skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can use this to get your activation bytes from Audible servers:

https://github.com/inAudible-NG/audible-activator

Or this, to crack the activation bytes in an existing .aax file, offline:

https://github.com/inAudible-NG/tables

Both methods are easy. It's then a case of using FFmpeg with an -activation_bytes parameter to convert to MP3 or whatever (or just remux into an M4A/M4B without transcoding). Tutorial here:

https://www.kylepiira.com/2019/05/12/how-to-break-audible-dr...

There are a bunch of other tools (both commercial and free) which use the above techniques but add either a nice CLI or GUI. The original was Inaudible itself, which can be found on your favourite torrenting site. Alternatively you can grab it from here, but I'm not sure how up-to-date it is:

https://github.com/rmcrackan/inAudible
I haven't heard it by name, but the description is something I've heard of before - usually when app devs are complaining about only being able to query/update the database through provided views/stored procedures, so it becomes a pain to support new features.

I remember one story in particular where the app devs discovered one of the stored procedures could be manipulated to run arbitrary SQL, so they started using that instead of talking to the DBA...
I meant all in the same thread. It’s hard to go through it all when threads get longer. Say a dozen or two pages. The same question might be asked 5-10 times. Then answered that many times too, but with varying correctness.
> I don't think MOND has any advantage in the Occam's Razor department.

MOND has a much more homogeneous behavior, that requires many less variables added to your theory. So I'll disagree, it has the Occam's Razor preference - for the same reason that ever instance of it has been quickly falsified.
Node.js – v14.7.0
I think there are a few different angles here for it being too strict.

1. There's are large elements of randomness and bias in our legal system which make it incredibly uncertain if someone will go to jail for a crime they commit, and sentences are given at times months to years after a crime is committed. This means long sentences provide only marginally more disincentive than a shorter sentence.

2. It is incredibly expensive to imprison people, so we should aim to keep people jailed for the smallest amount of time necessary to protect society and/or deter crime.

3. It is simply inhumane to put any non-violent person in jail for a quarter century.

4. Corporatism incentivizes this kind of crime and society should address the root of the problem rather than focus on people who respond to the perverse incentives of systems we live in.
I appreciate you pointing this out as I stopped reading right there.

When I read "people of color" anywhere, I assume myself excluded.
In a way it is a side-effect of attempting to bolt the same abstractions the 'old and complicated' system had on top of the 'new and lightweight' which essentially takes the problems of old and puts them back on top of the simple stuff.

Sometimes it doesn't happen like that, i.e. the whole clang-ir-llvm thing, but it often does (mostly during serialisation and API exports for third party consumption).

Take WSDL and XSD as an example, the idea was that you put your details in a file that can build on other abstractions and the result is a universal and portable format that allows any system to work with any other system. That failed of course because you end up exporting implementation details inside of those 'portable' abstracted specifications making it no longer portable because you now have to implement the exact same details on the 'consumer' side as well.

Comparable things happen with Protobuf and GRPC due to the same reasons. It's not as bad (yet) due to limitations on data formats you are allowed inside the protocol, and it makes it a bit more an RPC with message passing rather than a complete API encapsulation. If the maintainers can prevent it from eating in to serialisation of arbitrary objects it might even not end up all that bad after all. But that was the theory with XML as well and we all know how that worked out.
> In some ways Mark Zuckerberg was cut from the old cloth. The original Facebook was in many ways amazing, quickly evolving, and so open.

"I" created Facebook in 1999. The commpany I worked for wanted a "networked solution for all and everyone." Not big enough market, bad timing etc. So there you have it; timing is _everything_.
...are there any HK tech companies?

Slightly facetious but HK really dropped the ball in not chasing tech IMO
If you stand outside a hospital at night you can sometimes see windows flashing like someone is having a dance party. It is one of these UV disinfection robots throwing a death-rave for the microbes. Probably playing dubstep to add insult to injury.
The article is summarizing a JAMA study done in Germany. JAMA is well respected. Their conclusion was less sensational - essentially they say our findings show 60% of recovered patients had heart inflammation regardless of pre-existing conditions so there should be more research into cardiac effects of COVID-19.

