skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What did DRM promise this guy

From the article:

> Thanks to a technology called “Digital Rights Management,” sellers and buyers could negotiate a subset of rights and a reduced payment for same... In other words, we were told that we must reject the promise of unfet­tered digital in favor of locked-down digital, and in return, we would enter a vibrant marketplace where sellers offered exactly the uses we needed, at a price that was reduced to reflect the fact that we were getting a limited product. We got the limited product, all right – just not the discount.
Now all they have to do is make it dull and boring and I'd buy it.

I don't want something that's addictive and fun, heck, I'd never get anything else done.
Which leads to things like anti-virus software being installed and configured to not run. Or anti-virus software being selected based on the ability of the software to be so configured.
Honestly, my biggest question is: Why did this get its own Unicode block? It's weird that symbols found on literally one object in history have gotten their own unique Unicode assignments.
> Huh? DRM broke it's "promise"? What did DRM promise this guy.

See paragraphs 5 and 6.
Carrie Lam has not withdrawn the law proposal. She has begun a motion that will look into IF the proposal is going to be withdrawn. This is a world of difference.

Additionally, from what can be read in various updates from the protesters, the person who will be tasked with the "looking-into" will be a Hong Kong government official, and the public will not be invited for enquiry.
It’s also got a cool space core!
They literally released two games in just the last year.
The build system issue isn't inherent to Rust or to large organizations. Even in a startup, we have a polyglot development with a separate build tool in addition to the language-specific build tool. We ended up doing much of the same things: use the language-specific build tool to generate artifacts which are then consumed by the normal build tool.
And when capitalists start telling you to trust the invisible hand of the market, the comparison to religion becomes obvious & apt.

Edit: for those who, for some reason, think my comment unworthy: "The ‘invisible hand’ has an iron grip on America
" https://fortune.com/2014/08/13/invisible-hand-american-econo...
Don't worry portal isn't that deep of a game
Well that’s easy — with computers, you need explicit consent to even “observe that the user is sunburned”, because there are no inherent scaling limitations with computers.
aand of course its symbols are in unicode already. I've heard that not every modern bengali inscription could be represented in unicode.
Established religion. If you read on the comparison is made clear.
Salary range would be useful, i.e. does it make sense to apply for someone in North America or Switzerland? In other words, are you willing to go further than Swedish salaries?
And then players wouldn't leave it behind and tried to drag the cube with them for the entire rest of the game. So they gave the Companion Cube a dramatic death scene at the end of the level.
I'm not sure I understand. Yes, there are some pitfalls to React Hooks (and, honestly, they're really slick but definitely require more cognitive overhead than React.Component) but he doesn't really describe how Svelte solves these problems. In fact, looking at the demo code it looks pretty similar to how I'd built it in React.

My trepidations concerning frameworks like Svelte come from things like this:

`<input type="radio" bind:group={current} value={filter.fn}>`

What does `bind:group` do? What kind of magic is going on behind the scenes to make this work? At least with React it's always easy to grok what is happening (it's all just JavaScript, after all). Of all the front-end frameworks React has the fewest magical invocations and that's one of the most important things I look for in a framework or library.
I'm not 100% sure either and am looking into it. FIPS is a rats nest and it may "depend." At this point I was just looking for basic feedback as to whether anyone could see any obvious problems. One person did suggest using a different AES key for each operation, which costs next to nothing and is probably good practice.

Edit: plan is to re-key often enough than plain GCM with 64-bit tags would be "fine" from a FIPS point of view. The goal here is to do better than the FIPS requirement by closing a potential attack vector.
Wouldn't you simply define your sample program to halt upon discovering a periodic repetition in its output?
Not surprised by this as Portals puzzles combine so many different abilities like abstract reasoning, planning, dexterity and reflexes. Now, the question is of course if other 3D video games (e.g. DOOM) have similar health benefits. I'd say Portal is a pretty "intellectual" game compared to most shooters, so I'd expect the overall effect to vary. Navigation in three-dimensional environments seems to be quite a complex task in itself though, so maybe that's already where most of the effect is coming from?
That might be clean, but it's not history.
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Those are all very plausible, but I'm surprised you didn't guess the most obvious:

His healthcare information was not transmitted through technical means. His insurer and/or doctor sold the information.
Most modern chips already use numerous clocks (aside from anything else propagation delays for the clock signal is already a problem).

The problem is not simply "because clock cycle" it is "if electron takes Xns to get from one execution unit to the next, then that's Xns of functionally idle time". That at best means additional latency. The more latency involved in computing a result the more predictive logic you need - for dependent operations the latency matters.

