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vlc is heading towards itunes style business model, which means subscriptions are to be introduced into videolan, they are probably planning on adding content service, already sounds like a bloatware, monetization of videolan by the developers will be the end of vlc.

alternatives mplayer,mpv
From the Wikipedia article “Islam in Malaysia”, under the section “definition of Malay”:

“As defined by the Constitution of Malaysia, Malays must be Muslim, regardless of their ethnic heritage; otherwise, legally, they are not Malay. Consequently, apostate Malays would have to forfeit all their constitutional privileges...”

I’d consider it less of championing humanist causes, more a Sunni government will not hand over their followers to concentration camps. A good thing, but giving up a refugee to that fate risks an intense domestic backlash.
Saying "the EU wants to backdoor encryption" is like saying "the USA wants to backdoor encryption" when one working group is talking about it. "The EU" doesn't want backdoors in encryption just like American politicians don't all agree with trump's Twitter mania.
This author has no empathy, which as we all know is a core value of Facebook’s culture[0].
Can’t he see that the thief in question needed this open source to make impact[0] to get promoted by showing Facebook is a desirable place to work by creating social value[0] through open source? By stealing the creator’s work without attribution the Facebook employee was just being bold[0].

0 - https://www.facebook.com/careers/facebook-life/
I like that AWS offers the management console. It can be great for quick prototyping and checking out new services where you don't know yet what to expect. An absolute no-go however is that the management console sometimes uses functionality which isn't available as an official API! One of the most prominent examples for that is probably that the management console does support U2F tokens, while the official API doesn't [1].

CloudFormation lagging behind in terms of features is mainly a matter of priorities and I agree, feature parity from day 1 on would be great. However the way they do it allows them to ship features more quickly, so that's something as well.

In the past CloudFormation support was even worse as the CloudFormation team was responsible for implementing the support for new features of all services in CloudFormation. And with an ever growing list of services and features, that was something which simply didn't scale. From my understanding that changed however, so that most service teams are now responsible for CloudFormation support of their service themselves.

> One of the other problems with AWS+CF though is that it doesn't support every option from every service, e.g. populating secrets was a hassle when I used it.

That's because creating a secret in AWS Secrets Manager is not a control plane operation (which is what CloudFormation usually implements), but a data plane operation (which CloudFormation usually doesn't implement). However in this particular case it has been apparently painful enough, as creating secrets can be necessary to be able to deploy other resources (e.g. for authentication to the Aurora Data API), that AWS implemented this data plane operation in CloudFormation [2]. The same is true for creating parameters in the SSM Parameter Store [3], while it's still not possible to create objects in S3 or items in DynamoDB without custom CloudFormation resources.

[1]: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/3607

[2]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...

[3]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...
Isn’t that literally the plot of the Planet of the Apes remake?
(IAAL but this is not legal advice. Consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction if you need legal advice.)

This is interesting. GitHub has an Actions marketplace but it doesn't seem to be namespaced like the rest of GH is. This sets up a potential for a naming conflict where first-to-register wins, much like Internet domain name capture in the early days before registrations could be challenged by trademark holders.

For the time being, it looks like developers should come up with creative names for their Marketplace add-ons to help avoid conflicts. With sufficient creativity, these may be subject to trademark protection; and creators might be able to leverage laws including DMCA to prevent such squatting.

OTOH, "label-actions" is pretty generic and IMO it was only a matter of time before someone registered it in the Marketplace -- if not by Facebook, then by someone else.
And once again HN is abused as a personal internet army.
Fck this sit! This is NOT NEWS and its clearly against the HN guidelines to post this cap here why is no one moderating this? It only gets worse if its successful.
bputil – Utility to precisely modify the security settings on Apple Silicon Macs
I generally recommend setting up a separate email client for development, and I recommend one I wrote myself for this purpose: https://aerc-mail.org. You don't have to stop using your primary mail client to incorporate a second one into your workflow. Just think of the patches as notification emails in your normal inbox, and then something like aerc as a domain-specific tool. Over time I bet you'll find yourself opening aerc more and thunderbird less, though ;)

We're also working on web-based tools for this workflow, which allow you to create patchsets, respond to feedback, and review them entirely from the web, but these are still WIP. You can submit patchsets and view discussions on the web today, and the rest of the tools are WIP.
Cool UI and onboarding flow. Needs to be more personalized if it's going to really engage me as a habit building 'partner'. Love the concept of getting direct sms reminders.
A chip can only detect current that's running through it or a sensor. A breached or shorted cell has a massive overcurrent between two parts of the cell and hence can only be detected by heat
No. I normally wouldn't post since it probably comes off as insensitive, but since every comment seems to be talking about how depressed people are, I will give a counterpoint.