There was no indication of actual danger, or any frame of reference to other infectious viruses (flu and other viruses also cause temporary heart inflammation).
Does it includes Windows updates for older systems?
I've always referred to it as a Development DBA. But the gist of separating DBA's into two camps, I've definitely used and seen used in many places.

I sometimes attribute the modern rise of NoSQL and other databases on the somewhat bad reputation that infrastructure-only DBA's can give to the profession. If the only major thing you do for work is check the backups ran overnight and deny change requests for "stability" reasons, it can really poison the well for others who want to make the database sing.

So what do developers do? They cut out the DBA role by inventing complicated but relatively low-maintenance DBs that don't need any DBA's at all - if you have performance issues just spin up another node. Whereas all they often needed was a good Development/Application oriented DBA to sort out their traditional RDBMS properly.
But is that true? The hacker got the pw database somehow. So it isn’t a given that they need your sms to impersonate you, since they clearly have breached the system already.
Does it really matter that its not "openly" doing so? Frankly that probably would make it worse objectively speaking..
They matter in swing States like Florida, where 57% of Cuban-Americans voted for Trump and 66% of all Latinos voted for the Republican Governor DeSantis.
Correct.

I made a pithy comment here expressing the same point and it was downvoted. Hoping yours won't end up the same way
I started my career as a ColdFusion and Mainframe developer, and even those systems are still running today. Drupal was created 20 years ago, and I have worked on multiple Drupal codebases this year. I learned Django and Rails in 2005 or 2006 and both are still very relevant. So I would say there are too many to count.
Just write it out normally, the code added nothing to the conversation either.
This isn’t true. Source: me, I’m a developer who has been giving customers refund instructions fir ten years.
It wasn't an acqui-hire.

The founders are not joining Google and from what I heard employees were not even offered interviews, despite the announcement that the company was going to join their offshore location in Canada. It's a pure patent play, acquiring the Vaunt patents from Intel.

It was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23691349
The idea of data stewardship seems especially relevant given the increasing ability of, e.g., adtech companies to construct models of their users with the end goal of having a brain-in-vat-style replica used to optimize ad placement.

The article doesn't go into much detail about the mechanism, but it seems like one would bring together the computation and data in a trusted environment, orchestrated by the blockchain (nb: you'll have to click the CTA link at the bottom to find this information). The environment is trusted hardware in the case of the Oasis Protocol network, but crypto methods would also work, depending on the algorithm.

The separation of consensus from (trusted) execution cleanly divides the concerns of durability+auditibility and confidentiality. However, it might be useful to go one step further and unbundle the two entirely, so to increase the flexibility of the computation (e.g., introducing non-determinism) and reduce the reliance on a particular root of trust. In such a model, the service provider and user would suss out the TEE out of band, and commit only the provenance and (shielded) results to the blockchain. Downstream data consumers would use the latter based on their trust in the former.
I use Pinboard a lot, all the time.
You are typing your password into your browser. You must trust them with your password.
> It seems faster/easier just to pirate from the get go.

Others have pointed out that authors won't get paid that way. But I also disagree that it is faster or easier to pirate. First you have to have a decent source (or multiple sources) to search for the books, hope that they are decent enough quality, hope that they have enough peers that you don't have to wait a day to download the book, etc. By contrast, on Audible you press one button to buy and another to download. Even when you take into account any DRM removal, the necessary time and effort are much lower.
One of the best representations of the 'simpleness' is the way you can draw it in a graphical loop diagram as they do on the json.org site.

