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I pay for netflix, amazon prime, spotify (and thus hulu), and apple tv+, sometimes youtube tv, HBO+ during Game of Thrones.

I pretty much just torrent much of the content I could find on these services. It's so much easier to just have it appear in the list instead of switching devices, sometimes remotes. Just so tired of boxes and remotes and accounts and having to "type" with a stupid remote control.

Most of this could be solved if I could reliably queue something from my laptop to be played on my tv. Like how YouTube lets you queue videos.
> Then store the resulting uniform random-looking blob in image metadata or whatever.

Steganography is still security through obscurity. I don't see how it's any more secure than storing a manipulated key in plain text, especially if you are competent. If it were me I would just xor my address with a key of the same length (correcthorsebatterystaple-esque) and then xor it back out on the other side.

How would you even know it was a bitcoin wallet address vs. something else?

Or even write a letter to someone, where the second letter of the first word of every paragraph form the wallet address.
The world reserve currency can collapse without all of society collapsing to the extent you are suggesting.
U.S. Position on Maritime Claims in the South China Sea
Somewhat surprisingly, it finds nothing for mine (likely some rando IP from my ISP... though that only makes it more surprising).

I'm not sure what conclusion to draw from this. Am I not torrenting enough? Do blocklists work? Did my ISP recently acquire an Amish IP block?
I haven't read the post yet but right away I noticed how well the information is presented. I think it's because the post has a tree-like structure - I can take a quick look at the titles and the images underneath them and have an idea about both approaches, then I can read about the details. This way it's much more interesting than if there were no images. It's also aesthetically pleasing. I also love the combination of text, code snippets, diagrams, tables and charts - this way I can look at the issue from multiple perspectives. So cool.
Right, and the person who gets $500k poorer is above suspicion, because their apparent incentive (after making the bet) is to keep the person alive.
We don't need the entire system to collapse for bitcoin to become mainstream. This can occur with slow integration. It's probably a good thing the halvings occur every 4 years since these tend to drive bull cycles, and are spaced out enough to give time for the technology to catch up with the market cap.
You measure. It's actually not that hard - try with AVX and try without and see which is faster for your workloads.
The main issue is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect , but what gets missed when people use the Halo Effect term is that when the performance of someone attractive or charismatic is only average, we blame them for having "deceived" us, when it was our own bias toward them that caused the disappointment.

Criticizing the "privilege" of the attractive as a means to de-legitimize them personally seems to double down on this error and seduce people who have the conceit of blaming others for their own biases into further self-justification, imo.
> "If X happens, that would be unthinkably bad. Therefore, X will not happen."

or "If X happens, that would be unthinkably bad. Therefore planning for X is futile."
My wife and I supplement our kids education at home. It is my opinion that kids are capable of a lot more. The school is catering to the lowest common denominator.
This feature is a “very good thing” so you can’t force someone to disclose their whereabouts to you by sending them a link to the server you control.

If you don’t want to send people your own info in the thumbnail, don’t send them thumbs of URLs that display your own info to you in image or title text when generating the preview on your device.
Maybe I should move to India. I heard so many success stories from there. I think Australia, Europe and US are on the decline. In Australia and Europe, raising in $20K+ of investment is basically impossible no matter how good you are or how much traction your product has... and you have to compete with well funded startups from other countries.
The question is moot since if it wasn't, and you made such a market, it soon would be. Realistically, the FBI would find a way to get you for something even in the meantime.
I agree, but it's not a legal requirement, it's just how things usually work. Here's a counter example: http://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/travaux-parlementaires/projets-lo... - tl;dr: Quebec abolished the statute of limitations for sex/child abuse crimes. Shortly after the law was passed, a group of priests were arrested.

(it took a while to pass the law, and was a multi-party, multi-year process)
1. Unless all the stuff about how important peers are to future success is BS then it’s still a very good thing to have your kid in good schools, even if the schools are mostly good because of who’s there rather than instruction quality.

2. Yeah ACA definitely helps, but it certainly seems like yet another program with aid cutoffs far too low, leading to a largish doldrums income zone of paying a lot for “coverage” with no subsidy, but still having enormous risk exposure and high copays discouraging normal care. Maybe some day our HC system will not suck.

3. A society with normalized single-worker households might spend less, but one operates on the norms and market(s) one finds oneself in. And anyway even income covering 90% of expenses (with things like savings and retirement temporarily cut to zero) is better than income covering 0% of expenses, so I still think two incomes is more secure even if earnings are very unequal or expenses are higher than they would be with one income.

[edit] oh I should add to #1 that in my cheap city if you use bad schools as the baseline, OK-school areas are about 1.5-2x the price for a similar house, and good-school areas are another 25-30% above the OK-schools price. Not considering the city proper, since housing prices there are weird and anyone with money and a house there doesn’t send their kids to those public schools, ever.
Yes, in my opinion, the CPU model is dying as we fail to miniaturize we will be forced towards data parallel algorithms which benefit from speedups through SIMD.

