skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would almost seem like most of the engineering for the Blu-ray format went into things which very specifically doesn’t act in the interest of the buyer.

Which is why some of us were rooting for the somewhat-more-consumer-friendly HD-DVD. In retrospect, given the choice, there was no way in hell the industry was going with a "more consumer-friendly" anything.
Non-AMP link: https://www.engadget.com/2010-12-29-european-standardization...
Not among most people who aren't interested in these things. I think it's very reasonable for consumers to expect that "buy" means to keep in the way that it means for most other things. People should not have to be experts in how content licencing and distribution works to not get screwed over.
Then they should just start their own mobile carrier. /s
I suppose petty outburst are an explanation for your comment, given that this law has been in the works since 2018, and anticipated since 2005. I truly have no idea what your links have to do with the subject.
i believe the article mentions video and photo gadgets too, but I only skimmed it briefly
I think this highly depends on your age.
It’s great to explore! Be curious.
I have been lucky enough to be above average at a bunch of things and I take great enjoyment in those things.
I also suck at things.
What I am good at is the things I have put most time into.

So my theory is: if you like it, do it and do it more.

Also, you don’t actually have to be good at anything. Just be good at being.
Location: Greencastle, IN
Remote: Preferably
Willing to relocate: Only to Seattle, WA
Technologies: Java, gRPC, MySQL, borg, Linux/Unix environments.
Résumé/CV: https://github.com/anhTimeLimitExceeded/resume/blob/master/Anh%20'Andy'%20Le%20-%20Resume.pdf
Email: anh.t.le22@gmail.com

I had a Google Internship (summer 2022) where I built a couple of APIs, pipelines and wrote a few design docs. My stronger experience is from working a year as a fulltime developer at a Vietnamese search engine (our version of Google). I worked on aspects of an search engine (crawlers, indexers, searchers), NLP, and networking.

I am only looking for a full-time opportunity that starts on Jan/Feb 2023 and allows me to work from the greater Seattle area
I think they all boil down to basically the same thing. In order to build a complex system you need to build it twice. The first time you will make mistakes that are difficult and expensive to fix and you need to tell yourself that it is ok to throw it away.

This first iteration can come in many forms. In the old days it was done in pseudocode and formal language on paper, aka the waterfall model. UML changed it to be symbols and arrows. With rapid prototyping it is actual working but buggy code. One can see the appeal of doing it in real code, your programmers don't have to learn a second language nor translate the first version from that design language to the computer language. People will say that code is too hard for the design part, but it's the design that's hard, not the code. The real danger is that your prototype will work well enough and you won't have the fortitude to throw it away. That's not a danger with a design document/diagram.
There's a quote, I believe by an economics Nobel (memorial) prize winner, that goes like "It's a strange feeling to be honored in your 80's for work that you've done in your 20's" - couldn't find who said it after a bit of searching
Just google USAF PS3, it was called the Condor Cluster and it was big news in 2010 when the PS3 was still new. It has also been covered more recently.

The USAF also has Kubernetes in F-22s from what I understand now
Maybe iTunes wasn't a good example but it has happened to me with other services. I live in the Netherlands where I bought a subscription for the Formula 1 TV service. Last year I was in the UK visiting family and was unable to watch races there, despite havng already paid for them, as the geo restrictions were different.
It's not that. They're saying that the birthday you entered, combined with the date you made your account, means you were under 13 when you started using Twitter. They're known for banning people for this, even when the person is an adult now - I've read about this before.
> This changes how we own media, as it removes our ability to consume said media at the whim of its distributor.

If you own something and someone else takes it from you without permission, that is theft. Is the DOJ going to file charges against these companies? Doubtful. Perhaps there will be a class action suit? Maybe.

Short of some extensive legal action, let's not be naive, the conclusion is obvious, you don't own these things. At best, you're leasing them - which is a different set of expectations and rights.
My understanding is that nim's arc memory management strategy inserts frees where it can automatically without being a GC, and that rust actually does something similar in many cases. Nim's arc doesn't handle cycles, and there is a more GC-like orc strategy. Even using only arc (and refraining from cyclic data structures or handling those specially) still seems better than "barely ... anything on top of C apart from an oop system".
Between my wife and I, we have two cell phones, three laptops, and a pair of wireless headphones. Only one of those devices doesn't use USB-C- her iPhone. I don't believe the other five devices have USB-C because they were forced to.
Steam is the only online games store that has given me any levels of comfort that I'll still be able to get access to my games after 10 years.

Even then, I'm still not 100% confident that I'll be able to access everything in 25 years time.

I have no reason the believe that Sony and Microsoft won't shut them down like they already have done with the PS3 store.
The original point was that you might loose access to purchased movies because the licensing doesn't allow you so watch it from a different locality.