An asynchronous chip does not avoid that same problems encountered by a multistage pipelined processor, it's purely a different way to manage varying instruction execution times.

But this doesn't answer the killer problem of yield. The larger a single chip is the more likely any given chip is to have errors, and therefore the fewer chips you get out of a given wafer after the multiple weeks/months that wafer has been trundling through a fab. Modern chips put a lot of redundancy in to maximize the chance that sufficient parts of a given core survive manufacture to allow a complete chip to function, eg. more fabricated cache and execution units than necessary, at the end of manufacture any components that have errors are in effect lasered out. If at that point any chip doesn't have enough remaining cache/execution units, or an error occurs where it can't be redundant, the entire chip is dead.

The larger a given die is the greater the chance that the entire die will be written off.

That massive ML chip a few days ago worked by massively over prescribing execution units. I suspect that they end up with much greater lost area of a given wafer than many small chips, which directly contributes to actual cost.
> It turns out that measuring discrimination and opportinity is a pretty well studied topic.

And measuring skills is not?
Anecdotal, but I completely agree that Portal supercharges your brain, and I've believed this for years. Back around 2011 when portal 2 came out we had a family reunion. I had been playing a lot of Portal at the time. One of my uncles broke out one of those brain teaser type metal ring puzzles where you have to pull the rings apart.

It made it's way around the room as we talked and no one could figure it out. As soon as it came to me, I saw clearly exactly what needed to happen to solve it, and within seconds it was solved. I still think it must have been all the Portal 2 I had been playing.
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I think it would do some stuff slower. It's probably a boring old trade off. Like you'd make if you swapped arrays for linked lists.

Where I think this would be slower is streaming access. Say you have 10,000 elements, this would store it in a 100 by 100 grid. You want to read off elements 200-500.

A normal array would allow you to sequence through them as a continuous block of memory, probably as fast as it gets. I'm outside my expertise here but I believe that block could be loaded into the processors inner most cache?

This array OTOH would require some indexing/pointers along the way which would slow it down.

So this will add to some of the constants that the O notation conveniently omits!
McDonald's isn't in the business of providing seats for people nursing a coffee for a couple of hours. Not that there's any shortage of people who spend at least some time working out of cafes and coffeeshops.

However, in general, those don't really substitute for an office. Even an open floor plan office like WeWork mostly is.

Yes, at the margins, if someone doesn't really need an office, WeWork or its competitors are sort of a luxury that can be done without. But if someone wants to/has to work outside of their home, possibly with co-workers, have meetings in conference rooms from time to time, etc., the local Starbucks is probably not going to cut it.
“We’re temporarily turning off the ability to Tweet via SMS”
I saved the screenshots https://histre.com/blog/history/ ;)
> There was genuine shock in Europe that Chirac, Sarkozy, Hollande, Merkel were all spied on by NSA

The USA (and all major powers) has spied on foreign diplomats and leaders since its inception. This should come as a surprise to nobody. You had earlier claimed that the NSA was spying on everybody, which clearly isn't happening.
Is Optional Null Better?
I have scripts, snippets, CSS skeletons, checklists that I try to reuse between projects, but that's about it. I have tried to build one for myself, but it just doesn't worth the effort, unless you are launching a large number of projects.
Thanks Dakna!
I'd say that Prisma and Postgraphile both fall more into the data access layer category where you'd use them instead of other ORMs (like Sequelize). 8base and Hasura are more similar, though Hasura is focused on layering over a person's Postgres database without providing any resolvers while 8base is a fully-fledged backend-as-a-service. Like Parse for GraphQL in 2019.
Microsoft is on at least its third generation of DRM that broke old content. Doctorow mentions "Plays for Sure", which doesn't play any more. There was also "Zune", which doesn't play any more unless you downloaded the content before they pulled the plug. Then they had an "eBook store", which doesn't play any more. Not sure what they have now.
DRM never promised me anything besides endless pitfalls for wanting to listen to music or watch movies legally on my own terms.
Monkey Island disagrees!
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Well we just stood around until the UK imploded, and they told us we were off on our own haha. Canada rode the wave of deconialization that, it could be argued, began when the UK lost Hong Kong to Japan in WWII. Losing HK to Japan showed the empire could no longer defend its colonies and the bubble popped. It’ll be a while before we find out if such a strategy is effective in the PRC.