Ultimately AVX will be the future of Intel if they want to compute with GPUs and if everyone stays silicon.
If it's pre-USB-C, I'd like to know your plan for solving the quantum superposition issue USB connectors. You know, how every USB connector exists in a state that's simultaneously correctly and incorrectly oriented? :P

Now that I think about it, I think the simplest way would be to slightly modify the physical cable and the port so you could physically plug the cable in, but it wouldn't work unless correctly oriented. I had always wondered why they didn't just add another bit to the connector and cable that could allow the controller to determine the cable's orientation, then appropriately shuffle the incoming and outgoing bits so they go to the right places. Isn't that roughly how USB-C solves the problem? I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to most hardware matters. :/
Dragon Pro, voice recognition software. Awful UI, known bugs that never get fixed, incompatible with critical applications like web browsers. Why? It's my understanding that they have no real competition. If you need to "drive" your computer with your voice, Dragon is all there is. In fact, it is pretty limited without the addition of Voice Computer, which allows you to command Windows to do certain things, like switch programs, etc.

Dragon is so important to my workflow, while so shitty a program, that I would pay three or four times its cost for a competing product that actually worked well.
I would do it.

I am a "senior software engineer" equivalent at a large non-tech company (bank). I am painfully aware I am not at the level of a senior software engineer at a top or upper mid level tech company.

I would gladly take the opportunity to delevel to a mid or even junior level engineer to get into a top tech company. The funny thing would be my compensation would probably take only a minimal hit, if any at all.
I thought of this exactly.
Empiricism? In my software development? No way.
But ... my kids did not ended badly. It was no catastrophe. There is no blame on me.

I just found that teachers know what they do better and that school is giving my kids more then I assumed before.

I could put in a lot of effort to design and plan years and days around education. But it would be awful lot of work for not much benefit. While the schools can be improved in a lot ot ways, they are much less failures then some people love to make them be.

Also, I know what it is like to be stay at home mom, I simply don't want that. It is profoundly unhappy situation for me and consequently imperfect for whole familly. I don't want it for myself and my kids don't deserved depressed stay at home me.
This is actually why they're launching bitcoin network satellites. https://blockstream.com/satellite/
Yes. https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/62fa23c44fb49c1d238e1de4...
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Sounds like a fake propaganda story (oh look, those corrupt Russian siloviks! every single one of them!). There is A TON of Ukrainian workers (zarobitchane) in Russia who not always work legally and they trivially wire funds back to their relatives. (Fun fact: currently foreign workers is one of the most important income sources of foreign currency for the Ukrainian state) Even if we assume that Crimean border guards were indeed so corrupt, it's trivial to go from Crimea (I assume you talk about it) to the Russian mainland, since there are virtually no checks between them, and then back to Ukraine.

One possibility which could make this story more trustworthy is that those funds were illegal (e.g. bribes accumulated during Ukraninan rule), so the person would want to transfer them as discretely as possible. I think Bitcoin is widely used for similar purposes in China, as it's (was?) one of the best ways to move abroad illegally acquired funds.
He is doing leveraged bets that the QQQ stock fund will go up a certain amount. When it goes up to that certain amount, he makes another bet it will go up again.
Perhaps they consider that people who spend effort on looking good or dressing "properly" are playing defect in a game of Prisoner's Dilemma.
Ask HN: How to deal with unproductive team lead/coworker
If I had to guess, most people have dealt with a team member that is unproductive and/or "Games" the system. I was hoping to hear from people who have been in similar situations, and maybe what they did to handle it.

Here is my specific example. My scrum team has 3 qa people. There is one person who is the "qa-lead". But I feel they only use the title as a way to pass off all the work to myself and the other team member. The lead has a tendency to fill up their scrum board with what I think are mostly "fluff" story's/tasks. And delegates the "real" work.

Here are a couple examples of the "fluff" work:

- A testing task, that doesn't involve the lead doing any testing. The lead asks a person from another team to review a new feature. The team lead marks the task as QA Passed once the individual from the other team has reviewed it. But since the lead's name is on it, I feel it gives the impression that they did the testing.

- Carrying stories in their name for days in a row, and making no progress on them (I mean literally zero). These end up getting handed off to myself or the other team member at some point, and we have to start from scratch.

There are many other examples of "fluff" work. And I think they are organized so as to give the impression that they are constantly busy. I am not quite sure if I can raise this issue with my manager though.

