skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As usual, police and prosecutors and anti-piracy groups will emphasize how the defendant's tool enabled piracy:

"arrested in connection with creating and maintaining a Kodi add-on configured to supply illegal online streams"

"created and built a software package that enabled illegal access to BT Sport, Sky, Netflix and other subscription television content"

"creator of software package ‘stephen-builds’ which facilitated access to subscription television and film content without payment to the rights’ holders"

But when you dig into it, you'll find that he actually went a step further and promoted the fact that his tool could evade copyright:

"created multiple YouTube videos which ... demonstrated the ability of his ‘build’ to enable the viewing of subscription television and film content"

I can't help but think that this is a deliberate tactic to scare away anyone who's thinking about writing legitimate addons that happen to aid piracy in some way.
Slight correction for those reading -> David Allen (not Paul of MSFT) went on to author the self-help book called GTD.

But that’s fascinating. Reading the acknowledgements is further than I had read into it - I honestly never looked at the acknowledgements in the years of having the book, let alone researched J-R or heard of MSIA until this comment.

For me personally, I am not quite sure what to do with that information. It looks like J-R is dead, and if anyone took my original book recommendation as saying “join MSIA” and go to spiritual seminars, that’s not what I meant. GTD frees up your time and attention to do whatever you want with it. That’s why I also recommended of Essentialism, Make Time, and Four Thousand Weeks. I guess someone could dig into it and wind up at spiritual seminars. Essentialism is written by a Mormon, and I wouldn’t think that people who read that book suddenly go and join the Mormon church (or to even know that about the author).

I guess it is sort of like separating songs from their creators? I can like the music, but not be a huge fan or follower of the musician?
Thankfully, the bird's location doesn't affect the graphical rendering power of Excel.
Never heard of it, but I may check that out next time I'm looking for a good read! Thanks for the recommendation!
Unfortunately to some their idea of being inclusive means hating anything and everything about whatever culture is dominate. The destruction and elimination of that culture is their only acceptable path to diversity and inclusion.
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Is there a substantial benefit to running something like Signal on M1 natively vs. through Rosetta? I don't have an M1 Mac so I don't a feel for this issue but my understanding was that between Intel and M1+Rosetta, x86-64 native applications run approximately the same.
Well, they're the ones that said "worst" and "most obscure," that wasn't me paraphrasing

But my heartburn is the intersection of these two bullet points:
"and exit 1 is used to stop any further commands from running", followed by _any other claim_

> obviously wrong code

Based on my experience with code reviews, I'd bet $5 I could put (or leave) "&& exit 1 &&" in the middle of a sea of RUN commands and it'd go unnoticed. So I guess it depends on who the target audience is for both this and the absolutely laughable Labs output: people who don't want to read what an if statement does, or people looking for the _meaning_ of the code?
Most of the complex classifications for swords is a modern development, that's often fairly arbitrary. Maybe short sword isn't the best term, but it is a short-sword
I assume paid development and tangential consulting. I know the owners are a consulting shop and Uno came out of that work. This is all speculation though, I only know of Uno by way of it coming up in conversations about cross platform.
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Run outside, even in the rain. There are also some compact, foldable treadmills on Amazon. Jump rope, get a small rowing machine (won't be a concept 2). Get an exercise bike.
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Counterexample: msgrcv(). This expects you to not be passing raw buffers, but messages with a particular structure: a long mtype, to specify what type of message it is, and then a char (byte, since this is C) array that is the buffer that contains the rest of the message. You pass these structures to msgsnd() and msgrcv(), along with a size. But the size is the size of the buffer component of the structure, not the size of the structure as a whole. If you pass the size of the structure, it will read sizeof(long) more than your structure can hold. Been bit by that...

So, just passing the size of the destination is something that you can still get wrong, in the case of data more complicated than just a single buffer.

[Edit: You can also design an API to be very misleading, even if it has a length parameter...]
I know a large group of weirdos that are probably flipping their shit with this.

Not only the superior siege engine but the supersonic one too.
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Aquaducts? What are you driveling on about?

Romans made them look cheap, reliable, and ornate enough to last for hundreds of decades.
Yeah, you fucking with some cryptocurrency

Bring a bucket and a mop for this cryptocurrency

Give me everything you got for this cryptocurrency
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Even so, I'm still a big dude because I like food. Controlling your diet is equally important, if not more so.
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Interesting article. I thought I was the only one. I put up with my parents' opinions and orders for my entire life because I thought I had to. Then I got married, and within a few months they tried to pull the same tricks on my wife. When I saw this, I was able to see how very wrong and very selfish and unhelpful they truly behave. I don't really need that in my life.
Thank you this helped a lot.
> Interesting how different his device is, from historical trebuchets.

It's more of an onager really: it's a torsion engine, whereas the trebuchet you'd think of is a gravity (counterweight) engine.