I mean, we still celebrate July 1st as Canada Day. I like to joke that it’s “Dependence Day” since it celebrates the signing of the British North America Act, which, and I’m paraphrasing here, says “this whole Queen thing is working for us let’s keep it going.” As compared to the Declaration of Independence, which, well, you know the rest.
* Updated: Office of the Chief Executive just responded to media inquiry [4] and clarified that the withdraw will be an announcement not involving vote or debate per rule 64. (I haven't found an English copy yet.)

Before update:

Today's press release [1]: "The Secretary for Security will move a motion according to the Rules of Procedure when the Legislative Council resumes."

The relevant official text of the above chinese link:
Rule of Procedure of the Legislative Council (LegCo) 64(2) and (3)[2]:
"(2) The Member or public officer in charge of a bill may, by an announcement made in Council at the beginning of proceedings for the resumption of the second reading debate on the bill, withdraw the bill if -

(a) the purpose of the resumption is for making such an announcement; and

(b) such purpose has been so stated in the notice of the resumption of debate given under Rule 54(5) (Second Reading).
(L.N. 74 of 2005)

(3) The Member or public officer in charge of a bill may, in making an announcement for the withdrawal of the bill under subrule (2), address the Council on matters relevant to the withdrawal but no debate may arise on such an address. (L.N. 74 of 2005)"

So no motion/debate/vote is needed. People are saying the Article 23/national security bill in 2003 was withdrawn by simple gazetting, without any motion or debate. This is the equivalent press back then [3].

[1] https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201909/04/P2019090400666...

[2] https://www.legco.gov.hk/general/english/procedur/content/pa...

[3] https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200309/05/0905155.htm

[4] https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1478843-20190905.h...
Aha yes! When I wrote my first sudoku solver a decade ago I was having fun and decided to stress test my solver with bigger N. I found a site dedicated to these and with puzzles as large as 64x64.
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I just came across https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/, which has a lot of cool resources including introductory courses for many programming languages
It's harder for us to rationalize it in an era where 'food security' is something only fringe groups had to wrestle with.

Some of our older holidays in the West trace their histories to feast-or-famine cycles.

I sometimes joke about 'how did they figure out this was edible' and suggest that they gave some village criminal the choice between banishment or eat this piece of fruit. If you survive you can stay. But it's probably more a combination of observing dogs eating things, and utter desperation during a drought.

Which if you think about it is extra scary because a lot of foods that we list as poisonous cause digestive distress. You don't want diarrhea when you're starving, and definitely not if you are dehydrated.
Here is some context for the event at which these notes were taken, and a summary writeup:

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/rust-in-large-organizations-me...

This was a meeting between a few employees of large organizations using Rust (Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla) at RustConf two weeks ago to discuss the common needs of enterprise users and how to collaborate effectively on the language and ecosystem going forward.
I remember they dropped "Don't be evil" from their code of conduct a couple of years ago.
Hm, good to know.
That's comparing apple to oranges though. Construction cost doesn't include land value, and WeWork is basically re-renting land and equipment. The construction costs are the least important part of what WeWork does.
> Professors are offered substantial bribes to select the most expensive texts

Really? I'm still waiting for my check. Somebody call me.

I know this his article is a rant, but that particular statement calls into question the veracity of anything else he says.

Maybe. Maybe there is a bribe somewhere involved in a 200+ person introductory class. Maybe.

No one in their right mind is going to offer or accept a bribe over 30 books at $150 each. The biggest "bribe" I ever get is that the publishers often send me a free copy of a book. And, if I ask for one, it probably won't be free, I'll have to send it back.

Most EECS professors I know of are keenly aware of the price of textbooks. They do NOT go out of their way to make things difficult. And, if we pick a book, it's a book you are going to make use of again in your career. We also place it on reserve in the library, and we avoid the digital lock in which generally causes us as much grief as it causes the students.

Maybe this is different in the non-technical fields.
It’s not a game that I, a long time Valve fan would have any interest in, but I’ve been told by friends who are into card games that the actual game was fun, it was the awful pricing that killed it.
Agree. Also nothing can beat the pleasure of looking through a real optical viewfinder especially those of full frame cameras. For me half of the pleasure of taking pictures happens when pressing the shutter.
> Github doesnt even display the branching structure in its commit log, which also shows a woefully small number of commits per page, further incentivising squashing/editing. Many tools (some are better than others) display commit history in a similarly non-dense way or in a way that implicitly discourages branching in some way, e.g. gitk doesn't even display commits from other branches by default.