I was curious if anyone has ever successfully navigated a situation like this? I've seen similar questions asked in the past but it seemed like the most common answer was "find a new job."
By nine months it will be a debt crisis which has become a liquidity crisis which then forces a fire-sale of assets.
For the throttling operations you need to decide to commit to using them heavily or not. If you go all-in on them and use them well, you will get the same work done in less time and less joules than without them. If they won't help, don't use them. But, popping in and using them for tiny bits would be the slow and hot worst of both worlds.
Why Every Developer Should Start Blogging
That's good too, thank you.
For companies as prestigious as FAANG, I think such rules are thrown out the window. Assuming you choose to leave, you probably will have no shortage of companies asking you to come work for them.
Or maybe search priority is related to percentage of followers that interacted with a given video
If Bitcoin is ham radio the ILP (Interledger Protocol) is arguably "the internet" then.
ILP is for money what TCP/IP is for data. Whatever the internet want to do with data it does so with a protocol build on top of TCP/IP. If you want to do something with money/balances/escrows/swapping/path finding etc. etc. that could be build on top of ILP. Its completely independent of a currency because its just a protocol it doesn't care what you send over it just like TCP/IP doesn't.
I think this misses the point. The author of the operator delivers software as the operator + sidecar and a different can deliver a different software as the main app being operated and sidecar'd.

Imagine you only want to write a REST API without worrying about DB, for example. An operator manages you DB cluster and REST API server scaling
> #4 People are using their stimulus checks extra unemployment money to invest in stocks

Really? I'd normally guess that people with high incomes are most likely to invest, and to qualify for a stimulus check you couldn't have a really high income, right? And if you're receiving unemployment, people at the higher end of the income range will be receiving less because of benefit caps and won't have "excess" income, right?

I've heard claims in the past that a large share of stock is held by the wealthiest minority (like the top 10% owning > 80% of stock or something, the top 1% owning ~50% etc). Can the people investing their stimulus or unemployment benefits really change prices that much?
> Is there a permission for network access, and is it allowed or denied by default?

WebRTC data channels are allowed by default.

> Does the browser do anything to protect the user against something like this?

A nefarious website can already use the fetch() API to upload or download massive amounts of data if their goal is waste bandwidth. WebRTC doesn't introduce any new vulnerability here.
I think they only track popular movies and some open source downloads (apparently my phone has downloaded the gimp port for windows). For my fixed IP it has nothing.

I've given up on torrenting long ago, but not the way the movie industry would like. If it's not on Netflix they can just keep it.
VIX needs to hit 40+ before that happens.
As a Bitcoin Core contributor[1] and recent Ham radio adopter, the author mistakes a key point:

> This lack of a gate keeper means that there is no one to soften the user experience.

This is true of Ham radio[2], but it is not the case with Bitcoin. Like the internet, and unlike Ham radio, Bitcoin as a system/protocol is open to people creating centralized resources atop it and serving as gatekeepers.

The fact is that today a significant amount[3] of Bitcoin is stored in centralized exchange accounts, controlled by gatekeepers by way of hosted exchange wallets. Likewise, hosted web and mobile wallets are a significant element of the ecosystem, for example, while work on refining self-sovereign/non-custodial lightning network wallets continues, hosted/custodial mobile lightning network wallets are simpler to use, because the hosted gatekeeper can obviate concerns such as opening channels and managing liquidity. Several of the top lightning network wallets[4] are custodial gatekeepers.

Yes, Bitcoin enthusiasts are often hobbyist tinkerers of the sort you might see in Ham radio. At the same time the broader community is served via institutional exchanges and custodial wallets with no such effort required. Often it's the tinkerers who end up running the service providers.

While this decentralized tinkering is an initial hurdle to overcome - it would certainly be easier to have a single company build out all of the initial infrastructure, rather than a host of companies - the result is much more robust against the single failure or control of any one participant. Bitcoin benefits from each service provider, but isn't dependent on any of them. Like the internet, and unlike Ham radio.

[1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commits?author=Empact

[2] Largely due to the peculiarities of antenna installation and frequency selection.

[3] https://news.bitcoin.com/new-list-claims-1-9-million-bitcoin...

[4] https://blog.bitrefill.com/top-11-lightning-network-wallets-...
Yes, the ability to develop mac, iPad and iPhone apps.

That and people may just generally prefer using the actual OS over the other two.

I can't stand using Windows for anything other than playing games, for example. I've also never been won over by Linux for anything other than working on the command line only.

Also the way macOS handles 'spaces' (i.e. multiple desktops) especially when connected to extra monitors is unmatched on any OS with a decent gui
Proposing the idea that people do not always make arguments in good faith or say what they actually mean is "thought crime"?
A more charitable approach would be to consider that bitcoin and "bug out bags" can be things you have for separate or related contingencies.

We live in wonderfully complex societies and history shows us there are a lot of failure modes well short of apocalypse.

To be clear I'm not a "bug out bag" kind of person but I do believe that some disaster preparation is useful. I also believe that there's a modest chance of serious financial turmoil in the medium to long term future.

