skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only difference between Widevine and DeCSS is you can rotate the Widevine key.
CSS only used 40 bit keys to comply with US export controls, so with modern computers you can just bruteforce it without knowing the key, so the key is very much a moot point at this point.
My Huawei Matebook Pro has been everything I wanted in a Mac, in a way I couldn't get from Apple.

Pros that Macbooks don't have: USB-A (along with USB-C), no touch bar, 3:2 screen, can enable secure boot if I choose so feel like I'll be able to run whatever I want on it, replaceable SSD, etc.

Pros that Macbooks also have: still has a great build quality, full day battery

Cons that both have: Non replaceable RAM
What successes has EFF had?
These aren't dead voters, they're living voters who happen to have the same name and birth month/year as a dead person.

As evidence: I spot-checked three random entries. In all three cases, I could find a Whitepages.com entry for a person with the same first & last name, in or near the zip code where the ballot was for; but the obituary was for a different city.

Entry 962: The voter is registered in zip code 48602 (Saginaw, MI). Whitepages.com lists a resident of Saginaw, MI with the same name and age as the voter. But the obituary is for someone who lived in Eastpoint, MI, which is 100 miles away. Howmanyofme.com estimates there are 6,000 people in the United States with this same name.

Entry 302: The voter is registered in zip code 48076 (Lanthrup Village, MI). Whitepages.com lists a resident of Southfield, MI (which is a city surrounding Lanthrup Village, MI) with the same name and age as the voter. But the obituary is for someone who lived in Detroit, MI, which is 17 miles away. Howmanyofme.com estimates there are 1,600 peple in the United States with this same name.

Entry 707: The voter is registered in zip code 48162 (Monroe County, MI). Whitepages.com lists a resident of Carleton, MI (a city in Monroe County, MI) with the same name and age as the voter. But the obituary is for someone who lived in Novi, MI, which is 48 miles away. Whitepages.com also lists at least three other individuals in various parts of Michigan with the same name and age range.

I've filed this as an issue on the Github repo: https://github.com/votesunshine/votesunshine.github.io/issue...

It's very irresponsible for you to be spreading these rumors. You should make it right by spreading the truth instead: go back to wherever you found out about this page, and let them know that it's actually just a case of different people with the same name.
The comment above referred to the URL before they changed it to command-fu.
The previous URL was:
https://linuxcommandlibrary.com/basic/oneliners.html
XPS13 is very good for Linux but I don’t think I’d recommend an XPS15. Dell don’t sell them with Linux themselves.

You’d be better looking at the Precision line if you want a 15” Dell with Linux.
> We can't even predict weather very well beyond 2 weeks.

But we can confidently predict that most of Europe will have higher temperature nine months from now. Also, California will be dry.

Sometimes large-scale predictions are easier because you're not concerned with small-scale noise.
Yes, Windows 10 forced updates have broken so many things for me.
It will be interesting to see how they do it. As far as I understand, the current Docker Desktop for macOS runs a Linux VM and the docker server and binaries run in that while the client runs natively on macOS.

Running it in a VM is bad enough. If they also had to run the VM in the Intel emulator (Rosetta 2), it could be unusable, performance-wise.

If they developed a macOS subsystem for Linux (like the WSL on Windows) and ran that on Rosetta 2, I can imagine it being faster.

Slightly off-topic: I just realized that they're actually calling it Apple Silicon. I find that name very cringey for some reason.
However low-confidence those climate projections to 2500 may be, anyone should by know better than to commit the tired old fallacy of equating weather and climate. No matter how chaotic the system, there will not be ”a deep glacial period” in mere 500 years.
Yeah, you are right. It is very relative.
Sorry, I can't and won't work for free.
Usually a graphic is called a logo because it is used to represent a thing.

Since these geometric designs don’t represent anything yet, it seems premature to call them “logos”.
Food rotted in fields this year because the supply chain wasn't even agile enough to switch from supplying restaurants to supermarkets. Given actual disaster, distribution would be even harder because people would definitely attempt to hoard food.
This post is absurd and dishonest because it is claiming that climate and weather are the same thing.