GitLab and Fisheye usually display very well the graph of branching&merges

Also, I have this wonderfull git alias :

lg = log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date-order
I feel the same way about blockchain healthcare startups. If you put PHI on a blockchain it will get distributed, and one day cracked and shared. Modern cryptography is not a silver bullet that will last forever as-is.

By then the founders (who we see these days on Techcrunch taking money for these sham projects) will be long gone.
I stand corrected. I thought I had read this was actually happening, but it appears to only be speculation.
I started my digital hoard 15 years ago (if anyone remembers i2Hub across university networks it was amazing), and have slowly continued to build up a personal library that I've since made available anywhere I need it (NAS running Plex).

Did you also go through that phase where you had people asking you why you bothered collecting content because of Netflix streaming anything you could ever want? Followed a few years later by seeing content slowly get stripped from Netflix and spread out across multiple other streaming services, and suddenly you have people asking you if you're still running that personal server...
FOSTA/SESTA was a big hit to Craigslist as well.
$170M? That's probably how much falls out of Sundar Pichai's car whenever he opens the door.
It's a bit of both. If you don't have a strong "thou shalt not rebase" culture, it can be difficult to get people to accept the inconvenience of getting re-reviews on the branch they've just committed a typo-fix to, so you end up leaning on more complex tooling to force the issue.
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This comment doesn't really say anything, does it? The point Geoff made stands.
oh, aren't you so smart and everyone else so uncontrollably rude. just monsters. not like you... you're way better. an ignorant hypocrite, perhaps, but not rude.
That’s the problem with vague general principals, they are used to justify occasional acts of tyranny but do nothing to guide day to day decision making. Only concrete actionable guidance matters. It’s easy to think whether a particular action maximizes shareholder value, whereas asking if an action is evil so prone to reinterpretation and conscious or subconscious abuse as to be worse than having no guidance at all.
We're talking about art, music, literature, movies. There's no small elite; anyone can create intellectual property to sell, share, or rent.
Forgive me, What may be a stupid question.

As far as I can tell, the number of a Mechanical / Hardware Failure is far higher than Software. And it is always Power, UPS, Generator, BBU, Raid Card Failure etc.

Why is it that we keep hearing failure in these segment? And it doesn't seems anything have been done? Are there any Innovation happening in this space?
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Well, the “right” workaround is an opt-in system. But that would drastically reduce the number of qualified ad prospects, reducing their wholesale value, killing the online ad business, drying up the websites themselves who exist for this revenue (some/many of which are trash, but not nearly all).

I don’t think we can have it both ways, or at least it is very difficult and we don’t have a great compromise solution.
But I love that Craigslist didn't update. I hate the new mobile interfaces... The crisp UI of the 1990s without flash (or JS or HTML5) everywhere[1]...

...maybe that means I'm old. So you're probably right.

[1]Craigslist definitely uses modern web design now, but maintains the aesthetic of 1990s pages.
Professor here: this part isn't correct in my experience:

> Professors are offered substantial bribes to select the most expensive texts

I've never heard of this happening, and certainly have never been offered a kickback myself to take a book. Accepting one would be a crime for state university professors where I am, and probably almost everywhere else.
I’d be happy if they made actual games again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn#As_food

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_bean#Toxicity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhubarb#Food

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashew

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mango#Potential_for_contact_de...

It also depends on an individual's allergies and sensitizations. Furthermore, nearly all foods contain varying amounts of innumerable antinutrients that are also altered (increased/decreased) depending on processing method(s).
It looks like it was PHPBB forum?
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a week later I received a targeted snail mail ad for the condition using my full legal name, which only the DMV, my doctor, and the property assessor use

I had something similar happen. When I told my doctor, he blamed the drug store chain (Walgreens in this case) for selling the information. I don't know if that's true, but my doctor believes it.
He said in that video that the information contained in the S-1 was worthless. If in the know journalists are trashing it then who is going to be buying this stock?
It looks hastily made, I like the theory that it’s a prayer or hymn. A congregation would needs hundreds of these made whenever you had a new hymn or prayer. You have to rotate it to read it, so presumably, as you are reciting the prayer or the song, you rotate it to follow along.
From a technical perspective its possible, but geodata companies have business rules that don't allow it. No provider will allow those segments to be created (I've tried to do it). If you reach out to placeiq, factual, oracle, etc they will turn you away.

Healthcare targeting has been severely reduced in the past couple years because of concerns like these. You used to be able to target diseases/interest in diseases/etc but can't anymore.
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I heard it's really bad in chemistry and medicine.
Finding any finite number of repeating digits does not prove that there's an infinite number to follow. You might find 1000 3s in a row, followed by not a 3.