skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember seeing an article showing that many (not all) of the HDMI splitters on AliExpress just disable the HDCP with no hacking required.
Thank you for posting the links. Cunningham’s law in action!

https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I do agree that the public discourse has not been very productive, and the news coverage has been overconfident and one-sided in one way or another, especially around omicron lately.
“Russian oligarchs” you hear about so often in the news are essentially gangsters that pilfered the valuable assets from the collapsed USSR. Many different types of factories were taken and profited from.
Not quite and off-the-shelf product, and also largely out of stock, but many people like to get a PC Engines APU2 and run OPNSense or OpenWRT on them.
> What would be the wisdom of Black winning stalemates, though?

Ad-hoc balancing change. White currently has the advantage in chess. Any rule changes therefore, should be +Black advantage, to minimize the harm to the win/loss ratios.

Rule-changes should aim for 50/50 win/loss ratio between Black and White. Well... ideally we make a better game (and this "better game" probably is one with fewer draws). But if we're in a situation between two choices, one benefiting white and the second benefiting black... prefer to give the advantage to the weaker side.

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Armageddon Chess (Black wins all draws) has already been tried, and the advantage is distinctly Black. It fixes the draw problem by brute force, but it goes too far and now White is at a disadvantage. Splitting up the draws to mitigate Black's advantage under Armageddon rules would be preferred if 50/50 balance is considered the ideal.
I can receive and cash a check from someone without giving them my account/routing info.
Show HN: We built an app for reading articles saved for later
It saddens me that a proper string type is a hill the zig folks are willing to die on. The language would have _felt_ a lot better if they would have (at least) just copied what rust did with strings.

I understand the argument that in most situations a byte array might be what you actually want, but in practice it feels very dirty to be passing byte arrays around instead of expressing the underlying meaning of that byte array as a type (in this instance a String type).

Having a string type also makes any standard library functions on strings infinitely easier to discover.
So this repo contains keys that are soon to be blacklisted, but for $150 you can subscribe to the leakers API which presumably has other keys and will decrypt one movie at a time for you.
I'm not playing fast and loose with anything. I have the right to the proper operation of the hardware I am sold.

What happens when those CDNs go down? A mad scramble to find out who still has the files? This same thing keeps happening and nobody pushes back. There may be zero impact to users now but accepting this hostage situation is ridiculous.
I would think so (the repo suggests this is a Lenovo TB-X505X key, I'd imagine they're at least per-product). I could certainly be be wrong about L1 keys being burned-in, that was just my understanding of it (vendor docs say things like "Hardware DRM", but maybe I'm jumping to conclusions from marketing speak)

The Widevine spec doesn't say either, it just says that all processing is within the Trusted Execution Environment, so I suppose the keys could be loaded/updated in firmware. I'm looking for more docs now...

Edit: looks like I was wrong and they can be changed with firmware updates: http://bits-please.blogspot.com/2016/04/exploring-qualcomms-...
There are clear differences between these groups that reflect their circumstances though. Indian Americans tend to be well educated offspring of the Indian elite, and they're also the richest Asian-American subgroup. Hmong, Laotians and Vietnamese mostly descend from penniless refugees, and surprise surprise, they're at the bottom of the income table. Working your way from nothing to owning a nail salon or a donut shop is an achievement, but in financial terms it pales compared to the income of the IIT grad Brahmin who did their master's at Stanford and went on to work at Microsoft.
npm init is not involved in setting up node.

Go ogling it leads to being told to use os package managers, which do the wrong thing
For sure. Note, I never disagreed with the author, and even provided links of my own. Not every post is a disagreement, at least not from me ;)

From the TEDx-talk, it does seem like the typical spectrum/gradient understanding is lacking in terms of being meaningful for individuals. Maybe because it's a sort of score as seen from the outside, and not even very precise one at that.

Also, society also needs to accommodate and improve understanding of diversity, rather than expecting everyone to be clones of each other. The latter doesn't work that well, since we're then not encouraging people's natural strengths and creativity.
The extensions not in the core profiles look to turn out to amount to a cruel joke: specified but never available in hardware, implemented if at all via trap and emulation, so that any attempt at optimization using them becomes, instead, extreme pessimization.
Yea, "near Milky Way" would have been better. The closest galaxy (Andromeda) is 2.5 million light-years, so 12 million to Centaurus A is pretty close. It's also the fifth brightest galaxy in the sky, so "near" in that sense too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaurus_A
Depends on the country. Some do have some liability on manufacturers and/or vendors for defects. Unsure if an asterisk in their click through contract about key revocation would even matter.
Religions usually usurp the role of being the source of morality. It's a necessity for them because that's the only way they can cover up their deep and vast immorality.

