skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a kid I met some new friends on a camping trip. Their grandparents were rolling in a nice trailer, had nice fishing gear, etc. One day I walked over to their campsite to invite the kids to play, and accidentally overheard them talking about making the kids put on ratty clothes so they could go begging, with the kids complaining.

Later in life I was a missionary, and we saw a dude in homeless attire get out of a nice Mercedes. He saw us as well and told us his story about making bank begging in front of a bank, showed us the $$$ suits stashed in his trunk, told us about his high end "compound" where he lived.

Then of course there was the guy who would block the sidewalk in front of a previous workplace in SF and harass any people passing by who didn't give him money.

There are many cases of people either straight up abusing the system, or acting in ways that will destroy the system.

The more of this there is -- the visible, abusive begging and taking over of shared public spaces -- the less empathy people will have for the invisible homeless who aren't causing trouble and will actually benefit from help.
Well plumbing has problems as well: cognitive requirements are not especially high so in theory many people can do it if they are trained. Many immigrants to the U.S probably consider it.
Massive is an understatement

https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/gigantyczny-wyciek-danych-z-...
Exactly what I was thinking, and what I do.
I don't believe that you care. You have contributed exactly zero value here, and additionally wasted the time of every reader. Try to do better.
The stupid thing is that this might be illegal in some jurisdictions. With any DRM scheme you'll end up having to break the law at some point in time to consume the content you legally purchased.
As streaming becomes more common, the number of seeders seems to be steadily dropping.
The Guardian might have been good once, but I stopped reading after it became obvious that they now shill for the establishment, push irrelevant click-bait headlines, and beg for money every time you open the page.
Best Compiler Books of All Time
Took me a while to get this.
It's the syntax that allows you to write

x + y
where y = g(x, 17)
where x = f(42)

instead of

let x = f(42) in
let y = g(x, 17) in
x + y
Unless poverty is relative.
I'd argue it almost happened with counterfeit solar eclipse glasses. At the last second I think Amazon sent out a mass blast warning people to dispose of them and get a refund or something of that nature. People were unhappy because it was so close to the solar eclipse date and there was no other stock available. Its been a few years so my memory of his is a bit fuzzy but I think thats essentially what happened.
> For users who use an older compatible platform and want to keep the Ultra HD Blu-ray playback compatibility on the PC and with PowerDVD, we suggest you continue using the 7th - 10th generation Core i series of Intel CPUs and motherboards that support the Intel SGX feature. You should also consider not updating the OS (e.g., upgrading to Windows 11) and related Intel drivers to the latest versions in order to keep the Intel SGX feature from being removed from your PC. You should also ensure your platform meets all the other playback requirements of Ultra HD Blu-ray as the playback solution:
https://www.cyberlink.com/support/faq-content.do?id=19144

Wow, the official solution is to use old hardware and software. I'm sure that's a great idea :)

Sarcasm aside, I wonder when corporations will realize that until they offer proper easy and affordable solutions, people have little incentives to actually jump through the official loops and simply not pirate content. I hope to see this realization sometime in my life, but maybe I'm too optimistic.
If you can embed all of your organization's knowledge in a few weeks of a single person's study, then you don't have much knowledge to begin with. Such stuff might be good for a small factory, but for nothing more complex than that.
>The trains are clearly being robbed out of desperation by the poorest citizens.

Wut? This isn't clear at all. Lots of theft like this or mass retail theft are done by semi-organized crime rings.
They probably don't, but why have all this bloat and overhead for something so simple?
I had my Debian running (updated) for almost 10 years. The PC shut down only a few times, mostly when there were power outages. One day I was gifted a new SSD (I was still using HDD) so that day I decided I would install the new disk and make a fresh installation too. I guess I could have "cloned" the old HDD to the new SSD, but I was bitten a few times with those clone tools so I try not to use them when cloning different disks models.

I honestly don't know how you can live with a PC that you need to format every month.
I think there’s a difference between reading the news or social media occasionally at work and doing something like trading stocks. It falls into the realm of work. I know some people trade stocks for leisure but the vast majority do it to make money.

Is it right to work another job for profit at your employer or while your employer is expecting you to be doing work on behalf of them? According to my moral compass, that’s a no. I would be pretty upset if I found one of my employees trading stocks while they were supposed to be working. Especially if my approval of them was low, which is the current situation with many government officials right now. If there was agreement on both sides before taking a job, that would be different but I find that hard to believe before taking a job someone would admit to that, and that’s a sign they know it’s wrong.

They have a lot of nerve thinking this is acceptable behavior when the country is in the middle of a crisis and has a lot of problems to solve.
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Most customers don't know what DRM is, how it works and how/when it fails.

