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Hi there HN!

i'd like to share with you a side-project i've been working
on recently. To describe it shortly - its browser-based subtitle
searcher & converter. You can think of it as a really simplistic
clone of opensubtitles.org for instance.

The project is open-source :) You can find the repository here:

https://github.com/kickasssubtitles/kickasssubtitles

I would greatly appreciate your feedback. I have plans to add more
site-translations and expose an API in the future.

Cheers!
Would a post-apocalyptic world really care about electrical conductors and crafting new jewelry, though? It feels like everyone is making assumptions about what people would want in such a world.
Generate CRUD Golang code from SQL – Compare db/SQL, gorm, sqlx and sqlc
Illich reminds me a lot of Ayn Rand. Not so much for what they believe, but in the way that both of their worldviews appeal so much to sheltered but intelligent teenagers. If you have a very limited depth of understanding of the world and how complex it can be, they seem to have ALL the answers.
If I search "computer" on google my entire screen was literally filled ads. For that query a "web search" would be an alternative to the advertising marketplace that Google actually was.

There isn't anything magical about Google or Google's ability to provide a search service. It isn't easy, but it isn't outside the skills of the top 2-5% of developers. If a company figures out a superior business model they can be disrupted.
> I'm telling you, I could invent an obscure security scheme that NSA couldn't crack in a million years because they wouldn't even know where to start.

Oh, boy.

First of all, you didn't. You invented a broken scheme, and then when I pointed this out, you invented a new one without stopping to think about why your first scheme was broken, or why you didn't catch your mistake the first time.

> easy to remember, impossible to crack (unless you know the secret formula, which you won't)

That's not at all how this works.

You're assuming that your "secret formula" automatically provides an arbitrary amount of secrecy. It doesn't. Every operation that you choose to apply can provide a certain number of equivalent bits of secrecy (it's fewer bits than you think), or, if chosen poorly, can completely wipe away any secrecy you've built up thus far.

Unless you can provide a proof that your method is sound, it isn't. Based on comments you've made elsewhere, I have next to zero confidence in your ability to build a construct like this correctly, save for sheer dumb luck. All you've done is inform everybody here that you've not a cryptographer.

> However, all this is moot if the border police demand a key upon seeing encrypted files. So actually I think the best approach is to hide the (encrypted) private key as innocuous words in emails.

The whole point of this discussion was to point out that you can hide strongly encrypted ciphertext using weak steganographic techniques so that the police aren't going to see encrypted files, and aren't likely to suspect a hidden message.

The point of using strong cryptography is so that even if they do manage to suspect a hidden message:

1) You're not making their job needlessly easy by also giving them the key by mistakenly thinking that you can hide it effectively. You can't.

2) You can get a strong key out of a passphrase that you can easily memorize, so hiding the key isn't even necessary in the first place.

> And when the border police see encrypted files and demand the key so they can examine further?

They're not going to see encrypted files.

Hide ONLY the ciphertext. Memorize the key.

It's simpler, provides more bits of secrecy, and is easier to validate than some harebrained secret-chained-hash scheme.
You are probably forgetting about dependency hell, reproducible builds and automated testing. Waaaay tooo often some software won't compile because a bad version of the library is installed in the system or an incompatible compiler is used. Or two perl/python apps require different dependency version. All those problems are quickly solved by Docker. There were no better way to solve it, other than packing and versioning everything like in Chrome build process...
It's easier to grab all the shows I watch from one spot a couple times a week and watch from my nas via kodi on a shieldtv box. Bonus, not commercials and I don't have to care about which network(s) are on what services.

I do pay for Hulu + TV for the fiance, and though I do use it sometimes, I'll tend to prefer torrents.
The neat thing about 10,000 bitcoins is that it can exist in your pocket.
> The Andean condor has a 3-metre (10ft) wingspan and weighs up to 15kg (33lbs), making it the world’s heaviest soaring bird.

With a wingspan this large and a weight this low, the Andean corridor must generate enough lift by itself.

Tl;dr It's a biological aircraft.
Yes. If I'm not mistaken it was from the same guy (and team?) that created Slang/SecDB at Goldman?

Same team subsequently moved onto Bank of America to create Quartz, which is BoA's version of the same concept.

Then subsequently moved on to found Washington Square Technologies, where I think they're doing something similar, but not attached to a specific bank? Not 100% sure.

I've heard the concept was shopped around to a few other banks as well, but did not take root.
corruption is caused by wealth, health, educational inequality, lack of familiy planning in many cases. If people can't feed themselves or their families they will turn to corruption and use any means to get ahead
> nearly everyone can become very attractive if they take care of themselves, dress well, and lead a healthy lifestyle.

You're going to have to define very attractive. No amount of healthy lifestyle will make your breasts bigger. No amount of dressing well will make your face less ugly (short of putting a curtain in front of it).

