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Popcorn Time being shut down by the MPAA is the reason there's no simple app for your mum and aunt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn_Time

Unfortunately now there are so many streaming platforms piracy will gain in popularity again. Lots of people don't mind paying for one or two, but probably not five or six. Especially when some just have one or two good programmes.
Especially in large corporations where each level of the hierarchy lives in a bubble of sort, meaning that the people OP interacted might have actually believed it was to prevent piracy while the people in that corp some level above them had a different motive to getting DRM pushed.
Are we ready for laptops with 4k resolution and/or 120Hz refresh rate?
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Even public trackers have 4K HDR / Dolby Vision / Dolby Atmos content, which is more than you get for example from Netflix (outside of their own catalog.)
> It's easier to pay $15 to buy the show on Amazon.

Depends on the value of your time. If you get paid less in the amount it takes you to learn all that (like living in a 3rd world country), then it's not worth the $15.
Systems software research is alive and well. Making new single machine kernels is just no longer priority. Community shifted to distributed system (essentially viewing thousands of computers as one fault-tolerant OS). A lot of things came indeed from academia. The next shift currently underway is in distributed machine learning (how can you build, train and serve trillion trillion parameter models - call it a distributed machine learning OS). A lot of things again is coming from academia. The field has grown up and old folks are lost in nostalgia of not seeing new kernels as they used to.
Not really. The speed bumps affect everyone, but it's enough that one person or group cracks the DRM and makes the result available for everyone.
we miss cgi-bin/
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Most products that Product Safety entities stop is devices that are harmful if used in ways unintended, like a drawer that is not intended to be climbed (ikea). Her we have a product that is encouraging harm, which while unintended by the manufacturer, is slightly worse than a drawer that can crush and kill a playing child.
The 1980's want their marketing back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_...

They considered things like excel 4GL: You program some formulas and excel magically finds out what the necesarry steps are to do the computation.

A lot of vendors created graphical programming languages and declared them 4GL. The term mostly died because nobody could stop laughing.
I don't see a sarcasm tag, so I'll assume you are being straight.

No, things are far more complex than that. Perhaps, knowing the connectivity of all the connections and the "weights" of excitation and inhibition one could model the short term behavior of the brain it came from.

But brains aren't static -- they learn and grow and remodel; they have all kinds of feedback loops (eg metabolic and hormonal); their response to conditions is undoubtedly far more complex than "fire if the sum of the weighted inputs is above a certain threshold".
That does not describe all Forths. A Forth running on a Forth CPU would certainly be a 2nd level, but depending on how the Forth is implemented and designed, it could easily be seen as a 3rd level. Arguably, Forth is (can be) more abstract than C and almost a quasi-FP.
> I'd pay someone to manually currate a daily news update for me, a new playlist from time to time, movie suggestions, etc.

Isn't that what traditional media companies do? I imagine the issue is that one often does not like their curation policy.
Interesting. I think you can but the animation is way clumsier?
I was testing against https://archive.org/details/msdos_Prince_of_Persia_1990
If we hide these articles under a separate category, everyone who wants to read them (I'd estimate thousands of people, based on the number of upvotes some of them get) would have the extra work of checking that category. It's much simpler for you to just skip over them. And where does it stop? Should HN create a separate subcategory each time someone complains they don't like a particular type of article?
This article is clickbait. The headline makes a bold claim, and then the article goes on to say: The purpose of DRM isn't to prevent copying, it's to prevent unlicensed reproduction. That is, it says 'copying' in different words, by trying to talk about things adjacent to copying, like forcing ads to play. Yes, content owners want to enforce all kinds of other things with DRM, but the fundamental thing is control of playback and distribution (aka copying).
The need to fax a form is just a giant “I am sorry, what?” The answer after a bit of back and forth and pushing (which to be fair is un-Japanese of me, even rude) is almost always 仕方がない which is a very fatalistic term meaning “it cannot be helped”. I thought it was cool to be a Gaijin have a Kanji version of my name (carefully argued over and by close friends to convey the right meaning) with the associated 判子 (hanko) stamp (a name stamp you can use for forms), but now I know better. Japan is so well organized. I love the rhythm of the subway, the perfection of the trains, the absolute cleanliness of it all; the flaw exposed by the ham fisted response to vaccination that done properly should have been sorted at every “konboni” (convenience store). Oh well. Still an amazing place full of wonderful people.
Ask HN: How to find a job in 2021 if I dislike remote?
I am pretty extroverted and derive a lot of meaning and enjoyment from working with people IRL, not just across a Slack connection. My previous job went from tolerable to intolerable as a result of the pandemic caused 100% WFH. These days it's hard to find an in office job, and even when you do, it feels like that would be s red flag anyway, since WFH is seen as a perk by most, or realistically I worry I'm going to go in to the office and be the only one there.

