skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or are they just opportunists, even if somewhat organised, stealing simply because they know they're likely to get away with it? Not doing it not out of any real need, but just for the thrill of it, or as a 'fuck you' to authority, whether that's the police, the politicians, or big business.

When people can shoplift bagloads of merchandise without even trying to be stealthy, then casually walk out past a security guard who isn't allowed to do anything, or when they can smash a window and clean out a store under the cover of protests/unrest, it's not surprising that it escalates to more organised theft - whether it's 'flash rob' looting* of stores, or now looting train cargo.

(*As for the now-seemingly-controversial term 'looting' vs stealing/theft/robbery - to me, looting is brazenly grabbing anything/everything, out in the open, often in broad daylight and on camera, while most 'normal' forms of theft are carried out more covertly and perhaps with particular targets in mind). No amount of policing will prevent all theft, but open looting is an sign of lawlessness.
There’s a live stream of legal appeal to this decission:

https://youtu.be/t_-BcBnNeLA
Just in case you like this, but don't use org-mode, there is https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el
That line of thinking worked well in Iraq and Afghanistan. Let's hope we have a nice quick, clean war like we did there
Bitcoin transaction produces CO2 emissions as a household in 3 weeks
I somehow don't believe the "lowest bidder" thing, otherwise everyone would just be putting out contracts for <= $1. However, IIRC from working with people in the government contracting business, the "punishment" is that you don't very easily get more money if you go over budget. If your contract is $100, you get $100 and if you need another $100 you will spend $400 on lawyers and renegotiation.
Tech company, computer security breach, paying off hackers, hiding from government.

Why would this not be on Hacker News?
People robbing rapid testing kits for the global pandemic from cargo trains entering LA sounds like something from a dystopian cyberpunk novel.
After Log4j, Open-Source Software Is Now a National Security Issue
Abolish work.
Depends where you’re from, what media you let consume you or not, what social pressures you give into without rational basis.
>I find crimes against person or property vile

...

>Start shooting at the thieves and see how fast the train robbery trend reverses.
Critically endangered, sigh.

Annonaceae is the family of the Paw Paw, Cherimoya and Soursop. Apart of the biodiversity values, one more member could be valuable in the development of new types of hybrid 'cherimoya like' fruits like in the Atemoya case. Uvariopsis is not known as been edible in any case and is harvested by its wood and the antimalarial and anticancerous activity of its leaves.
This is a really good tip. Once you start contributing to these sites the dopamine spikes from replies, likes and even debate goes up substantially and pulls you into its clutch.

Without active accounts, these things become consumption only which is easier to pull away from.

HN is the only site I feel ok giving my content too.
DRM - broken by design
The free-energy principle explains the brain
There is a clear stereotype of book readers needing glasses. That’s less of a stereotype for people who play games.

> less bad for your brain

I guess this is obvious? I don’t see how either would be bad for that.
I think the issue with string_view is less laziness and more recency: most libraries still need to support C++ versions prior to C++17. Rust had the advantage that slices were there from day one.
Wouldn't that mean in a ideal world half the estimates will be under? That buffer would have to be half the size of the total project or so.
I think you, and the agile software industry as large, are completely mistaken.

There is absolutely no problem with intensive up-front analysis. In fact, this is what at least 80% of the effort should go into. But we have pretty much 0% staffing for that role. It's no wonder something doesn't work when no one's there to do it. Compare that to M&S in civil engineering.

Regarding the alleged downsides: Any wrong implementation will incur massive cost down the road (but that cost usually is not accounted for in a SaaS world), so you actually cannot afford to not do it. Assumptions can change, yes, but at least you make assumptions. In agile development, people simply ignore any assumptions and end up with a completely broken product that eats 80% or more of development time with maintenance. And of course, planning and analysis can involve prototypes and iterations.

I came to the conclusion that agile development just shifts the blame for bad planning from management to engineering. And I also think that the correct framework to planning and analysis is domain specific. The more constraints your domain enforces on your software, the better your analysis and estimation will be. Hence greenfield projects have the most problems.
Yes, it's highly relevant to any company that handles peoples' sensitive personal data. Here's an excerpt:

> “Institutions that store personal information of others must comply with the law,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Hinds. “When hacks like this occur, state law requires notice to victims. Federal law also requires truthful answers to official government inquiries. The indictment alleges that Sullivan failed to do either. We allege Sullivan falsified documents to avoid the obligation to notify victims and hid the severity of a serious data breach from the FTC, all to enrich his company.”
I draw the line before SponsorBlock though. While they are repetitive and irritating after a while (if I was going to join skillshare I'd have done so some time ago, kindly bugger off, etc.):

* They do directly pay the people making the content

* That income can't be taken off them by the medium (youtube usually) deciding to demonetize the content

