skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
beemeup5 at ghacks.net wrote [0]:

Slight clarification. This is primarily a limitation specifically for software
like Cyberlink’s PowerDVD because Cyberlink is one of the very few officially
authorized software vendors for encrypted UHD disc playback.

Intel SGX is not a requirement for playback in the UHD Blu-ray spec. PowerDVD
just happens to make use of Intel SGX for their decryption implementation /
HDCP handshake enforcement. Other software players that don’t make use of Intel
SGX can play UHD discs just fine, so AMD CPU owners need not worry.

Just use MPC-HC or JRiver Media Center, etc. Of course, you may need to use
“alternate” decryption options like AnyDVD or DVDFab, and naturally you also
need a UHD capable disc drive with compatible firmware. like the Asus BC-
12D2HT. Many sellers will flash the stock firmware with UHD-capable firmware
for drives sold as “UHD ready”.

[0]https://www.ghacks.net/2022/01/14/intels-dropping-of-sgx-pre....
I would say that's because they would prefer the employees to create another project internally than leave and potentially create a competitor or even a more successful service that they'll need to spend billions on to purchase.
What about the people who want to work?
To rewatch Lord of the Rings? I think not.
The app version offers specific functionality that the web version does not, or implements poorly.
> “If Mr. Sullivan had immediately reported the breach—instead of misleading the government by withholding information—the FBI could have been better able to assist Uber; also, the data breach of at least one additional large tech company may have been prevented,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge Fair.

Are there any hints about the other “large tech company” hit by the same hackers? To be transparent to the authorities is not always easy, but in this case, it could have prevented another attack :/
A connectivity-constrained computational account of topography in primate vision
I use the browser for all social media sites, so not installing Apps isn't a solution for people like me
> Function application uses conventional mathematical notation, e.g. f(a,b) instead of (f a b) as in Haskell.

Thank you for that.
No, Nord Stream is a small part of this and is politicized. Although Ukraine doesn't want to loose its position as a transit country. The western part of Ukraine is dependent on outside help and gas trade is an essential part. The south-eastern part is even more dependent on Russia for that matter.

Russia doesn't need Nord Stream 2 as much because they could sell it to China just as well. For such ventures long term stability is important, but the EU already announced they will move away from fossil fuels which adds insecurity.

Countries with a lot of resources profit the most from high prices, but Russia might not want them too high because then the US could viably support the EU with gas too.
I'm convinced the inability to easily play Blu-Rays and similar on computers is a major contributor as to why the format hasn't had the same traction as DVDs and may have accelerated the removal of disc drives from devices. Such a self-defeating move.
It's because a) the word list is hard-coded in the game's JS, so anyone can see it with "View Source", and b) the list is indexed based on the current day (as reported by the JS) and wraps around to the start.

So you don't just have solutions for the next several months. You have all the solutions ever :)
There was a time in the 90s when the West promised Russia not to expand the NATO closer towards its borders. Later the West forgot about it. As much as I’m critical about most things Russia, I believe it’s understandable and legitimate for Russia to push back. In my eyes, there should be room for an agreement which indeed maintains some kind a “buffer zone” between both blocks. And the West needs to stop pretending it’s only Russia who’s the faulty one here, in this specific issue.
Tails 4.26 is out (Debian and Tor)
Crime requires: means, motive, opportunity

The motive for crime is always present, and is mostly held in check by keeping the cost of means and opportunity high.

In this case the opportunity cost is very low. The trains are just sitting there unprotected.

And the means - will just grab a crow bar.

EDIT:

This regulation is well intentioned:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/28101

The good intention is to allow interstate policing of the railsystem. The bad effect is to prevent local law enforcement 'interference'.
Children tend to be discouraged from drinking coffee. And non-adults tend to hate the taste so they don’t tend to be motivated to do it in the first place.
> all do incredibly well (99+) with their KN95's on the CDC website

Not all, strictly speaking. I see one Powecom mask listed under the "Respirator Assessment Results Considered as Counterfeit and/or Misuse of Company Name" section of the CDC's site [0]. Open the link, scroll down to that heading, click on the "G" tab, then Cmd+F for "Guangzhou Powecom Labor Insurance Supplies" and you'll see it.

That said, I suspect it was maybe just a slightly sub-standard batch. The minimum filtration efficiency was still >93%, not anywhere near as bad as some others on that list. I still plan on buying the Powecom KN95s from Bona Fide Masks in the future. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/respirators/testing/NonNIOSH...
FWIW I used Chrome and now use Firefox.

When I said "you" I meant people who complain in general terms about these companies yet they still have a choice and use stuff from companies they hate.

I am just trying to make my point that a superior product is good for the consumer and there are rules that can hurt you as a consumer that are apparwntly good.

