skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone reading this, I'd recommend the Pioneer Drive if you can swing it. It does not support UHD decryption (yet) but the reliability is so much better than the LG drives and the other drives (which I think are just rebadged LG). I got a LG drive manufactured in June 2021 and by September it was dead. Got a second drive from a different vendor (mfg July 2021) and it also started to falter. (returned it while I still could). There are tons of complaints on the makemkv forums but it is still a popular drive for the price(if you wanna risk it).
Anyone interested in an invite to torrentleech.org? No DRM there...
Please don't bother with the whole charade of you have to do it to learn it. This kind of advice places more importance on people working at internet companies which have achieved scale. If you are at these companies then you have nothing to worry, experience will teach you. If you are not, follow @cppr's advice and read through DDIA. It will give you good enough introduction to data systems - not just databases. Then I would suggest to learn how message queues work since that part isn't covered in the book. Do a lot of mock designs and attack your designs with different load parameters - how much data do I store, how many machines (if more than one is necesary), can I do it simpler. Honestly if you can estimate storage and throughput well then you are fine. Pick up some distributed systems papers if you are very interested. Once you have these down you would be able to pick more topics yourself. Good luck. Keep learning.
There wasn't. It's a lie spread by Russian propaganda.
This is nice, it reminds me of how OpenShot Video handles animations by default.
India has a lot of thorium my guess is any nuclear power plant will be thorium-based.
> - there's a TON wrong with the BER family of encoding rules (BER, DER, and CER), and with every tag-length-value scheme

I would like to hear more about what's wrong with tag-length-value schemes. And can these be corrected or do would you advocate for alternatives? Which alternatives?
I can say that I have never bought into BluRay, I don’t own a BluRay compatible optical drive to play them, and as far as I know we do not own any BluRay discs. I have mountains of DVDs and still prefer it in terms of purchasing movies. Bandwidth and access to other forms of digital media has allowed me to skip BluRay. I understand the resolution is better but it’s not a strong selling point for me.

As a side note with the original DeCSS DVD code now considered a virus by many antivirus vendors I basically reject DRM technology everywhere I can.

I pay for Netflix, but that’s a recent thing. The kids watch YouTube. That’s it for my household. No local news, no over the air free HD TV. We cut the cord and never looked back. If its not on Netflix I guess we just wait or go to a theater (rarely) or don’t watch it.

I ripped my first DVD in college approximately two decades ago. I’m not oblivious to new technology nor am I some type of techno-Luddite; the selling points of BluRay are just weak imho.
To be totally honest, I originally didn't have any guidance around having a class name for .qa (this was a gist long before I made it a blog post and I'd been sharing the gist with teams for years). I had a boss point out that sometimes for [reasons] he would have to add selectors to things just for Selenium tests, and when that happened, he like using .qa because then it was obvious to him and anyone else it had to be deleted later.

BTW, the _reason_ he had to add classnames was because we worked in enterprise content management and there were all sorts of situations where, for WHATEVER reason, we couldn't change the markup, or we could only modify the markup in VERY specific ways via the CMS. So finding a way to stick `qa` on an element was a more straightforward path than writing some ridiculous selector like `body > div > div > header ~ article:first-child`

Suffice to say, YES, I agree that adding a class just so you can run a test is bad, but, we hit situations where we had to, and when that happened, it was worth while to have a convention for knowing how to identify classes that served just that purpose.
I know nothing about distributed programming, but Leslie Lamport's paper [1] from 1978 about distributed systems already reads very close to the typical intro in special relativity about clock synchronization. I would be surprised if there is not already a body of research about whether:

1) Relativity in the physical world arises if we consider some distributed model of computation

2) Physical laws, in particular speed of light, affecting algorithm complexity limits

[1] http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf
Your argument is predicated on the assumption that all DRM is bad, which is just simply not reality.

Many companies implement DRM in ways that are poor, excessive, overreaching, needlessly restrictive, etc. .. and yes, while poor implementations are frequent, it does not mean that DRM itself is worthless or an enemy of society.

In fact, good implementations of DRM are exactly what is needed in order to prevent hackers from stealing your most valuable digital assets.