I've been pretty blessed. I was working remotely before COVID so it didn't really affect my life much other than being way more restricted in where I can travel. I've been nomadic the last couple years so the travel restrictions were an adjustment, but there are still places one can travel to. I'm currently in one of those countries that had no restrictions. Unfortunately it's looking like they're going to start making businesses close at 9pm, which sucks but isn't a huge deal since I can still work out of my favorite coffee shop during the day.

I find that my happiest times seem to be correlated with:

1. Having goals, and subsequently purpose and meaning. Doesn't have to be career-related by the way, can be a hobby or caring for a loved one

2. Having a sense of community with real in-person human contact. Intimacy is good to have too, or at least avoiding a complete lack thereof.

3. Accepting that which one cannot change

I get that the pandemic has made things more difficult, but we can still control our destiny to an extent and make the most of the cards we've been dealt. I had spent 3 months in the U.S. at my parents' house bored out of my mind before deciding to fly out to a random foreign country, and have had a blast here. I could've just stayed put at my parents' house and said "but I shouldn't do anything because the pandemic", but thankfully I didn't.

My sympathies to anyone who is out of work or depressed. But I do think it's healthier to look at our mental health as something that we can influence and control through our own life decisions and mindset, as opposed to just looking at it as a disease where cure = therapy / pills (not that there's anything wrong with therapy + appropriate medication).
The article states that Facebook was using the author's implementation at first and only then created their own solution under the same name.
Yes, I've seen that episode of Game of Thrones too :)

First, consider the requirements to set such a trap. The authors of the document need to be actively concerned about a leaker, and to be OK with the document itself being leaked as long as they catch the culprit - at the same time, they need the document to be juicy enough that it will be leaked. They need to share the document in such a way that no two of the suspects will be able to compare notes, otherwise the jig is up. So no putting the file on a common internal resource (unless the server can stealthily serve different versions based on the user's login data); no attachments, else a reply all / forward would reveal the trap; no collaboration; no physical office where two suspects may see each other's copy.

Is that still possible? Yes. But a _lot_ of times it won't be possible, and the would-be leaker will know it's not possible. It's much more likely, and makes much more sense, for critical documents to be shared in such a way that the users _know_ they are fingerprinted, and won't leak them. IIRC, major Hollywood studios do that with their film scripts.

Second, what if the _key phrases_ are slightly altered in each version? Or hell, if your bosses want to finger you so bad, what's if they changed a small factual detail in each version? Then even the journalist quotes would reveal the leaker.
I was happy to wait an hour and a bit for delivery when dial-a-pizza and the local Chinese restaurant were the only places around that did it.

The food industry is over-optimising for speed. Especially drive-throughs. Every time I've been through one recently the order has come out almost instantly, but made wrong.
On the other side, would anyone start a business to lay power cables under the sidewalks of a city and create tens of thousands of charging points and be able to start selling it fully only in 2030? Probably not unless countries, states or cities pay for the setup. Will they start doing it closer to 2030 if they see that the adoption of EV is ramping up? More likely.
It's 20amp & says it's 5kW (but might be 4.8?). More than enough to charge a car overnight.
Does anyone know how to downgrade the firmware of my Macbook Pro 15" (2014)?

I ran the Big Sur Beta 1 with it on an external SSD drive. Since then, the standby mode on the internally installed macOS 10.11 does not work anymore. At some point, the system freezes while the fans spin on full speed, indefinitely until powering down with a long-press of the eject key.
"Where did Parler come from?"

https://mobile.twitter.com/davetroy/status/13272539919364546...
> clearly against the HN guidelines

Which part of them exactly? Seems like something or interest to hackers, so it would generally be on topic but for an exception.
Review 2: Personal Portfolio, Developer: Diego – ElefDoesCode
But both of those simply look like the fitness tracker on the Apple Watch?
Yea, I was talking to a fruit fly yesterday...