There are hard limits to what you can do as an individual without surgery. Even with surgery, you still will run into a wall.
How A Racecar Can See The Future
Berkeley MPC Lab has developed Iterative Learning Model Predictive Control (LMPC) forecasting to plan the vehicle trajectory looking a few seconds into the future.
Here is a closed-loop trajectory (in black) after 5 laps of learning. The LMPC plans an open-loop trajectory (in red) to minimize lap time and land in the safety set (in blue).

The team will put LMPC to the test at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway!
I loved The Wire, but it's a poor choice of reference for good police work.
The bitcoin protocol isn't encrypted. You can use the protocol over Ham radio as it is now.
That’s true, but what we know about the Coronavirus class suggests it’s not like HIV (where the immune response does little to control the infection). Again, there are a lot of unknowns, but focusing on edge scenarios or edge cases just leads down rabbit holes.

I work in the healthcare space, and a physician recommended this review recently published in JAMA.[1]. He felt it was probably the best summary of all the data that’s out there (>29,000 papers on Covid).

I found this particularly relevant - Although viral nucleic acid can be detectable in throat swabs for up to 6 weeks after the onset of illness, several studies suggest that viral cultures are generally negative for SARS-CoV-2 8 days after symptom onset.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768391
Given that they're offering a $59k reward for their missing ledger I'm curious if anybody is going to try to make a fake ledger instead of a fake guitar.
yikes, that sounds like blown out drivers?
There have been some corporate governance shenanigans going on with ARM as of late.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2020-06-24/money-... (Control-F “Who controls a company?”)

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/softbank-arm-fired-china-ceo-...
Astronomers found a giant intergalactic “wall” of galaxies hiding in plain sight
Because, quite frankly, parts identified by hashes is not all they see.

If you're monitoring and logging the traffic then it's trivial to not only determine the filename of a bittorrent download, but also everything you need to connect to the torrent yourself and download it to verify that it's what the filename says, if that's what you wish to do.

And, personally, I'd expect someone to at least check the filename before accusing me of committing a crime. :(
I don't think that this argument would hold up in court as you're not just downloading for yourself (which you could argue you have a license to the content), but you're also providing (at least parts) of the content to others. I think this is where you'd definitely get into trouble.
In Monroe county, FL we voted out a host of surveillance tech like traffic cameras etc. I was actually surprised to see that the sheriffs office signed onto the Ring data sharing as surveillance tech has been thoroughly rejected by our community, and we are small enough and close knit enough down here, that organized movements regularly vote people out that cross too far over the line.

That being said, the police force has a pretty stellar reputation of not looking for trouble and bad cops are usually shown the door pretty quickly. The rest of FL though is a mess, traffic light cameras everywhere, licence plate scanners, stingray. You name it they are decked out with it.
Oh, it's modern? What does that mean =/
>We keep hearing about how this trend will reverse soon, ("two weeks from now"), but that hasn't happened yet.

Deaths are down if you look at the US as a whole.

However, if you look at the state level its not always the same picture.

Florida's death toll is up from a 7-day rolling average of 51 in April (the peak of its first wave) to 71 as of yesterday.
I get that this idea is appealing because it's quirky and counter-intuitive, and self-deprecating as well as self-aggrandizing.

But it's not true, obviously. Truly "lazy" people (i. e. those suffering from depression) will be trying to hack their motivation and beating themselves up over repeatedly failing. It's something that comes up in an Ask HR at least every two months.

Impatience & hubris are what gets "tech bros" the reputation of shallow arrogance. These traits optimize for Uber-like outcomes, in both scale and completely lack of decency. But going for the 1-in-100000 outcome is rarely a good personal strategy, and some marginal improvement doesn't change that.
the UX of this isn't great.
Did a black-hole merger create a flash in a distant quasar?
How does that work? Do you watch programmes, then send off a cheque to HBO if it meets your standards?
Now an IPO I would gladly buy.
I had this problem; Apple just replaced the affected earbud. Hasn't recurred, it's been a few months.

But, I mean, I've had problems with most of the IEMs I've ever bought at one point or another. It's just that you don't get to the top of HN with a post about a pattern of Shure product defects.
Hypothesizing - that would be more prone to network failure, torrents are very robust against either peer temporarily losing an internet connection.
Can confirm. Apple has replaced (for free, to their credit) at least two, maybe three airpods for me for this issue.
> The search doesn't seem to work much of the time, unless one uses Spotlight for everything

I’d say spotlights file search interface isn’t that great but the finder’s own file search (I presume uses the same md database) seems pretty good to me.

