during the crash the major resurgence was in the left, extreme-left.

Spain, Portugal and Greece's crash were going to happen with or without Euro, the only thing problem is how the Euro afected their recovery.

I can tell you Spain hasn't recovered, and won't be, they are still managed by idiots.
I hadn't come across Popula before, but a glance at it doesn't lead me to think the proverbial grandma is its assumed audience.

FWIW, I much prefer paper books for many reasons (aesthetics, tactility, lack of temptations towards distraction, etc). But longevity isn't amongst those reasons - with backups etc I'm much more confident of hanging on to my epubs than I am my physical books.
Paper books can however be "shut off" by a fire, by being misplaced, by a flood, by theft, by a mischievous child or pet. In contrast, an e-book linked to a user account is immune to all of those.

If the idea of losing access to some data is the "most grotesque and awful thing" the author can imagine, I suggest the author read some more imaginative books.
> Their only plausible motive would therefore seem to be that they currently enjoy profiting off your raw browsing data and violating your privacy at the highest level by spying on it and selling it.

Alternative take: DNS level blocking is sufficient to get the UK watchdogs off their backs, and DoH means that there will be requirements for something more intrusive soon. Instead of putting up a fight with the UK censors, they chose to deflect the blame to Mozilla.

In this interpretation they're not evil data resellers, they're merely spineless.
Thanks for posting this, and I might have to start reading more of Matt Levine.

However, I don't know where you get "ages" from. He never mentions how long this has been going on. In fact I read it more as a news story where he is reporting a more recent development.

Edit: He does say "Executives in New York have for more than a year worked under the cloud of whether the U.S. operation would be sold, gutted or spun off.", but executives tend to try to hide negative truths from the majority of employees for as long as possible.
“The earth will be fine” is our generation’s “let them eat cake.”
I own subscriptions for both Netflix and Prime Video and (try to) use them most of the times from my Linux desktop on a 21:9 monitor. I have to force proper full hd resolution using a browser extension but can't find a way to fix aspect ratio / black bars problems. Just yesterday I tried to watch the third season of Stranger Things and I had black bars on all the 4 sides. After boring my SO for about 10 minutes messing around with extensions I just fired up qBittorrent and fixed the problem in 2 seconds using the autocrop feature in mpc.
I end up the torrent way so often that I'm starting to doubt the reasons that push me to support these platforms and their broken features.
Is the desktop userbase a niche so small they can afford to ignore?
Just added the links to the description.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulJN3er-7Co&feature=youtu.be

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.relatives
I don't know what a "fire plain" is. But would you consider Oakland being in one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_firestorm_of_1991

The fire problem in California is basically anywhere there is any wilderness. The state inevitably gets dry and becomes a tinderbox.
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I’m at Amazon now. None of the teams I’ve been on have had an absurd on call burden but I do know of teams that do (not in my org) and therefore struggle with high turnover (people don’t really leave Amazon burn just switch teams in my experience).

Overall, it’s made me better leaps and bound as an engineer prior to when I joined. Over the years when I’ve picked up a book on scalable systems or design, I easily identify the patterns of failure or whatever topics mentioned because I’ve had to deal with them on the job.

Amazon isn’t for everyone. My stress and anxiety level is generally pretty high.

I work with really really really bright people (compared to my previous companies) but being extremely intelligent doesn’t speak to your character. As a matter of fact, really intelligent people with bad character are 100x worse than Todd from my previous company who did very little work and was merely collecting salary.

If you have an opportunity to work for Amazon, at least as an SDE I say definitely go for it. But, if you want a relaxed 8-5 job, it may not be the place for you. The teams I’ve been on are full of overachievers but too many of those people in one room isn’t always a good thing.
My bet goes to #3. After [0]this commit, everything is possible in Ruby world.