It's reasonable for a non-technical person to agree with a solution that claims to prevent piracy because they have no idea how these things work and their trade-offs. They don't mind it because they don't see themselves as pirates given that they just bought the media and are unaware of how the DRM scheme can backfire on them despite not being a pirate.

Very few people would agree to DRM if the DRM scheme explicitly had a disclaimer "we can, for any reason, prevent you from playing this in the future even on the same hardware that successfully plays it today".
This is illegal in the US, which means it's rad as hell.
When I saw they had like 14 principles I was like ‘yeah, peace out’. I can deal with 3-5, but 14? You can’t see the forest for the trees.
I once used this tool for downloading music into SD cards for our car, this was when we were on road trips I sometimes capped out my data. But I used my spotify playlists to direct the youtube downloads, so I already had some paid access to the same music. Nowadays its just not a problem any more, and I simply use spotify directly.
Having a house and children only happens when you have the resources. People burdened by college debt can’t do these, or at least not usually in the fashion they want. For those people who even want houses and children, the sentence was directed at trades being a quicker route. Perfectly possible to live alone and waste income on rent with trades, and if you’re not heterosexual you’re not usually “pumping” out kids regardless. Digital nomad and similar lifestyles, not so much, but I’d argue that’s preference as much as imagination. Some people like family and community.

“Flyover country” is readily considered condescending. Might be an accurate description, but accuracy is not what makes it condescending.
There's a million different ways to achieve the end result. Using Github as a CMS (if you want to edit your achievements.md file online) for a single page is overkill in my opinion, but it would definitely work.
Similar to 'let' (or 'letrec' in lisps), but written after the block it applies to. For example:

average xs = total / count
where total = sum xs
count = length xs
How many times are you going to send that file to a hiring manager? I'm guessing you probably would either 1/ Format it when it's interview time, or 2/ Format and bullet point the key takeaways. Either way, the overhead is mostly recording it, not processing it which shouldn't happen very often.
I'll second the recommendation for MakeMKV.

No annoying upsells, no subscriptions and you can use the officially provided beta key (valid until the end of a month, a new key gets released every month) to check it out.
LA is turning into District 9
Correct thing to do at this point is really to exclude Australian Open from future glam slam. Just drop entire Australia from it. I get that they have the right to deny anyone in but they making this entire scene due PURELY as political brownie points. Sports should stay neutral. They (entiee Australia) should be punished for dragging sports into this. Better yet deny entire Australia from any world tennis events for 3 years. Now, imagine, every country using their political clout to score their brownie points. The Aussie is really angry at their leaders incompetent handling of pandemic...Djokovic is just a trigger point of their accumulated disatisfaction.
Honestly, I think building micrometer/nanometer scale stuff like a nanopore sequencer is a lot more impressive. That's the true "rocket science" for me.
The benefit is that pirates won't buy the content either way, but legit uses locked out of the content they bought might buy it the second time.
Yes, it would be better for you to write in those other languages than to continue producing crappy C++ code that others must then maintain at extra expense.
OK, thanks for explaining that point :). I was expecting this but couldn't find it in the doc nor the release notes.
And with "we" it's meant the citizen armchair scientist with degrees in google searching and social groupthink.
> But vaccinated people also get ill and spread covid, and with omicron it's pretty much guaranteed that everyone, vaccinated or not, will get in contact with covid

Well yes, vaccines don't stop the spread but it will reduce it (definitely with Delta, maybe less so with Omicron). And then you have other problems like mutations happening more among non vaccinated.

And even with omicron, a vaccine will prevent serious illness.

Even if it just makes a 1% difference, among the almost 8 billion people in the world that's still a huge number. So why not get vaccinated?

It seems to me people are either scared for irrational reasons or just want to be different and think they know it better than the medical establishment.

> Should we expand this to smokers and obese people

Yes, I definitely think you could make a case for that. If people could reduce their craving for McDonalds by receiving a yearly injection and they refuse then yeah, you'd be in the same situation. But things are more complicated, being related to addiction, socio economic status etc ...

> It's also exremly tiring to take away peoples basic human rights in the name of a disease that (with vaccines) kills less people than the flu (and who cares if someone doesn't get vaccinated, it's their problem).

Again, nobody is forced to be vaccinated and it's not just their problem if they don't. You may be refused entry to bars & restaurants but that's not a basic human right, afaik.

I'm done with this!
Actual source language is dart and this library is basically a transpilation of: https://sass-lang.com/dart-sass
That’s ridiculous. You think someone is going to buy an Epi-pen off some random dude on the street?

