skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say that the distribution of yellow letters in the remaining word determines the value. If you have a yellow "X" or "Q" or one yellow vowel after testing all 5 vowels, that is a lot more meaningful than a yellow "T", which could really go anywhere. A yellow "G" but grey "I" tells me (at least intuitively, not quantitatively) a bit more than a green "I" and grey "G".

A recent word had a single vowel. This made it reasonably easy to guess where those vowels could go and to also choose a consonant-heavy next word that would really tear apart the search space if even one consonant was valid.

I think I'll switch to using RAISE or SLATE as a first choice. It was ADIEU before, but there's almost never an A in slot 1, U in slot 5, or D in slot 2, and I don't feel like any of these letters has a significantly most common position with just the info from these 5 letters. The yellow/grey letters are helpful after ADIEU, but I still need to explore at least 4 more letters (including O, and usually N or C) to even get a good idea of where any matches might go. In the moments that letter 4 is "E" while guessing ADIEU on round 1, that actually doesn't help me much with round 2. In fact, then I'm faced with the decision to explore unguessed letters in general, words with two "E"s, and/or words with "E" in 4th position. (same with "I" in 3rd)
I see what you did there! Haha
Suvivorship bias?

Definitely. There are a lot of young guys in the trades who no one should hire under any circumstances. They do drugs, drink, and even start fights on the job site. They get fired frequently and just move to the next job. There are so many of them that it makes for a toxic workplace for anyone getting into the trades.
The DRM isn't there just for end-user piracy, it's to enforce contractual obligation on middle-men distributors and for those middle-men distributors to be able to enforce exclusivity onto users (e.g. pay rights for a certain region, to dubbing and then prevent people from watching that content in the same region elsewhere to maximise the moneyed return).

It also allows distributors and content houses to repeatably charge for same content as it goes through media conversions (pay once for DVD rights, pay again for BR, pay again for localized BR, pay again for UHD-BR, pay again for iPhone Apple TV version, pay again for version with extras and special edition)... it's a legal hammer that enforces each middle man to stand in the line and to make sure each piece of content extracts as much money as the overextended copyright system allows.

And if anyone DOES pirate the content, it's used to cover the middlemen asses by being able to show the abusive DRM practices and saying "we did all we could, YOU ceritified this DRM as good you see!"
They do: https://generico.ru/2021/12/21/nyt-us-and-uk-send-team-of-cy...
he thinks because America has the tendency to put their city rivers underground its a world wide thing.
> Just look at FAANG: Retain developers at (almost) any cost.

That isn't true at all. FAANG pays a lot for you to join them and give good raises, but they don't pay extra to make you stay instead of leaving for another FAANG. So there is still a lot of churn at FAANG.
I think from his side it's a weak argument to follow but maybe it makes sense in a common law context - whatever instance has given him a go-ahead, he's going to use that and say he had some kind of assurance. It's just not from the right department or level at all, but he can try. He needs a pseudo good faith argument for "I thought I could go", and that's what he's trying to do - that's his foot in the door, then the courts decide.
My wife has an entire blog of them: https://lockdowntransmissions.wordpress.com/2022/01/03/the-c... ; my faves of that list are The Silencers (Dean Martin does a Bond spoof), and Robo-Vampire (low budget knockoff Robocop fights Chinese vampires, incredible nonsense ensues)

I'd add Theater of Blood (Vincent Price thespian camp horror with a large number of cameos from British character actors of the 1970s), Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up And Scald Myself With Tea (Soviet time-travel twin-swap comedy), and White Sun Of The Desert, which is traditionally watched by astronauts in their last night of pre-launch quarantine at Baikonur. https://24htech.asia/i-was-bored-so-i-watched-the-movie-that... ; that has some legitimately great shots in it.

To the original question, if you like technicolor you owe it to yourself to see Singin' In The Rain, not just for the title dance sequence but several other big numbers.
DRM screws over content producers just as much as users, if not more so. It creates a 'tragedy of the commons' situation throughout the content industries that ultimately hinders creators. Content creation benefits from openness as much as anything else, and DRM platforms are the opposite extreme to openness.
Because its not easy to get fuel for nuclear reactors as there is an ever lasting cloud on India's nuclear status.

Existing reactors also run on partial capacity due to lack of fuel. What little is produced in the country has to be rationed between defence and electricity generation.
The author's points are absolutely correct.

However, I don't think that it makes any difference.

The entire industry has now shaped itself into a transient, mercenary, loyalty-free community.

It will take a long time to change that.

A lot of the trouble is the "You go first." mentality. Who will be the one to stay at a company for many years, getting only 3% raises; regardless of their performance, as their company's CEO keeps raking in millions of dollars, and lives a lavish, high-profile life?