Bitcoin is likely to hold some value in the event of a localised financial collapse.
Regardless of politics, I think this case has some interesting implications for consumer rights.

I am hopeful that, at some point, Internet platforms will list having a fair TOS as a feature for consumers. Consumers and creators are getting "surprised" by the major platforms too often, and competitors are springing up all over the place.
Why is now the Golden Moment to make your real estate investment in Portugal?
Wouldn't that entail swapping out all the underlying Fortran that makes NumPy so lovely?
Depends on your interest area. I've really liked Cron.weekly, but I haven't tried most of these anyway.
You'll almost certainly do a better job than {an experienced teacher} + {an environment full of kids who don't want to learn}.
Sadly, yes. I've clients who still prefer to work on their Mac laptop and desktops. Large runs still go to Linux clusters, but small, debugging runs occur locally.

Per the parent, the lack of Fortran compiler causes an issue because some BLAS/LAPACK libraries align their symbols with whatever a Fortran compiler would do. As such, unless there's been a recent change, things like CMake need the compiler to determine the name for linear algebra routines.

I phrased the above as "sadly, yes" because supporting macos has been a pain and costs a fair amount of labor. In my case, Homebrew is required and there a bunch of specialized quirks in the build and packaging system that I'll contend are more difficult to deal with on macos than on Linux and Windows. Lastly, the requirement that macos be virtualized only on mac hardware complicates automating the build and test system since those processes must be relegated to a macos machine and I'd really rather not do primary development on a mac. Frankly, I'd pay Apple a not small amount of money to virtualize macos legally on non-mac hardware.
They all pay bribes one way or another though. It's impossible to do business in the Third World otherwise. It's probably some sort of a lobbyist or a "subsidiary" or something along those lines. I know it's hard for an American to believe, but you just don't get to do business at all if you don't pay - large part of why I live and do business in the United States where one doesn't have to do it.
Sorry, that was poorly written out. Under GAAP the building itself would typically have to be amortized for decades. A lot of the physical plant would need a lot of explanation to justify a short amortization period too (although not 40 years!) given that plenty of decades old plants still churn out chips at large node size. And There is, as I mentioned, an asymmetry in accelerating vs deferring the expense in terms of sector-specific stock market perception.

But I was lazy in conflating the two cases so thanks for pointing that out.
Yeah, the heterogeneity. Having to figure out whether to use sbuild, pbuilder, cowbuilder, or that one that does it in a fakeroot, the debian wiki pages on these tools are quite dense and it’s hard to tell which info is 15 years out of date. I definitely cannot remember how to incant dh_make correctly given I only use it every 6 months. E.g., last time I wanted to patch a package debian already had quite a few patches, and I couldn’t figure out how to get the source into the debian patched state, change the code and rebuild it smoothly to test. I acknowledge that the tooling is good enough that if I used it regularly, I probably would have no problem with doing all of this in 2 minutes, but it’s nowhere near as nice as https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Patching_packages.

That said, again I love debian, its stability and high quality, and thanks to you and the volunteers who make it that way :)
> I hear this quite often but where does it come from?

A part of it might be stereotypes and depictions in pop-culture. The drama Billions shows hedge funds getting their consistent edge from insider info. Not sure how true that is but for people outside the industry that doesn't come off as a good look.
A rebuilt and operational Bombe---the machine Alan Turing worked on---is also on display at the Bletchley Park museum. https://www.bombe.org.uk

Several years ago I contacted the rebuild team inquiring about getting mechanical drawings of the bombe. They told me there are about 4,000 original drawings in the GCHQ archives that require special permission to access, and the team redrew about 2,500 of these in AutoCAD to create the reconstruction.

Unfortunately they don't share their files ("the property of the Bombe Rebuild Project team and are not made generally available"). I respect the enormity of the effort, but I wish they were willing to share it beyond a single replica in a museum an hour outside of London. I assume that one does not embark on such a project because it is lucrative.
Signal has a fairly detailed strategy for previews, as they're quite privacy sensitive: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360022474332-Li...

And a (small, but has a few links) blog post about it: https://signal.org/blog/i-link-therefore-i-am/
Not a book, but I gave a talk at JSConf Asia in 2014 where I explain BitTorrent (and WebTorrent) from first principles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxHRATfvnlw

I also recommend just reading the BitTorrent spec. It's quite short and manageable as far as specs go.
Igalia's open prioritization experiment for contributing to browsers
Upterm – Secure Terminal Sharing
I can’t get over a writing quirk of this author. Is there a word for this inconsistent use of tense?

“When Chaplin asked what happened, Ken would say his father had been assassinated. He’d travel with the Prime Minister’s son to the palace and see the blood-stained floors.”

Unless I’m mistaken, this is considered poor style in English, isn’t it? Was - would be

“Chaplin didn’t understand Japanese, but knew they were in danger.
He’d immediately put his acting skills into play.”