* YT isn't even taking a cut, in fact

* Those ad placements aren't trying to stalk me around the Internet and storing every tiny bit of information about me they can glean

* Sponsorship bit are usually there because they have at least some tentative relevance to the content and the people consuming it, without the need to stalk us as we travel around the Internet

At least until such time as the video carries like youtube start inserting ads directly into video streams, then I'll reconsider. I don't block ads to block ads: I block adds as a side effect of blocking stalking behaviours, wasted bandwidth from auto-playing video, 3rd party code on otherwise half-reputable sites trying to access my camera & mic, slowing my devices via poorly optimised animations, pop-ups that may interrupt other app use away from the browser, pop-unders too, battery drain from CPU use when mobile, being forced to interact because I can't just look around or scroll past as the ad is over the content, ... If the stalky inserts start to happen then I'll react by using sponsorblock or similar.
IDE CD-ROM then, it is not like I always check the dates before commenting and rather rely on fuzzy memories.

Yes Slackware 2.0 with the first version of ELF support on the kernel, summer of 1995 that is when I got my Linux Unleashed book with it.

SCSI always worked very well with Linux in terms of CD-ROM suppport.
Tek Fog in Action: Targeting Women Journalists
It's the same problem I was facing trying to play Netflix Ultra HD on my AMD CPU. Fortunately Netflix now also works without Intel SGX so I can watch my stuff on my PCs now.

On the other hand: It is still not possible to play Amazon Prime Ultra HD on AMD CPUs and probably also on the new Intel 12th gen as of now.

The one thing I hate about these limitations is the amount of detailed knowledge that is required to know what is happening. As an average consumer I would have never thought of such bullshit. I only read about the problem wehn I had already bought my CPU...
Yeah, Amazon has a system to determine the most cost-effective shipping, including where to ship from to begin with, and even shipping the same item even if it belongs to another seller, if it is easier to ship.

It's not just a greedy algorithm like a market system to get the lowest costs for the first orders only.
Isn't the act of bypassing DRM itself some violation of DMCA and related laws (however unlikely any enforcement may be) ? Which is also why you can't play commercial DVDs and blu-rays out of the box on Fedora because they won't ship any code that can circumvent DRM.
Once I act like that (F5 F5) chances are that I don’t have much energy left for deliberate action. So the advice seems to be: do this deliberate action every time you are out of energy. That doesn’t make sense.
I haven’t read any of David Graeber’s books. Your comment doesn’t make his thesis clear, but I do know what’s written in the Code of Hammurabi:

“If any one is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.”

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Codex_Hammurabi_(King_trans...

Likewise in pre-Columbian Mexico, as per the Florentine Codex:

“It was a crime to light a fire in the woods without permission, to cut down trees, to move boundary-markers, to take game from another man’s hunting trap and to steal crops from the fields. All these were crimes that could be punished by death.”

https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/ask-experts/which-were-t...
Airstan Incident
If you're not remote first, you're nothing
> I mean, for assembly-line production this might ring true

Not there either. You mess up more in the beginning. Experienced workers have better flow.
Just look at FAANG:
Retain developers at (almost) any cost.

Pay developers like it's monopoly money.

You could call this "The benefit of retention", though that may be a bit reductive.
Docker is based on Linux namespacing, and the Mac does not use a Linux kernel, so you have to run a VM to have one. That's it, period.

The "harder and slower" bit is debatable (you can run podman, for instance), but a lot of it is on Docker's side, not Apple's -- they even provide a hypervisor you can use with 10 or so lines of code!
Londoners told to reduce physical activity today due to pollution
That sounds like you described a heart attack. They aren't always fatal and many people have a heart attack without realizing that's what it was.
That looks very much like an old DVD ripper (even the site) that was a joy to use. I don't remember the name, but if MakeMKV is as good as that, it'll be great.
Like I said earlier, you got fixated on your own understanding of what "good enough" means and didn't actually pay attention to what people were actually talking about. Instead of learning something, you went on a diatribe and repeatedly misrepresented what people were actually saying.

I've seen people adhere blindy to standards and I've seen people ignore standards without a good reason. Both are failure modes that can increase risks.

I also think you are grossly simplifing what caused the engineering failures you mention. They have a lot more to do with systemic pressure and misplaced priorities than they do with engineers making contextual assements of risk beyond what is stipulated in the standards.
There are two benefits in DRM:

1. Stopping "casual" piracy, that is, stopping a tech illiterate person (most of the population) from simply copying it to another tech illiterate friend (they don't want a repetition of the K7 mixtape era).

2. Create a walled garden were you have a monopoly that you can abuse to extract better deals from other stakeholders.
Welcome to international travel! Countries are sovereign entities and decide who gets through the borders. For any international gathering, there's going to be people who have a hard time making it through, or are unable.

I was once invited by a company to an US based developer meeting, and couldn't make it because the company didn't realize I needed a visa, and it's absolutely impossible to get one in two weeks barring exceptional circumstances like the death of a family member.

Later when I visited the US it took about a couple months to get the visa in my passport.

Countries are picky about who they allow in, and require a bunch of paperwork to reassure them you're not going to cause trouble and are going to leave when you're done seeing sights.
And replace it with?

Perhaps we can create a system whereby one exchanges skills for products and services? But then how do we scale such a system... money might work, unless you're advocating for communism
Didn't realize that cyberlink was still around. Their market share must be minuscule these days. No laptops ship with optical drives and it would be rare to add one to a desktop build these days too.
Who cares. If it's your stuff, do whatever you want with it.
AnyDVD & CloneDVD?
I think it's a plus for society if some criminals go from petty theft to white collar sociapth investor conning CEO. (or more realistically salesman)

Society saves on the need for physical security.
For every vocal example there are tons that fly under the radar until they are on the news for the wrong reasons.

It is no accident that Ada and Java also have security guidelines similar to MISRA, because even with memory corruption bugs out of the picture, as log4j newly remided us, security only happens when it is part of the daily process, regardless of the language.
I do have to wear glasses with the Rift S, sometimes they get foggy tho.
Because it's not as cool, mostly. It's _very_ stable tech, and thus perceived as old.

Also, nobody really wants to code in Object Pascal anymore (despite its readability, etc.).
"This feature seems to be opt-in, but in the future it might get enabled by default."

And you can bet that whenever you use one of those phrases or reject Microsoft's recommended alternatives then your stats will be collected and sent to MS.

Being in the possession of the collective data of millions of users puts MS in a position of being able to determine the mood of the populous on many social issues, thus it's in a position of being able to wield real political power. Leak what people are thinking to politicians etc. and you'll have the potential to alter politics.

The other way of viewing this is that if enough people adopt or use Microsoft's recommended phraseology then, in effect, society will have adopted a form of subliminal social engineering - for eventually that will become the dominant 'speak'.

The question of course is who gets to set what's acceptable and what is not. Why has Microsoft now become the arbiter of our social norms? And what on whose right or authority has Microsoft accepted such aagency? Right, it's none other than itself.

As is is, in recent decades we've already been forced to moderate what we say or write to a point where we now cannot express ourselves openly. This alone is dangerous and ultimately it'll have political consequences.

Moreover, if we can't speak out without fear then we've not only lost our individual autonomy but also we give others more opportunity to control us.

You're right about LibO, we need it more than ever nowadays.
Like 'I would like 1 minute of private security while I walk up this alley'? 'How many times can I walk it on the free tier?'
TL;DR, literally, I didn't bother to read the whole thing. Time pressure will never go away. It only takes common sense to realize that those who want something, i.e. are paying for it, want it as soon as possible. The difference from making physical things is the perception that software is soft: it seems to be infinitely malleable and all it takes is hand waving magic or sheer willpower to manifest it. This is of course the lie that those building software understand, and those that do not, will not.
Torrenting a reencode seems reasonable but for some releases I liked buying the blu ray because my internet speed isn't great.
I was with you until the 'play games part'

Is not wasting time playing games the same as wasting time browsing stuff online? it's all mindless entertainment and distraction.
How the heck is crime attractive? Why are you not attracted to this crime? Why am I not attracted to it as I sit working from home for a tech company?

I don't think crime is attractive, it isn't something that people want to do in a developed society. There are plenty of crimes I can commits and get away with but I am not attracted to doing them.
The radical intervention that might save the “doomsday” glacier
the wealth piled up with people like elon musk and jeff bezos indicate this is not what is being solved or handled here. The 188b$ of Bezos and 264b$ of Musk are clearly not dedicated to providing me with hamburgers and sleeping quarters.
If I divided those 452b$ amongst 334m americans, I'd get around 1300$ per head.
Though net worth is not the same as yearly income,
I note that Musk's 264b$ represent 5.600 times the average american's yearly income.
As I see it, a lot of that "necessary work to provide food and shelter", that you refer to, is not spent doing that, but instead spent piling money on top of people like Musk and Bezos.
I agree with the people that think we could still handle the work required for 'food and shelter', without all the necessary work yielded to enrich our billionaires.
What we currently have, and have had for most of human history, is feudalism
under many different names. We may currently have a much more humane treatment
of our thralls, but we have an entitled 'nobility' profiting off the work of others, as much as at any time.
It is much like peasants 500 years ago, who could handily themselves live off what their farms produced, but for some reason had to pass on the major part of what their work produced, so that the lord could 'protect' them against being beaten up by the neighbour lord (and, incidentally, against being indiscriminately beaten by his own men, too).

