skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also occurred with 4K Blu Ray, which was a real pain in the neck on PC requiring Intel SGX, Intel Secure Media Path, and a billion other DRM things. Then Intel removed SGX in 11th generation onward, and the Blu Ray developers have basically decided that being unable to play 4K Blu Ray on modern PCs is apparently just fine and haven't done anything to fix that.

To this day, the only official way to play 4K Blu Ray on a PC is to get a 10th gen Intel and play back using Integrated Graphics using one of the internal drives made by a drive manufacturer who was utterly shafted by this nonsense.

(It's got to hurt more though that 4K Blu Ray's new and improved DRM was, despite all this, broken less than a year after release. If you are a drive maker, knowing your drives are useless on modern PCs because of broken DRM that Blu Ray developers still insist is necessary must be the most infuriating thing ever.)
Agreed. I find dumb design usually comes from two pools: inexperienced designers and cost cutting measures. What's a switch to a company but another point of failure that they can't as readily blame the user on?
Oh my. My city recently got a few of those vehicles doing automatic parking fines. They were so good the number of fines was national news. There is something to be said for 100% enforcement of these rules. NYC is a boon for AI powered enforcement in that respect. Imagine all video enforceable traffic violations being automatically and instantaneously ticketed. It would change the city (and the cops).
Cars already do this kind of comms; Teslas are in permanent communication with head office, and I think the Volkswagen ID3 electric will be as well. Charging by harvesting ambient signals is a thing without needing ubiquitous dedicated charging stations, for very low power uses: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=electronics+charging+from+ambient+...

It won't be many years until the bluebottle fly which came in the window, round the room and off into your house, is indistinguishable from a camera drone from the census bureau, your insurance company, your nosey neighbour. And then many more years until Vernor Vinge's "smart dust".

Check out the size of the cameras on the Tobii 3 eye-tracking glasses, for example: https://www.tobiipro.com/imagevault/publishedmedia/71ru67v90...
>FFmpeg and VLC seem to use (lib)x265 for H.265 content.

copypaste of previous comment:

The FFmpeg project does not distribute binaries with unlicensed or illegal code. E.g. if you want ffmpeg to use libdvdcss for decrypting DVDs or use libfdk-aac to encode aac/m4a without paying license royalties to Fraunhofer, the end user has to download those components and build a custom ffmpeg binary on their own. No legitimate website will host ffmpeg built with the "illegal/unlicensed" libraries. E.g. When the popular Zeranoe website hosted ffmpeg executables for download, it was only built with the free GNU components and was missing x265.

The VLC project says they can include libdvdcss because they are a French company instead of American. E.g. The USA-based Microsoft removes DVD playback from Windows 8 but France-based VLC does not: https://www.zdnet.com/article/if-vlc-can-ship-a-free-dvd-pla...
> Though, people are fine with that work improving further runs with rogue-likes.

Sad to see people contrasting Diablo II, an actual roguelike, with "rogue-likes".
My limited experience still has me questioning what most PO/PM types are doing all day.
The developer working on that code 3 years later will love dumb names.
The Beer Game is a simulation of something that takes place over weeks and months and years in the real-world (you don't normally double or triple your manufacturing capacity in hours, unless you went from one employee to two). It's not about experiencing a "stressful management situation." It's not the same as pilots in flight simulators experiencing a simulated real-time disaster in the making and having to respond correctly (or at least more correctly) in real-time.

The objective of The Beer Game and the other materials related to it and the research by Forrester et al. is to develop an understanding of systems dynamics and systems thinking. In this specific game the systems effect they are exploring is the bullwhip effect and how imperfect, incomplete information can cause it. Other games in this genre of games may have specific other systems effects they aim to explore, but in total their objective is to get the participants to start thinking about systems. Not to help them avoid panicking (though thinking clearly does help with that).
I was just about to start using this for a project, I hope the license won’t change.

Congrats to the author though, no matter what! I wish everyone could be so successful.
"Susan Kare explains Macintosh UI ergonomics on the Computer Chronicles (1984)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_q50tvbQm4

She's demonstrating something pretty new and significant to a lot of people.

Maybe software job interviews have followed a related arc, to amped-up performance art rituals and shibboleths, from genuine meaningful down-to-earth conversation.
Actually, "I strongly suspect" is a rhetorical device that I use. I deliberately use ambiguous language, because exact language is often taken as confrontational.

As it turns out, I needn't have bothered. This was declared a p****ng match, anyway (I didn't mean it that way).

I guess the difference is who gets upset.

I wasn't talking about how they were designed (I apologize for unclear language in my initial posit that indicated that). I was talking about how they are used.
It's like talking about replacing C++ with Javascript. 26' box trucks already exist and could be used, but aren't for a reason. The novel part is really just the visibility and lower noise, which is irrelevant to a 53' trailer ban.
This feels like the perfect place for the thinking guy meme...