Easier to just go to the ER and not pay the bill.
What does `:r !date` command do? How do I use the built in help to find it?
What is the cost of not imprisoning criminals? How much economic damage is caused by shutting down stores that keep getting looted?
Wayback Machine URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20220111155212/https://jimmyboga...
Communities set up wireless mesh networks all the time. The internet is just a network of networks. You have to have your own DNS, time and address assignment services, and you're good to go.
That's blogspam, probably automatically generated.

Take number 5: The MicroC/OS book is really good, but for OS implementation. It doesn't talk about compilers, it only appears in this list, because the short blurb says "It can be ported to any microprocessor that provides a stack pointer and allows the CPU registers to be pushed onto and popped from the stack. The C compiler must be ANSI compatible and provide in-line assembly or language extensions that allow you to enable and disable interrupts."
It doesn't outright stop piracy, but making it more uncomfortable to play back on PC means people would either switch to streaming or buy set-top players.

Big tech long ago decided that the PC is a problem to them and they want to move to locked-down gadgets.
It is not necessarily illegal in the USA. It's not necessarily legal either. Pasted from Wikipedia:

U.S. copyright law (Title 17 of the United States Code) generally says that making a copy of an original work, if conducted without the consent of the copyright owner, is infringement. The law makes no explicit grant or denial of a right to make a "personal use" copy of another's copyrighted content on one's own digital media and devices. For example, space shifting, by making a copy of a personally owned audio CD for transfer to an MP3 player for that person's personal use, is not explicitly allowed or forbidden.

Existing copyright statutes may apply to specific acts of personal copying, as determined in cases in the civil or criminal court systems, building up a body of case law. Consumer copyright infringement cases in this area, to date, have only focused on issues related to consumer rights and the applicability of the law to the sharing of ripped files, not to the act of ripping, per se.
Good.

The desire to support the unreasonable demands of the film industry here has led to the perversion of the x86 architecture to add all sorts of peculiar DRM functionalities, and has precluded firmware components from being made open source; as I have previously written about here [1], which links to forum posts by an AMD engineer:

I'm sure I don't have to explain to you that the essense of DRM requirements in the OEM PC market is that the owner must NOT have full control of the machine if that includes being able to tamper with or disable any of the DRM mechanisms.

At the end of the day if Intel was going to support this kind of thing AMD also was pretty much going to be required to make such a deal with the devil, or have a product that can't compete with Intel. If Intel is losing interest in supporting video DRM, perhaps due to shifts away from physical media, it's likely to have a positive effect on both Intel's platform as well as other platforms which feel the need to support the same DRM platforms.

[1] https://www.devever.net/~hl/intelme
I miss the times where defacing a website was a harmless joke and nobody took it seriously. Does anyone know the symbolism? At first it looked like militant vegans because of the pig. Perhaps the separatists, I think this quick attributing to Russia is hasty, although the separatists are of course completely aligned with and dependent on Russia.
There is krohnkite but I recently read development was halted and there was a new more favourable one. I've bookmarked it somewhere but I'll check!

Edit: this is the one: https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth

There's also kwin-tiling https://github.com/kwin-scripts/kwin-tiling

Not sure which is best tbh. I have yet to try them
I’m sick of this being reduced to “instant impulse satisfaction”.

The OP mentions video games. 20 years ago (and today too by most people) that would have been derided as “instant impulse satisfaction”. But apparently it was much more meaningful than using a browser.

A lot of time is wasted on things that are in no way experienced as “satisfying”. It is instant but not satisfying.

I would venture a guess that it has more to do with procrastination than it has to do with “instant satisfaction”. It’s easier to procrastinate by reading news articles than by picking up the guitar (hey, the browser is right there).

Another problem which this does not explain is the time one spends writing lengthy responses and topics. That is not really “instant” in any way. It takes effort. And it might not be fun.

This just looks like some kind of religious thing in secular disguise. People who feel guilty that they are (allegedly) having “sinful fun”.
I mean, for assembly-line production this might ring true (I wouldn't know, never did it). But for what one might reasonably categorize as "knowledge work", my experience is that knowledge reigns supreme. Some of that knowledge is shared by a whole community of practitioners, other parts of it is local and contextualized. This part probably makes up a sizable proportion of an organizations competitive advantage.