> It would be cool to see his design built in period materials.

"Period material" would be limited to sinew and / or hair, wood, and relatively small pieces of metal (mostly fasteners).
(a) was the breaking point for me. I pirated my entire Apple Music library from Soulseek and switched to Plex + Plexamp. Not as convenient for discovery but otherwise superior for me in every way.
A period of extreme flooding is mentioned in Chinese myth, lasting multiple generations and resisting massive flood control efforts (particularly earthworks of magic , self-reproducing mud). Efforts to date the floods of myth tend to land around the 2000BC mark, approximately 4000 years ago. Interesting to see how this might line up with the archaeological record!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_(China) for the curious.
Ripping audio CDs would be equivalent to FLAC quality. Make sure to rip them to FLAC or any other lossless format of course.

There are a bunch of stores that sell FLAC that I use:

* https://bandcamp.com

* https://us.7digital.com

* https://store.tidal.com

* https://www.junodownload.com

* https://www.prestomusic.com

* https://www.prostudiomasters.com

Can't comment on prices, I didn't really do a comprehensive analysis.
Ugandan troops launch operation in Democratic Republic of Congo
This article is from 2015, and there's some good discussion about it on this thread:

https://twitter.com/WiringTheBrain/status/146464127264431308...

Also response to the article:

https://www.pnas.org/content/113/27/E3813
Run native, statically-compiled apps on any embedded platform, using WebAssembly
I seem to remember something about WSPRNet posted on HN many months ago, and the consensus then seemed to be that it was junk science. Has anything changed since then?

Edit: Ah, here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27044995 -- looks like the article was from the same website, even.
The first day of this reminds me of how impressive the asynchronous and concurrent features of Raku are. I really need to start using it for the odd project.
Great idea, not the best choice of name. I think some of the criticism is valid. There are delusional lazy people that will sink your investment, and then there are driven brilliant types that will succeed with or without it on sheer perseverance. However - there are people between these states that would be wildly successful if they had a relaxation of resource constraints in addition to accountability, mentoring and social support. If you can deliver the package then there may be something excellent here. I hope it succeeds.
Where do you source your originals? Bandcamp is my go to, but not all artists publish there. Amazon often has physical CDs and MP3s for artists, but I have not patronized them for such goods (yet).

My process for downloading from Bandcamp, extracting the files, and syncing them to the storage could be automated a bit more I think.
> an unlimited virtual store and bring whatever content I want and organize it recursively by tags

Isn't that what Spotify and Pandora are?
Would you really want to stake our entire species (& biosphere's) fate on that piece of logic? even if you do I dont think any of the current world leaders ( & about 50% of developed world population) would.

at the very least it would be a strong reason to go build the biggest space shield and hold it between this planet and earth while we figure out the rest. Anything short of that would be incredibly naive.
I had the same thought! Earplugs for the sound might not be a bad idea either.
I had an old phone that failed, I couldn't wipe it, so I pried it open, yanked the battery, and went after it with a hammer.

I have done the same with old or failed hard drives for decades.

The difference being, I didn't want these devices back. I never intended to use them again. This person obviously wanted an unbootable phone fixed, and the repair drones 'had fun with it'. Someone (Google) is going to have to pay damages, and also chase down and take down copies of those photos forever. What a mess.

I had a friend that worked at an independent film/photo processor back in the early 1970s. The walls in the process area were papered with printed nudes. Floor to ceiling. Of course, in the pre-digital era, those elicit copies never saw wide distribution, but they were there.
Mandatory doesn't mean that it's been mandated.
They're two separate words with separate meanings.

but you're right about this:
>This discussion is not worth proceeding.
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I've always thought the trebuchet cord should be wrapped around a wheel. Then the force would always be rotational - no component of fource would pull against the hub and be wasted.
Hackaday is just blogspam. They happily rip off your work.
The most striking aspect is that he was explicitly optimizing for project difficulty. I smiled when he said, in effect, 'let's mathematically calculate How Hard Can it Be'. Sure kid...

But that's what he did. Fantastic job determining the criticial criteria and engineering to it.

3 weeks total project time.

Kid's got a future...
"Become"?
If executable names were traded like internet domains, imagine what they'd be worth now.
I agree this is a bad textual article, but am I one of the few people who prefer text and images over video? I literally never watch a video link here but I'll read almost any textual content. Not judging others, but I'm sad that technical videos are so prevalent and most don't have any textual counterpart.
This is a wonderful idea, and I will be quite curious to see where it goes. I really, really like the idea of funding individuals we believe in, rather than specific projects.

It reminds me of Gittip from a decade ago, which morphed into Gratipay. That original idea of "distributed genius grants", which is reminiscent of MacArthur fellowships, was great.