The issue is that in conversation DRM is used as a perjorative, whereas terms like data loss prevention are somehow seen as non-malicious, even though it is the same core idea.
I hate these people so much.
Duke Ellington's first piano teacher when he was a child was Mrs Clinkscales
Yes. But, in this case he’s right tho
The West is on a way to 2nd world status at best, comprised of 1st world enclaves / gated communities where things are in order and a wild 2nd world west.
Whoever still buys Blu-rays anyway? Isn't it a dead market already?
In the military attrition is even worse because you can't fill gaps by hiring from any competitors!
More like:

- have a container cluster that you already use for 95% of your software, both on your homelab and external VPSes
- run a simple Docker Compose file or an equivalent against that cluster, let the orchestrator figure out the rest (takes about 15-30 minutes, in total)
- or perhaps just have Nextcloud set up already, since it's silly to limit yourself to the use case of just notes: why not your own personal data, pictures, scripts, documents and so on?
- as an added bonus, you escape the clutches of The Big Tech a little bit more and are in control of what is actually running for you where; you don't have to count on the providers of this app being so generous as to give you access to your own data, since it comes out of the box

Feel free to put emphasis on how this isn't viable for everyone out there, but for the folks who are a part of lovely communities like https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/ this is indeed a no brainer. What are you going to do when this app is sunset because of the devs deciding that it is no longer viable?

Edit: here's a simple example of how to run Nextcloud with Docker Compose https://github.com/nextcloud/docker#running-this-image-with-...
I believe there are already plenty of solvers doing it in five steps, worst case, as in [1]. I don't think any are doing it in four, but I doubt anyone has yet demonstrated that four is impossible.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29890845
There are some solutions if you'rere willing to look into it. Not a 100% solution, but they work amazingly.

I'm afraid of naming them here because not sure of the repercussions
A micropayments platform like Patreon or merchandising where fans buy products? Mircopayments is incredible hard because payment provider backends charge a percentage plus a minimum fee. Never mind that any support interaction (1-2 emails or chat) can bring revenue down to zero, the platform would need a huge amount of active paying users. I support three Youtubers via monthly Patreon (positive impact on my life is limited).
poor ppl getting shot by underpaid security for trying to steal a box of stupid stuff which the rich kids that ordered it have already forgotten about ...

can totally see this dystopia
> Lynda.com

Couldn't have happened to a nicer company! (for those unaware, it was bought by LinkedIn shortly before the hack)
Well, you were explicitly asking about that scenario so that's why I addressed it.

> 1) Charging, driving, and charging is never going to be economically competitive with transferring power through transmission lines.

I can charge at 5p/kWh during the night but during the day would be buying at ~25p/kWh as a regular customer at home - buying from a charger on the road would be more expensive (if nothing else, the VAT situation is different I think).

Is it not reasonable to think that it may be more economic to transfer power between two cars near each other than across the country? That's what would be happening if I'm putting back on the grid while someone else is charging their car somewhere.

> . Then you have to cover expenses: wear and tear on your $20,000 battery, on the rest of your car, opportunity cost of sitting there giving away power, and most importantly the planning and risk involved in driving afterwards with less in the tank.

I think you're picturing explicitly driving to a car park to sell excess power. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm saying that going to the shops/work and plugging in my car, it may easily make sense for my car to sell some of that electricity to someone else as I'm not going to need it today and can charge up at night cheaply. There's no wear & tear on my car, and no opportunity cost about sitting there.

Wear & tear on the battery is identical to any other load shifting, home battery or car, so if it doesn't make sense to do in the car park it wouldn't make sense to do at any other time.

> and most importantly the planning and risk involved in driving afterwards with less in the tank.

That's what the commenter was talking about with some smarts on trip planning. Frankly for most people long trips are rare enough that a default "leave me with X in the tank unless told otherwise" would deal with almost everything.
At that size probably not.

But I still cannot wrap my head around this being a good idea, destroy the ecosystem of rivers, provide next to zero power (compared to resources required to build and maintain), require a HUGE investment as it's fast moving water and everyone knows fast moving water destroys material, have to deal with overflowing from rain, drought, etc.

Way too many factors for this to be a good idea.

It could probably if it was a man made canal or something with a set amount of water, but that still destroys any chance of an ecosystem.
Bought one with M-Disc for backup last year or the year before.

Feels nice to be able to watch old movies that I bought back in the day that aren't available on streaming - at least around here :-/
Not to contradict the individual side of your statement, but the high demand for developers in our time is closely related to the financial success of morally questionable practices.

Data harvesting, monopolisation of bottlenecks, the whole advertising ecosystem, DRM and systems of IP/copyright domination, etc. These are the unbelievably profitable industries generating the current demand.

Demand is fungible, so this doesn't mean you can't go find a job working on something else. It does however, put some perspective on it. Developers, via the current labour market, are major beneficiaries of said practices.

Again, this does not contradict your comment.
Until you forget to dismiss your security detail and get a 600k$ charge on your AmazoCard at the end of the month.
>"All information about you has become public, be afraid and expect the worst. This is for your past, present and future."

The message also reads "For Volyn, for OUN UPA, for Galicia, for Polesia, and for historical lands", but I guess Reuters can't be bothered with details.
With modern codecs you're unlikely to notice much difference between a 20GB download and a rip you did yourself.
It's not directly about constant relocation. It is about keeping options open and the freedom comes with it. Yes, relocating has it's costs especially on one's social circle, but I'd still prefer a job that lets me decide where I work.