I just like being able to grab lunch with coworkers and shoot the shit. I find i care more about my work when I feel more connected to the other people who are affected by it.

(BTW I don't mind partial WFH, thats just obviously beneficial for everyone.)

Are those days just over? Am I doing / thinking about this wrong in some way? Is it not as bad as I think? Are there places out there for weirdos like me?
> The people who made the disks got paid, too.

Interesting point. Did the people who made the content get paid too? And is the value of the DVD in the physical object or the content?
I used to play this in college in the back of the classroom in DOSBox. I was good enough at it that I would only need to look at the screen on occasion, so the instructor wouldn’t notice, and almost had the key sequences and time to hold in muscle memory.
Though imagine if they actually replaced it with microsd support.

It would certainly be against the industry as a whole!
The website is 3-4 years old now I think. I implemented ads around 1.5 years ago. I really didn't think there was money in banner ads anymore before then actually. I sure was wrong!
We had that in Norway too.

We don't have that in the US since it's part of the business model of the postal office or USPS to deliver ads in your mail box.
Great outlining and tremendous effort. Much thanks for the share.
The Problem is not with C alone however.

Speculative Execution, branch prediction and look ahead to the next 25 instructions, wasting huge amounts of power,...I mean, what?

The article even mentions that there is another way:

> In contrast, GPUs achieve very high performance without any of this logic, at the expense of requiring explicitly parallel programs.

Yes, C doesn't support that very well. But it could, and other languages, namely Rust, Go & Julia already can. So maybe it's time to do in CPU design what Go did in language design, and hit the brakes on complexity?

We don't need smarter processors, we need processors that can do high throughput on many execution units, and languages that support that well.
There is such a counter, CVE databases.

If you would actually take a look, you would realize you are spreading FUD.

phpBB has been rewritten from scratch around 2008 with phpBB3 and hasn't had a single severe vulnerability since. That's 13 years.
You still haven't given an argument that this doesn't amount to negligence.
Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
This question was asked 3 years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367243) by mdoliwa, and I'm curious what it looks nowadays.
> How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?

> Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.
Yup... you can read more about my journey with the game here: https://sidehustleschool.com/episode/1767/
This entire comment is walking back what you said because I'm not the exact person you presumed I was... based on the monitor I use. You understand how ridiculous that is right?

> I don't believe you would actually do this or you wouldn't make that comment

That's what you said to me, not someone else. And all you had to go on was me saying: Spending an extra $2000 on a tool you use 8 hours a day is not something to pass a moral judgement on.

Most people would not object to what I said: a $5000 tool is a pittance in comparison to what some not nearly as well compensated people end up spending on better tools.

So if despite that you try to turn it into an issue of donating more to your fellow man... what's the term for that?

What is a term for forcing virtue and morality into a conversation in a way that does more to signal your own position than actually add to the conversation in a cohesive way?

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To put it more plainly: browbeating people over not spending $2000 less on a monitor is the height of virtue signaling in a forum where people are stating they make a living off of them.

I mean even in your reply you're doing it! People are talking about an expensive monitor and somehow you twist it into:

> "I really do find it weird when people on here talk about how they’re going to spend all their money on themselves."

You really don't see how nauseatingly disingenuous you're being? Talking about spending $5,000 on a monitor is tantamount to saying you spend all your money on yourself?

Didn't that exact wrong assumption already lead you astray with me?

My first comment said it all: Why make this a morality play.

It's the definition of virtue signaling.
You are arguing a strawman because I replied to the claim that it is beyond doubt that God came in the flesh.

It is NOT beyond doubt. You haven't proven how there is absolutely NO DOUBT to these claims.

> And you seem to be moving goal posts here.

How am I moving goalposts? The two types of witnessing have been there in my reasoning since the beginning. There is doubt since you didn't eyewitness him yourself, and then there is doubt that the hearsay that reached you regarding him is true. One follows the other since you have to rely on the one you have access to.

Again it's a strawman because I never said I discount witness testimony. You're making the case that just because witness testimony can be true, therefore witness testimony in the case of Jesus, must be true. That doesn't follow.
This is quite cool piece of work. Would you please make a comparison between uptrace and jaeger?
Looks interesting. Can you share a couple of common use cases, say - for somebody running a typical saas app? Also, are there plans for an Elixir client?
Thanks for the feedback. You can change the autoplay option under settings.
Yes, so you can switch providers easily
Oops. In my (8yo) defense at that point in time I had no idea that games can be bought.

* I think I'm still somewhat afraid of sliding doors ;)
I grew up in Norway. Snow and storms were insufficient to give most people a reason to worry. Some homes will have a fireplace or wood fired stove as a last resort, but it's more and more rare. In rural areas having a fallback is slightly more common.