You can't be evil if people believe you define what evil means.

This way omicient, omnipotent God can still be most moral being in existence while allowing babies to die of cancer.
You should be able to ask Lenovo for a refund if you've bought the device with this feature in mind and if Lenovo advertised the ability to watch 4K on your preferred streaming service.

If the device just happens to support 4k, you may be out of luck. You could try sueing the parties that are supposed to deliver the 4k content and have revoked the key, but I doubt you'll get much out of them.

If you rely on DRM, the media industry has all the keys. You're left to their whims when it comes to content consumption, and there's very little you can do.
I took the long, long road to end up back where I started: Mere Christianity.

I've felt the presence of God in the world my whole life, but the way the right wing media lied to me about global warming and other things had me re-evaluate what else I could be misinformed about, so I kept and open mind and studied a ton of religions including: Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Daoism, Sikhism, Buddhism, and some light reading on Shintoism and other minor Asian religious practices. For a while I entertained Pantheism, but I couldn't square the problem of evil.

So I dove into philosophy for a while and the person that seemed to make the most rational sense once you got to the existence of a mind that could know a truth seemed to be Schopenhauer but Russel seemed the most practical. But I could get to the knowability of truth without bootstrapping off of something else. So the choice (or was it?) was radical scepticism or faith. Since I always felt the presence of God in the world, I decided faith in God was the only answer. I rationally knew it could be a delusion, but when trying to run all the logic sine Deo, I came back to the same point anyway: I need to take something by faith.

But knowing that you need to take something by faith isn't the same as feeling that you have the right religion. So I kept an open mind until the truth of it all overwhelmed me all at once.

It took a while for me to get back to stock Christianity, exploring interfaith, Orthodox Christianity, Christian universalism, etc. And I don't know all the answers on the hot button issues, but I believe and I pray and I trust that there are sensible answers for the harder questions, even if I don't have them yet.

Anyway, if anyone out there wants to chat about any of this I'm always open to a random email from a friendly HNer :)
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> Don't want to be (too) condescending

was what did it for me. basically claiming superiority prior to any actual engagement/discussion.
for strings, these might be good (haven't tried them yet):
https://github.com/jecolon/zigstr
https://github.com/jecolon/ziglyph
Nothing. I just do stuff.
Or using the word "bandwidth" to refer to "capacity" or "data throughput" rather than "the width of the band that the signal occupies". Arrrrgh. Yes the two things are the same for certain naïve modulations, but the whole point of using a better modulation is that you get more throughput for the same bandwidth. Understanding this requires first unlearning the abuse of the term, and that's hard work for a lot of engineers who really need to understand this.
Normally I go to eBay and search openwrt, there are several models
That's great news, and the fine is pretty decent!
This shape reminds me of some simulations I've seen of a star falling into a black hole.

Is that a coincidence, or did this SMBH eat one of those enormous stars that's the diameter of Venus' orbit?
Similar extensions exist for Firefox as well.
> I don't know any time unit testing has actually benefited shipping faster

There's a lot of empirical research about this. A. Lot. Starting in the 80's, even. It's as close as it gets to empirically proven that software testing greatly reduces bugs and regressions, and accelerates delivery over the long term. It's not as clear if the acceleration is entirely freed up resources that would otherwise be spent fixing bugs, or if it also makes people develop faster. Also, it's pretty clear that Automated testing doesn't accelerate short or short term projects.
I also did AoC 2021 in Zig: https://github.com/avorobey/adventofcode-2021

One thing the OP didn't mention that I really liked was runtime checks on array/slice access and integer under/overflow. Because dealing with heap allocation is a bit of a hassle, I was incentivized to use static buffers a lot. I quickly figured out that I didn't have to worry about their sizes much, because if they're overrun by the unexpectedly large input or other behavior in my algorithms, I get a nice runtime error with the right line indicated, rather than corrupt memory or a crash. Same thing about choosing which integer type to use: it's not a problem if I made the wrong choice, I'll get a nice error message and fix easily. This made for a lot of peace of mind during coding. Obviously in a real production system I'd be more careful and use dynamic sizes appropriately, but for one-off programs like these it was excellent.

Overall, I really enjoyed using Zig while starting out at AoC problem 1 with zero knowledge of the language. To my mind, it's "C with as much convenience as could be wrung out of it w/o betraying the low-level core behavior". That is, no code execution hidden behind constructors or overloads, no garbage collection, straight imperative code, but with so much done right (type system, generics, errors, optionals, slices) that it feels much more pleasant and uncomparably safer than C.