> it didn't even have copy paste last time I bothered to check

Actually it does, which surprises me. That’s more of a Windowsism where you select a subject and then select a verb to apply. The Mac interface has from the beginning been more about direct manipulation. I.e: when you want to move something you just grab it and move it where you want to be.
All major search engines follow robots.txt
picks up her trusty B&O earbuds and kisses them

Never need to worry about charging them, soft replacable rubber cups fit into my asymmetrically-sized earholes, they're always there waiting in my bag on the rare occasion I want to use them, I am gonna be so sad when my 6s breaks and I have to replace it with either an Android phone or an iPhone with no audio jack, maybe I'll just get one of those lightning⟷audio adaptors and keep it on the earbuds forever.

I still do not see how the Airpods are an improvement in any way.
I have to go back and fix this kind of inconsistency in my own writing occasionally. I'd agree that it's poor style. Even without the inconsistency, I never like it when things that are clearly from the past are written in whatever tense you call it where you make everything "would." Subject would present tense verb only seems appropriate when you're describing something both past and _in general_. "He would leave his shoes by the door when he came home from work."
No, the first study I cited states:

> There is limited evidence for their effectiveness in preventing influenza virus transmission either when worn by the infected person for source control or when worn by uninfected persons to reduce exposure.

And the later study states non-N95 masks allow 97%.
I've had this problem. It comes and goes randomly. Finally someone said something.
the solution is not to use your work equipment was my point
This is such a silly response. Did you have the same compelling argument when mandatory seatbelt laws went into effect?
My fibre is installed by zip tying the fibre cable to the old copper phone/dsl cable. This is a rather different voltage and a short length of 10-15m.
Great analysis

It's like he forgot that one of the major "features" of cryptocurrency is a quality that proliferates the sphere with scammers.

I say this as someone with a very optimistic outlook, edge case usage is both the pinnacle and the opposite of virtue, we would do well to not forget the dark side.

We need to keep it at "hopefully will solve problems" and leave it at that.
This is really nice. What's it written in? How did you do the Github social login?

Would love to see the code. If you're planning to open source it, there's no downside to making the repo public now. We know it will get better :)
Jogging with them = rattling sound
Smartphone AI processors performance ranking
Also the three great virtues of a programmer: Persistence, Patience, and Humbleness.
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As I mentioned to the other person, the first study I cited states:

> There is limited evidence for their effectiveness in preventing influenza virus transmission either when worn by the infected person for source control or when worn by uninfected persons to reduce exposure.

The later study also states non-N95 masks allow 97%. So basically useless.
I've had the same issue. And another, more important one: the noise-cancelling/passthrough features have gradually ceased to work entirely. I replaced one bud when this started happening and was making things asymmetrical (super annoying), then noticed the new one was noise-cancelling more than the "still good" one, indicating that the other one had started degrading too. Eventually both of them stopped working for anything but basic playback.

I've heard theories that the outer mics can get clogged with ear wax over time, and I tried several different strategies for cleaning them. I even bought entirely new rubber caps, just in case that contributed. Nothing I did worked. Eventually I just gave up and bought another pair of the regular AirPods, which had always worked reliably (I gave away my first pair as a gift when I got the Pros).

It's honestly shameful that such an expensive product can be so problematic, but I got weary of being upset about it and just wanted to get on with my life.
Possibly. It started out with just the "rattle" in noise cancellation or transparency mode. Then I started noticing it any time I talked on the phone/zoom/etc... (I have a deeper voice) then it started without the mic being used at all (NC completely off, just music or podcasts) ... Now the other pod is doing the same thing.
Having seen firsthand the uses and failures of institutions, give me an institution. Or I'll build it if I have to.

That paragraph is very, very, very unwise.
If your currency is going to undergo hyperinflation, aren't equity or physical goods exactly where you want to keep your money?
I get this on Firefox: https://imgz.org/i3mvCHVa.png
You seem to be quite unhappy with it. Why do you use it at all? There are plenty of programming domains where other systems rule.
Explain the lawsuit?
This is a cool project! What happens when that power line needs maintenance or replacement? Are you just severing the cable? Wrapping a backup line? Just doing a splice with new line and moving on?

Seems like this also produces a lot of waste over time if you wrap a power line, then have to re-do the work 30 years later (or sooner).
I don’t know about the Netherlands specifically, but most countries in the EEA have extremely strong consumer protection laws. It’s probably the case that you have many years of guaranteed freedom from manufacturing flaws under your local laws. In the U.K. it’s almost pointless to purchase extended warranties as most items are guaranteed by law to be free from manufacturing defects for 6 years after purchase.

https://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/
You don’t get to give an opinion on what’s the numerical value of a low price without any facts to back you up and then deny me doing the same. That’s preposterous.
Interesting, I have noticed the same issue this week :'(
Not that exciting really. I built an instrument that could measure very small levels of harmonic distortion induced by converter phase noise. Then, being so equipped, I made a converter with immeasurable phase noise. The instrumentation was the exciting part, in all honesty. $1000 off-the-shelf pro converters now exceed its performance.
This happened to me four times in four months. Every time, it appeared one of the microphones was broken, because I would hear a buzzing, rattling, or clicking noise when in transparency or noise-canceling mode. The current set have both been good for a two or three months.