They're not.
>dedicated to ending the world

>OUR MISSION: To accelerate the world's transition to non-being.
Hard to not mention the work from Akiyoshi Kitaoka:

- http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html
- https://twitter.com/AkiyoshiKitaoka
Advanced Quantum Chemistry Lectures (2020)
Musk: Two COVID-19 tests came back negative, two positive. Same machine & test
> I feel that Angular is actually hostile to young professionals

I am not sure about that, it is more that the full stack of technologies for current SPA is daunting for new developers.

When learning react one just go to one part at a time, first rendering, then props, now learn to use the router library. When using angular one can feel overwhelmed because all the panel of tools is presented in one repo.
I think you are mixing weather and climate. Climate is long term average of weather (directly from definition of word "climate"). Weather is very hard to predict 2 weeks ahead. Climate is stuff like "average rainfall in march in past 50 years". Some processes affecting climate may also be chaotic, but they are slow (by definition, otherwise they would be part of weather), and so I don't think 500 years is beyond speculation at all. Glacial periods have lately been around 100000 years, so 500 years to future we are not going to be much more or less glacial than we are now.
The point isn't to protect content, but to need permission from the DRM makers to make a viable browser (or TV, or music player, or ebook reader, or...) Without their blessing, it won't work with locked content, and your users will go to a competitor favored by the DRM owners.
NotebookCheck is a great website for laptop reviews. They even get into the nitty-gritty details of display calibration, input devices, power consumption, etc.

Here's a list of the laptops with the best displays: https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-Best-Notebooks-with-the-Be...

And here's a list of general multimedia laptops that would be roughly equivalent to a MacBook Pro: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Notebookcheck-s-Top-10-Multime...
These days the newspaper bias is to preserve subscriptions.

If the New York Times praises Trump, they'll lose half their paying subscribers.

On Youtube, news channels have reported that if they're unbiased, their subscriber counts stop growing as "praising the wrong team" causes the other team to unsubscribe.

(Google Analytics shows that leftists are incredibly insular in what they will listen to, a true hive-mind. An example is that all the leftists I've talked to think that Trump is a racist, yet there's no actual quotes that demonstrate that.)
I was waiting for the AirPod Switching to work once I'd upgraded to Big Sur. Strangely, it doesn't work at the moment. Anyone else experience the same issue?

Edit: Turns out, unpairing and connecting again made it work!
Time for some DeCSS-style t-shirts/stickers again... maybe something like this[0]? ;)

[0] https://imgur.com/a/ajKeDfp
From what I've head: these models are very accurate in estimating the mean global temperature difference even for long periods of time.

While the global trend is clear, they cannot estimate local developments very accurately - these are subject to chaos, and local changes.
Note that the authors do not try to predict any local effects.
It would be very embarrassing if I were. I vaguely remember it being something Bad, but I didn't make notes on it.
> Forced autonomous cars: Yes, once they are good enough. We make people wear seat-belts. Same thing.

Selt belt wearing is rarely enforced anywhere (especially in Europe, in Italy nobody wears one even though it is illegal).

As for autonomous cars. If they ever work, one of the first mods people will do is to add a steering wheel.

> Stopping selling of knives: Yes, once we have a safer way of cutting things.

Knives are a safe way of cutting things. Billions of people use them everyday without issue.

> Though the real problem is probably people cutting each other on purpose, rather than themselves by accident.

How are you going to stop people from making knives? Humans have been making them for several 1000s of years, IIRC Chimps can make them now. In prisons they literally make shives out of toilet paper.

In the UK carrying knives is banned and their sale is heavily restricted. However in our capital city we still have a lot of knife violence. Guns are also heavily restricted but people still have those illegally and people do get shot. My uncle is a convicted bank robber, he had plenty of guns.