Wait no, that’s not accurate because while larger brains don’t inherently equate to more intelligence, there is a minimum size for any given level of intelligence. That said, this wasn’t a test of intelligence, just how cells grow in response to specific genetic alterations.
What I’d tell my own kids about piracy
Can someone enlighten me to the possible motivations behind a facebook employee doing such a thing. Since I don't much experience in open source, from my humble understanding it could be to hijack the project and nudge or explicitly steer the project and open source contributions in the more favorable direction.(?)
Facebook did or a developer at Facebook did? These are very obviously different concepts. Given that the aforementioned repo sits clearly under that developer’s Github Account and NOT Facebook’s, it seems fairly likely that this is a developer doing this in his own time.
Thought provoking, to say the least. Valid points about high-frequency trading, for-profit higher ed, and their need to look inward regarding the value they create in society. Many additional industries/businesses could be mentioned..
Better optimization will help, Librem 5 has better hardware but has (to a lesser extent) similar issues far as I know.
The decoupling argument breaks down when imports are considered.

"The material footprint of nations", Thomas O. Wiedmann, Heinz Schandl, Manfred Lenzen, Daniel Moran, Sangwon Suh, James West, and Keiichiro Kanemoto

PNAS first published September 3, 2013;
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1220362110

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/08/28/1220362110

https://web.archive.org/web/20130906063246/https://newsroom....
Exactly, they're not doing this out of the good for the society, they just care about their pockets.
If you don't like companies using MIT-licensed software under the terms of the license, then don't publish your software with the MIT license.
Batteries -> electric motors -> ducted fans seems inefficient to me. If I were building this myself I would go with a hybrid rocket engine.
Open-source/free-software means that you can examine the code yourself, compile it by yourself, make changes by yourself, use it for any use, and to share it with or without modifications. It is independent of things such as:

- If they will give you a copy without payment

- If they will accept bug reports and/or patches

- If the author provides free support, or even any other support

- The quality of the software

Some will, and some won't.
But even then you can’t go on it. There is a clothes rack, a bike and a dead plant, all contrary to what was agreed with the building body corporate/housing association.
These are the old news. I have read about this research several month ago.
This is a good idea. This will give time to create the needed charging points and to implement price regulation to eliminate the rampant price gouging at many places.
They will also need to implement a progressive ramping up annual licence for gas/diesel cars that will prevent the emergence of an enduring repair and maintain the gas/diesel cars - without which repairs could keep them going for another 20-30 years - which will gut the process.
That said, there should be a path for converting a ~5 year old otherwise good car, via the e-skate conversion process so someone can convert their great gas/diesel Mercedes into a reasonable e-car.
It can and should be done.
Would a proper parachute on a quadcopter be fine in case of motor failure / etc. be okay, then?
Hmm. It does seem like a better case than some of the ones seen by the RIAA anyway.
I was thinking about developing a really basic version of my product. I think having something tangible makes it easier to convince a good technical co-founder to join or to even get an investment.

I dont think that learning programming would be the most efficient way to spend my time. By the time I would get to the level I could create my application, the wave will have already passed. Furthermore, not everyone needs to know how to code, everyone should focus on what they're good at. I am good with sales, marketing, finance, and building websites. This of course puts me in a disadvantageous position when wanting to launch a startup.
Not quite. http://www.ratbehavior.org/RatsMice.htm http://www.ratbehavior.org/RatMouseHybrid.htm
In case anyone else's first thought was "we've heard this years ago and nothing came of it":

> In the past, high-powered lasers were needed to achieve similar results, making the technique dangerous, costly and inaccurate.

So does this mean we'll have idiots buying cheap lasers off Aliexpress and sending lightning strikes down on their neighbors?
I'm going to make a half joke. So you want to start a software product/business, like web app? First things first, evaluate frontend technology, try a bunch of them, for a week, and lost all the vibe all together.
> This comment is the one that seems to be two extremes with no balance

Indeed. Frustrated with the black & white view from umvi I responded with my extreme view. I'm sorry about that.

I agree with you that companies should, if they can, contribute back to open source, either with funds or time spent contributing to the project.

I only responded like that because I don't think it's either "companies take open source and never contribute" OR "companies take open source, overwrite the license holder and doesn't credit the author". I think the issue is much more nuanced than that, but I let my feelings write my previous comment.
Devils advocate here:

"label-actions" is a name straight from the github nomenclature, and a (very) quick look at the code and syntax suggests this isn't a fork.

I could totally believe the inspiration came from the older project, but I could also believe it didn't, and I'm not so sure the OP should own the name.
Facebook would file a counter-claim, project would be reinstated by GitHub (in 10-14 days as required by law) and OP would have to sue Facebook to escalate. DMCA is of little use to smaller entities without money for litigation.
"To let them come to be born, in my opinion, would have been irresponsible as a first step,"
emphasis on the "as a first step"
In my experience working with Facebook developers has been a total pain in the ass when it comes to open source. They request all kinds of features with no intention of helping and are quite aggressive about it. That kind of behavior puts a serious burden on open source maintainers. Facebook employees should be ashamed of the way they treat other developers.
> You didn't have any issue understanding the original title.