Nothing can replace good judgement and information.

I find natural companies trying to reinvest. That creates employments anyway.

I prefer that there are more services providers as opposed to a big one but that is not a reason to stop them if they offer the best alternative. After all, smaller companies have always emerged when the big ones were there already. That shows that being big does not mean you can beat everyone at everything at all.
The bearings of something running that fast, under that much stress, would 100% need to be lubricated. Probably the seals are what would have no lubrication and gradually wear out. Look up "labyrinth seal".

Edit: They used carbon seals. The turbopump uses ball bearings cooled by the fuel. Detailed description here: http://web.archive.org/web/20150509173846/http://agentdc.uah...
“The managers tell us that the swimmers, crawlers, walkers, and fliers spent their lives working in order to eat. These managers are broadcasting their news too soon. The varied beings haven’t all been exterminated yet. You, reader, have only to mingle with them, or just watch them from a distance, to see that their waking lives are filled with dances, games, and feasts. Even the hunt, the stalking and feinting and leaping, is not what we call Work, but what we call Fun. The only beings who work are inmates like us.”

- Fredy Perlman, Against Leviathan
> FOSS has always and only ever asked for giving back code, not money

Free software isn't about giving back code. It's about giving forward code. It's about being allowed to share code with others - if you want to.

Freedom 2 at https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html "The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others".

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject - "Computer users should be free to modify programs to fit their needs, and free to share software, because helping other people is the basis of society."

> Freeloading would be refusing to give back code

This is counter to the freedoms of free software. Again from https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

] You should also have the freedom to make modifications and use them privately in your own work or play, without even mentioning that they exist. If you do publish your changes, you should not be required to notify anyone in particular, or in any particular way.
Alternatively, Google shouldn’t have that power either.
Always trying a new first word every day makes it much more fun imo. I love sitting with a blank Wordle and just let my mind try to settle on a random 5-letter word from my subconscious.
there are still environments (countries, orgs, isps) were dns fuckery is kept low and the overhead of dot/doh is just wasted energy/time.

not to say it is bad to have secure alternatives, but i think the internet will loose a lot of resiliancy and efficiency in the switch.
> This article talks about WIV (est. 2018), which is across the city from the market, not 2 blocks away

It moved just before the outbreak [1]:

The lab, where Chinese scientists research mild human diseases with bats, was moved near the seafood market where the first COVID-19 cases were found just days before the outbreak, WHO investigators said.

Classified with a “Biosafety Level of 2,” the lab also has ventilation controls that aren’t as strict as other more secure facilities, according to the report.

I find it surprising how little attention this tidbit got; a move of lab equipment and animals probably involved external personnel not used to bio-safety procedures. Perfect opportunity for a virus to escape.

> The genetic code of SARS-CoV-2 does not resemble that of any virus the WIV was known to be culturing in its lab

The key words here being "was known", since the WIV notoriously took its database offline and even requested the deletion of sequences stored on US servers [2][3].

[1] https://nypost.com/2021/08/13/who-scientist-eyes-on-wuhan-la...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-24/u-s-confi...

[3] https://www.science.org/content/article/claim-chinese-team-h...
Trustix: Good things come in trees
Four years and 20k potatoes later, this man has a PhD in mashed potatoes
> This is the “Dropbox is just rsync” comment

While that's a bit of a joke that gets tossed around occasionally, i don't think that this makes it any less worthy of a discussion. Sure, Dropbox might have bunches of complexity, but if you have a simpler alternative that works for you, why not consider that in earnest?

Thus, i think the comment stands and if nothing else, will probably lead to some folks sharing more information about their setups and what works for them, like i did in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29932945
I don't understand why the film industry bothers with DRM. Their product is fundementally easy to pirate, and always will be.
Only in browser. I'd be very happy to hear of an ad-blocking solution for the Android app... I mean I've heard of ad-blocking VPNs but other than that?
Solar actually makes sense in India, it does not snow there :)

I seen documentary where they covered river with solar panels. It reduced evaporation of water by significant amount. And it did not occupy any arable land.

And big parts of India have underdeveloped electricity grid. Solar is easiest way to bring electric infrastructure there.
In 2018 the U.S. Cyber Command just shut the fck down Russian troll factory [0]
So, it seems that the US could help, but would they?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-cy...
And I'm convinced the hassle of Blu-Ray DRM or any kind of modern DRM is why I, and many others, still pirate movies and TV shows despite being able to afford to pay for them.
There are further attacks on newspapers labelled ‘non-Kremlin’ across Eastern Europe.
> Taiwan is an island, which means the primary means of defending it will be the Navy, not the Army

My mistake, English isn't my native language, thanks for pointing that out. I actually meant “military”. In French «Armée» is used to refer to all military branches together and I mistakenly translated it to “army”.
As a random user, I'm annoyed non-OS-specific functionality is only implemented on a different platform. So I most definitely care that they're not consistent in that sense.
Quantum particles feel the influence of gravitational fields they never touch
So, that rules out using format strings read from configuration text files. Not a big loss, IMO (you can have a DE.rs file with format strings for German, an IT.rs one for Italian, etc. and compile those in the binary), but I think some organizations will find that inconvenient.