You are solving the wrong problem. You must solve the problem of why people are being violent to one another. That will actually make people safer.
I don't drink milk, lactose intolerant.
The tech corporate response may be one of the best avenues to actually apply any leverage against apple with this current situation. I've already heard of friends at big-tech companies where network admins are applying corporate wide VPN policies to block apple's ocsp.apple.com requests after the outage that happened yesterday and basically nuked productivity for hours. In some cases it meant engineers _could not_ deploy code due to an apple outage because `terraform whatever` wouldn't work, which is pretty outrageous.
> Regardless, he quoted it as a call to action for supporters to come to his defense, so it's reasonable to assume he felt it accurately captured the fact that he called for the execution of two public officials.

This is an interesting sentence, particularly the one word: fact.

This word seems to have some sort of a strange quality to it - very mysterious, almost magical.

It's a popular word, people use it all the time. And they seem to really enjoy using it, almost like it has a kind of...reverence to it, for them.

But if you ever talk about how they use it (like, the context they are using it in, and various details related to that), everyone seems to start acting....weird. Like, the passion and interest that was just there 5 seconds ago, kind of vanishes into thin air. There one moment, gone the next. Kind of like cherry blossoms in the spring, or that first crush you have as a teenager (no Mom, it's love, you just don't get it!!!) - so fleeting.

Oh well, it's probably nothing..."just my mind playing tricks on me!" lol
The way I understand it is that drinks fortified with Vit D are nearly always fortified with D2, whereas the consensus seems to be that D3 is the way to go. Not sure whether that's because D3 is less stable in drinks, or maybe there's another reason to prefer D2 there?
Yes, this is sad. I remember integrating Cairo into a project I worked on a number of years ago.

At the time, pulling in an open source project was a big ordeal. You had to figure out how to build it, getting all the configuration options correct, pulling in all the dependencies, configuring them, etc. I set aside a whole afternoon to get it working.

Anyway, I pulled it down, built it, and was writing simple drawing programs in about 15 minutes. It was amazing.
These laws are similar in what seems like a number of countries, and the reason why they're like this is quite simple: They want to have the cake (getting money from extra charges on stuff like DVD/BD burners, writeable media, hard drives etc. -- which you get charged to offset fair use and related rights) and also eat it (effectively denying you the rights you already paid for with those surcharges).

In a normal world, I can only do one of these. Either I take the money, and render services or goods OR I don't take the money, and then don't render the services. But in RIAA/DMCA/GEMA/...-Crazytown you get to charge people AND actively avoid delivering anything.
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The Librarian of Congress (if I remember right) can declare three year exemptions to the anti-circumvention provisions. They have to be reviewed and renewed every time. Jailbreaking a smartphone is one example of an exemption that was granted in the past.

It really is a ridiculously one-sided law that gives all power to private media entities.
> The intent is to prevent all copying, both counterfeit copies and legal copies of one's own content (for example, format shifting).
>
> Verance claims on their website that, while the watermark is able to survive recording through microphones (such as recording a film in a movie theater with a camcorder), as well as compression and encoding, it is imperceptible to human hearing, as well as that the presence of the watermark does not affect audio quality.

A Herculean effort to create artificial scarcity. Thank you, capitalism.
C'mon, anyone can easily find dozens of videos that prove otherwise. Also, the Push API is open, anyone can program python remote scripts to access it, that's how apps like Touchable work, completely false you have to buy a Push, don't need hardware nor M4L. Even if you don't know Python you can use ClyphX. And I talk about Live 10.
It can be both things. Use signal if you are sending messages that are security sensitive, or if you want to prefer secure messaging by default. But of course vote and talk to elected officials and agitate for policy changes as well.
Well, security starts with Availability.

Otherwise, my car is very secure when I never use it. Like, totally. Flying also has become very very much safer.

Edit: is/use/
42 ways to share code

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...