What if my aging parents get sick and I want to spend time with them? Maybe my partner doesn't have the ability to work remotely and needs to relocate for work? What if I develop a health condition that can be improved by location (climate, air quality, distance to medical center)? All of these can be pretty stressful situations and apply to all ages. Do I really want to be forced to find another job or deal with possible financial insecurities during any of these?
What I particularly like about Pythons new(ish) “f strings” is that, firstly it’s opt in, you have to mark your strings with the “f” prefix. Secondly it is converted to opcodes at compile time, so f strings can’t be modified at runtime unlike standard “old fashioned” Python string interpolation.

As someone noted in another comment, this with Rust is effectively opt in with the println! and format! macros. Does it converted to machine code at compile time?
To be fair, that turbo pump and throttling control only has to work for about 5 minutes, that does make it a bit simpler by just engineering it to work for 15 minutes without breaking (safety margin included then).
Do we really need to store wind energy?

Why not just have more capacity than we need, and a grid to redistribute it.
Cities are actually much cheaper places to live.

And I'd take 10 minutes of congestion over 2h of open road to get to where I'm going...

People should live where they want. But in almost all ways, cities are better. That includes a whole bunch of externalities like pollution, equality, productivity, etc.
No, I'm thinking of diamorphine. I'm not questioning that fentanyl is also used, but so is diamorphine, and the point was not that it is used a lot, but that it is used enough that we have reliable data on the cost of various doses of it.

Here are some pages covering various uses by the NHS

Most relevant to the point I made, here is a pricing page for diamorphine for the NHS[1].

Use during birth: [2]

"This is an injection of a medicine called pethidine into your thigh or buttock to relieve pain. It can also help you to relax. Sometimes, less commonly, a medicine called diamorphine is used."

Use in NHS Scotland [3]: "Unlicensed intranasal diamorphine has been used in the NHS in Scotland for the treatment of severe pain in children in the emergency setting. The availability of diamorphine hydrochloride nasal spray (Ayendi®) provides a licensed preparation."

Article on recent-ish supply problems[4] due to a problem at one of the manufacturers:

"NHS trusts forced to use ‘expensive’ pre-filled diamorphine syringes to manage ongoing supply issues

Exclusive: Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has had to source pre-filled diamorphine syringes from other NHS trusts to meet demand."

NICE advice on diamorphine use [5] lists indications and doses for acute pain, chronic pain not currently treated with a strong opioid analgesic, acute pulmonary oedema, myocardial infarction.

NHS patient information (word doc) [6] on the shortage: "Diamorphine is licensed to treat severe pain associated with surgery, heart attack or a terminal illness. It is also used for the relief of shortness of breath in severe heart conditions. In addition, a small number of people in the UK may be receiving diamorphine to manage heroin addiction."

So while I have no idea about the actual volume of use, as you can tell the NHS has suppliers, and NICE has a price list.

[1] https://bnf.nice.org.uk/medicinal-forms/diamorphine-hydrochl...

[2] https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/labour-and-birth/what-happens/p...

[3] https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/news/nhs-trusts-f...

[4] https://www.scottishmedicines.org.uk/medicines-advice/diamor...

[5] https://bnf.nice.org.uk/drug/diamorphine-hydrochloride.html#...

[6] https://www.england.nhs.uk/south/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/...
I thought using debuggers was standard practice in non trivial programs?
Why help poor people when you can catch criminals instead?
Could you tell us digital assets have been successfully protected by DRM?
Defective by Design sounds even better.
How easy would it be to use libredrive, dd and ffmpeg to rip?
Humble subscription service is dumping Mac, Linux access in 18 days
> Some people will never steal even to save their own life, because they have principles which guide them in that direction.

Isn't this a restatement of the Fundamental Attribution Error?
Climate POLICY New chief scientist wants NASA to be about climate science
Great idea, although it's a bit annoying that none of the article links works as an actual link, so I can't easily open pages in a new tab like I often do when reading a Wikipedia article.
You can play Netflix in HD on a computer? I’m watching animated gif video quality on safari, and how do I change it?
And on mobile (iPhone), it seems to be impossible to scroll down on the animations themselves, only on the text. I had to stop reading the article at some point as I could no longer scroll down…
working on something not ultimately hindering your users

People who make DRM are paid by content producers, not content viewers. They're not hindering their users. They're doing what their users ask them to do. It's just that we aren't their users. If you want to influence DRM developers to stop making DRM, refuse to buy/view/stream DRM-protected media. Then they'll have to find new jobs because their customers will stop paying them.
Morality in the Age of Machines
The Rust println! macros interpret the format string at compile time. You cannot do:

let f = "{:.3}";
println!(f, 3.145);

because then the macro cannot be sure what the string will be at runtime and thus cannot be expanded.