Also, FTA: “Remember that Rust doesn't use any localization, so these outputs will always look the same.”

So, what do rust programs do for localization, e.g. to print the thousands separators users expect? Is there a library that gives you similar string interpolation, taking locale into account?

It’s a tough call between catering for computers by ignoring locale and for humans by applying it, but I think I would have chosen for this to be locale-sensitive, with support for forcing a standard locale.
pls don't mix the government and the country.

the former is a crowd of criminals, the latter is a beautiful country with unique history, culture and traditions.
Basically what was done in X Windows and Citrix/RDP is now the browser's role, and the wheel keeps on turning.
qwerty456127, have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J67wKhddWu4

War is too important to be left to the politicians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KvgtEnABY
There can be legitimate higher causes and situations when such are painfully obvious like overcoming pandemics. Nevertheless politicians (let alone masses incompetent in relevant subjects) can never be trusted as actually pursuing such as their primary aim. Appealing to such to justify anything always is a huge red flag (pun intended).

Politicians apparently are driven by the game theory and will do/say anything they believe will help them maximize their own power and safety (elections already mentioned) rather than sustainable wellbeing of the people.

Masses are driven by even more chthonic energies like unconscious xenophobia and value the chance to unite by any attribute to attack anybody they can (especially those enjoying a benefit they don't or trying to achieve a benefit they enjoy) above everything and will use any excuse they are given.

Simply saying politicians have already made a too many of suspiciously inefficient (and logically obviously futile even before proven such) decisions to trust them competent and benevolent and the mob will believe and shout any nonsense you tell them as long as this justifies them carrying torches and pitchforks.

Imagine president Trump, seeing himself loosing the elections and actually facing a real prison sentence risk, would have said nuking China is going to end the pandemics and we need to do so to make the whole world great again. I would bet the number of people supporting him would be way far from zero, all over the world.
Indeed; what has spike timing AI got to show for it?

I certainly cannot imagine spike timing capable of reproducing some of deep learning's triumphs like Alpha Zero...
It's sad that this industry doesn't value older techies unless they go into management. The gatekeepers for tech are clueless agents and recruiters that want to make quick cash and they bet on younger graduates to pass LC questions and get the job so they get commission.

Young people think that just because they got into a FAANG they are safe when they get older. You are never safe if you depend on an employer. And trust me you won't be responsible with your money while young anyway.

Can't find ref for the article now but someone recently posted stats of how CS has the worst longterm years of experience to remuneration compared to other degrees/industries. While the rate of learning never slows down as you get more experience. Meaning that your years of experience matters little and your pay won't increase much as you age.

Point being adapt to other pathways as you get older.
Firefox for Android is a pretty great client. There are also third party clients.
Solar is cheaper than nuclear power, faster to build, easier to deploy, easier to scale up and extend. Downside is obviously that one needs storage. But nuclear power is also not really suited for load following.
They are not victims of the theft, but they can be the product of something (like all of us).

If a society instills the values of "every man for himself" and that patience, hard work and helping a fellow human is for chumps, the result is also predictable when mixed with the right conditions/environment.

Trying to solve a problem by focusing on sanctions (usually called "War On ____") has been proven to fail catastrophically.
Some "Reply All" podcast episodes that suspect, then later confirm the breach and Uber straight up lying about it when asked.

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/z3hler/91-the-russia...

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/xjheve/93-beware-all

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/5whmed/111-return-of...
> I'm not so sure if the US covertly and overtly overthrowing governments they don't like is much better than the plain and simple invasion Russia executed in Ukraine.

Neither am I and I detest what the U.S. did to South America. The pain and suffering cause by the US's actions there will continue to reverberate for decades to come.
It is so cross platform, that some think it is too much work to support various browsers so they bundle Chrome with the application.

Could be worse I guess, there are those that ship a whole OS with the application.
Oh please, get off your preachy high horse, and stop trying to guild trip devs into thinking that developing DRM solutions is like developing WMD or something. This is not some NSO-level spyware that can be used to spy and target people.

Plus, some devs enjoy this kind work and some companies working on DRM are in areas that are not as hot as the Bay Area (small cities in Europe) so they might not have that many lucrative options you assume.

Sure, no consumer enjoys DRM, like how no driver likes police officers issuing speeding fines, but demonizing devs working on such solutions is something I did not expect from the supposedly enlightened HN reader base.

How about you target your disapproval at the Bay Area devs whos' generous compensation packages plastered around here depend on them building nefarious ways of siphoning and data-mining peoples' private data to get them addicted to consuming content and click on ads.
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/33897/rel-next-for-...

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2011/09/pagination...
New study of 1980s Mars meteorite debunks proof of ancient life on planet
> and if it's delayed we need to throw more money at the problem and that would solve the problem.

> I talked to the existing tech team that was there and none had ever done anything complex. Mostly they just knew how to write some basic PHP pages to do some simple tasks like rendering a CSV table for a specific report etc

Where was all this money going that they were throwing at these problems if they are hiring fairly low level staff like this?
Copyright kinda flips this around by saying that copying is (with some exceptions) the exclusive right of the rightsholder. I don't see how this is murky.
Well, that's the lower end for smartphones these days, and the one I am using has 4GiB of RAM, the same amount the iPhone 13 has. Again, this is not about technical specifications, it's about faux elitism and the problems that come with it.
No, it's insanely useful in the vast majority of cases.

By many many orders of magnitude the most common scenarios are 4 and 5.

This is not a ridiculous extreme. It is the easiest and most effective thing you could do.
John Kirby however had the character named after him.

He was the lawyer who successfully defended Nintendo against Universal Studios over the copyright for Donkey Kong.
Traffic light policies?
A computer should still function when offline. A time will come when more people distrust the internet and return to using their computer and its apps disconnected from it, or at least highly restricting what apps try to connect to. I do this already using Simplewall because it warns and asks permission for any app or protocol that I do not specifically allow, and I end up blocking most of them, especially OS "services".
There is value in throwing away cruft, especially cruft that comes from the IT Middle Ages (before we decided to drop any non 8 bit word sizes, before UTF-8 became the almost universal string encoding, etc.).
I don't think so. Games -especiall when you get introduced first to the concept- are tonns of unique experience, logic and puzzle and bonding with other people and experimenting and exploiting and race for a win.. just to scratch the surface. Reddit on the other hand is mindless scrolling and infinite low hanging dopamine fruit where you can't remember what did you read but can't play games anymore because it's gratification is not instant enough.
Who is us? Which society? Most countries today are composed of a thousand thousand different cultures worshiping a hundred different gods. The only truly common ground bringing people together to/in these countries today is money.
If only the Windows team shared the same clearer view.
Heart-failure (healthy, 69y man, two weeks after second dose), myocarditis (79y woman, month after 1st dose, I'dont know what was her health condition exactly), half body paralysis (55y, man, week after fisrt dose).
ThePirateBay is free and easier.
imo if cacert had bee included in any major browser, it would have dumpstered the ca-industry in a week. the verification process with passports and physical meetings meant it had better security and crowdsourcing made it effectively free of charge; billions of revenue just gone.
> Blog posts don't normally get "Show HN" titles.

Apologies for going meta, but I agree.

To the OP:

The guidelines for Show HN [1] say: "Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread." Blog posts are specifically off topic.

You seem to have posted this link ten hours ago and then re-posted the same link as a Show HN two hours ago - perhaps to get around the duplicate link detection. Please don't do that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
> What are you saying? That it makes sense for anyone in any age group to avoid the vaccine because the risk of myocarditis is so much higher from the vaccine than from the disease?

No, what I am saying is that mandating them is a stupid idea. Everyone should be free to do a personal benefit/risk assessment before undergoing any medical procedure. Politicians are no medical doctors and they should have no power to prescribe me a medical treatment. If you mix science with politics, you get politics.

I can see, how the vaccine may be utterly pointless for Djokovic, while it may be very important for others.
> This is not some NSO-level spyware that can be used to spy and target people.

Not exactly NSO level, but this certainly caused issues at the time.... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo...
Thing is the organizations and administrators around artists are huge.

In the current world, they are no longer needed, and they know it. But they still have power. So they are doing everything they can to keep up their revenue streams. If they admit to progress, if they try and make a working ecosystems, they are working on something which, at best, requires massive downsizing for them.

So instead they are flailing about looking to construct ecosystems that still have a place for them.
I’m not sure how you’re counting contributions, but well over half of WebKit commits come from Apple employees and (skimming the commit history) I see nothing that refutes that in the most recent commits. The majority of the other commits come from Igalia, with a handful of contributions from Sony, Google, etc. and then some random interested contributors.
Pointing out an infamous example of invasive DRM(trojan) that has nothing to do with the DRM in this topic is just whataboutism.