Predates so-called "Streisand Effect"
Audi rolls out “functions on demand” subscription model
Re colour accuracy, checkout thinkpads, they even come with a colour calibration sensor so you can have them autocalibrate daily/weekly or whatever suits you.
I've been using Macs since 1984. I bought a Lisa to do development for the Mac after Steve Jobs came to my university and told us we could buy his weird new computer for half price. Guy Kawasaki mailed me printouts of new sections of Inside Macintosh every month. I've single-handedly bought several hundred Macs (mostly through my employer) over the years, fighting prejudice and bias the whole time about Macs not being "real computers." I had a rack of about 50 XServes at one point that was my lab's private supercomputer.

But I'm about done. Apple has turned into an entity I no longer recognize. They have become--to use Google's word--"evil".

It's bad enough that they can't seem to fix long-standing and new bugs in their operating systems.

It's bad enough that every version of the operating system deprecates or eliminates useful features in favor of shiny useless ones.

It's bad enough that they don't care about developers any more, and cannot be bothered to create sane developer tools or documentation.

It's bad enough that they don't do backward compatibility any more and you are pretty much forced into a newer -- and in most respects worse -- version of MacOS at least once a year, or else you don't get security updates any more.

It's bad enough that the IOS upgrade treadmill is an even worse situation, where if you have an iPhone, you must keep upgrading it constantly, cannot downgrade, and will have to buy new hardware just to stay on the treadmill.

But what I cannot abide is Apple's increasing lockdown of the platform. It's now to the point that they no longer sell general-purpose personal computers. As your article points out, it's not even yours any more and it cannot be made yours.

Apple just sucks now. And I get to say that because I've been their biggest cheerleader for 36 goddamn years.
How remote working has built trust among colleagues
Exceptionally bad is a bit harsh. Windows is first tier support with Linux coming in as a second. In my experience they are pretty good about fixing remaining issues in firmware updates, which can be installed using fwupd (I don't have a Windows partition at all). I belive there's even a GNOME Software front-end if you prefer things being very easy.

I don't need to use throttled on my X1 Carbon 7th and they recently added mainline support for the fingerprint reader. All I had to do was enable it in GNOME Settings.
Because you do not notice until they f*ck up like this.
Hm.... Let me see. The number of operations I have to perform in Maven vs Python for independent packages:

Maven Scala project - create skeleton, add libraries to POM, write app, run app

PIP Venv Python project - create venv, enable venv, create requirements file, write app, run pip to install dependencies(possibly install GCC and extra libraries), run app

(Oh... and god forbid that you forget to deactivate venv)

You're lying when you say that library management is easier in Python. It's just factually untrue.
DMCA does not include fair use as an allowable reason to circumvent DRM. That is one of the reasons why DRM sometimes shows up in weird places because it effectively limits fair use rights (see also all the right to repair stuff that people have been talking sbout lately)

IANAL
I don't think you can conflate classic Thinkpad and current "Thinkpad".
Canada is already testing large scale carbon capture systems. It is not unrealistic that we will make significant advances in this area in the next 20 years, let alone 480.
I did not talked about what women go after. I came to this conclusion from reading about what investment bankers themselves say. It was not about who is shallow or who is deep. You can be super shallow and still end up more attracted to new guy that is actually around, more then to partner that brings money but is never around.

> In both cases hopefully the relationship becomes less about what attracted you in the first place and more about the friendship and shared life.

Yeah, but there is no friendship if you two don't see each other at all. There is no shared life between investment banker and his wife. There can be attraction part, due to good look and money and social status as you say. But exactly this friendship and shared life is something they cant really have.

> It's also terrible for women who enjoy their peak power in their twenties in a way all but the very highest status men will never know

This is just dumb, no offense meant, but still.
Would you care if your personal trainer was obese?
Just run Linux. Works for me.
Well, if the fancy projects are killing it, they could always give back to the giants shoulders or piles of dwarfs they are standing on.
Sounds like the software systems you are talking about are so mainstream and well understood that it might be simpler to buy something off the shelf. Now that more and more pieces are available as SaaS solution my intuition is that organizations should only focus on those pieces that are unique to the problem they are trying to solve. Rest everything should be acquired as a SaaS solution.
I like Akiyoshi's illusion pages, at http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html
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Please. It's just data gathering.
Security doesn't means giving away privacy.
They can perfectly do that without recurring to sending the hashes, using asymmetric cryptography.