Humans are very good at live error correction, but that doesn't make it not wrong.
He linked the commit where FB swapped it out:

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/f9c2157141b8...
This thread has more information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25100810

Short answer, it was copied from author then changed. Commit here: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/f9c2157141b8...
> it isn't so much a drive for prestige, but just a lack of other goals

Couldn't agree more. "Prestige" and the insecurity of people who seek it is the root of why people run the rat race. It is of course a race because we're pushing all our might in an effort to win.

Now I'm not against competitiveness, but if were talking 40+ hour weeks of 30+ years of grinding for this abstract concept of prestige, then it's pointless, and those people accruing checkboxes on their resume are running like lemmings off a cliff. It doesn't help that the chimp mind is wired to feel the pain of low status in the pecking order. But, living life to avoid that pain, through decades of work is just throwing your life away, the only life one gets to live, 90 mph off the cliff. This is why working too much is one of the biggest regrets of people on their deathbeds.

The people working for prestige, titles, paychecks, and status attainment without a larger idea of accomplishing something either for themselves or for the world really don't do anything, accrue far more security than needed, and waste away their time(decades of it) in insecurity, without actually doing anything, except maybe move forward the company agenda (talk about lack of identity, what was the definition of "cog in the wheel"?). No wonder they regret not living their life at 80. Because they haven't.
Maybe this attitude is making you deeply unhappy?
Google, you are bad at UX
How we respond to praise and criticism is who we are at the moment. May we all head towards center, the best we can be.
You shouldn't be editing "text" but "code" however. Text editing is low productivity task whereas code editing should happen mostly be at much higher level.
Ah. I forgot there are so many games still only built for 32bit. Is there any kind of workaround using qemu?
Unfortunately it's a bit more than $200 extra, but: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/.
> (except for Illinois)

Guess where I am ;-)

(Not in Chicago/Cook, though.)
If you are looking for a solution to managing files and are an emacs user try emacs bongo mode. There is a great introduction video https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2020-08-06-emacs-bongo-extra...
Look we can argue about it all we want, but this is a 3-files <1000 LOC project which they seem to have rewritten internally. I am not saying that this is a nice move but I fail to see what FB should have done differently here? Register their new actions under a new name even though the original project maintainer was not actually using the name on the marketplace?
The electronics are a big hurdle. Also, electric cars tend to be pretty locked down. I doubt it’s easy to upgrade a battery pack in an EV. Or switch motors.

Turbo cars are usually pretty easy to get extra power out of. Want a different sound? Get an exhaust. Slap a bigger turbo on. Etc.

I haven’t looked much but most “modded” EVs I’ve seen required a whole team.
I remember seeing similar post about amazon and Microsoft taking over names of projects and publishing as their projects. I remember the MS one was worse as they forked the repo, didn't credit original author and when confronted, people working in MS, tried to cover it up by reformatting code, changing var and function names.
I've been using Elixir in production for four years now, in a fairly complex SaaS app, and I can comfortably say I've never had to "learn all the gotchas of BEAM and OTP". IMO Elixir/Phoenix do a really good job of abstracting all of that away from you, while still making it easy enough to tap into their intricacies if needed (e.g. if you want to write a GenServer for something).

Lack of library support was a bit annoying at first. But then I realized that, back when I used to take advantage of existing libraries in Ruby/Rails, in the vast majority of situations I was just utilizing a small portion of those libraries anyway. It ended up easy enough to write my own code for those features.
"God damn you all to hell!"
Depression isn't just feeling sad/suicidal all the things (tired/lack of energy/abrupts changes in your social life) you describe can be symptoms. If you can't get yourself out of the rut it might be time to seek professional counseling. I would suggest trying regular exercise and eating right as a great start though. Just cut out fast food entirely, work in half an hour or so of working out every day or every other day. MOVE. Donate time at a homeless shelter or other charity.
This is based on exit polls and there are better studies out there. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016...
Not only is it not the default, it switches back after an arbitrary amount of time (they do say they'll do that when you switch, but they aren't specific on how long and don't alert you when it's gone back)
Nothing prevents you or someone else to write such application.
As opposed to a PDF scan which can definitely not be forged at all? ;)

Nothing less than a digital signature can prove the integrity of a digital document, and even that is worthless unless the corresponding public key has been publicly made available via a separate and trusted channel, which is unlikely.