[0]https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b83965785db1eec019edf1...
Sounds good in theory. In reality, the vast majority of iPhone users are not aware that this bug exists and never will be. The best action for user safety is to wait until the period has elapsed or the exploit has been seen in the wild already.

Alternatively, they could publish the gist of the exploit without providing enough detail to actually perform the exploit.
This is more than a crash though since you have to wipe the phone.
Running Elasticsearch Integration Tests with JUnit,Karate& Docker TestContainers
When I tried User Mode Linux I found that there was very little in the way of ready-made, up to date tooling.

Very little "just worked".

I think there's huge potential there, however, as an architectural building block, just like containers are.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20369951

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20362548

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20358300
Quoting Larry Wall from 2000

If you're going to quote Larry Wall from 2000, be honest and also quote him as saying he wanted to release a beta by TPC 2001 and get the final version out by 2002. Don't mislead people by cherry-picking quotes out of context to gaslight them.

That is, assuming you want to be an honest, good faith advocate.
British Airways faces record £183M fine for data breach
This is a nice high-level overview of Tech behind Radix and why blochchain and directed acyclic graph cant scale.

https://www.radixdlt.com/developers/technology/
Data-Oriented Design (2018)
Why can't they? I see no technical reason that would prevent them for doing it.
For those interested in data from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO 1233) Published by: WMO ; 2019

"Over the period January 1993 to December 2018, the average rate of rise was 3.15 ± 0.3 mm yr-1, while the estimated acceleration was 0.1 mm yr-2. "

https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=5789

There are of course debates relating to the well-known discrepancy between land-based and satellite observations of sea level rise.
Well yes, signing every commit is useless. He did not however, at any point during that exchange, express the idea that commit signing is a useless activity. And that is what I was referring to.

Currently Git seems to be very much integrated with GnuPG and the same goes for GitHub's UX sprinkles over the signing feature. That is what I'd like a decent alternative to.

I considered using OpenBSD's signify but it does not integrate as nicely as GnuPG signing so I'd basically be rolling my own mechanism (which is fine I guess, but feels subpar)
I’ve never really had issues with mutt: the lack of notifications is, from my perspective, a good thing because it means that I’ll handle mail on my own schedule rather than as it comes.

As far as multi-account goes, though, it’s relatively easy to setup in mutt, using something like isync and mu for archiving and searching.
Contacts can be easily exported to a file and imported
International journalists weren't afraid of reporting other things they don't have access of though.
Can you say what all you do with it?
Depending on the amount of money you have there, one can set up trades so that the other party gets your money by you "losing" it. One can buy gems, property, rare collectables. You can afford losing 10-50% of the money, but in return still getting enough which will be cleaned. It's not easy, but it's not rocket science either.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20360421
An article about international money laundering that doesn't mention real estate. Weird. Because real estate in the developed has been, is and will continue to be a prime vehicle for money laundering by kleptocrats.

Fun fact: all US tax residents, lawful permanent residents and citizens need to declare all foreign assets to the US government every year if they're over some pretty low thresholds. You may have to do this not once but twice if you're over slightly higher thresholds. One is or was known as FBAR and is a disclosure you need to make to the Department of the Treasury (specifically FinCEN). The other is Form 8938 and is part of your tax return (so to the IRS).

Both require you to list all assets you own, co-own or otherwise have signatory authority over... except for real estate. If you earn money from real estate (eg by renting it out) then that needs to be declared (and possibly taxed) but the ownership of the property itself does not. Why? Who lobbied for that exception?
Hi Joel, there is talk of gradual retreat by the experts. This was published in popular Dutch magazine (and perhaps talked about in talk shows, but I don't watch them), it was also published on the NOS site (the national news). Here is a translation from the VrijNederland page:
Rolf Schuttenhelm. De zeespiegelstijging is een groter probleem dan we denken. En Nederland heeft geen plan B. 9 februari 2019.