Write a website that has strong cross browser compatibility.

Block all browsers but the one I test with.
Then why not use List View with Preview turned on?
What makes a “proper” preview?
Thanks, Philip!
Not surprised. Congratulations Ben!
Same tired statement you’ve made already. Your points have been addressed. You have provided no sources, included no citations throughout this discussion.

The killing of Anwar al-Awlaki under the 2001 AUMF was constitutional.
There are systems in the west that can counter drones much more economically. Heres Rheinmetals Oerlikon Skynex for instance ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DXpPmpmcak
Long range missiles, Short range missiles, Lasers and electronic warfare modules in combination for static defence.
I would assume that the U.S also has similar concepts.
What’s an example of a popular app (more than 100K users) that uses lite stream? Curious to see how this looks like in production
Windows 11 appears to read HEIC in the photos app.
On Firefox/Android the start and end of every line of text is clipped. And the browser isn't offering me reader mode. Basically unreadable.
For me, it's unreadable on Firefox. It's annoying but readable on Edge.

https://imgur.com/a/jP7SYe4
I second the Numberblocks recommendation!

The episodes are also available on Youtube, though you have to dig to find the full episodes since there are many compilations that are just snippets. Here are the playlists that actually have full episodes (though not always in order, unfortunately):

Red Level 1: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9swKX1PviEpYtgsxNhSu...
Orange Level 2: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9swKX1PviEor1JJ9oiJw...
Yellow Level 3: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9swKX1PviErTKxhY3IGf...
Green Level 4: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9swKX1PviEqiv2RFTd7K...
Blue Level 5: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9swKX1PviErvKa4-7x8E...
Season 5: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9swKX1PviEpLQxq7gp_c...
Specials: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9swKX1PviErsBiq9poHx...
Thanks for sharing, I didn't know about TRex! I've been using TextSniper (https://textsniper.app) for this functionality -- not sure how these two compare, feature-wise.
Litestream author here. It'll continue to be open source under an Apache 2 license.
https://hechingerreport.org/analysis-hundreds-of-colleges-an... (Analysis: hundreds of colleges and universities show financial warning signs)

https://tuitiontracker.org/fitness/
I'm sorry. I must be thick. I still don't really understand. It appears as if I am being told that I'm an "arrogant arteest."

That seems pretty insulting, to me. It might help, if you reached out, personally, instead of deciding my personality, based on a single post on an internet forum. I’m actually a pretty decent chap, and I’m not particularly up for online catfights. BTDT. I’m an old troll, and feel that I have some atonement in store.
Let me guess. They did not send the railroad a bill.
It wouldn't have any appreciable effect on usage, however.
Ask HN: Where to study Computer Science in Europe with a few constraints
Hi!

I am an 25 years old male, EU citizen (Italian) born in Brazil. I am looking forward to study computer science somewhere in Europe.
So far I have started to study in Ireland, but I didn't like the course for a few reasons. One of them was that the course was Computing Science instead of Computer Science. The only other university where my circumstances would allow me to study have a course in Information Technology (which is still not what I am looking for).
While looking for somewhere to study, I stumbled Vrije Universiteit (by the way, seems to be a really good college), but it is full time (although I could apply for student finance, it seems that finding a part time job for students is not an easy task). To be honest, this is the one I am aiming for in the moment, but I still want to check other options.

I don't want to sound choosy or anything, but I do have a few "requirements" regarding my studies:

A) It has to be Computer Science, not Computing Science or Information Technology or other overlapping course. The reason for this is that I am looking for a course that will give me good theoretical background, given that I am looking forward to work developing for embedded devices, Operating Systems, or work for trading firms.

B) The course is taught mainly using a low level programming language (C, C++, Rust). I understand that most courses will teach different languages, that is positive and I am happy with it, but I believe that these are better languages, specially for a course, given that they have fewer abstractions and are used in the field of work I am planning to work. The course I was studying was mostly Java (except the web development subjects). It seems rather difficult (if not impossible) to implement an OS or a low latency system in Java.
C) It is affordable for the common folk, that is, a folk with a unskilled job, with no financial support from his family (but is single, healthy and ready for work) and no appropriate savings.
D) It is in English or Portuguese (I do speak Spanish and Italian as well, the latter one not fluently and the first I don't believe I have a level good enough for academic studies).

One thing I would like to mention is that I already know how to code (in C++), but it has been a little bit difficult to find a job given as I lack a degree. With or without a job or degree, I keep working on improving my skills as much as I can, through self learning (mainly using books).
With that in mind, what are my options?
I am also open to suggestion regarding career choice. I kinda have a firm grip on what kind of things I want to work on, given that I am looking more for career satisfaction than money, but if is there any route that leads me there that I am not aware of, or given the supplied information, another career path that could bring equal career satisfaction, please, tell me!

I really appreciate if you have made this far and I am looking forward to hear your suggestions.
Thank you very much.
Rich people can afford to game those rules. We don't have a rulemaking system that doesn't eventually cede to lobbying where flat, even rules evolve into entire regulatory systems that favor the rich
From my limited background in psychology what really separates him is the drive to execute on his goals and not the social awkwardness. But, creating the device would obviously have a large amount of time invested which would be the same for whoever would build the device .
You fail to feel outraged by terrible behavior because it’s ostensibly in service of your ideological aims.

That says a lot about your ideology’s consistency when it comes to how we should behave individually, and treat others, now, in our present.
And kill everyone who can't afford it?
I agree with everything you wrote. This is the crux of my annoyance:

>I'm curious, would it have bothered you as much if he'd just said: "I'm sick of this blog and I'm quitting it?" because that's basically what he did, except he promised to come back (I wonder if he'll regret that promise in six months).

Yes, this is exactly how he should have phrased it. "Burnt out" is a very strong term that refers to a state of extreme mental anguish induced by an unreasonable and inescapable level of overwork. It feels insulting and sneeringly privileged coming from someone whose job is to surf the internet for a few hours a day and sometimes post about it.

It is as if someone unironically described themselves as "severely clinically depressed" after their favorite sports team lost a game, or someone in the top 1% sincerely calling themselves "impoverished" after a slight cut to their yearly bonus (or the recent bloodbath in the stock market).
I don't think there is a need to cut back on corn/soybean production. But we definitely need to be growing more fruits and veggies in the midwest.

Last year Illinois passed two laws: one prevents towns and cities from restricting vegetable gardens. If you want to fill your front yard with a hoop house, your city can't stop you. The other forces each county to establish guidelines for p2p food sales and prevents town and cities from stopping it. This needs to be adopted in other states.
Thanks for clarifying, I misunderstood what Huggingface's product was.

I see the niche. The risks are:

- the mid market is constantly churning; either players become too big and you can't meet their requirements or they go bankrupt. Customer acquisition becomes a pretty big expense.

- selling CPU cycles is a cutthroat business which competes pretty directly with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Their edge will likely be ease of use, but at some scale, the larger providers will be able to undercut them hard.

- selling a solution for managing datasets and training models using cloud CPUs is a crowded market.

- not sure how trustworthy the company is with private datasets. Easier to trust an established vendor.

But it wouldn't be a startup if there weren't risks.
Can't invoke history where there is none. Can't create history when most of the city is running off to other places for those "rustic, authentic" experiences. Can't build with a bit of chaos when prices have to be kept low, density high and requirements must be met which naturally prefers prefabs and cheap, stale-looking materials.

The criticisms are valid, but people haven't exactly given Almere a chance to be anything other than hypermodern, either.
> undergrad-lead core courses tend to be a disaster

My university (Olin College) was undergraduate-only, but your general point about good teaching being a rare skill is definitely valid. Our student body was definitely pretty high caliber both technically and in terms of explaining-things skills.

> it's probably not feasible to run core major requirements with undergraduate instructors as a steady-state

This seems to be mostly false, in the sense that many schools run huge class sizes for many core courses (cough couch Berkely) and in practice non-TA instruction in those courses could be pretty easily replaced with videos. It's not ideal, but seems to work OK.

> For an intro programming course serving all students, you really need a professional educator who is practiced at going through the slog of helping people understand for loops.

This is certainly true if you just hire some students and tell them to do their best, but I think you might be underestimating how much better intentionally-designed support resources can make the process. For example, it's reasonable to provide instruction for the instructors on how to be effective, and invest more in quality video or written content to explain technical details that a student might not be able to articulate well. In my experience, being taught by student instructors definitely also helps prepare students to teach as student instructors, in a virtuous cycle.

Many of the tools for doing this well don't exist in a cohesive form today, but to the extent that people are working to make education cheaper, this seems like a promising direction to investigate.
>The chip achieved a maximum operating speed of 71.4 kHz (at Vdd=3V/Vbias=6V) while consuming a maximum of 134.91 mW. Likewise, the chip can run as low as 10 kHz at 2V while consuming just 11.6 mW.

That's really not that impressive, both in speed and power. You can operate 8Bit MCUs clocked at ~50kHz at 100-200µW.

I wonder what that the technology is good for? IGZO is good for large area electronic with low leakage, so I guess it could be used for sensor arrays and similar where you need distributed circuits. Of course, IGZO is already used for display backplanes.

For digital circuits, silicon will most likely beat it in power and cost even for very small designs.
> Their radar cross section must be very small compared to a gen 4 jet fighter.

Still not less than the most of missiles (engine, ordnance).

The real problem is what it is not some video game, you don't have a "satellite view" with enemy units outlined with a red rectangles. Eg S300 was designed in 70s, it's UI/UX is eye-watering.
In some cases water could be repurposed into the residential market, for a price. The state could buy the farmers lands and water rights, or buy out their preexisting contracts with water suppliers.

The taxpayers don't want to pay for this, so the water is effectively off limits.

Is requiring compensation for seizure the challenging legal structure you mentioned?

The gallons per nut argument is pretty arbitrary. If you look at calories per gallon, nuts are better than almost all vegetables, most meats and many fruits. The high water per mass is basically a result of nuts being one of the most energy dense foods, and photosynthesis requiring water to create calories.

If you want to go down that rabbit hole, you can start looking at the gallons per mass for different foods and comparing their caloric density.

https://www.healabel.com/water-footprints-of-food-list/
I can't say that I have experienced the random music videos thing, but I agree it does feel like a bit of a downgrade from Google Play Music. I used the podcast part of Google Play Music a lot, since it put music and podcasts all in the same spot. Now I have had to switch to pocketcasts for that instead.
We do not need farms in Arizona when Michigan exists
I am not the OP, but here is my take. In practical sense, because they do more harm than good. In logical sense, IMO, IP (patents, copy rights etc.) is not `property`, so it cannot be owned. Thus it can be copied indefinitely and used once it is exposed. World would be a better place without this nonsense.
It is possible that it is AS only. It may use the machine learning components of AS.

Edit:
As of July of 2021, Live Text was available in beta on Intel Macs so by the time Monterey shipped it worked on both Intel and AS.

Whether it works on a given document may depend on how that app displays the image. I can see where it would be complicated in a PDF where you may have combinations of text, images, and OCR’d text behind images.
I love the idea of drawing function machines! I've used functions in stories but haven't thought to do drawings. If you have any examples posted anywhere, I'd love to see them!
The author talks about syncing changes from dev tools to the IDE using CSS-X-Fire, but he doesn't mention Workspaces, found in the Chrome dev tools. I don't use it, but it sounds similar and can support modern frameworks: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/workspaces/
> Windows

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/heif-image-extensions/9pmm... + https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/hevc-video-extensions/9nmz...

> Linux

https://github.com/strukturag/libheif (includes gdk-pixbuf loader and nautilus thumbnailer)
You don't need to stay in that noise. CF is pretty decent with detecting DDoS on its own and switching on temporary protection as needed. (Not every time, not often enough)

Not they're also not the only game in town. You can use less crappy/evil providers instead.
It bundles much more. Stuff like maxima or bindings to Mathematica (if installed).

I always found it too heavy for serious work, but some things came out of it, like cython.
It's 2022 and people are still doing "imagine you had $100" studies? And people still consider anything that comes out of this sort of study as evidence?
> "He's asking them to fix the controller."

No he isn't, he's fixing it himself.

> "When something is suboptimal, you're well within your rights to complain about it."

You can complain about it on your own Twitter. Here, it's explicitly against the HN guidelines: "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The reduction in complexity from using sqlite + litestream as a server side database is great to see!
Amazon fired two workers who helped organize its first union
Tailscale: https://tailscale.com/blog/database-for-2022/

I don't know their user count, but they are growing well and just raised their Series B.
I disagree.

Firstly, I believe you underestimate the amount of work Jason does and the amount of stress he is under.

I've read Kottke.org since I was a kid, and it's the only blog I still regularly read. There's a reason it's the only website I've looked at everyday for the majority of my life: consistent excellence. Anecdotally, whenever Jason has a guest writer come on his blog, I can tell before I even read the by-line. It's just not the same quality.

And that doesn't happen for free. I imagine it takes a huge amount of work and thought to successfully curate The Whole Internet into something that people actually want to read for 24 years. Remember that his livelihood depends directly on driving traffic to his website — there's no safety net or wiggle room. This sounds incredibly stressful to me.

Secondly, in another comment you claim that because other people with different jobs might be burnt out from those jobs, it is not reasonable for Jason to feel burnt out from his job, and therefore his sabbatical is unwarranted.

This makes no sense. Anyone can get burnt out from any job, and if they have the privilege to do so (and I do agree with you that it is a privilege), they should take time off. In a similar vein, if someone suffers from depression, that person should seek therapy if they can, regardless of whether someone else has life circumstances that are worse.

It makes no sense to prevent someone from taking time off (or seeking therapy) just because their life isn't as bad as someone else's. Instead, we should advocate for better working conditions (or access to therapy) for those who cannot afford the privilege.
Yes indeed- everyone agrees that based on current definitions of drought, large areas are in drought.

The argument being made here is that rather than some current conditions being considered "drought" compared to what's "normal", current conditions ought be considered "normal", as the current definition of "normal" does not accurately reflect what is in fact normal for some of these areas.