When you can make your 'format' in to a not-too-big diagram like that it makes it far easier for anyone interested to 'get it' and encompass the whole thing in their mind to work with.
Microsoft is not in the business of making money from apps, right now they need growth, it might even be a question of hey so we need to keep the store running. I say only partly in jest but see them change colors if they ever get a dominant share.
Their customers are not developers, never have been, and never will be.

We see what "serving developers" has done to the web in general - a genuine mess. Perhaps the fee is a bit much and the refund should come with a return, but as an apple product owner, I like the general experience of my iPhone and its app stores, and I don't want them to cater to devs over me.
I don’t know. I’m not an academic. I’m gathering notes, web pages, mostly. I also gather videos and such. I assumed Zotero sort of things wouldn’t accommodate all that.
What’s in This Deep ‘Blue Hole’ Off Florida? They’re Working On It
Ha! I was just headed over to post about Voltbuilder and found @ghenne had already posted something. So let me say, I'm an early adopter and I switched over from PhoneGap Build while Voltbuilder was under development. Like all other PGB users, we were completely abandoned by Adobe.

When I started looking around (and complaining quite publicly) what I found was alternatives that were pricey and, quite frankly, came with too many of their own issues and that was the last thing I wanted. When the Voltbuilder crew said they were going to put a native CLI in the cloud I was all in!

Moving from PGB to Voltbuilder required little effort. I had to create a json file that defined the project and add a certificates directory (because Voltbuilder doesn't store certificates you upload them each time). Other than that there were no modifications to the project at all.

From the first build onward, everything has worked perfectly. The issues that I have come across have all turned out to be issues caused by errant or out of date plugins. I now have my main app in both stores and my secondary app is in development.

Support in the voltbuilder forums is really good and there are some smart people around (some managing 20+ apps) that really know their way around if you get stuck.

I saw a comment from @sphuff about the pricing and, as far as I know, final pricing is still up in the air but once a week or so the staff at Voltbuilder send all the testers an email and check in to make sure we're all happy and to ask us our opinions. I think we've all voice opinions about the price.
That’s true, and makes a weird incentive for advertisements. Ads revenue is apple-tax free
USSR invited a lot of Vietnamese and North Korean workers because of this problem.
didn't delicious.com point to del.icio.us??? this currently doesn't work.
`raw` is more of a type annotation than operator. You can also impose an implicit interpretation of (some of) your data as raw, without a type annotation.

A (not necessarily the clearest; this is something I have to work on) description is here: https://www.tree-annotation.org/raw.html

To condense: If it's unbalanced you have to escape it with the grave accent `. Otherwise, if it's balanced, which is mostly the case, no problem.

Unbalanced brackets and consecutive grave accents (or a grave accent followed by a bracket) are the only things you need to escape in raw data.

For more discussion let's go to the other thread, not to hijack this one.
The only books I bought on the subject are specifically about the mentalism variety, which probably isn't really what you want. I also got a book on the medical variety of hypnosis, but it is old and no longer published (I actually met the author, which is how I got it).

However, for videos I highly recommend a fellow by the name of Igor Ledochowski. The main reason is that he seems to have studied the subject more in-depth than anyone else I've seen, and has come up with some really useful models that explain very well what each part of the process is for, and variations on how they can be applied, what to expect, etc. Most practitioners seem heavily focused on a single method (and nearly always only the earliest known methods which are outdated by today's standards).

Although I bought some of Igor's stuff quite a long time ago, the reality is that the videos he released on Youtube pretty much cover everything he talks about. Forget the hand-stuck type stuff and search out his model discussions (complete with whiteboard), since they get far more into behaviour and process.
A 10 hour audiobook (which is about 90k words) requires:

- About 20 hours of a voice actor's time

- About 40 hours of a sound engineer's time

- About 30 hours of a director's time

Plus recording booth facilities. Some basic Googling puts the actual cost in excess of $200 per finished hour of recording.