At least Apple has great service. When the Apple store was open I could just walk over there and get the broken AirPod swapped in minutes. After lockdown I needed to call Apple support and get them to mail me one, which would take a few days to show up.
You should checkout Airtinery.com - the future or local travel.
> Abolition (abolishing something) can be an improvement, except when it's not.

You're shifting your argument. Both AOC and Omar are Democratic Socialists (in same vein as the traditionally dominant parties of Northern Europe), not anarchists or marxists. Neither is calling for the abolishment of the US or its governmental institutions, but rather for its growing wealth and income inequality to be addressed. If anything, the loudest voices for abolishment of state institutions today are coming from the right.
Interesting. I have multiple paper published in SIAM journals (Applied math) and I have consistently be blown away (in a good way!) by the quality of their copy editing.
How is it half related? The first study I cited states:

> There is limited evidence for their effectiveness in preventing influenza virus transmission either when worn by the infected person for source control or when worn by uninfected persons to reduce exposure.

I cited multiple studies. No idea where your "bunch of half related studies" is coming from. Your comment comes off as condescending.
It's not just those counties. There are new statewide restrictions:

https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1282752861835649024

The counties you listed have additional new restrictions.

https://mobile.twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/12827536569834...
Ye I guess seeming like a nice person doesn't prove or disprove anything, but lets not dive to far into your colocated worker's case, but generally.

I had a malware once that distributed (legal) porn. Since then I have had that in the back of my head when reading about child porn. I mean, what more effective way to ruin someones life by framing without having to involve yourself physically by planting drugs etc. It doesn't even have to be a specific target that is framed, but a target.

I really hope that the police have the technical knowledge to judge the evidence in these cases. Even if a framed person is cleared his reputation might be ruined anyway.
Well the whole taxation thing, IMO is insane. There was a year when I made 30k and paid a higher proportion of my income to taxes than Bernie Sanders. Anyways if it's income disparity you're looking to fix, taxing the rich isn't going to help. You need to stop stealing from the poor, which is what the government does via policies like QE. Taxing the rich is linear, the QE is compounding damage.
The color of the person I'm explaining this to has no relevance.

Unrelated: Do you think black people are the only people who have suffered in slavery?
My guess is that the damage to Apple's brand name that occurs with each replacement is larger than the cost of replacing the product.

I once had an expensive brand of computer mouse. After eight months the mouse failed. Later I bought another mouse from the same brand. The mouse failed after 14 months. I stopped buying from the brand. The same thing can happen to Apple, and they need to be careful about the quality of the products they sale when they charge premium prices.
so a total of 6 great virtues for every programmer as two sets of 3 conflicting pairs of virtues
GitHub – I built an app that prevents PRs from being merged in the wrong order
You're misinterpreting it. It says that for every 1 fatality there are 19 covid patients that have longlasting complications. It doesn't state though how many mild, uncomplicated cases there will be for every 1 hospitalized, i.e. what the denominator is. For example, if there are 1000 cases for every hospitalized case, then 19/1000 isn't that high.
Is there a hardware piece physically rattling inside? Or is this a software issue?

I have the new airpods but haven't had any issues (besides a single airpod sometimes not syncing with my phone at first). For what it's worth, I rarely ever use the mic.
Pay for media? How quaint.
I don't believe iOS gives me an option to control that. iMessage parses any URL you paste and send. I'll double check the settings though.

e: apparently this can be accomplished by putting periods before and after the link or pasting the link in a sentence.

First quack: https://osxdaily.com/2018/08/02/disable-url-link-previews-me...

Still need to test the behavior.
When someone begins a sentence with everybody knows, I often found that not everyone knows.

Are you saying all of China's industrial output is done with slaves?

Because it's funny the Wests answer to this is move to parts of the world that pays even less
All of that is true, and nonetheless the parent comment stands: it will be rhetorically more convincing if you show how this negatively impacts the law-abiding.
> Models like Britton’s and Gomes’s also assume that, after infection, people obtain immunity.

There is growing evidence that people can catch covid more than once, even within a short time after clearing the first infection. While not 100% proven yet, if true it would basically throw herd immunity out the window until there is an effective vaccine.
https://www.vox.com/2020/7/12/21321653/getting-covid-19-twic....
My left AirPod pro began rattling. It's obviously annoying/upsetting that this is an issue, but AppleCare+ support was awesome. I chatted with Apple on a Thursday and on Friday I had a new left AirPod Pro via overnight mail. No cost to me.
Also can use the apple support app
No, you don't have an absolute right to know all the details of how an investigation was conducted. You don't necessarily get to see the intelligence that supported a search warrant, for example.