We need to consider controlled withdrawal in due course,' says polar meteorologist Michiel van den Broeke of the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (IMAU) at Utrecht University. He emphasises that there are great uncertainties when it comes to the loss of ice in Antarctica, for example. This is even smaller now than in Greenland, but the ice loss has tripled in the past ten years. Will this acceleration continue?

Van den Broeke received the support of his Utrecht colleague Roderik van de Wal: 'The enormous long-term effects are usually neglected. There is a strong attitude in the Netherlands that we will solve the problems with adaptation. That's a misconception.

Glaciologist and climate change teacher Michiel Helsen also calls for a social discussion: 'Is living below sea level still responsible? In the long run, it is possible that we will not be able to preserve the western part of the Netherlands. I think it would be useful for society to discuss which parts of the Netherlands we want to defend at what price.'.

Van de Wal: 'If we continue like this, a large part of the Netherlands will have to be abandoned. Moving to Germany should be a topic of discussion. At some point there will be no turning back. And within ten or twenty years, we will be able to conclude that this point has been passed'.

Also see:
Heleen Ekker. Kustlijn opgeven en het hogerop zoeken, dat is een plan B bij zeespiegelstijging. 9 februari.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2271163-kustlijn-opgeven-en-het-hoger...

And 'Als Nederland onderloopt..'
https://www.vn.nl/als-nederland-onderloopt-andere-problemen/
What Is Google Sandbox?
How to a site out from Google sanbox.
Bixby is the worst. I switched to a Huawei because of it, which is a shame - I loved my previous Samsungs right up until you accidentally bumped that button.
Micropython on the STM32 is also great for simple stuff like this
Can i simply prefix any url with commentr.io to get to the comments section?

Some time ago i did a scroing and visualization of reddit threads, maybe you find it useful, see https://migor.org/reddit/#/discussion/top?url=https:%2F%2Fww...
Hi, I don’t know your background, but why are you not building your 8 bit computer in FPGA? There are many nice cheap boards like MAX1000 from Arrow or Lattice. It’s really cool learning project! Transistor only design will have many problems: transistors are bigger than you think and small ones in VML0806 package are almost impossible to solder by hand.
> Getting all operating systems to do that, across the board, is much harder than changing a cross-platform browser.

Is it? I understand that Debian has just added support. It should be as easy for Google to add it to Android as add it to Chrome. That leaves only Apple and Microsoft -- and even before that, anyone who likes to can set the DNS server in those operating systems to a stub that makes queries via DoH, either running on the local machine or connected via VPN. (I'm making that sound very tech nerd, but actually doing it isn't inherently any harder than installing Firefox.)

> Also, operating systems would have a much harder time doing that, especially if they don't all have integrated support for captive portal detection and similar.

Wouldn't it be the same issue for Firefox?

> We're moving towards a world where all traffic will look like HTTPS, or eventually like http/3.

Sad but true. Though at least HTTP/3 looks to support UDP, at which point it becomes a lot more reasonable to encapsulate whatever inside it.
Does Windows not have those same fundamental problems?
> Signal also doesn't verify identities with phone numbers.

In practice, the only allowed implementation does.

It finds your contacts based on phone number, it allows them to use any keypair, and it allows that key to change at any time. It shows a light grey item in the chat when the key changes, just "your safety numbers have changed" and then you continue chatting like nothing happened.

Even if you were paranoid about checking for the light-grey changed safety number message, there's practically no way to avoid it. There's no built-in way to back-up your keypair and then load it onto another phone, so you can't avoid needing to have your friends accept new keys whenever you get a new phone, or factory-reset your phone.

Maybe you want to fork the open-source client and fix some of these glaring security deficiencies ... nope, they don't want your fork connecting to their central servers. Federation is for silly nerds, no thanks.

Further - recent GPG's crypto implementations are not currently compromised, it's disingenuous to conflate the issues with mail client plugins and keyservers and the old constructions used 15 years ago with recent RSA keypairs.