This is currently untrue for Apple/itunes and that's the only point they made.

There are currently no hoops for anyone to jump through unless you want to sidestep the law or licensing agreements, which is another discussion entirely.

Potential buyers still have to consider the original point however, as even if Apple doesn't enforce it currently, there is no assurance that it won't in the future. And there is no guarantee that it's gonna be the same if theyre buying on another platform.

Didn't Google and Amazon have competing platforms for example?
I subscribed to Folding Ideas, ever since his NFT video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g
UML is a tool like any other: one should understand the tradeoffs and make an objective decision as to whether it is useful and appropriate for a specific organization and scenario.

Specification has a fundamental tension between clarity and completeness. I don't believe it is possible to maximize both. As a specification becomes more specific, rigorous, and 'correct', it diminishes in understandability, due to the limits of our working memory. As a specification diminishes in clarity, it loses appeal with most audiences. See also the rise of JSON in reaction to XML.

This is the key tradeoff with UML. If the ultimate goal is to model a system, with platform-independence, at a level of detail sufficient to enable code generation, the specification and model representation will become complex, and the friction and overhead become too great for a typical corporate internal or external product, thus limiting the specification tool's adoption. The tool is no less valid, and can be useful for high-criticality areas, such as aerospace, or for academic exercises.

One should objectively analyze the tangible and intangible costs of UML against benefits and use something else if it provides a better outcome. Perhaps a 'UML-lite' approach, such as C4 [1] or PlantUML [2], is a better tradeoff on the completeness-clarity continuum for a given scenario.

Another interesting modeling framework is 'Object Process Methodology' (OPM) by Dov Dori [3].

The two aspects of OPM that stand out to me:

1. A focus on the model alone, maintaining understandability, and an effort to keep things simple. Information hiding techniques such as zooming are provided as a means to manage system complexity during the modeling process.

2. Instead of an ultimate promise to allow bidirectional translation from model to code, and code to model, the visual OPM representation has a textual counterpart, 'Object-Process Language' (OPL). With this facility one can translate from model to descriptive text, and vice-versa. Thus, one may read or define a model visually in diagram form, or as a series of sentences using a minimized set of English words that is also machine parseable.

Still we must recognize the tradeoffs: OPM may provide more clarity, but has less completeness. It won't round-trip with a code base, and it lacks modeling capabilities that can descend into an operation/process, e.g. one cannot model control flow concepts such as sequences, branches, loops, etc. Within the UML garden, concrete operation implementation can be specified in OCL, and the newer fUML can, in theory, reach down even further into operation specification.

[1] https://plantuml.com/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4_model
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Process_Methodology
The writing has been on the wall for years and years that manufacturers have agree on a standard charging plug. Had micro-usb been the direction we were still heading, that would have become the mandated standard.

This law is by all intents and purposes a law directed at Apple, who is the sole hold-out of the large mobile phone manufacturers regarding proprietary charging connectors.
Saying there was no mandate is only technically true. The EU gave an ultimatum to phone companies to make a compatible charger "or else", which led to a "Memorandum of Understanding" [1] deciding on Micro-USB.

Apple didn't follow that Memorandum, the EU got pissed, so now we reached the "or else" part (it took quite some time considering the Memorandum was more than 10 years ago).

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/MEMO_1...
> 3. In the storage facility a digital backup is made and uploaded to a cloud storage

Generally speaking neither of these parts are legal in most territories without rightsholder permission.
> I don't really see any harm in having some kind of safeword for fake news, when no deception is intended, similar to the 555 phone numbers in films, something that tips you off if presented out of context.

The safeword is in the title: The Babylon Bee. Yes some people will mistaken the Bee for real news just like some people mistake the Onion for real news. Personally I think that calling the Onion ok while saying the Bee is not because of your political views is disingenuous.
> manipulating or interfering with events

What might be a good example?
Yeah I believe Minix is actually a complete rewrite intended to be more useful in the real world than just a teaching toy (and at that it has been successful). I can't imagine enjoying reading the source code apendix from a book as much as you seemed to have done :D But I did learn a lot from the main text of the book. Pretty hard for me to dive into even a simple hobbyist OS and figure things out from scratch.
It's a funny "joke" but for a large percentage of people, their college decision and entrance exams were the determining factor in who they married; where you put yourself has a huge effect on whom you meet.
This is dangerously lazy comedy writing, I’ll give it that.

When it does take a turn though, it appears that they really do believe that Biden supporters are literally murdering Trump voters in the streets. Or they want their readers to believe it.