But... this way the also gather some data.
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Sure... Ship that docker to Spark master node and... do what exactly?
I always see Americans (apologies for making assumptions if you're not) throw around blood testing like it's something trivial and casually done. Here in the Netherlands, it takes a real medical indication and some pushing of a doctor to get any testing done. Alternatively, you use a private testing company that costs 200 to 400 euros for a comprehensive screening. Question to the public in various countries - how easy is it to get preventative tests done where you live, and what does it cost?
So, yes: they do depend on the local (to the user) availability of that service. So they depend on that.
I never bought a Razer product because every time I'm looking at one I see negative reviews about their reliability.

It boggles my mind how they can be so successful.
Common Lisp has solved macro programming a long time ago..
DRM is mostly legal instrument. If you want to be able to sue people based on circumventing protections, courts need to consider your "content protection" "effective", which essentially means that it takes more than five minutes to circumvent. It also means that, since we're now talking about DRM that'll be protected by patents, copyright and obscurity/NDAs, that these DRM mechanisms centralize power to the owners of the DRM. This can then be easily leveraged to control and restrict e.g. the features playback devices may have.
best os, best hardware.

i really don’t get these kinds of comments.
The fear of Vit D overdose is funny if it wasn't tragic and possibly a factor in Covid mortality

- In Winter (especially USA/Canada/Europe) most people are deficient. Even more so the older and less active you are

- Read the labels and do basic math. A lethal dose of common OTC medicine is not that hard to obtain as well, are you going to ask a doctor how many Tylenols to take or are you going to read the label?

- Sure, if you're insecure go to the doctor and get it checked. But don't be surprised if consultations and lab exams are backed up at the moment.

- Vit D is fat soluble. Yeah you don't need to keep cranking high doses every day, the buffer lasts long. In fact for some people 10kIU should be good for a week. Review your dose, test your levels if you're taking a high dose for a long time.

In all those "Vit D overdose" stories there's someone doing something blatantly stupid for a long time OR (for the benefit of the doubt) they might have some other unknown problem or contributing factor.
At least the Soylent thing more or less died off. In a way it's comforting to know that the übermenschen on HN are as fad-prone as anyone.
What runnaroo seems to do that is working for me is to somehow prioritize programmer type hits. Maybe it's just the stack overflow source. The "skinned" Bing sites seems to localize too hard and prioritize shopping and big-news type hits.
What I don't really like about Runnaroo is that it's hard to pin down who's behind it. It's seems to be just the one guy and I can relate to his need for privacy but on the other hand I can't 100% trust the "We don't save or sell your data"-claim when there is no one to hold accountable.
You pointed out a core problem here, and a common blindspot with the HN crowd:

> continuing to use Apple/Google/Microsoft

That is probably 98%+ of devices that most typical people use for everyday computing, across phone, laptop, and desktop. Whether it is an android device, an iPhone, a Dell laptop or a new M1 macbook you are beholden to a corporation that doesn't care about privacy. I would argue that Apple cares a bit more, and I really hope they respond to the most recent shit show with some changes, but I'm not holding my breath.

And before "have you tried this *nix distro??" comments appear, they are still too hard to setup and nowhere near as user-friendly for most people on an everyday basis. And hell, if you setup Chrome and Gsuite as your default tools of choice, as many do (or are forced to because their job) how much are you really breaking free anyways?

I don't know the solution, but its clear that in the war between privacy and convenience and usability that privacy is on the ropes and its the last round of the fight.
Very few people would choose to have children and raise them in a post-nuclear war environment, even if the radiation didn't make viable babies impossible. It's possible that the population would die out simply because it wouldn't be replaced quickly enough.