Books have a broader distribution than audiobooks, on an order of magnitude (or two) scale. That's the primary reason why they're inexpensive. Audiobooks are still a bit of a niche market, though Audible/Amazon are doing a lot to increase the size of the market.

EDIT: I did a bit of research, and it seems like freelance writers can earn between $0.02 to $0.20 per word, which for a 90k novel works out to up to $18,000; less than the finished audio book. Take that how you will.
The tweets claim is false.
Right, I meant in the context of bringing Open Source tools to 32-bit ARM platforms. I don't think the people holding on to their iPhone 5Cs would bother with OCaml. Of course, if a hacker wants to do it, it's great.
You know I think you're correct and I was mis-remembering. I think what I might have actually been confused by is instructions per task rather than bytes of instruction per task but given that my memory has already failed me once here who knows.
Removing the DRM is a DMCA violation though, even if you have no intent to distribute. The doctrine of first sale was gutted for digital content because Congress is in the pocket of big companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...
> I agree that these exclusivity deals are bad news for most of us but to be completely frank this is largely on the authors. They are the ones agreeing, ultimately, to these deals to line their own pockets at the expense of readers and potential readers. Yeah Amazon is evil but no one forces the authors into this.

No individual author has the ability to impact something like this from happening on their own. Why would it be "largely the author's fault" when they have no say over the ecosystem?
Unilorin 2020/2021 Jamb Cut Off Mark – All You Need to Know
There have been plenty of successful, peaceful-ish secessions in history. Off the top of my head, the British Empire mostly dissolved
semi-peacefully, which was basically a tonne of secessions. Norway essentially seceded from Sweden. Russia didn’t fight TOO hard against the fall of the USSR. You could argue Brexit is a secession of sorts. I’m sure there are more.

Not that there wasn’t plenty of protest, struggle and loss of life in things like the dissolving of the British Empire and USSR, but the more powerful actor did eventually give up, vs. simply saying “we have the bigger army, we’re gonna crush you.”

In most cases, there was extended protest, to the point where popular opinion shifted over time to heavily support secessionists, and the colony/whatever became an expensive inconvenience, that wasn’t worth the tax revenue. Hong Kong are probably hoping that eventually the same thing will happen with them.
23andMe Paper on Transatlantic Slave Trade Published
> World hunger is a symptom of global poverty and underdevelopment, and reducing food waste won't fix those problems, it can even exacerbate them.

That doesn't seem true to me. A lot of food is wasted by your retailers, restaurants and households. They are within range of people suffering from food insecurity.

> An estimated 43 billion pounds of food were wasted in US retail stores in 2010. 33 This is particularly disconcerting given that in 2016, 12.3 percent of American households were food insecure. 34 Most of the loss in retail operations is in perishables, including baked goods, produce, meat, seafood and prepared meals. 35 The USDA estimates that supermarkets lose $15 billion annually in unsold fruit and vegetables alone. 36 Unfortunately, wasteful practices in the retail industry are often viewed as good business strategies. Some of the main drivers for food loss at retail stores include: overstocked product displays, expectation of cosmetic perfection of fruits, vegetables and other foods, oversized packages, the availability of prepared food until closing, expired “sell by” dates, damaged goods, outdated seasonal items, over purchasing of unpopular foods and under staffing.

> US restaurants generate an estimated 22 to 33 billion pounds of food waste each year. Institutions — including schools, hotels and hospitals — generate an additional 7 to 11 billion pounds per year.

> Households are responsible for the largest portion of all food waste. ReFED estimates that US households waste 76 billion pounds of food per year. 45 Approximately 40 to 50 percent of food waste (including 51 to 63 percent of seafood waste 46 happens at level of the consumer. 47 In the US, an average person wastes 238 pounds of food per year (21 percent of the food they buy), costing them $1,800 per year. 48 In terms of total mass, fresh fruits and vegetables account for the largest losses at the consumer level (19 percent of fruits and 22 percent of vegetables), followed by dairy (20 percent), meat (21 percent) and seafood (31 percent).