To make workers replaceable is to rely mostly on the knowledge you can reasonably expect to regain on rehire. Remember: Management (up to owner-management) are also workers, so running some kind of special culture-and-knowledge preserving über-organization is predicated on somehow retaining the structures that support and maintain this secret sauce. Military services around the world have researched this extensively (for obvious reasons), then again, we refer to a well-seasoned and experienced practitioner as a veteran. Veterans are invaluable in military service, as they are in any other endeavor. Trade them off against ease-of-management at your own peril.
Med isnt immune to automation or remote work as well (telemedicine)...its surprising a bit. I would be really surprised if there isnt tons of automation 10-20 years from now.
Nurses are pretty well protected though.
Isn’t there a DMCA exemption for instances where you need to break DRM for compatibility with your hardware?
Only the criminal can answer that, I suppose. Has it occurred to anyone to ask?
That's because piracy is the excuse, not the reason. DRM is very successful at what it should do: Protect the content middleman from the device makers (not the end users).

They can, for example, enforce market segmentation: You bought the DVD in the USA and play it in the EU. Legal, but DRM stops you. Wait for the EU release and pay the different price.

If the content middleman screams piracy, react as if a politician screams child porn. They want something else, but cant' get it without invoking the bogeyman. Hordes of (starving artists/concerned parents) will provide the necessary rope to hang themselves on command.
PostNord ever delivers things normally? /s
> Is it because you have too much to lose if you get caught?
Absolutely not, risking a first time shoplifting charge is well within my risk tolerance.

I'm not doing it because

1. I find crimes against person or property vile

2. It's not worth it. All things considered, it's probably a pretty abysmal hourly rate.

> My whole point is that if people have a minimal standard of living, the fear of losing it will prevent them from committing crimes much more effectively
I agree, however I don't see how it is my fault or why would I have to pay for someone else's minimal standard of living.

Teaching a man how to fish vs giving the man a fish.
Respect for society, or lack thereof, happens at all levels. People partying and cheating their way through college, or running billion dollar ponzi schemes, aren't doing so because they have to survive, but the root cause is the same.
Two of the three arguments are dynamic factories and one is slow startup (which very often is a situation for approving shortcuts aka hacks).

So in summary: the anti-pattern stands ;)
I wish every time someone complained about a title, they included the title at the time. HN moderators are very quick to correct issues, and it leaves the comment and the rest wondering "what is wrong with it?"
This is so dumb. People are talking about dopamine in the same way they talk about calories. “Just get less dopamine.”

Maybe we should leave terms like that to neuroscientists.
As was said by other smart person who is not me:

DRM has nothing to do with piracy of even control over end-user. It's all about media companies having leverage over hardware manufacturers of TVs, computers, game consoles, etc.

So media companies want extort money from hardware manufacturers. Manufacturer might choose not to pay, but then most of movies and Netflix (FullHD, 4K) wouldn't play on their devices.
>this is the "i'll quit smoking when i get cancer" philosophy applied to software dev.

This may probably be the worst logical analogy I've ever read on HN.

The suggestion is that when you need an algorithm (cancer) you will look it up (quit smoking); the initial problems that make the analogy rather clunky - the algorithm is something you want whereas cancer is something you don't, and looking up the algorithm is something you start to do whereas quitting smoking is something you stop (smoking)

But of course there are other things that make the analogy inelegant - the longer you smoke the worse the cancer gets, but not looking up the algorithm for years does not make the algorithm any harder (here there is some room to quibble since unfamiliarity with the algorithm for some years may make implementing it more difficult but that is a different level of surety than the smoking worsens cancer level of surety, and at any rate difficulty to implement is not exactly the same as harder)

Finally the extreme nature of the analogy seems more likely to cloud judgement than otherwise.

I'm not saying you're not good at what you do, just saying you are not getting a job in this philosophy department with that level of argumentation buster!
But if it’s so simple, how does it not become competitive? And if it’s so opportunistic, how does it not become organized?
This case is setting ground work for just what and how far the FBI can pursue company employees based on how the companies handle a breach. It could have a bit impact on the tech sector.
> It's efficient when compared to equivalent sequential execution.

It looks like they're comparing against MLton, which is interesting since it performs whole-program optimisation. That makes their speedups even more impressive!
Sounds like wasted effort. Relying on individuals are good, since it means they are somebody to rely on.

Anyways, hand over in high turnover places is shitty anyways, since they are shitty places to work at.
Agreed. If you want to (physically) own a movie or TV show, use MakeMKV, or just torrent/IRC/usenet it. It really seems the rights owners want you to go that route.

Otherwise if you just want to watch a movie and don't care that it might not be available at a later time, use a streaming service, it's by far the most convenient.
Can someone explain why PowerDVD needs the SGX feature? Intel clearly doesn't see it as being useful, or did they replace it with something better and Cyberlink just doesn't want to upgrade?

I mean it's reasonable that Cyberlink shaw the SGX as a way of implementing DRM, but I don't believe it's the only way they could possibly do so.
This is in LA.