Currently we organise our Lords through capitalism.
Cyberlink doesn't control anything in this. Studios, Microsoft, Intel, etc. decided all this. Cyberlink was just providing a service atop all this nonsense.
> But people being eager to please, and mostly unwillingness to be the one team blocking the entire project - meant that folks worked hard to meet some of these targets. It was extremely hard. It was a bit stressful. It felt crazy at times. But it got done in half the time I would have initially expected such a complex project to take.

Some others have suggested that this might not be sustainable or lead to a sense of personal fulfillment and satisfaction to everyone. Even moreso, that might just accelerate burnout for some, which probably needs to be taken into account.

I remember single handedly shipping around 70 versions of the homepage for Apturi Covid (https://apturicovid.lv/#en), the Latvian contact tracing app, back when we thought that contact tracing would be a viable way to limit the spread of COVID enough for it to die out. I did work a lot, it was a fast paced environment where around 100 professionals in the industry were allowed to collaborate to solve a problem to the best of our abilities and it indeed did result in a positive outcome at the end, the infrastructure, mobile apps and website all being developed in record time, working successfully up until this day and being handed off to the corresponding ministry with no problems.

In contrast, our national e-Health system has been in development for years, has cost around 14.5 million euros so far and still doesn't work: https://www-lsm-lv.translate.goog/raksts/zinas/latvija/par-e...

It's actually so bad that they're considering creating a new one to replace it, something that could have probably been avoided with enough care: https://www-lsm-lv.translate.goog/raksts/zinas/zinu-analize/...

Actually, i'm pretty sure that if the software were better (not even excellent, just good), a single server rack could probably maintain the entire system (failover aside) and serve the requests for the entire country, which has just 2 million people in it. Yet, it seems that they lacked the "secret sauce" that made our own project successful instead.

Of course, as someone who's single handedly leading an enterprise transformation and doing everything from modernizing enterprise apps in a project, to improving their security, migrating over to new tech, introducing containers, service meshes, APM, additional observability etc., i don't think that time pressure is always all that you're looking for.

After all, you want those that perform highly to be able to do so sustainably.
No, although those were good too. I think it may have been called DVD decrypt?

EDIT: DVD Decrypter! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_Decrypter
I'm sorry for the confusion I caused with my inexact terminology. What I mean
about "ground truth" in the context of this conversation is the images that GANs
are trained to reproduce. Supervision doesn't need to come in the form of
labels. GANs are weakly supervised but they are given examples of exactly what
they need to model. They are trained to reproduce those examples and like you
say, they can't be expected to learn to do anything else.

This is a general rule about neural networks, as we have them today: they learn
to reproduce their training set. Nothing more, and nothing less.

Humans, now, don't need to see examples of a thing before we can make one. If
that were the case, we would never have created all the technology we have, of
which there was no previous example. For instance, at some point in our history
someone figured out how to carve a hand axe for the first time, ever. That
person didn't have any examples to go by. There were no such objects in nature,
before that time. Certainly that person had some idea of concepts such as
"sharp" or "pointy" or who knows what else, but they had no blueprint for a hand
axe. This is what I mean by "innovation".

"Inventing and learning to draw in a new style" is absolutely something that
comes spontaneously to humans! That's the entire history of human art: people
inventing new ways to express themselves through various art forms. Art would be
way too dull if nobody could come up with new things.

But I certainly agree that it's unfair to expect the same kind of innovation
from GANs or from other neural nets. However, I think that's the case because
neural nets are nothing like humans. But if I understand correctly, you're
claiming that how the human mind works and how neural networks, work, is very
similar, so I'm confused a bit because in that case you should expect them to
have the same abilities as humans do. Sorry if I misunderstand you, but could
you clarify? If human creativity is statistical modelling and GANs do
statistical modelling (they kiiind of do) then we should expect GANs to be able
to do everything that humans can do, no?
This is too funny. Over lockdown I made https://isjapanopen.com/ so a group of friends could easily check if our cheap Japan tickets were worth anything yet.

Glad to have another HNer validate the project idea!
It's a day later now and I think it is safe to assume that you haven't figured out yet, how to get the yellow pass stamped in Mongolia, or otherwise avoid having your medical data being passed around totally unprotected. No wonder, I tried hard for weeks to get information on this. You probably also have figured out that the German federal foreign office does not even mention the yellow passport during the pandemic for traveling to Mongolia. And of course Amazon does not deliver to Mongolia too.. Actually, getting anything delivered to Mongolia takes weeks or more, because of restrictions of movement.

See, how your entire line of argumentation evaporates into the Schwurbel-Äther? You have been warned early in this thread: don't call out something as a lie if you don't know the details.

To your defence: I find the things that I am saying unbelievable too, but that does not mean that they are false.
What worked for me to increase the productivity and fun in my free time is making the free time long enough to actually enjoy it.

I heavily a doubt a human can be mentally healthy with time consuming hobbies and a 40hour plus job.
It is! Just specify the language after #+begin_src.