Personally I dislike the whole idea of embedding sub-languages in strings inside host languages, but this is a lost cause frankly, and if one must do it, this is a pretty good way.
Viable storage is already here. It's called green hydrogen or hydrogen-from-seawater, and pilot plants are coming online or being built right now.

The storage is limited only by tank size, and we already know how to store and use large quantities of hydrogen. The hydrogen produced from the process can be pumped elsewhere by pipeline and used as fuel for gas turbines to balance the grid, or combined with carbon dioxide or nitrogen from the atmosphere to produce zero net carbon methane and ammonia for use as denser fuel sources, or feedstock for industrial processes. You can even make zero net carbon synthetic jet fuel this way.
What do you mean by "has nothing to do with the DRM"?
Nobody has problems with dropped TCP connections when streaming?

Tried icecast2 on several servers at distinct hosters and audio tag on various browsers and platforms, in maybe tens of minutes it always seized up. I had to add script to client page had to detect it and reconnect, the pauses were annoying, gave up.

Did not dig deeper seems as if routers drop the connection when there are no data transmitted in one direction.
Abolish "mandatory" work.

Now you can keep working if you want to. It was easy.
I'm not aware of category theory being controversial. A much better example would be Mochizuki's IUT controversy.
Presumably they aren't stealing electronics because their old phone is due an upgrade, though.
Anybody interested in this topic might want to read the NASA Saturn V Owners' Workshop Manual: 1967–1973 (Apollo 4 to Apollo 17 & Skylab) by David W. Woods. It's an incredible collection of information, tables, and drawings relating to the Saturn V's development and operations.
I agree.

The analogy there is more in comparing time periods than persons relevant to the development.
> 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.

Ok, but don't they risk discouraging people from buying disks? Who buys disks nowadays anyway?
Everything not forbidden is mandatory
Because AMD is life! (Joke)
flying into Haneda from Honolulu End of April with my family on a round the world trip.
We doubt that we will be let into the country (all fully vaxxed but our 2yr old..)
Just stay in transit and fly on to Singapore. fingers crossed the Omicron wave is over by then and they let us in.
A lot of those utilities have been dehumanised.

Instead of calling a doctor's office, we're fighting a badly built online scheduler. Obsessively scrutinising restaurant reviews on GMaps takes away from the subtle excitement of flaneuring. Reflexively reaching for Wikipedia as soon as something not immediately known pops up in a conversation kills it immediately.

It's an empty life.

Luckily, it's easy to simply not do many of these things once you're aware of them. Email is near compulsory to function, Yelp reviews are not.
How is that related? The new format strings must be static literals because they're decoded at compile time. It is impossible to use them for any kind of code injection.
That's against TL rules... However... French trackers interest me so if any invite available for those... Lemme know!
Firstly, I think it's interesting and very American-centric that people disparage this thinking and believe it is an American thing. This is very normal in large parts of the world. Go to the Philippines and security guards are regularly armed -- search the internet and the first photo has two men with pump action shotguns guarding a McDonalds. Go to Thailand and see people put up big walls around their property with spikes and broken glass and barbed wire around the top. Go to France and police regularly patrol with assault rifles (real ones, not semiautomatic painted black). Go to Mexico and people cement bars in front of their windows. Go to the Middle East, Africa, South America, the subcontinent.

And what you see in these coastal California cities is a result of this thinking, that it's always something else to blame and people should feel guilty for wanting their property to be secured or offenders punished or deterred.

And it's not nearly so simple as you say. Easy to steal or low consequences of stealing absolutely contributes to things being stolen. If one in every 4-5 container has been burglarized, surely there's a good argument things need to be made a bit more secure sitting around handwringing about the state of society and admonishing anybody who doesn't sympathize with the criminals certainly won't solve it, as California has demonstrated.

It's not that there aren't other factors that could be improved on a societal level to reduce this kind of crime, to be clear I'm not arguing that.

> I walked around last year, in an opera house, public building, no one in sight, empty building, unlocked doors, there were paintings on the walls, and I identified audio equipment for at least $10k, and it was not unlocked by mistake. Then it struck me, that we've done well in society when we can have this.

Must be nice to be so privileged. You know who suffers the most from street crimes, burglaries, and that kind of thing? It's poor people. Petty criminals know the police will descend on them like a ton of bricks if they went and started robbing rich people places. Just because you might not see police everywhere does not mean it is not protected by the threat of violence and incarceration.
Torrents have one crucial disadvantage: they require you to make the content publicly available in the process, which is illegal in many countries. It is much better to download it, which is not illegal in most jurisdictions, with one notable exception of proprietary software.