The thing is, when you’re writing comedy and you break the fourth wall to say “okay here’s what I actually think,” as this article does, you’re no longer in parody territory if most of what you say is exactly what a common person believes. Mixing in satire that sounds exactly like fascist propaganda is pretty transparently manipulative.
Music bought on iTunes hasn’t had DRM since 2009
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=anticheat

The first post shown, and the first couple pages of results, will help you catch up on the discussions around these methods. I don’t have anything new to offer you that isn’t already hashed out extensively therein. Good luck with the reading, and welcome to HN.
Paul Irish is a little quiet lately. He used to be very active on Twitter, but only posts sparingly now. Also his second last post is from 2018[0] with a three year gap between that and his latest post, which was last year. No post for 2022 yet. I always admired that guy, and still do.

He contributed a lot to the webdev scene. But the scene is saturated now with developers of the same Paul Irish caliber pushing out tonnes of brilliant stuff, it makes me wonder if it's hard to get noticed now, with the constant barrage of new webdev material & tutorials.

[0] https://www.paulirish.com/2018/raf-internals-and-node-debugg...
EU could have mandated adoption of a certain connector for a certain period of time, rather than for all time.

That way regulation provides the stick to force standardisation, but allows whatever new innovations develop later to have a chance at gaining a foothold. If we find ourselves in this situation again (with a single holdout) we can force the standardisation for a period of time again.
ADHD isn’t a sickness. It’s a thing that an awful lot of people have.
would it be possible to install an extension like postgis into this? if so, you might have saved me countless hours attempting to port gdal to wasm…
So you are on stimulants now that seem to help with your long term focus? Is there a concern of tolerance and dependency, like coffee/caffeine, where you'll have to keep upping the dose to get the benefit? Sorry if I'm being nosy but this is rather eye-opening to me and makes me think it might be worth speaking to my doc about this.
> Simply "loaning" it in a service where you select who do you loan it to will add friction

Interesting observation! Digital-only copies traded in a form not comprising the embodiment in a physical "vessel" allow for a theoretically efficient handshake-and-exchange process, but in practice, there's lots of friction involved.

Grievance: "Hey, you can't do that! It's too easy!"

Response: "Easy? Have you ever used an app with a 10-foot UI that's controlled by a TV remote?"

See also: <https://xkcd.com/949/> ("File Transfer").
> Thank goodness for the EU parliament, protecting their citizenry from accidentally being exposed to the best technical outcome? Wouldn't want that.

That is a nice way to completly miss the point and how we got there, but you do you.

> I bet this doesn't have any material difference on waste.

I bet it does, you're again missing the point, it's about not going back to what we had before, and what we have now made a significant different to what we had before.

> the market is absolutely cut-throat at dealing with manufacturing processes that generate unnecessary waste.

Ah ah ah ah. Pretty much every phone until very recently had a paid of low quality headphones that were instantly thrown out or put in a box and forgotten, and it only disapeared because jack is going away, so your own exemple doesn't work.

> There are going to be better options than USB-C in some use cases. Possibly many use cases as technology improves. The legislators can't see the future - if they could they'd make better decisions.

Yes, so the regulation will need to be kept up to date, just like regulations on things like food, pesticides, industrial processes, ... Still, parliament recognized the inferiority on the technical level of a system driven by regulation in this specific case and offered manufacturers to handle it themselves without involving them, but they couldn't (more specifically, apple refused).

Anyway, each his point of view, these people are elected and I personnaly consider this a big issue that I'm glad to see resolved by my representatives.
James Ball interviews Roger Waters about politics
>I have been humiliated many times in my life, some times in life changing ways, and I'd still take it over real violence.

I would too, in most cases; that said, I'd rather get a literal slap on the wrist or even the face than be humiliated in an online sphere, especially as related to my real identity. It's not the case that shame and humiliation always trumps physical violence in my order of preferences, and I'd be surprised if it's not the same for you too. "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" is a cute rhyme, but utterly disintegrates when one starts to consider degree and the importance of social standing in public daily life (from getting a job to the looks you get at Walmart).
2009: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_09_...

> The following companies have signed the MoU: Apple, LG, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Qualcomm, Research in Motion (RIM), Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Texas Instruments.
Democracy: The God That Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Typically read by anarchists and libertarians, I'm not recommending it to change your politics, but rather as a philosophical exercise. It does an amazing job at taking something so ingrained and obvious to us and then flipping it on its head and forcing you to use your own logical faculties to prove whether or not what you always believed is actually logically correct.

A paradigm shifting book regardless of your politics or philosophical belief system.
If they call it buying, but think renting, then I might as well call it borrowing, but think pirating.
It looks like you shared an AMP link. AMP is controversial because of concerns over privacy and the Open Web [0].

Fully-cached AMP pages like the one you shared are especially problematic.