(you can still get a segmentation fault, and I did a few times - by erroneously holding on to pointers inside a container while it resized. Still, uncomparably safer)
Surely some people just use screen recording software for the "Download" illegally part?
You're right, you don't need an immutable ledger of visible IP licensing rights if that's all you want to accomplish.

But presumably, in a "legal piracy is commonplace, Steam goes out of business" scenario, the studios producing the games would still want to make the games verify your license ownership against something — e.g. to make sure that you're only using your license for one concurrent "seat", rather than using it to activate thousands of copies of the game (like a regular product keys — which usually are "local digital signatures" — would enable.)

Presuming that no central corporate authority could 1. profitably exist in such a market 2. with the right incentives, then a distributed immutable ledger would be a good alternative for storing those licenses in a verifiable manner. (Think of it as an IP licensing activation server run by "everybody." Each time a game wants to run, it would use your signing key to submit a TX incrementing a counter representing the current active uses of the license. Basically, a distributed, cryptographically-verifiable semaphore.)
A black hole is ejecting stuff, is it? I suppose they mean to say that the black hole is ejecting stuff from its vicinity.
I actually have. I'll see if I can post it
> not quite Gentoo uptodate but not too CentOS outofdate.

You might find the following fun:

Thelema

Chaos Magick

Church of the SubGenius

Discordianism (mentioned nearby)
:) Fair.
Because corporations are people and so therefore have exceptional claim to Freedom Speeches™ denied us mere humans (natural persons).

The 5-4 podcast about the SCOTUS covers these (and other) pro-corporation decisions. https://www.fivefourpod.com Basically the ELI5 treatment for those of us completely ignorant of the law. Highest recommendation.
All netgear routers can use routerlogin.net

Also have netgear with no cloud account required. Also don't use mobile apps.
Synology RT2600 is quite cool, I adore it. It has also a free site to site vpn feature where you can connect various subnets over the internet if you have several lines/homes.

It can segment traffic by people (you record which MAC is who, segment away by theme, etc), host a custom DNS server very well, has nice firewalling features and there s no mandatory cloud account. I ve made a few custom scripts for it, and its linux base is good enough (old kernel a little bit). I paid around 300 USD for it I think, for 2 of them, and it's the best router I ever had, OpenWRT included.

The only thing I miss from openwrt is the custom vlan joining on optic fiber relay you can do with them to bypass your ISP fiber modem and just use an optical to eth converter. But that's not a huge overhead these days. Doubled the speed when the ISP's crappy boxes couldnt cool well enough for 500Mbps 10 years ago :D

The big advantage, for me, of Synology routers, over OpenWRT and its alternatives (I rmb one called Tomato something) is that it's so much clearer and easier to use quickly and climb from there. With OpenWRT in my old memories you were thrown in a discouraging mess that made me struggle a bit to find simple features (but it has them all).
What is using those CPU cycles? Also, how frequently are you booting into that Windows environment?

There's a number of background tasks that Windows will run periodically (update checks, search reindex, etc) so if you don't regularly boot into Windows it'll end up running those soon after you boot up. Those should really only take a few minutes to complete so it should drop back down to a normal idle level within a short period even if you don't boot into Windows often. But if you're checking CPU load only a few minutes after boot when you haven't booted in a while, its not surprising to have some amount of CPU activity in Windows.

Its really strange you experience that much CPU load idle. I have an i5 3350P running Windows 10. I use it for Steam Home Streaming, Emby, and a few other tasks. Normally its CPU load is <5%. Having your machine use 15% CPU at idle is definitely not normal, I imagine there's something other than just Windows churning away.
I am a practicing Catholic. I have four kids all under 7. My normal day consists of feeding them, bathing them, calming tantrums, losing my temper, getting bitter at my lack of time for hobbies, and growing resentful of my lack of time for reading the Bible, praying, etc.

But then I remember that this is a true dying to self. Not only a dying to self, but a dying to the world too as each of these sacrifices, failures, and victories occur hidden away from the world. Thus I commend myself to this daily humbling, this emptying, and also trust myself to the daily prayer of the monks, whose prayer and sacrifice are also hidden from the world and whose labors I suspect are also just as arduous, frustrating, and challenging at times.

> For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find i
"In nearby galaxy" probably got canned by the editors, who as we all know from many many sessions of grumbling, often pick the titles without much input from the author.
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Excellent, I find both the ruling and the fine reasonable. It wasn't disproportionately heavy, but will make people think twice before violating the GPL.
You gave yourself the answer at the end right there: Germany got rid of Hitler only after an incredibly bloody world war and having its cities turned into 30 feet of rubble.