Who will be the company that starts to treat their employees in a manner that proves they are worth staying at? This may mean higher pay raises, the CEO taking some of their profit (and the shareholders and VCs), and sharing it with the employees. Letting employees unionize, etc.

As people or companies are doing that, their competitors are running riot; acting as selfish, destructive and greedy as always. Many times, the competitors can crush the people trying to do the right thing.

So that generally means that governments need to step in, and help the people and companies to do the right thing.

As everyone knows, that's pretty much a non-starter, these days.

The tech industry makes crazy money. When an industry makes money like that, everyone "looks the other way," at truly awful behavior. The finance industry has been like that, for decades. Whereas industries that don't make much money, like public education, social services, etc., are regulated up the wazoo, with an iron fist.

I was a manager for over 25 years. I feel that I was a good one. My employees seemed to agree. I kept many of them on board for decades, and these were folks that could walk out the door, and get huge pay raises (my company paid "competitive" salaries). I certainly never made that much, compared to what people are doing, these days. many new hires out of college make more than I ever did, as a senior manager.

I worked hard at being a good manager; and that often meant working around a company with a fairly rapacious HR policy (HR was run by lawyers). Most folks here, would (and have) sneer at me, for staying so long, and for doing the things that I needed to do, in order to be a good manager.

In my case, it was personal Integrity thing. I have a really stringent Personal Code. I know that's unusual, and we can't expect it from most managers.
The Rust formatting macros depend on string literals because the macro expansion necessarily happens at compile-time, which means that it's not possible to override the actual format string at runtime, nor is recursive resolution possible.

It's obviously still possible to implement the Display trait for a type in a way which makes it susceptible to code execution attacks, but that doesn't really have anything to do with string formatting.
It looks likely that everyone who lives ten more years is going to encounter this virus at least once and there is a frequency of comorbidities first discovered at the morgue that needs to be considered by a "healthy" person.
For a while I was running my second monitor over DVI. And putting Amazon prime on it cause the video to go blank.

I know why (I think there's some bs about not running HDCP over DVI even though it's basically HDMI in most Configs)
But it was bizzare to actually see it.
Normal taxi is forbidden. I've heard of someone's friend having to pay 30 man (yes, more than 3 times the plane ticket) to go from airport to home in a remote prefecture because of that countermeasure.
MakeMKV even has an integration with VLC that lets you just play Blu-ray discs without ripping them first. I don't know if that works for the UHD ones.
That is a common misconception. Both the FSF (the license authors) and Software Freedom Conservancy have always held the opposite view, and always enforced that view.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-t...
https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017...
It's not enough that they're static literals. The replaced variables aren't. The language should provide a way for the format string to enforce that the expressions are sanitised.
No.

Central planning works horribly and there's wide evidence of that.

> decentralized market regulation by supply and demand is the Bitcoin style of solving the problem.

This is word salad. The criticism of bitcoin - that I would absolutely agree with - is that it wastes resources to solve the same problem that a SQL database solves, just more inefficiently.

In order to solve the same problem a market solves you would need to take into account the preferences of millions of independent actors and mash them together into a Frankenstein solution, which is clearly beyond the capabilities of any government, with or without computers.

> Even primitive, paper based, Soviet style planning has been proven to be quite adequate for early 20th century economies

This claim is complete insanity. At no point in history the USSR has performed better than the first world in any sector, with the exception of a few propaganda stunts (like the space race) that came at costs so enormous that could only be borne by a brutal dictatorship, and that were promptly and easily matched and surpassed by the US.

Frankly, if your argument for central planning is to point at how well it worked out for the Soviets, I don't need to argue any further.

> it was already good enough to keep a country running for decades

Anything is good enough to keep a country running for decades, that's not a reasonable indicator of any kind of success whatsoever. The alternative to central planning is to stop doing it, not to go back to the 19th century.

> would have Chile been better off with it than with the bloody CIA backed dictatorship

A comment that contains a literal invitation to not move the goalposts ends with an irrelevant tangent. How ironic.

Yes, the OG 9/11 was bad, you get a gold star.

Cybersyn is interesting as an information system for the technology it employed, and is for sure a great display of ingenuity.

But come on, let's stop beating this dead horse. Central planning is a pipe dream.
I saw that, but I had naively assumed it would at least not be in the right order and some sort of date based hash would be used to shuffle it up.. ha! The simplest things..
We use Microsoft Information Protection solutions for all of our important documents which includes things like sensitivity labels which ensure only the users that have been appropriate clearance can view them.

People can e-mail the documents or do whatever they want with them, and Microsoft's DRM ensures that only the users that have access are able to view them.

The whole thing is totally seamless and requires no extra effort on the part of the users.

Our corporate documents can't be stolen without comprimising both someone's account and two-factor authentication.

It's a great example of DRM done well.
Towards Actionable XAI Open Lecture by Dr. Sebastian Lapuschkin
Agree to a degree.

What I write about above however is that even in the Nordic countries where everyone has all reason to be thankful people steal a lot.
> Do crime rates go up when you stop policing actual crimes?

No they don't. See all the studies that disprove the "broken windows theory" that tried to prove that crime rates go down when you enforce policing.

https://carder.uk/threads/does-broken-windows-theory-work.11...

The first book to disprove the broken window theory was Bernard Harcourt 's Illusion of Order, published in 2001. The author points out that over the 30 years of the existence of this theory, it has never been empirically confirmed, on the contrary, the available research contradicts it. The theory also relies on arbitrarily defined categories of "order" and "disorder", "law-abiding citizens" and "violators."

The first book to disprove the broken window theory was Bernard Harcourt 's Illusion of Order, published in 2001. The author points out that over the 30 years of the existence of this theory, it has never been empirically confirmed, on the contrary, the available research contradicts it. The theory also relies on arbitrarily defined categories of "order" and "disorder", "law-abiding citizens" and "violators."

First of all, the drop in crime in New York occurred simultaneously with the corresponding process in the entire United States. In another study, Harcourt notes that the drop in crime rates in New York coincided with the end of the crack drug epidemic. Christina Sterbenz adds that this trend has been fueled by declining unemployment (during the 1990s, its rate fell by 40%).

Criminologist Ralph Taylor is sure that socio-economic is a significant factor that affects the crime rate. Returning to the experiment with two cars - in the Bronx initially there was a low level of welfare, and in wealthy Palo Alto, a researcher must intervene in the experiment to provoke vandalism.

The theory of broken windows has also failed to pass the test of a massive social experiment. In 1994, the US government introduced the Moving to Opportunity program, which relocated 4,800 impoverished families to prime locations. The program was implemented in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and Baltimore. Three quarters of the resettled households were on the brink of poverty, and two thirds of the participants were African American.

According to the theory, in the new environment the level of their involvement in offenses should have, but this did not happen, since the move did not improve their financial situation, but emphasized the social gap with their neighbors.
> Return backwards in time and kill Hitler

Hum, could I suggest an evil alternative? Just schedule a few meetings with the people that lend money to Hitler and explain them that he will try to keep the money and will go to extreme measures to avoid returning it, including killing them or their relatives if possible. Really bad investment, don't touch this turd with a thousand foot pole. Thank me later when you still own your castle in Europe.

Result: Hitler never climb in a position to became Hitler. Nobody dies, nobody needs to enter in a war to recover the investment and you don't became a murderer. Hollywood would be devastated for sure but, apart of this...everybody wins :-)
In the first line I was constantly thinking: "So close, yet so far" since I expected you to come to "see it's not as bad". Not sure whether my expectation of the HN crowd is too low...

Thanks for proofing me wrong :)
I wonder what can be done to reduce their negative influence on the tech world? Ideally I'd like to see reform of copyright law to favour corporate giants a bit less, but given how much of a hand those same giants seem to have in the laws that get written I'm not hopeful of that any time soon.

I think a more realistic scenario is rather than a top-down change in the law, a bottom-up approach with a culture change in the general public towards favouring independent content creators who don't employ DRM and other harmful measures and don't stifle creativity with overzealous IP lawsuits is encouraged. I'm still a believer at heart that the internet can be a great democratiser of content, that it can bring down the barriers and middlemen between artists and their audience. Art on the internet should be a participatory thing too in my opinion, not the mindless content consumption that the media companies of yesteryear see it as.
Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov believes that the role of cybersecurity in today's world is exaggerated.

He said this in an interview with LB.ua [1].

"I think the role of cybersecurity is a bit exaggerated. There is a lot of talk about it, but in fact few can name any real cases of cyber threats. Let me give a simple example. When we came to the President's Office, the IT team showed dashboards with a thousand attacks a day, overloaded servers, etc. Two weeks later, we fired them, and nothing happened for several months while we were assembling a new team." - Fedorov said.

[1] https://en.lb.ua/news/2019/11/29/8183_role_cybersecurity_sli...
I do! Since I got a 1080p projector, DVDs of recent releases are often noticeable fuzzy, while the Blu-Rays look great.

Plus a Blu-Ray off eBay or CeX is usually half the price of 'buying' a film to stream, can be lent to friends and family, and is something that I meaningfully own into the future (not only until the service I bought it from goes bust, locks me out of my account, etc). The fact I can rip them with MakeMKV if necessary is handy too.
That statement definitely needs some numbers to check out, it's a claim that needs backing up. The full nuclear power "pipeline" isn't CO2-neutral either and depends on resources we'll eventually run out of, probably within the next hundred years, maybe sooner [1].

I also don't think that "but what about space requirements" is an argument with enough weight to dismiss the long list of advantages given by the GP. We have so much unused space on roofs. We could get rid of a few parking lots if you're concerned for ground.

[1] https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/worlds-uranium...
Keep seeing “the experience“ over and over in this thread.

Children literally taking out 5 and 6 figure loans for a glorified multi-year vacation with some half arsed “education” strapped to it.
Wind produces noise, has moving parts that require quite a bit of maintenance, too much wind and the breaks are applied, too little they don't turn, they require a very large foundation made of an enormous amount of concrete and may cause issues with birds depending on location.

Additionally small wind mills don't make economic sense and that is why they are getting bigger and bigger. This limits where you can install them and make the approval process a huge burden. Compare this to solar which can be installed on almost any size house.

We can easily store this energy with hydro storage and hydro damns. Hydro storage is an amazing thing as it requires very little maintenance and can go from 0 to 100% in seconds which is great for areas that require a lot of power in a short amount of time. Even nuclear power doesn't have such a quick ramp up/down.
Yeah. Folks who say crime is caused by poverty and lack of prospects often in the same breath accuse CEOs of being crooks etc, not seeing the contradiction.

There was a good bit on some Russian blog back in the day. Cops in Russia were very underpaid then, and someone floated the idea that they take bribes for that reason. The response:

"A cop takes bribes because his salary is low. Ok, what should his salary be? Like a minister's? But they say nowadays that ministers also take bribes like there's no tomorrow. Maybe we should make the cop's living standard like Zeus the god of all gods and then he'll stop taking bribes?"

Whether you're rich or poor, if you feel that it's ok to rob people, you'll rob people (in the way that your level affords). And if you hate the idea of robbing people, you won't.
> For exactly the reasons mentioned in the post, they encourage people to move to other teams to build up the inter connectedness of teams while keeping employees motivated and engaged.

That isn't to avoid churn, that is to have more people around in general. If you leave your old team it means you no longer use your knowledge, the important part is to have engineers around, not to have the same engineers working on the same tasks.

For example, Google encourages churn by making it really easy to move to other teams in other areas. You don't talk to your old team again, so that is effectively the same thing as you leaving the company and them getting a new engineer, ie for the teams it is equivalent to churn.
> In earlier times, in hunter gatherer societies, food was scarce and work was important. But today, you cannot tell people that working in fast food or in customer support is mandatory to eat and have a roof on your head.

Just a note: hunter gatherers exist today, it's not something that humanity has given up completely, you've given it up, but it might be temporary (it seems that many current hunter gatherers went back to it in order to flee from disease and slavery brought by the westerners). Moreover, we now know that many hunter gatherers "work" less on average than those working in agriculture or - following your example - in customer support.
> When you don't judge theft harshly you actually promote a culture of dishonesty.

Yup. I wish we would start doing that.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/walmart-corporations-wage-t...

A scathing new report finds that hundreds of major corporations in the United States are repeat wage-theft offenders — committing the violations and then paying the subsequent fines as part of the cost of doing business.
The link is right there. Has been all along, still is. Actions speak louder than words: that you have not bothered to read proves all we need to know about your intentions.

So far you are batting 0/5. I believe you can do better, but could be mistaken in that.
> The only beings who work are inmates like us.

What about ants?
You'd think. But I still see discussions in JavaScript and PHP related threads where people swear by adding `console.log`/`var_dump` statements to their code over using the debugger.

I've seen quite a few threads on r/php where individuals introduce a newer, supposedly better, library that can be used instead of `var_dump`, and there's always the inevitable "why not use the debugger?" to which many reply "because it's hard to set up" or "var_dump is better" or something silly to that effect.
Saying a self-hosted cloud service is easier when someone says it's a lot of effort to set up the cloud service by saying you should already have set up the cloud service is quite a strange argument.

I think I'm going to counter your argument by saying you should write your own web application for keeping notes because that's far simpler and quicker if you've already built it.
these are not rivers, they are canals
Just to state the obvious: I've done this for all of my adult life. It's difficult, but possible. I buy my games on gog.com, mp3s (or flaacs) from hyperion-records.co.uk and I read either pdf or dead-tree media. I listen to the radio a lot and support my state-sponsored broadcasters in the two countries I split my time between, both of which are paid for by a license fee and produce material without DRM at all. I have a raspberry-pi based content box in my bedroom that will record legally free over-the-air digital TV (at 720p) and let me watch it later. I periodically write letters of complaint to broadcasters that provide online offerings only with Widevine.

I haven't bought a Sony product since their rootkit fiasco in about 2004. I remove the Widevine library from Chrome when I'm forced to use it, unclick the box that says "Play DRM" in Firefox, and don't really use Safari. At work, I challenge suppliers who use activation to provide us software without it, and I run entirely Linux-boxes.

Yes, I am one of those zealots. Yes, it makes life harder at times. Would I change it? No.