GPG signatures are used to verify authenticity of debian, ubuntu, and arch linux packages, and these systems do not use keyservers. I've used gpg for a scripted system just for coworkers at my office. (We exchange keys and validate fingerprints in person in the office.) It works. It is not vulnerable to any currently known attacks.

You can't do any of that with Signal! Maybe signal's algorithms are the bees knees and will last for decades but it's just not a useful tool. It allows peer keys to change at any time, and encourages or even requires it!

If anything, I'd expect you to be promoting Keybase, it is "modern" and also does a lot to solve the key distribution and continuity problem ("for real users" you might say), that Signal does not do.

It's very frustrating to see you appeal so much to authority and say "my cryptographer friends and I all just laugh at silly geeks who don't trust Apple and Facebook and OpenWhisperSystems" and really not offer anything that could replace GPG as a tool for us "silly geeks" to use for practical purposes. We could chat with each other and feel good that Moxie's modern crypto is being used and not care when keys change, but that doesn't accomplish anything technically useful for us.
In the US, stopping someone can be difficult when it comes to legal liability. There is a thin line between detaining someone and forcibly kidnapping someone.
You need goals to know which habits to develop, and habits so you achieve the goals. It’s not one or the other, you need both.
Transcoding like that is very heavily frowned upon. A scene group would not risk their reputation like that.

I suspect what they are referring to there is the process of remuxing the file and removing extra audio streams, ie. a BD50 BluRay of "They Shall Not Grow Old" comes in at 20GB with two audio streams, DTS-HD and Dolby Digital. The remux of that BluRay comes in at 16GB and has an identical bit-rate on the video stream, but the Dolby Digital audio stream has been removed, as well as the menu graphics (though this would not apply to a WEB stream).
Yes, and its driven by consumers.

Unless your content operates in a very small niche, "real time" is far less important that continuity.

In rough order of preference for the consumer:

1) it starts fast
2) it never stops playing
3) It looks colourful
4) Good quality sound
5) Good quality picture
10) latency

one of the main reason why "live" broadcast over digital TV has a stock latency of >1 second is FEC. (forward error correction) this allows a continuous stream of high quality over a noisy transport mechanism. (yes, there is the local operating rules for indecent behaviour, and switch and effects delays, which account for 10 seconds and >250ms respectively)

For IPtv its buffer. Having a stuttering stream will cause your consumers to switch off/go elsewhere. One of the reasons why realplayer held on for so long was that it was the only system that could dynamically switch bitrates seamless, and reliably.

There is a reason why netflix et al start off with a low quality stream, and then switchout to HD 30 seconds in, its that people want to watch it now, with no interruption. They have millions of data points to back that up.
> Your average American is dumb, fat and undisciplined

We've asked you so many times to stop posting this and other kinds of flamebait to HN, and you've so often ignored our requests to stop, that I momentarily banned your account when I saw this.

On looking at your recent comment history, though, I saw that you mostly haven't been doing this lately (that's good), so I unbanned you. Please don't do it again, though, because if this becomes a pattern again there won't be much slack left to cut.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Looks good (thanks), but my days of running servers for anything are long gone. My tolerance for anything sysadmin-related has reached very close to zero.

You don't technically need a server.

It's a very simple, single binary that runs on a cron job with no dependency other than lua. I do it on a VPS instance that I have, but there's no reason why you couldn't run it locally.
I’m not sure of the stats honestly but there’s still going to be a huge long tail of people on earlier versions for months afterwards. I was surprised that I was still on iOS 12.2.
Huawei Nova 5 vs. Vivo Z1 Pro Specs Comparison
Thanks for the feedback, I will act on this soon! For now, https://twitter.com/KanRails has some screenshots :)
>Do the pirates really OCR the subtitles for their MKV files?

Yes. At least as far as I have seen, which is not scene level but in private tracker discussion forums.

OCR-ing digital text is pretty accurate afaik.