So I stand by what I said: Many places the power reliability is high enough. A long outage in Norway would be treated as a major national emergency.
> I think using general popularity as a gauge is a good way to get the worst recommendations.

Do you know a better way to get good recommendations? I am genuinely interested.
I now carry decoy pens in my backpack.

It goes back to when someone in the MIT student center asked to borrow a pen to fill out an ATM deposit slip, I had only a Cross pen engraved with my name and the first project team I was on, and I reluctantly handed it over while emphasizing that I needed it back...
I made my first professional web0 age 22 years ago, in 1999. It was amazing.
I think it’s good when people call out dishonest and misleading news organizations, no matter how established they are.

Though, in this case it’s not really a political news article so I don’t think the comment is relevant for this particular submission.
I'm very interested in this space. Forgive my ignorance, but what makes this fit for Chinese voices, while unfit for English voices?
Nigel Warburton: Philosophy - The Basics
Big discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29700961
The source for the information is a warning to parents about the challenge. Alexa only returned the challenge statement, without the context of it being potentially life threatening.
A search would have been fine.
It is always shocking to me, how people somehow think this $35 device, is some how going to protect children from the internet, and allow them to interact with it unsupervised.

I don't see why the cost is relevant. If Amazon can't make Alexa safe selling it for $35 then they shouldn't sell if for $35. You can't put something dangerous out on the market by advertising it with the line "We're making it cheap, not safe!"

Besides, it's not a $35 device. Amazon subsidizes the cost of the software side in order to get the hardware in to homes because they believe it drives sales. We have no way to know the real cost.
FTA:

> iPhone 13 models already support multiple eSIM profiles, allowing users to subscribe to several cellular plans digitally and switch between them, […]
If you have a population of 100 positive cases, 87 vaxed, 13 unvaxed. Let's assume the unvaxed death rate is 100% (it doesn't mater).

If the vaccine is 90% efficient, then 10% of the 87 vaxed will die, 100% of the 13 unvaxed will die, therefore the % of vaxed in the deaths will be (we are using the same formula) 10% * 87 / (10% * 87 + 13) = 40%

If the vaccine is 15% efficient, then 85% of the 87 will die, and the % of vaxed in the deaths will be 85% * 87 / (85% * 87 + 13) = 85%
For anyone thinking "yes, but it's too cold/wet/windy to go outside right now" that means you do not have the right clothing.

This year for our 2yo we bought waterproof trousers, jacket, gloves and boots. It keeps them warm and dry, and is still flexible enough that they can play without issues.

It has allowed us to explore autumn and winter without worrying about the weather. Yesterday we went to play football when it was raining sideways, and yes the clothes got muddy, but no big deal.

The clothes we bought are from this Finnish brand: https://www.reima.com
There are certainly groups who sacrifice quality to minimize file size. Sounds like you downloaded a file from one of those. There are people out there who care so much about quality they will splice different sources together because some specific section is better in some obscure release for some reason. You also have blu-ray remuxes if you want the exact original.

Netflix manages to generate compression artifacts in 90% black frames, to say nothing of highly dynamic footage. Satellite TV is even worse, it actually hurts to watch. Makes me feel like an idiot for actually paying for this.
I mean it sincerely. Are you listening to something else while using a website with sound? I usually just pause the music.

If it's some music/podcast isn't it more handy to have a known volume knob on that instead of finding one on every website?

I don't care about the right opinion. I'm just curious about scenarios where lack of volume control is a problem.
I appreciate the scale of the problem, but that is Plaids entire business. Bank integration is literally their product, and so if they don’t fix bank integration problems then why does Plaid exist?

I wanted to know how the bank integration process works, technically speaking. Was it a Selenium/Puppeteer setup?
It's amazing to me how many "web developers" don't actually seem to know how to write pure html/css anymore by hand. They rely on these gigantic frameworks to do literally everything.

Like a lot of Gen X/Gen Y oldsters, I wrote my first web page in Notepad in 1995 or so and uploaded it to my ISP hosting, after undergoing a "bootcamp" that consisted of reading W3C specs, Netscape.com tutorials, going on Usenet, and viewing source on a bunch of other people's pages, sitting all night on my grandfather's Pentium desktop (because we dialed up to get online) and listening to Mine Inch Nails on headphones.

Someone in here points out that complexity produces friction that will drive consumers away. Good. Not all technology has to be a product you can pimp to a VC in an elevator. I love the idea of Web0, of building a new web that requires a bare minimum of engagement on the part of users rather than simply making everything as easy as possible.

There's more than enough brightly lit malls in the metaverse, where everything is just a funnel to catch your attention or your money. But there's also infinite space for simplicity and the digital equivalent of "roughing it", of applying the concepts of appropriate technology to online interaction. Viva la Web0. :-)
In my country the third major provider still doesn’t support it, the second (Vodafone) started supporting it in 2021. (EU member state.)
Does my unix date utility take into account these occasional leap seconds? And are these just hardcoded in the library itself and updated once in a while?
None of this makes any sense unless the international system of law confers some legitimacy on blockchain assets.