Anyone digging into this space has to be willing to wade deep into fighting fraud. Any platform that allows people to funnel money their way is going to draw abusers and desperate people. I appreciate people who are willing to face this head on.
If you like thinking-about-thinking and mental models, the fs blog (and books) are a great read.
The trick is not that the language support a safe approach (C++ has smart pointers / "safe" code in various libraries) in my view but simply that you CAN'T cause a problem even being an idiot.

This is where the GC languages did OK.
That’s irrelevant in regard to the conclusion: the vaccinated still get sick and spread it, so they should wear masks and get tested. At least the latter is illogically the opposite of what’s happening in e.g. Germany.
I run and do bodyweight exercises like pushups etc. I had a punching bag but it's not practical where I live now.

Actually I find it's easier to be active because I have more time and run longer, and in principle I snack less because there are not snacks at my house like at work. I drink more though.
> is you cannot pretend something is working when it isn't

Maybe not, but you can change your definition of what working is.
Another option is Funkwhale. I've not tried it, but it seems cool.

https://funkwhale.audio/apps/
Problem is, you can have two accounts, get you algorithm on the first and flash through the second.
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I have been thinking about images on the web. And I still unsure, undecided on what sort of file size should we really be aiming at.

>1500x1750 and weighing in at 3MB! The webp version of the same size is ~79KB.

79KB is a very low 0.24 BPP ( bit per pixel ). for 1 BPP it would be 328KB.

AVIF is optimised for BPP below 1, while JPEP XL is optimised for BPP above 1. On a MacBook Pro, the first fold of the browser has 3456 x ~2200, an image filling up that screen with BPP 1 would equate to 950KB.

In a perfect would you would want JPEG XL to further optimise BPP below 1.0 and do progressive loading on all image.

We have also bumped out monitor resolution by at least 4x to Retina Standards.

Despite our broadband getting so much faster, file size reduction is still the most effective way to get a decent browser experience. At the same time we want higher quality images and beautiful layout ( CSS ) etc.

Balancing all of these is hard. I keep thinking if some of these are over optimising, when we can expect consumer internet speed to increase in the next 10 years.
I consider this a direct attack on the HN community through the much loved rule that people should not flood a discussion with a lot of cheap jokes. I mean really, that is a hell of a challenge to lay down.

all that said, I'd hate to be in HR at Block.
> you can't do this on iOS

I beg your pardon?

First of all, a nitpick:

> Even if you could get a phone with a large enough SDcard, natively

...iPhones don't use SD cards for storage. They never have. They have internal flash storage.

-

With that out of the way: I have a 10,000 song collection that I sync to my iPhone. It's only about 60GB of music. iPhones come with up to 512GB of internal storage, and there's an option when syncing your music to convert higher-bitrate music to 128kbps (or 192 or 256kbps, your preference) AAC files. I guarantee you, a library the size of hasbot's will fit on an iPhone with no problem.

I have no idea where you get the idea that you can't fit a decent-sized music library on an iPhone. Maybe you're one of those who believes that only lossless audio is worth listening to, and didn't consider that that's a niche opinion...?
> when thinking of things like Spectre & Meltdown ie CISC HW flaws

Spectre in particular is not a CISC HW flaw. It affects ARM and other RISC architectures as well: https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates/specu...
Does PowerAmp have any streaming ability? Seems simple enough to drop that library onto a cheap home server and be your own streaming service once SD cards are completely gone.
The idea of using whip cracks for acceleration features fairly prominently in Neal Stephenson's Seveneves. None of the instances in the books are sized for orbital launch but that was the first time I encountered the idea.
That's a BC1 mini from Streacom.
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Here! here!

I'm within spitting distance of the end of a project of collapsing a service-oriented system back into a Majestic Monolith. Every step of the way has reduced the lines of code, fixed bugs, saved money, saved time. It's been such a joy that I'm considering doing only this as a side hustle. "Saving" companies who were sold an over-complicated dream.
I'd love to take a year and just build free security tools for people to use. I don't need a mentor to do that, I just need a salary replacement for that time period.

This reeks of the mantra of product managers everywhere... "There is no way a brilliant engineer would be able to create something great without management."
There's a quiet and small (there are tens of us! Tens, I say!) group of Americans who aren't so sure de facto direct election of the President is a good idea (in fact, it isn't direct, and wasn't intended to be, but in effect sort-of is direct, because the system wasn't set up to defend against what amounts to a variety of attacks on it that broke it almost immediately and gave us what we still have today, which is a worst-of-both-worlds hybrid) or that changing our Senate so that they're directly elected was the right move.
Is this just a threshold secret sharing implementation? Definitely a cool implementation, fun name
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Came here to say this. Was greatly disappointed by the lack of jargon and etymology.
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I’m guessing it’s thematic, but not showing her at all, even from behind at work, has the effect of making it all seem a little less back-breaking.
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