Production of food costs in many resources that take a long time to replenish. Even if you remove the world hunger angle from this, why are we producing food in excess?

Obviously, there are some good reasons and problems but many countries pile up on excess buffer stock which is a solvable problem without requiring improvement to the storage and other handling infra, right?

Same for retailers, consumers and restaurants. To certain extent at least. No one is perfect but the current trend is ridiculous.

Check: https://foodprint.org/issues/the-problem-of-food-waste/
Sounds like selection bias.
Thanks. Makes a lot of sense.
I'm not exactly the kind of person that would support Amazon on anything, but this is sort of what "exclusive" means, you know. So this amazed tone he uses to repeat you cannot sell "exclusive" stuff at other places is pretty silly.
> if they had to dogfood their own platform.

But Apple does sell one app through the iTunes App Store (Dark Sky, which they recently acquired). They sell several through the Mac App Store.

So, they do dogfood, but obviously they are not depending on revenue to survive here.

Side note: there are a bunch of apps listed under their developer that I had not seen before: Music Memos, Indoor Survey, Texas Hold'em, and Reality Composer.
Besides being dead as a reason for it being fixed, I think it might also reflect the high reliance on the oral transmission of texts (which your excellent examples I hadn’t heard about emphasize)

The name for learning (sacred) texts in Sanskrit is “shruti” , that which is heard.
Sanskrit grammar did change over time, at least until Panini wrote down the rules around the 6th century bc.
It’s a separate RBS file for now, but if/when this gets integrated into Ruby itself how will it interact with the new Ruby 2.7/3.0 keyword argument syntax that also uses the colon? https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14183
Critical Importance of Decentralized, Explainable AI for Better Social Networks
What makes you think central planning within a single corporation is comparable to central planning for an entire society?

I recommend reading about the theory of the firm to understand why they emerge and what makes them efficient.
> Fixed autocapitalize="words" capitalizing every word’s second character

Oops! This reminds me of the Jeff Atwood quote:

There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.

https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/506010907021828096?l...
Me and my quarter-life crisis
It is a publicized weakness. In practice, phishing is scalable and social engineering isn’t. And humans are shit at detecting phishing attacks.
Ruby was invented? :)
> It's almost like comparing Notepad to VSCode or MS Word

That's pretty hyperbolic. It's not like GIMP doesn't have basic layers, blend modes, etc. And Krita seems to have better non-destructive editing than GIMP.

I don't think GIMP is going to blow Photoshop out of the water anytime soon, or is even too close to as competitive in its area as Blender is in 3D, but I've used Photoshop and Illustrator for maybe 50 hours and Photoshop wasn't drastically better than GIMP for basic stuff, composing a simple photoreal scene from individual photos, simple graphic design, etc.
> Imagine what proponents to heliocentrism such as Galileo had to face explaining their theory and how it explain a simplified elliptic orbit for the planets rather than the strange curly orbits known by geocentrists.

They did. In fact, the audience was quite more brutal. And it did not only delay the progress of physics, but also destroy the local research, leading to the entire community being rebuilt on England.

But, well, as you said, we always have to remember they also laughed about Bozo the Clown.
> “It is, unfortunately, no exaggeration to say that a prison sentence today can amount to the imposition of a serious health crisis, even a death sentence, given the BOP’s (Federal Bureau of Prisons) current inability to control the spread of the coronavirus,” Levandowski’s attorneys wrote.

I find this ridiculous for his attorneys to use as a defense against his potential incarceration. While likely true (and certainly deplorable on its own), this applies to anyone going through the criminal justice system and Levandowski is no special case. Conditions in prison should hardly be an excuse for house arrest vs incarceration.
Haven't seen the one in DC, but I've been within arms reach of one of the old NASA SR-71's that's on display (not accessible to the public unfortunately) several times. "Small" is just about the last word I would have ever used to describe it.