When a VC sends a wire transfer to a company after signing a set of financing documents, he knows that state, federal, and international courts will enforce the terms of this financing. If the entrepreneur's company becomes successful and is acquired or pays dividends, the VC will be able to use the armed power of the state to get his rightful share if he is denied it. If the entrepreneur takes the cash and flees to Spain the Spanish police will arrest him and return him to the custody of the United States courts.

That's what gives the VC the confidence to wire $100m and without that, it won't happen.
The "materialism" consciousness theory is primarily what they are arguing against and people in this video gathered lots of solid scientific evidence against it.

If not "brain is a biological computer" then what? We don't know yet, but some things in the right direction are Donald Hoffman's model, Penrose and Hammerhof quantum processing in the brain, Kastrup analytic idealism, maybe it's some form of radio? Authors of this conference through some theories in "beyond physicalism" book.
Err, we already have them, they're called Macbook Pros (2021), and I'm certain a couple other brands...
See also Timothy Roscoe's USENIX OSDI 2021 keynote where he laments the same thing: https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi21/presentation/fri-ke...

Slides: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/troscoe/pubs/2021-07-16-OSDIKeyNo...

He seems to think the solution is that "the OS" should expand in scope to also run and manage all the myriad little special purpose processors on a modern SoC.
We might!
In some countries eSIM is basically illegal (for example in Russia up until 2019)
Ahh. A chemical plant. I was picturing a chlorophyll-filled organism.
> They hate piracy because it does cost them.

https://torrentfreak.com/eu-piracy-report-suppression-raises...

> “In general, the results do not show robust statistical evidence of displacement of sales by online copyright infringements,”
Out of half dozen of mobile service providers I have used in 3 different EU countries, ONE provides eSIM.
Formal logic isn't special in helping you think. It doesn't offer any tool that you can use in real life. You might just as well study chess or engine design deeply. It's the studying and problem solving that trains thinking.
This is really bad. Inscrutable and arrogant for the layman, basic and non-explanatory for the well versed. What exactly is being “explained” here? Atomic energy post mortem? If that’s the attempt, it’s a fail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanization
the "adb shell input" command as used in the linked article would be simpler.
Thanks.

> You haven't proven how there is absolutely NO DOUBT to these claims.

That hasn't been my aim all along though. I would never argue or try to prove there is no doubt to these claims. I fully accept there is a large element of faith to religious claims. And I readily admit as believer, my faith is not perfect and I have doubts. But my ratio of faith to doubt is high enough to get me over the fence to belief. As an aside, I always argue that everyone everywhere live their lives by faith. [1]

My assertion has been your reason for your doubt, namely that Jesus only manifested to a relatively small group of people, is not valid. But I think we can agree to disagree at this point.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29710355
This actually works in Japan too. I'm not sure if there are regulators who have your back here but I've been using a "no spam" sticker to pretty good effect.
Hopefully they make the battery smaller and the glass thinner, all the current iPhones are too heavy and durable and I miss charging.
So where does this java malware migrates now? Is it uploaded OTA? ;)
i never had an issue with the big mail servers.
All the smaller ones broke me.
T-online.de etc.
Here's a problem I have with books... Say, I want to increase my productivity. Then I found a number of books, each takes time to do and each sells THE way to increase productivity. Long story short... Weeks later I'm still busy reading books, while got more confused.

My approach is to just understand principles, and skip these kinds of books
I read some ISP will block port 25, while other mail providers block residential IPs. It seems there is no rule that always applies.
When you intentionally install a wiretap in your home, you deserve whatever happens to it.
Strange I have the exact opposite experience. All of the content I get from TPB and other sites is often much higher quality than what I seem to get when I go "legit" on Netflix and such. I rarely use Netflix now because I really enjoy pressing the right arrow to skip past parts of content I don't find interesting (b-roll, fades, filler content, etc.) and Netflix does a pretty poor job of this whereas VLC just works.
Louis Wain: An artist who changed how we think about cats
Dubai doesn't have oil. It's a tax haven that specifically focused on tourism, trade and finance (and now tech) because of a lack of oil. Compare that to Abu Dhabi which has massive oil reserves, is largely bureaucratic and is still long oil.

On a tangential note, Dubai is heavily burdened with debt post 2008, largely to Abu Dhabi, so that's one data point going counter to the premise of the article.
Did you see it on the App Store page? We filled that out wrong: we use the location for location-based notifications if the user sets them but don’t collect any data or even know any personal information as we don’t have accounts.
We’ll fix it on the App Store page to avoid the confusion