Maybe check out the canonical page instead:

https://www.engadget.com/2010-12-29-european-standardization...

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/AmputatorBot/comments/ehrq3z
IBM acquires Red Hat Storage team
Hmmn, I wasn't aware of that behaviour. I think this is the correct answer: thank you.
There are multiple different plug types used within the EU.
The EU tried very hard, for very many years to signal to the industry "do this yourself so you don't have to legislate it, we don't want to legislate it, you don't want us to legislate it" but Apple (and only Apple) just refused to listen, so here we are.

For micro-USB, they got the industry together in a "memorandum of understanding" to get them to self-implement it without regulation, and it worked great - everyone adopted micro-USB, and then could switch to USB-C, without thinking about legislation with the understanding that the industry would use common standards.

The whole rest of the industry adopted the common standard and are looking at Apple "hey if they can do it why can't we?". If the EU doesn't crack down on Apple now, we're going to end up back again with a Samsung charger, a Sony charger etc.
Could anyone provide better instructions? I'm new to OBS and have spent almost an hour trying variations of things with no success. The matrix-webcam runs in my terminal, but it outputs whatever OBS sees (video feedback infinite fractal). README.md instructions leave too many steps out.
> Apple didn't follow that Memorandum, the EU got pissed

Just to add a step: Samsung got pissed, and told the EU either regulate, or we do our own thing too like Apple.
My MacBook can charge with USB-C and MagSafe. If iphones had both a USB-C and a lightning connectors, this law would probably not have been pushed through.
There were non-binding agreements. i.e. the EU hoped that the major players would standardize on one connecter, but this did not have the force of law behind it.
It’s not a disease. It is the way some people are wired. Just like some people are really boring
This is exactly what happened in Diablo 2. You had a gold limit, and the value for gold was so low that players began using Stone of Jordan rings as currency for other item trades.

https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/22688/why-did-sto...
The downside is, the government have 0 business knowing where I am, or where I go. I don't need to justify my right for privacy. And the argument of "if you are innocent, you have nothing to fear" is lame, and toxic, that is like saying, you don't drive that much, is ok to force you to take the bus.
Relevant, probably. Bigger. Probably not. Apple is huge.
> Would it kill these platforms to, at the very minimum, give you credits for another movie in the case where the movie you "bought" becomes unavailable?

In practice this usually happens, but I'm not surprised nobody commits to it in writing.

I know in the two instances of video services I can think of shutting down in the UK, Sainsburys gave customers Ultraviolet/Google Play codes and refunds, and the BBC Store gave Amazon credit rounding up to the nearest £10, so I actually got more than I'd spent back.
> There were no mandates to adopt micro-usb in the EU.

... huh ? https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_11_...

> Following a mandate from the European Commission, the European Standardisation Bodies CEN-CENELEC and ETSI issued the harmonised standards to be adhered to by data-enabled mobile phones compatible with the new common charger as of 2011. The common charger solution is based in the Micro-USB connector technology
> So my new question is: How does a company change to a new/better connector, if it's required by law to use an old connector?

It would be like a nation state deciding to change its standard electric socket, like a country with US sockets switching to EU sockets. Doesn’t sound easy.
That's funny though I will say, the Bee makes some pretty in the weeds jokes, way more so than the Onion. If you keep up with politics and shit happening on twitter it's hilarious, if you're not then it's hard to understand that joke.

EDIT: That joke in question is about the new Italian PM. What they are satirizing is in her acceptance speech she talked about "family, god and country" and the left immediately called her fascist for it.
The OS Fuchsia is named after the colour Fuchsia named after the flower Fuchsia named after a Renaissance-era Bavarian botanist Leonhart Fuchs.

So, you're supposed to spell this guy's name with a capital F.
No, it's really not. The EPS was a voluntary specification[1]. It was a memorandum of understanding signed by the manufacturers. Basically, everyone but Apple agreed that it was in their own best interest to align to micro-B.

This is a law that mandates USB-C.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply
Google search urls are typically long enough that they are shortened by ... At least on mobile
I've always been confused of how the word "shame" and "guilt" should be used. Also "humiliation" and "embarrassment"

I thought shame was more associated to one's future "self". Guilt on the other hand is more associated to one's present "self".

So when you don't live up to the expectations of your future self, you are ashamed. When you don't live up to your current expectations, you are found guilty.

There's various examples in this article that seems to use shame as the catch-all. It feels like many of these online examples are rather guilt than shame?

Humiliation is typically an underserved feeling. Shame on the other hand is internalized and thus deserved.

Shame = I am bad

Guilt = I did something bad

Humiliation = I didn't deserve that

Embarrassment = I deserved that

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6143989/