IMO the comparison to India is not fair. India is not doing the same aggressive international moves like China does. And the internal problems can be slowly resolved democratically. There is no democracy in China, they won't solve their problems that way.
That page layout is puke. The number of ads is really distracting when trying to read on mobile.

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It's a link aggregator, to peruse when I take breaks.

It's a bathroom wall that I skim to get the zeitgeist. Sometimes I scrawl something on it myself.
> and was running all of the same corporate bullshit that the new box runs.

It sounds like its probably more because of all the corporate bullshit. Does that Linux VM also run all that corporate bullshit?
https://archive.fo/YjGqL
Ok, sorry if I misinterpreted your punctuation, the last instance is what read like scare quotes to me; maybe `backtick` is a better delimiter for this case

> Most people think that `vaccine` has a specific meaning. It is dishonest to use that label for something that doesn't conform to that meaning when communicating with those people.

I disagree that it’s dishonest, it’s the correct term.

I agree that if most people have a misunderstanding of what constitutes a vaccine, then failing to address that is going to lead to suboptimal public health communication.
Maybe I missed something, but didn't it say "any kind of message?"

If so, it seems like it opens things up quite widely, almost indescribably so.
And a few days after Windows 2000 was released, I was obsessed with installing FreeBSD and then only the ports I needed, to keep things as slim as possible.
It’s likely even simpler than that. Animals live mostly by instinct. Predators usually sneak up on live prey and chase it, whereas scavengers will happily eat animals that are already dead. I’m willing to bet that the “play dead” strategy backfires spectacularly against vultures, for example.

It doesn’t take more than an encounter with a house cat to see how their hunting instincts work. They’re just not triggered by dead things.
This is one of the most promising aspects of GraalVM and Sulong[1].

[1]: https://github.com/oracle/graal/tree/master/sulong
I can see Twitter support, but will it work for storing and organizing Twitter threads? Great design tho
Gould said that one faction of evolutionary biologists were mostly wasting their time, it's not a surprise that they would be firmly negative about that.

The letter signers you posted say they are from the center for evolutionary psychology, departments of anthropology and psychology. This is the whole problem, they have one foot (if not both feet) outside of science and in social science.
I don't use Windows, but have to touch it once or twice a year for various reasons. It's absolutely wild whenever I do. I go to launch Notepad and the Start menu decides to inform me about some mass murder situation or the latest horrible politics news or some natural disaster?! I just wanted to write down some text, not spiral into depression. Who asked for this?
What I dream of is an unholy union: a modern Linux with a Windows 2000 VM as its GUI. The VM will have enough Wayland bits to provide any missing modern amenities such as a web browser isolated in a container far far away. It would be beautiful.
One of the really surprising articles I came across was that there exists a group of elite law/business school professors who charge over $1k per hour to basically defend mega-mergers to lawmakers [1]. Some of these professors make tens of millions of dollars individually.

This appears to be something similar. It must really pay to be an “expert”.

1 - https://www.propublica.org/article/these-professors-make-mor...
Define near... Reading the headline I was thinking in terms of AU, not millions of light years
One thing to watch for is that some of the German talks confusingly have English titles.
This is a miscomparison of tenses. The peninsular Arab armies of 700-1300 were unstoppable. But the parent commenter is asking about the armies of the modern era.

Actually a more interesting question is why /regular/ armies organized by the State in such countries are generally perceived as hopeless whereas /irregular/ militias such as we see in Afghanistan have proven so effective. It's clearly not a people thing since they are drawn from the same well.
So is windows 10. Every second month ransomware makes headlines and nobody seems to care.
I assume "export" here means transfer it to a wallet that the user controls, rather than Ubisoft. You can change ownership of the token without changing the token itself, so its still non-fungible.
I don't have one and recommend everyone to drop that shit. Total waste of time.
> Sometimes I'll also do "acute divination" -- my favorite method is fortune cookies, not even kidding.

I'm not religious or superstitious, but I get the most unscientific thought that fortune cookies may actually be personal messages from the universe.

Don't really put much credence into this thought but I can't help but think it when opening them. Not sure why.
You and the other reply are conflating expectations of a single employee with aggregate expectations
It seems that they're not real-time renderable. There could be a method of converting these to polygons + materials for real-time rendering.
The point of mentioning the court case is that case and statutory law are NOT a slam dunk for "LEOs are required to act." in even cases where "the rest of us" would expect. The last I heard, the LEOs in that case were prevailing....
I don't think of this as an idiomaticity guide.
> What if we could just have a bare OS with all core frameworks and let users decide what to install.

My friend, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux